'She took a 23andMe test when she was in her mid-thirties, but this was far beyond what she ever thought she would find...'
"Nobody Ever Told Them That Vital Bit Of Info": People Who Took DNA Tests Are Sharing The Completely Shocking Truths They Have Discovered About Themselves
"I had long had a suspicion that my father was not my biological father. We looked nothing alike. It never bothered me, but he was a 5'4" Egyptian man, and I'm a 5'9" very white woman. At some point, my sister's MIL gave her an AncestryDNA kit for her birthday. Sure enough, it came back that she was 0% Egyptian. Both our parents have been deceased for several decades so we couldn't ask them.
"Many years ago, one of my brothers was accidentally killed. He had a girlfriend. For years, my mom lamented that he didn't have at least one child so she would still have a part of him here. Well, a few years ago we all did an AncestryDNA test to see if we could find any relatives from my maternal grandmother’s side. She was a refugee from Germany who came to the US with an American family for safety during World War II. She never reconnected with any of her family again.
"My friend said the newly discovered half siblings were excited to meet them finally. They had promised to keep their father's secret and not contact the younger siblings, but when the younger siblings found them on their own, they felt that they could finally reveal themselves. A few years later, I'm sitting around a table with a bunch of friends, and one of them says, 'Has anyone ever done 23andMe before? It's so cool — you can see other relatives who have also taken the test!' I never thought to use it to get this sort of information, so again I was curious. I reopened the app for the first time in years and clicked the 'relatives' section. Sure enough, I had a close cousin who was available to message.
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