I found a half sister I never knew about. I’ve met her and gotten to talk to her kids, my other family. It was wonderful. When we met, we showed up in the same outfit. Twice.
Matchrocket 😄 I suppose it’s possible, too, he did some donations at the local fertility clinic. Being able to find people has certainly changed things, though. Do your stepson and his siblings get along?
@@WaterNai No donations, just promiscuous. He was an alcoholic and most likely wasn't too careful in his youth. He's been recovered for a long while now.
You missed the story about the Dutch fertility clinician that used so much of his own sperm that people found out trough dna tests that they have 200+ half brothers and sisters!
That's a nightmare if you're trying to avoid invest, they will probably have to find their spouses in another country and still have to do a background check!
As someone that was adopted I believe that the parents that love and raised you are your parents, regardless of blood relation. It may be a cool and interesting thing to find out about blood relatives, but the fact remains that your true parents are the people that brought you into their lives and cared for and raised you.
Sorry, but you're trying to change the facts. Your DNA parents are what made you and your replacement parents came along later. You live, breathe and exist because of the former.
@@waynecarversr6375 Well, an adopted child will always know that she was really wanted by the parents who raised her. So I guess I am with the OP here, the parents that raised you are the true parents, no matter of the blood relation.
Your true parents are your biological parents. Your adoptive parents just took over their job. No amount of denial is going to change that. The #truth is the truth whether you want to accept it or not. 💯
My ex-mother in law always held fast to her Italian heritage. That was until she took a DNA test at the age of 68. Turned out she wasn't Italian at all. No, she was Scandinavian. When she asked her 92 year old mother about this, her mother admitted that the Italian man she had called her Father had a Scandinavian friend.... And, well.... things happen, doncha know.
Sounds like you made that up for likes. As someone who is an Italian citizen born and raised and every generation of my family on both sides before are Italian born and raised too, it’s common knowledge that we can take DNA and 99.999% of us won’t show any Italian ancestry links. Just European links. There’s no such thing as Italian dna. Only dna markers they use from common settlers groups in Italy. Italy is a place where people migrated from France and Portugal, and mostly Middle East and Africa. This is how we get our many different Italian skin tones from light olive to very dark olive. Most of us will show French, Irish, English, Portuguese, Spanish, African, and middle eastern ancestry when taking DNA test. Mostly European. The Italian dna test only shows possible markers that very few of us have from early settlers in Italy. I think your story sounded delicious but is fake, or perhaps the source you got it from wasn’t truthful.
I just got home about 2 hours ago. It went better than I could have possibly imagined! I learned a lot about my family that I never knew I had. I saw that my dad had, like mannerisms, that I always wondered if I would ever see the man face to face that I got them from, and it was truly strange watching that fantasy materialize in front of me. I will be making many more trips back to north carolina to get to know him better.
For anyone who's taken a DNA test: check the results regularly, because the company you took it with will update it as it gets more data. I took one with 23andMe that said I was 92% Chinese, 7% Korean, 1% Broadly East Asian, and less than 0.1% Southern European. After a year and a few months, the results have changed: I'm now 99.8% Chinese with 0.2% Broadly East Asian and less than 0.1% Broadly European. Remember: you are only subject to the database the company has, and as its database changes, so too can your results.
@michael browne Not necessarily "wrong" per se, but certainly still not 100% accurate because of the database they have and/or don't have. These tests rely on people taking them willingly submitting their DNA for analysis: the more data they have, the more accurate they are.
It isn't wrong. What happens is more people from your leniage take the test adding a more complete proper picture of all of your backgrounds. Everyone who does it increases the accuracy. It's so facinating!!! I love DNA stuff.
Yes, and they explain why. If people were only to read how the information is obtained, etc. Also, people should have their family history (genealogy) to compare. We did that and the DNA test confirmed our genealogy. Also,people should research not just their family history, but the history where their ancestors came from. DNA testing tells thel truth in your genes which is something people deny for the most part. And yes, the science behind it is complex but incredibly the most exact tool we have-- not perfect, just exact.
My grandmother, who was born in 1889, was adopted. We had no idea who her biological parents were. I had my 97-year-old mother take a DNA test. Thanks fo finding numerous 2nd and 3rd cousins, we were able to find out who my grandmother's biological parents were. A family mystery that had lasted for 130 years was solved thru the power of spit.
