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I really feel her pain. I literally experienced this same thing last year. After 52 years, I found out that my dad was not my biological father. The feeling of betrayal is so real. Still searching for my biological father.

Eep, people think it’s not real? In 2024, really?

I’m so sorry

I am glad things went well for her❤ She now has two dads, twice the love! How far back does DNA pick things up? The paper trail shows that my 5th great grandmother was a slave in the late 1700's early 1800's (She died before the Civil War.) What percentage would show up in my DNA?

Another facepalm lol

You mean North American cultural black because not all black act like that. Not black Latinos we dont act like that.

Hi, Jarrett. New subscriber. Love your videos. I'm a British woman, Yorkshire born and bred and I have been researching my ancestry since 1984, taking all lines back at least 6 generations and in some cases as far back as the 16th century when English parish registers began. I recently got my DNA test results from AncestryDNA and these are my ethnicity results. 53% England and Northwestern Europe (mostly England) 35% Scotland 8% Sweden and Denmark 3% Norway 1% Basque There are a few things that puzzle me about my ethnicity results. All my mother's ancestors were born in England. They mostly had surnames of Anglo-Saxon or Norman origin. They can be found in northern England, all three Ridings of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (between North Lincolnshire and Lincoln) which my ethnicity results have picked up. However, I get more Scandinavian DNA from my mother's side than my father's and my father was of Anglo-Scottish-Swedish descent. My paternal grandmother was one quarter Swedish. I also have a good percentage of Scottish DNA from my mother, but it's my paternal great grandmother who had the Scottish father and Anglo-Scottish mother. The biggest mystery to me is the 1% Basque from my mother's side. None of my identifiable DNA matches on my mother's side (none of them closely or too distantly related) have Basque DNA, but I realise it could be further back in time. The odd thing is that I share my maternal 1% Basque DNA with an unidentified DNA match who lives in Alaska and a man with the name Muhammad who has 7% Basque DNA. These two are shared DNA matches with each other. None of the other people that I am matched with these two people (a total of 36 people inc. the two mentioned) have Basque DNA inc. two matches who are thought to be closely related to Muhammad with the surname Bradbury. None of these 36 people are closer in relationship to me than an estimated half third cousin, once removed. Most of them don't have family trees and those that do don't have any names or surnames on their family trees that I can identify. A few of them are "unassigned". My late parents were born in a city that was a dockland many years ago and the city had many ships visiting from overseas and many a foreign sailor. If I have 1% Basque DNA, it could've come from a sailor from that region and perhaps one of my ancestresses had a brief relationship with him, but it doesn't look like any of them admitted to it. I haven't a clue which side of my maternal ancestry that it comes from and I have matches with all of my maternal great grandparents's families. I have relatives in the USA and Canada, but I know of no one in Alaska. Most of my DNA test results didn't deviate from what I already know through genealogical research, but the 1% Basque is a complete mystery and surprise. I am also aware that DNA test results can only tell you your ethnicity within a few generations of yourself. Why do so few of my matches have Basque DNA?

I found out I was more from my Dada side whereas my younger brother was more from my Moms side. I had German and French and Irish .Whereas my brother had no Irish and his German and French were way lower, where his PUERTO RICAN was higher mine was lower . I was a very high percentage Native American whereas my brother had a very low percentage our Spain and Portugal percentage were very close, and Yes we both came back as brothers. He came back a higher percentage of Black than me which is funny because I am the darkest kid in my family. he came back 3 percent and I came back 1 percent..

Please be aware of paperwork issues with people with low English language literacy on one side and low Gaelic literacy in the receiving country's immigration processors. Names were misspelt, altered and even made up.

