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DNA tests promise to detail customers' ancestry — but in some cases, what the companies find is far more surprising than expected.reported that an increasing number of ancestry test customers are learning that the people who raised them might not be their biological parents after all.
"I'd never heard of the term Ashkenazi before. I didn't even think my mum had ever met a Jewish person before," she toldThough she never met her biological father and his family wanted nothing to do with her, the woman ended up taking his last name, Rubenstein, as part of her own. She began learning more about her Jewish heritage and wearing a Star of David necklace, and traveled to Israel to get in touch with that previously unknown part of her.
Rubenstein Deyerin started an organization for people who learned they were a different ethnicity than the one they grew up claiming — people like Christine Jacobsen, who learned definitively that both of her parents wereJacobsen learned through the test that she was 25 percent West African, despite believing for most of her life that she was fully Danish.
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