"Can uncover secrets that have been buried for years or even decades." Yeah, like the fact my mother cheated on my father and told him I was his for 30+ years. I told my Dad and he knew already, but chose to be my father anyways. I am very lucky to have a man like him in my life. I am more like him than her. Turns out though, I am half Thai, so that is pretty cool.
@@49525Bob I have a lot of Thai features that I had no idea were Thai in the first place. My hair, skin color, body composition, lips, nose, etc. My eyes are kind of between almond and round. Growing up I had my doubts about my origins but I really wanted to be my father's son and my mother insisted that it was because my family is part native American which made me look the way I do as compared to others. I bought it because I wanted it to be true. Took the ancestry DNA test and bam. I ended up being the one to tell my Dad the truth. He said he always knew, but thought I was Mexican. I am my father's son regardless of DNA. My son takes after me a lot. He is just a little lighter skin color than me. My wife is full blown white. I have met my biological father, he is really cool. He is from Thailand but moved here at the age of 6.
There is a much simpler reason for Brits to have N American Native blood. From the 1600's on Brits in the fur trade send their half native children back to England and Scotland to be raised as Europeans. Thousands of children were absorbed into British society. A large percentage of Brits no doubt have Native N American blood. Well known part of Canadian history.
@@noger1234 What? You never heard of White and Native Americans inter breeding? Also, what about mixed white/native American citizens immigrating to Europe. There are many ways the native American DNA could have been introduced.
#1: The Golden State Killer was captured 30 years after his reign of terror because distant relatives had incidentally gotten their DNA tested, and the FBI was able to use a process of elimination on that family tree to track down Joseph James DeAngelo.
My late father always said he grew up in an orphanage. Thanks to a DNA test I connected with a cousin and learned that my dad wasn't an orphan, he was a teen runaway. I will be meeting members of his family in person next month. I am thrilled to know the truth and to have found his family.
If you look at the Google search for that question it's freakishly common. Not in other countries but the US. I made my husband keep an eye on our baby the entire time, so I didn't have to worry about it.
My mother swore before she left the hospital with her newborn that the baby had been switched. The baby she saw come out of her had thick, curly hair; the baby the nurses brought back had straight blond hair. My sister grew up to have blond hair and green eyes, unlike all the dark haired, brown eyed people in my family. She also missed inheriting neurological disorders from my dad's exposure to Agent Orange that plague the other four siblings. She refuses to get a DNA test because she fears it will reveal we're not related by blood and she was meant to be raised in another family entirely. This would mess up her sense of identity, religion, everything. The thing is, we grew up in the same house, she's my sister, blood or not, religion is her choice, and while it explains the genetic differences, it does not change her past experiences. Life is simply what it is, and we make the best of what we're given. Personally, I'm hoping to find out that I have another sister. I had a doppelganger growing up, people saying they saw me in the neighboring town, even got in trouble when people said they saw me shopping during school hours. I've always been curious if this was my other sister.
I'm adopted and did my DNA test through Ancestry. A little over a month ago, my Biological family found me through a match on Ancestry. I love my family that raised me so much, but I have enough love in my heart to embrace all of my newfound family too. I and my half-sister talk every day. My birth mom passed away a year ago but I'm enjoying getting to know the rest of the family through Face Time chats. Strange thing, I look A LOT like my birth mom. That's the first thing any of them say when they see me. MY real mom that raised me is very happy for me and is supporting me fully in all of this. In a few months, I'm planning on going to meet all of them.
At 62, Ancesry DNA test told me that my dad wasn't my dad. I was raised as a proud 100% Hispanic man. Family has direct roots to Spain. I look different, but my mom told me that I got my fair skin and blue/ green eyes from the ”Spanish genes.” It turns out that I'm 73% Scottish/Irish/English and 13% Hispanic and Native American. Ancestry connections led me to a cousin that told me who my dad was. He was a singer/guitarist in a country music band that traveled to honky-tonks all over the southwest US. He was married, but traveled alone and apparently enjoyed himself. I found two half-brothers and three half-sisters from three states, but sadly have only been able to contact one of my sisters. One of my brothers didn't reply to my effort, and the others have their mother still alive, so I haven't attempted contact. It's not my place to cause pain to anybody, especially for my own needs. After all of these years believing that I was full Hispanic, and my mom taking her secret to the grave, I sort of feel like Steve Martin in ”The Jerk.” 🤪
I am too scared to do these tests - They may tell me my parents are really my parents... At least by not doing this test I can still live in hope I was adopted :P
That's just hysterical, Tracey. Fun-nee. Lol. Ahaaaaaaa! Comment of the year. (I hope though it was a tongue in cheek comment, though and you're parents are fine.)