Wow, I could tell right away that this young woman was very Hispanic looking. For all the European she has, (Irish, eastern European, German, etc.) she looks mostly Puerto Rican, if not all! I don’t remember the percentage of her Hispanic versus her European numbers, but I assume the Puerto Rican had a pretty large percentage. What a way to find out the man who raised you is not your bio dad. 😮

Go through DNA matches, filter out your mama in the line, and the rest is your dad. Find cousins that are not related to your mom, and those are your cousins on your biological father's side. Go carefully, and use both DNA and genealogy tree to get documents to prove lineage...do as much as you can before contacting paternal cousins - you want to be sure. And also, before contacting anyone on your paternal side, please talk with your parents, and make sure it's what you want. If you are, indeed, of a different paternal line, you always have the first choice of continuing as you are, or changing your life. You choose - be wise, be safe, be happy!

I think this is one of the best videos you’ve reacted to. I know it didn’t show much in terms of relative matches or anything like that… but it showed a heartbreaking reality that happens more than people want to think it does. I’m glad the second little clip was included because it felt really good to see her having come to terms with it and that she looked happy. And major shout out to her Dad with a capital D. Any sperm donor can be a biological father, but it takes a real Dad to say, screw biology… I love you and I love your children and you’ll be mine forever in my heart. I would however like to have some words with her mother. She very clearly knew but never said anything and that just feels so wrong. She wronged her Dad, her bio father, and her with one big secret.

My issues are that my family has been in America since the 1600s, so finding my ethnicity from my 1 - 6th grand doesn't really work for me. I know I'm not Native American

Not sure about DNA tests, from what I've seen, you get dramatically different results depending on which you use

The amount of ignorance...

I'm from the US gulf coast and one side is Native American. They used to claim Italian and give their kids Italian names to avoid residential schools and discrimination. My nearly 100% mvscoke grandmother was named Grazia and told she was Italian by her mother until she was an adult.

I saw this. It did prove her dad is someone else.

My dad is and adoptee. We knew who his biological mother was. But the father was a mystery. There where 3 options a) Her first husband b) her second husband c)unknown person. DNA tests done and it was an unknown male person. We found out his name. There is a lot of back story information to give it context. In short it was sad and dramatic. But through the dna test we found half siblings, and cousins who never knew about my dad his existance. But which each passing of time and more information come to light. It is good that my dad was given up for adoption out of love of his biological mother to protect him for bad influences, no acceptance of male adult figures and physical abuse and mental abuse. She protected my dad for all of that. The unknown father was not aware he fathered my father. It was a fling a one night stand even maybe in sad circumstances for my dad his biological mother.

My results were exactly what I expected people-wise. The ethnicities were different, but not by much. I have found a lot of distant relatives on my dad's side of the family, but that was what we expected.

Ha, Ha, so many Afro-Americans simply are a mix of African and European ancestry. I knew what her results were going to be in the first three minutes of her telling her ancestral story. Both of them are trying to make it more complex and exotic than it actually is. The host was very reticent about admitting how much European ancestry he thought she had. LoL. This seems to be a common theme, I wonder why?? Maybe some guilty feelings.

Another video where they'll act surprised and I won't lol

I feel you man! These surprised reactions get on my nerves lol

I did a DNA test to find possible matches to maybe learn who my grandfather's father on my dad's side was. We have 0 information about him. Even the family name we have isn't his, but the maiden surname of my grandfather's mother. And the matches look like that person never existed. I have matches who are my 3rd, 4th, 5th cousins, etc., and nothing. Just my mom's relatives (who effing populated the whole country, it seems), and grandma's relatives on my dad's side. Mystery man remains a mystery. Is it possible that he was the only son of the family that is no longer there? I don't even know where to go from here.

Her Mother is a trifling woman. The fact that both she and her father were in the dark about their relationship says it all. Like you slept with a man and you're "not able to tell me who it is?" Yikes.

Last summer I found out that my maternal grandfather is NOT my mother’s father. I still haven’t told her (she might or might not know already and just never told me).

This video is done way before 2018 because it’s been updated since 2012 area.

