10 Times People Were Surprised To See The Results Of Their Online DNA Tests

This is fabulous. I was most fortunate to "be found" by a brother whom I did not know about. Unfortunately our mom has been dead for more than 45 years, she would have been so thrilled to have him back in her life. I am so thrilled to have him in our lives.

this is so sweet

WHOA

My uncle's wife was adopted at birth by a wonderful couple. She was an adult and married by the time she started searching for her birth mother and living about an hour away from where she grew up. She had a friend at work who she became close with who had given a child up for adoption so they had this in common. Eventually, she received notification her birth mother had been found and they lived within a few minutes of each other. Turns out her mother was her friend she had worked with for 2 years. Talk about blown minds!

Awesome.... but knowing each other's histories and looking so similar, it never occurred to them?

This one even made it into a scientific publication: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa013452 While one organism built from two eggs does not seem to be totally seldom, the absorbed twin providing the womb (or, more importantly, the ovaries) sounds like an extremely rare coincidence!

Yep, I remember this. She was suing her soon-to-be ex for child support. The DNA thing was standard procedure. The government almost took her children, believing they weren't hers and that she was running a scam. Amazingly, the kids father stood by her, told the courts he was present for the birth of his children. Her lawyer just so happened to know about chimeras and suspected his client could be one. The lawyer was right. The mother didn't lose her children and she and their father got back together.

At first, I thought they were trying to say she had slept with her brother...thankfully it had a much better ending

It was a big story, they wanted her to admit that she kidnapped her own children and had a doctor falsify the birth certificates.

dangerious game from mother nature if a human has to prove what´s said is right ... thanx to god she got a third child otherwise no one would have understood the DNA test for real ...

There's a whole book on this: "The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are" by Libby Copeland

There is a show called Switched at Birth that is about this. It used to be on Netflix.

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What does "Eastern european dna" mean? We're one? I know we are small, but there are more then 100.000.000 people in this part

What the heck?! This is so weird. I guess babies look pretty similar, but I mean, come on.

My friend should take a test. All three siblings are adopted but think they may be biological brother and sisters.

what do you do in that situation??

Has there ever been a happy ending for a couple where one was coerced into sacrifice their child by the other individual? Whether by deserting, adoption, abortion, etc, anyone who would insist you make this choice, ditch that individual, they do not care about anyone but their own wants.

Daddy was an asshole. He and his mother are actually better off for having dodged that bullet. And before you get your hackles up, in the 1950s unwed mothers did not do well in society. Their children were called bastards, and they were considered damaged goods and women of easy virtue (even if the pregnancy was the result to rape, forced birth, sexual coercion/manipulation, or incest). So she actually was better off allowing her son to be found and adopted. Of course, there’s the emotional toll. She had evidently spent years putting it out of her mind, as at 85 she had to dig deep to remember—-or did her best to pretend she had to (unless she’s gone senile).

Pro-lifers shame you if you have an abortion, but then shame you if you keep it. Then if you refuse to have sex they shame you for that. There’s no winning

The dad sounds like a real piece of work.

My mom had her first kid at 18, and SHE KEPT HIM!

A friend's husband is from Turkey and his DNA showed southwestern American Indian DNA. He and his parents have absolutely no idea how that happened, but now they're both getting theirs tested.

I watched a program in which half a dozen young Brits had their DNA tested. I'm from the southern U.S., yet I had a higher percentage of British ancestry than they did. Considering my people have been in the U.S. for almost 300 years, it was surprising.

Early European: That fellow looks interesting and exotic. Let's take him home!

Little do we know.

The 1973 motion picture "The Three Musketeers" included a scene at the royal palace that included a heavily guarded contingent of Native Americans having dinner on the floor. I'm sure wealth individuals might have such 'visitors' around as novelty personalities. Ben Franklin, one of America's crowning intellects, knew this aspect of human nature and wore a raccoon skin cap while in France in order to appear more rustic, and thus more interesting to the aristocracy while seeking aid in American independence. Human nature being what it is... I can easily see a tryst with an "uncivilized native American" being a BIG bragging point with some. I hope the ladies were able to find more details. Such things could be fascinating to the right people.

This is shockingly common, my bff used as perm donor, but not the one she selected. Her doctor also fathered multiple children and a lawsuit is pending. Google Doctor Barwin in Ottawa Canada, hundreds of families effected

Can someone please tell me why he would do that? What did he hope to gain from this?