My dad was adopted as a baby and so was his siblings. A year ago a cousin of my dad found me on Facebook after having done a DNA test. She reunited my dad with his brothers and sister a year ago. I never expected that and thought it was a joke till I read all the details. I still talk to them regularly. And we're all thankful she brought everyone together
What's funnier is that guy who was offended to hear he had sub-saharan African in him... that "Iberian thing" was probably from the Muslims who conquered the Iberian Peninsula for a lil bit, and because of their very long history of enslaving sub-saharan Africans, are part sub-saharan African, so that DNA test was right.
My Grand mother recently took a DNA test through Ancestry and learned that she has a sister who is a Hicks Clinic baby. My grand mothers sister was birthed and given up for adoption at the Hicks Clinic in Georgia. Since finding each other, My grand mother and her sister have met face to face, and were even asked to do interviews for a documentary that is being produced about the clinic. If you like weird history, the hicks clinic is a pretty cool thing to read about.
I just watched a video of a black woman who found out that she of European decent on her mothers side and she was so upset she cried. This is the problem with racism. We should be proud of who we are. If we are hateful enough that we will be upset if our DNA doesn’t match our racist views, we should stay away from DNA testing of any kind!
Yes, I saw it too, she was deeply shaken, it was pathetic. I bet she does not consider herself a racist, but she is, just the same as the white supremacist guy in this video.
Angie I don’t know how to do that bc i watch RUclips on my phone, but the title of the video is: “shocking African ancestry dna results I’m upset” the channel name is Nina Hope
That's cool! I mean, not the Salem Witch Trials, but the historical connection. Also, it's funny- you said 9th great grandmother so I replied here instead of posting my own comment...Ancestry revealed that I'm the 9th great granddaughter of Patrick Henry through my maternal grandfather. And we always assumed his and other male relatives' Middle name of Henry was just a random middle name that had caught on and been passed down. But now I know. And the part that's not cool about all that is that my ancestor may have said "give me liberty or give me death" but he was also a slave owner on a large tobacco plantation. Too bad Grandpa Pat didn't hear the meaning behind his famous patriotic speech during the American Revolution.
K893 893 A little there was one Gertie McFarlan as a great great grandmother. But she was under the belief that all the Schaffer side we're German and that her mother was German. Obviously not
Kim & William Skinner The way these ancestry tests work is they base it off of self reported ancestry. If you claimed in your initial assessment to be 100% german descendant you would have been used as a “German” reference and your DNA would be added in with others until they had a giant reference. This skews the results because think they are 100% stuff that they aren’t.
Could be true when you look at the history of the british isles including Ireland. In some parts of the UK it's difficult to distinguish between the DNA from the UK and the upper parts of the Netherlands and Germany. Because of the many migrations in the past (AngloSaxons remember?) So some people might have made the trip from Germany to England and then to Ireland in the past.
My dad figured out that his grandfather’s (Puppa) name wasn’t actually Barnett Louis Miller, it was really Ber Lieb Meirel and that he came from Poland during the Holocaust. Also he is actually like 0.1% Native American, and we are Jewish, so now he calls himself Crazy Horse Rabinowitz.
I found out I'm Ashkenazi, and my father's family came from Leipzig, Germany just before the holocaust. My real name would be Brentlinger, but was changed at the port to Robinson. They weren't permitted entry to the US. So they tried again, going through the California port of entry and were allowed in finally. And my mother was native American.
Rowan Spiritwalker Most of the religions do not subscribe to this belief. It began when Joseph Smith claimed he was visited by an angel and given golden tablets that were lost for 1500 years. He claimed to have had them deciphered and even named a scholar whom he claimed verified their authenticity. This same scholar was contacted and he stated that the tablets were gibberish and made up of bits and pieces of ancient languages jn such a manner that whomever created them had no knowledge of what the words meant.
I've always been obsessed with Vikings and I found out I'm actually 18% Scandinavian but the most interesting part was I found out my great grandfather actually came to America in 1930s and was a WW2 vet! He then ran into some trouble and fled to Cuba (my gran told me the real story when I confronted her). That test was the best money I ever spent.