For a giggle, you should really redo your own video on how MyHeritage, Ancestry, FTDNA, LivingDNA, 23AndMe, ... have called your heritage, as they've all been tweaking their reference populations.

Yes, you are Puerto Rican, your dad is not your dad. Just kidding.

So basically her mother slept with another man and lied to her daughter for nearly 3 decades. The fact that the mother told her daughter that she was Hispanic tells me that the mother knew who the birth father was. I feel for this young lady and the man who raised her.

I did my dna just after it was announced by ancestry. There were many of the usual suspects as matches. I had my genealogical map all going back by documentation into the tens of generations back. But there were names that matched that I wasn’t familiar with. Long story short: I discovered an “NPE” or “Not Person Expected” as my Grandfather! My mom’s dad was not her biological dad. Well, well, well! I did more research and did find the probable great grandparents and definite second greats (all through DNA matches and percentages). My suspicion is the grandfather was the result of either rape or born out of wedlock situation, who was then adopted out. He probably never even knew his own parents. And my grandmother had passed away a year before so I couldn’t ask her. Well, we all have stories!

Is it possible to definitively trace ancestry back to Charlemagne, 1200 years? What is your opinion of sites and sources that claim to trace back to him and to Alfred the great and to the Crusaders and so on. Do sites and sources that trace back so far ever have a finding: You are related to a nobody peasant from 1200 years ago? This is a serious inquiry. I’ve just learned I have a relative who may somehow be paying money for such info. and I’d like to know what to say to them if they are. Thanks.

I got a MyHeritage dna test im allegedly 25% swedish 75% finnish and I got 86.2% Finnish 9.6% Scandinavian 4.2% Celtic can you see X and Y haplogroups with MyHeritage?

Black Africans have the most diverse look on earth from phenotype to skin tone and size.Real life and not real life talk below. Note- In real life some black or african americans just like white americans do not have any other race admixture. Well most black americans may have european dna but it still not significant enough.For it to be significant and impact phenotype it needs to be 25% or up and that is not always the case for some. Having 1% asian or native american dna is really small and not significant as well and does not impact phenotype as well. Most white americans have other race admixture as well but tends to be smaller on average then the average black american real life race admixture but they have race admixture and for most of them too it's insignificant. African americans look like the ethnic groups they come from in africa anyway. Africans vary from all types of looks. In africa you could see africans(depending on the ethnic group and individuals) that look more like african americans.I should say african americans look more like the africans they come from. Okay the above is real life by the way but when comes to american sci-fi/fantasy superhero comics it's a different story/different universes,laws,history etc.. and most african americans and white americans for example do not have any other race admixture at all. In comicbook superhero stories,shows,movies etc.. most white and black americans do not have any other race admixture and when a few do it's simplified. So the person is either 100% black or white,50% or 75% etc.. By way most latino/hispanic americans in comics are not white and are not classified as white,while in real life most are classified as white. Note-in superhero sci-fi- fantasy comics most african americans are unmixed blacks, racism is less then in the real world and alot more blacks live in north africa then they do in the real world but those are different universes,with alot of different history,more advance technological achievements etc.. Of course writers jobs is to focus on superhero stories and not bring in to much real world stories,politics,dna stuff etc.. in comics.Besides the comic industry and many of the characters were created before most folks knew anything about dna etc..,so writers in the past and today still keep simple as possible when it comes to background, history etc.. By the way i saw some statistics saying that most black american before 1890’s were unmixed. The black population that had some form admixture out grew that black american population that were unmixed,and it happen over time in 1800’s and more so the 1900’s.There could be varied reasons for that but in terms of raw numbers for example the unmixed black population was almost close in size to the black population in the 1930’s for example but that gap got wider faster i think in 1950’s or 60’s i think.

