This Guy Bought His Whole Family A DNA Test For Christmas And It Turned Their Lives Upside Down

Send kits to the Kardashians.... Now that would make FANTASTIC TV.... especially when Khloe's father wasn't a lawyer but a hairdresser....

I can't tell you how many of these stories I've heard. My best friend has a sister he never met. I have a sister that showed up on the doorstep around age 18. I also found out I'm a jew. That's kinda cool. I really love this ancestry DNA stuff, but I can't help feeling like it's all a dystopian novel waiting to happen. The government accessing all our DNA and turning on us... it's bound to happen.

I did mine in November and found out that at 54 years old, I do not have the same father as my six siblings. And I’m 3rd born. My parents were separated for a year when mom met my birth father and had a short relationship. Mom convinced dad he got her pregnant and later I was born. They remained married until his death in 2004. Mom is livid that i went digging in “her” past and it’s none of my business. 🙄. I have found a half brother. Sadly my birth father died just 8 months before my finding out. It’s a roller coaster I’d emotions and I just feel lost. But I’m working thru it. Lots of groups on Facebook for dealing with a dna surprise. Good luck to everyone going thru this.

Whenever I bring up one of the DNA kits, my mom will just say things like "you know its just going to show you're only anglo-saxon" and similar stuff then will try to discourage me... yeah she's totally hiding something and I'm doing one of those kits next month. #suckitmom

I got a 23andme kit for my birthday. I had always wanted to do it as they offer some screenings for certain health issues and I'm adopted. I thought I may find some distant cousins or something, but I found my half-sister! She was shocked! Her parents were even MORE shocked. Her dad then did a kit and turns out her dad is my dad too! Awesome! I knew I obviously had to have biological parents out there somewhere, cool to find one. But imagine his shock, he had NO idea I even existed. He was a good looking 20 year old soldier and I was apparently the result of what was probably a one night stand, because whoever my bio mom is, she didn't tell him. He feels bad that he can't figure out who she is, he's racked his brain and asked everyone he can think to ask. I have found a maternal third cousin on 23andme but she doesn't have any info, as she's looking for people herself. Any genealogy detectives out there that can help, let me know!

I love the people who are all BIG BROTHER WILL NEVER HAVE MY DNA! 🤦🏻‍♀️ The following is for those special folks: - You carry a video camera and microphone on you all day long. It records every word you speak and tracks every step you take. - Your entire life is filmed by security cameras, most of which you pay no attention to. - Satellites in space can identify you by your face, see the clothing you’re wearing, and read your license plate. - Hackers have your soc. security number and crediit card info. I promise you this.They just haven’t used it or sold it yet. - Medical institutions and the government have had our bloodwork, and probably our DNA, for many years. Any shmuck can get it from our trash.

I actually just ordered a 23 and Me kit for myself. I know I was adopted (my two people who should never been allowed to adopt) - so no mystery there. Throughout their entire life they insisted I was theirs, although my gut told me I wasn’t. Finally in my 40s when my adopted dad was on his death bed, I asked my doctor to do a paternity test. It proved my suspicions were correct. I proceeded to try and find my birth mother or any blood relatives, however up until a few months ago, PA was one of the many states with sealed records. I did finally meat my birth mother, and 2 maternal aunts. However, they were only 3 of the 13 children my grandmother had. I’m now 67 and don’t hold out much hope of finding blood relatives through this, but perhaps I’ll finally know what nationality I am and where my ancestors came from.

guess the bastard....brilliant

My sister insisted for years that our dad wasn't MY dad. He's been dead for 10 years, but through Ancestry DNA we've discovered that we are in fact full sisters, I got to rub that one in her face. I've also discovered distant cousins, two of which were adopted as babies and only had one parents name; I've since been able to help them with the names of the other parent, and their grandparents. It can be a beautiful thing, but you do need to be aware of the risks.

Everyone in my family is dead, except for me and my mom. So I got us both the DNA test for her birthday, this autumn. She was born and raised in Germany, by German parents. Well, it turns out that they are not as German as we all thought. My mom is more Irish, then British, then Polish and then 10% Italian! And what's crazier than that is that I--her only kid--I am MORE German than she is! I have German blood on my father's side of the family too, giving me MORE % of German blood than my own mom, who was born and raised in Germany. Crazy!!

so, no ancestry stuff for holidays. Got it.

I found out I am my own Granfather

There may be a time coming when you have to give your DNA to get insurance

I would never ever do a thing like that.

An issue with these tests is that the various companies have lately been contacting many customers with different results after redoing their tests recently. Why would they be redoing those tests? And why would they be getting different results? These redone tests aren’t just indicating refinements. In many cases they are producing completely different results. Just an FYI, Native American results (or the lack thereof) shouldn't be taken at face value. I signed up with one of these organizations a few years ago, but didn't have a test done. In researching their website's FAQs, I came across an inquiry from an individual wanting to know why their test results had no indication of his provable Native American ancestry. Their answer… on their site… was that they had very little DNA sampling from Native Americans. This was true about all these services. Why, they didn’t explain.

"Sorry my mom isn't a whore" Well I'm happy she isn't. But also the "worster" case scenario where all the kids have a different father... imagine if that was true

My brother, father, and I all took the dna test. It says that my brother is related to my dad, but only half-related to me. So it says that we've got different moms. Dad, on the other hand, says "no sir, I was right there when they took you out of your mother." So frankly it's just hilarious and goes to show you that these things aren't always right. (Mom's dead, so no post-mortem dna test for her.)

And kiddos this is how they found out who was the suspect for "the golden state killer" (and they have also put in alot more "fake profiles" to get matches for crimes)

reminded me of a story that friend told me. She is a scientist and once with a team they went to remote village for a research as there was surprising number of residents with a same rare genetic disorder (only in this particular area and not anywhere else). After obtaining specimens from said residents and their healthy relatives, it turned out that all of research subjects had one common parent. Guy just went around having fun in a neighbourhood... 20 something children.....

OMG that is so sad it's gonna make me cry night that's so leak on expected what happened

😀❤🙈 That is great

I have a friend who has a medical background and he said he thinks fully 20% or more of the babies have a father other than the person named as the father on the birth cerificate.

To the person who's DNA didn't show any Cherokee Indian in his results... The same thing happened to my brother-in-law his mother was at least 50% Cherokee and was born on a Cherokee Indian Reservation and when he had is DNA done he showed no Indian....I found out that you have to have special DNA test for Cherokee and other eastern Indian tribes..

What an idiot idea! If you have doubts about your heritage / parents, simply TALK!

Oh Man. Jeremy Kyle could get 3 new seasons with this.