@ Irene Arlet One of my relatives tested with FTDNA and received nearly 50% Scandinavian results. With "upgrade," his results were 0%. I've taken many of the commercially available tests for an interest in the science and genealogy and health concerns. They are inconsistent at present .... from 100% Euro to varying minor admixtures across tests.
I had a dna test because I was adopted as a baby and was obsessed with finding my roots. I have dark blue eyes, white skin with dark brown red tinged hair and high cheek bones. People have asked me if I'm Jewish, Spanish, or Italian, plus I never felt that I was 100% white British. Took a dna test in my 50s a few yrs ago and it's absolutely fascinating, I am over the moon. I have alot of German and Polish genes probably on par with the British genes but what I am most happy about are the Shapardi Jewish, Bedouin Arab, and Native American ancestors that turned up . This explains alot to me because they are the ones I have always felt most connected to all my life. Plus the usual viking blood from the Scandinavian areas that most people with British dna have due to the viking invasion . I'm also related to Marie Antonette probably from my Austrian blood line. When it comes down to it we are all related. Brilliant stuff. Better than all my birthdays put together.
dank donkerson it would be funny if she didn't use the Native American money to get every single place that she is if she didn't use it for college for her education to get the jobs that she got easier to make it up in our politics easier it's a crime she should be in jail nothing funny about it
I think 23 and me was sold this year, the new owners now own all of that data. Pretty scary if I’m honest, and I don’t get freaked out by data things that often.
yes I wondered from the get-go if the "authorities" can access these sites to cross-reference with crime DNA. the answer is YES they do and they have solved many crimes thru that.
Ancestry DNA has been one of the greatest blessings in my family's life. It gave my mother closure (she was given up for adoption when she was younger and was finally able to get answers after 68 years due to adoption records being closed for 100 years in the state where she was born) and it connected us with other family that we were worried we would never meet. I know DNA results can often lead to heartache, but in the case of my family, there was so much joy.
@YoungD3mon314 anything to not be "the wrong color" of course. Frankly, I think he needs to watch the episode of M*A*S*H where the doctors infuse a racist soldier with the "wrong" kind of blood then give him the reality (if it wasn't for a black Dr inventing the modern blood transfusion process, he'd have died)
I grew up thinking I was 100% Lithuanian (Baltic), but my DNA test says I'm only 53% Baltic. According to different DNA websites I'm part Russian, Finnish and broadly Eastern European (likely Polish/Belorussian) as well. Turns out my maternal grandparents, who were orphaned during WW2, were from wealthy intellectual families that I knew nothing about. Those kinds of people used to travel more, study abroad, marry foreigners and tend to be more ethnically mixed than ordinary farmers. There's still so much I don't know. DNA research is fascinating.
I had a friend growing up who was practically identical to me, we always got mistaken for one another (even by our parents, from a distance). Absolutely zero genetic relation. (Trust me, I have all my dad’s medical problems, the older we got the less alike we looked, and her family didn’t move into our town until we were both four.
My wife did hers and she found she was 70% Scandinavian, 29% English and 1% Middle Eastern. The first 2 sort of expected but the last 1% got her on the hunt and found who in her family in the 1700 went to the middle east and married a local woman. It was fascinating.
I was always told i was 100% Italian and that my husband was of multiple ancestry. My son did the test and sure enough, it came back 50% Italian and pretty much all of the ancestry we thought my husbands family was. Worked pretty well for us.
I have about 3% Neanderthal DNA. If you are of European descent, you probably have some, as well. Many people on New Guinea have Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA, as well, making some of them have as little as 92% homo sapien DNA.
When my parents died in 2010, I discovered that my dad was not my father. I do not know who was my father, though the evidence points towards one individual. People have tried to get me to take DNA tests, but I have no interest. For 56 years I called my mother's husband dad because that is who he was. I could not have had a better dad. To me, the other man was little more than a sperm donor. He did nothing to raise me, even though a letter that I found suggested that he knew about me. Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad. I have no intention of taking DNA tests because I do not wish to insult my dad's memory. The man that appears to have been my biological father has died, as far as I can find out. I have no idea whether he had other children, and I am not bothered because they would be strangers. I understand why others take tests, but it's just not for me.
I agree, DNA tests may help some people but in some cases they can cause great harm and much upset. Sometimes too much knowledge can be a very bad thing and things are best left alone!
My brother and I are adopted and we got DNA test for Christmas. No surprises on the ancestry part, but I found my birth mother and family through that.