Oh it;'s real I found lost family and I was raised in foster care. When my son put in his results it came up new match this person is my son

This actually sounds like it came out ok. The man who raised her always wondered, but loved her anyway and raised her as his own. Her mother spoke up and then (I assume) connected her with her biological father who seemed genuinely happy to hear from her. It's a good ending!

I'd like to see more on this one. When I tested, I got 4 community groups of Pennsylvania and was like, "of course". I had hoped testing would allow me to go back further than 4 generations into my Italian ancestry but it hasn't brought me further back on the tree. Reconnecting with cousins is nice though, and maybe more will eventually test.

Been there. Found out at 28. Shatters your sense of self. I wish parents would be honest. The truth sets us all free.

Videos like this really annoy me. The reason you take the DNA test is to find out what you don't know so unless you don't know all your grandparents and where they came from it really doesn't seem to me that this is that unexpected, except for the no Southern Italy in her readings which I would have expected to see, even if in a worst case scenario it is much lower. The last part of this video disturbs me. Her dad is still her dad, he brought her up as one of his own, even if he knew (and he probably didn't) that she wasn't his daughter. I get that it is a shock for her but to blame her dad I find very harsh. Maybe she could blame her mum but even then if she wasn't sure who the father was then I'm not sure what telling her would have given her.

so I had a feeling that I had some Italian in me despite being Mexican but hey 26.6% pretty much means it’s partial Italian Italian ancestry

I've had a lot of cool things with my own DNA, and in helping others, but the fondest memory is. A smallish match, say 30-40 cMs, that had my father's surname on her profile.... Well I just had to message her ;) Through our conversations back and forth, I learned that she was afraid her dad was not her dad. There were reasons for wondering. Through a lot of previous research, and a lot of work painting segments of matches, I was able to reassure her that the chunk of DNA we shared was clearly a Workman segment. And I was able to show her how her dad and I were related (distantly). Her dad WAS her dad. Proven. I got thank you emails from them both. Boy, that felt marvelous!

There's always wood in the woodpile💁🏿‍♂️🍽️😏

For all she knows, it could have been the result of an SA or another very inappropriate relationship. While I do think her mom should have said something to her sooner, her mother may have been protecting her.

Shout out to the "adoptive fathers" who were REAL parental figures. Can't imagine the feeling of betrayal in the cases of infidelity, and to put that aside and still step up to be there for the kid... Bittersweet heroes.

This is why Im afraid of doing it 😂 Ima still do it

Not only does look stereotypically Puerto Rican, her accent sounds like a Puerto Rican, especially one from New York. No wonder she had suspicions …

From Ancestry - Nigerian - 16%, Nigeria - East Central 3%, Cameroon Congo & Western Bantu - 14%, Ivorty Coast & Ghana - 13%, Mali - 9%, Benin & Togo 8%,Senegal 3%, England & northwestern Europe - 10%, Sweden & Denmark - 7%, Ireland -7%, Scotland 5%, Jewish 4%, Finland 1% My Dad is 48% black and both his parents are biracial. My mom is 82% African.

So, her mom was giving it away to the neighbourhood! The truth always has a way of rising to the top.

I found out my great grandpa is not who I thought he was, so I am not Italian at all. I'm almost entirely from the British isles.

I'm a brunette with tan skin. My sister is a redhead with pale skin. Both our parents are brunettes with lighter skin. My sister always used to joke that she was the mailman's kid. (It wasn't a secret in our family that both our parents had cheated on each other before.) After Dad died in 2014, we got our Ancestry tests done. My sister was all set to find out everything. Turns out that we're 100% full siblings. She actually had me on speaker when she read her results. She started crying, saying "Daddys's Daddy". I tell everyone that if they do their DNA, it's not a game, be ready to find out the whole truth, even the sucky parts. Our youngest brother refuses to get his DNA done. He said that if he were to find out that the man he called Daddy his entire life wasn't his Dad, he doesn't know what he would do.

Are DNA tests useless for East Asians as results will just show 100% Han Chinese, Korean and Japanese?