A week after my brothers funeral, my father received an email from his unknown daughter (who is the oldest of all my siblings - I'm the youngest). Her mother put her for adoption and never wanted contact - despite being found years earlier. Since then we have introduced her slowly to her extended family (180+) when she previously only had am extended family of 4. I throught the timing was funny and did some research, turns out the same time my brother was passing away in hospital, she was doing her DNA swab to find her family.
James Dean My deepest apologies for my cynical comment. I shouldn’t allow the few horror stories I’ve heard color my perception, or my heart. I am so sorry for the loss of your brother, and wish your family the best.
It’s amazing what crap parents would tell their kids. Now everyone needs to come clean. It’s for the kids really. You need accurate medical information if nothing else.
"Shocking" is too strong a word. Shocking is finding out you're related to ELizabeth I or Hitler. Not some pleasant person who had no idea you were alive.
+Piotr: _"if you were related to Hitler why would that matter? You're your own person."_ I'm sure people you told would totally see it that way. Who wouldn't like to be associated with Hitler! After WWII everyone started naming their baby boys Adolf! Kidding, of course... After WW2 no one named their boy Adolf anymore, at least in Sweden (surely elsewhere too), where it was always a common/popular name before (including w/ royalty; our crown prince's name was Gustav Adolf). This is true to this day! Or so I think. [goes to look it up] Yup. There are currently 185 men in Sweden named Adolf. Compare with Lars: 89 046.
@Robeltoable yeah they do consider 'Hispanic' to be an ethnicity spanning the entire Spanish speaking world. What they actually refer to on pretty much EVERY application that asks the optional ethnicity question is Hispanic and non-white Hispanic. If you do even the smallest bit of research you will see that the US government considers it an ethnicity.
@Robeltoable first, why do you keep bringing up Portuguese? White supremacists tend to not like the HISPANIC people a lot more than the south Americans. second, whatever kind of 'conspiracy theorist' you are... It still doesn't change the fact the US government uses there poll information quite a bit. If you don't believe the government considers 'Hispanic' an ethnicity.
When my son did a 23 and Me test we learned that we have Ashkenazim (Jewish) ancestry we were never told about. I was a teenager before I learned that my great-great-grandmother was 100% native American. Up to that point my very English grandmother had always told me that my father's side was 100% German (true) and that my mother's side was a mixture of English and Scottish-- ONLY. My grandmother's racism caused her to deny my true genetic makeup, while keeping her own Jewish ancestry a secret. I recommend 23 and Me above and beyond the other genetic testing kits because they give MUCH more information than just ancestry. We learned that my son has NO genetic predisposition to any serious illness, which was a HUGE relief to me. I was very concerned that he may have inherited the heart disease that runs on his father's side, or the degenerative nerve diseases that I have.
I am American of several generations decent. I don't have to get tested to know I have VERY mixed ancestry. Heinz 57 sounds better than mutt, so, me too.
@@JBSHARPSHARP rather proud of my mutt blood, to be honest. A citizen of the Melting Pot. Shows it's working. But, my family loves me and my friends respect me, I couldn't ask for more. Be well. Live LARGE!
@@johnkendall6962 Thank you. It's taking longer than the founders expected, for a lot of messed up reasons, but we're getting there. Hopefully before another hundred years go by our national motto will be, "Us mutts gotta stick together!" Be well my friend.
Tamira Bennett Volk These DNA ancestry tests also show proof of cheating. This lady I worked with took a DNA test. Her stepmother would always get mad when she asked her "father" for money. Apparently she cussed her out and told her he wasn't her real father. Turns out her bio father was a white man. Her mother (black) kept denying it, but after she showed her the results she confessed one of the men she had an affair with was a white coworker. Now she is pissed at her family for lying all this time.
I have a theory this happened way more often than people think, it’s only going to come to light if you are doing DNA or possibly blood tests. Back in the day babies shared the same nursery and didn’t have wrist or ankle bracelets, so it was pretty easy to return them to the wrong place. It almost happened to me, luckily Mum took one look and said “this isn’t mine.”
There have been many children who had been delivered to wrong parents , in the past . And it sure happens now to , we hav had several such issues in Norway .
The best way to avoid getting the wrong kid is to go to a foreign country, and have a kid that looks different from all others. :) (My son being mixed looked different than all other local kids, so it was easy to spot him in the ward. :D )
I just did a DNA test, and found out I have an older half sister. She lives in France. My father appatently had a French girlfriend during WWII who got pregnant. He was wounded and sent home. The baby mama assumed he died and told her daughter this. She took a DNA test hoping to find her family. It turned up my cousin as having common Gene's. She contacted him and told him she knew her dad's name did he know him. He messaged me on Facebook. I messaged her and told her about my dad. Then I took a dna test. It came back that we share 23.3% of our DNA, meaning we are 1/2 sisters.
It is a separate result from Western Europe in the DNA results....historically populated by different tribes of people. It is also to give more location accuracy for your results.
Hey, I've got a great business idea - We'll create a world-wide genetic database so we can track people even more closely. The kicker is, we'll get the suckers, er clients, to pay for the tests with a bit of gravy for us.
Believe me; if the “powers that be” want your DNA, they will get it. Almost everyone has had a blood test done for one thing or another by the time they are adults. Does anyone really think that the medical cabal doesn’t toe the line to the elite?
Then they can sell those results to ad agencies for more gravy! Ad agencies can then target the individuals based on most likely diseases and disorders they can get. Ad agencies swap info with each other all the time so now even if it’s not all in one database it’s still easy to get!
The two friends that discovered they're actually brothers... How could nobody know that? They look so much alike in the photos and video clips in this video. But that's cool they finally discovered that. I bet it made some things make more sense after all those years, like how they always felt such a close bond.
One of my jr high friends and I share no recent ancestry.. We look so much alike that people thought we are sisters.. Some teachers could not be sure which of us was in their class..
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What do you expect from a racist? If he's ignorant enough to believe he's better than someone else based on skin color he's not going to be smart enough to do a bit of geographical research. Lol
@@polemikful Like Italians they have some northern African DNA in the mix, as have many Europeans, actually. European history is such a mish-mash of who occupied whom and who fled where that you'll find all kinds of DNA throughout Europe. For example, it's not too uncommon to find Iberian DNA in the Netherlands or Belgium, because between 1522 and 1718 the Spanish occupied this and parts of what is now western Germany. And Spain wasn't actually that old when Columbus sailed to the Americas in the 1400s, a few years before that the southern parts of Spain had still been occupied by Muslims. In the 1200s the Mongolians reached what's now Poland and Hungary and left their DNA there aswell.
Yes I know. I believe the average north african dna in Spain is about 3%. Less in the north, more in the south. Having that in mind I would say spanish are basically european and white. To be technical 97% european and white.
It means you're partly Basque, an ancient group from what is now Northern Spain and extending a little into France. They are believed to have been around before the Romans or even the Celts ... So more European than even the 'Europeans' :-)
I just don't trust this system. Example as to why, I'm in a rare blood group, as such I donate it. However I've been contacted a few times by private parties who where willing to pay me directly for my blood, as well another time where I was asked to donate bone morrow, again, outside party. Now, I'm down for either of those but at my discretion and not by leaked blood records in which I had to threaten legal auction for it to stop. Just be warned, you never know where your DNA will end up and don't be surprised if you meet an exact copy of youself someday, albeit without the acne, obesity and hair loss problem, aahhh the power of DNA cloning.
That's my fear too!!! That they might clone us... Maybe I live in a fantasy world. Maybe not. Did you know that they got the BTK killer's DNA through her daughter's pap smear from when she was in college? Kinda scary.
hi. I was wondering if when you donate blood, have they ever ask you to donate for a specific person? Im asking because i was having surgery, and my husband was my match, and wanted to donate specifically for me for the surgery. Whatever wasnt used, the hospital was welcome to it for their blood bank. He had been donating for years, but this was the first time that the issue to donate for a specific person (me) had come up. Anyway, the hospital said no....he could not donate specifically for me, and they gave some bogus reason that "it is too stressful on the donor to donate for someone that they know". Now honestly....that is the biggest bunch of bull. Just wondered about your case and what you have encountered.
s s - I had heard that as well. The reason given to my friend was that she could save and store her own blood but not her husband's. If they allowed that, people who are wealthy would be buying up blood whereas those with no money would have to wait for blood that was freely donated. Who knows what the real reason is?
+Jenni_: _"Anyone can get your dna by hair though so"_ Don't know what the end of that thought is, but surely an intelligent person would see how that's vastly different. Who is collecting anyone's hair to put it in a database?
yea me too, it is realy the most tragic of relative related instances. Out of no fault of their own they find such, in other cases of cheating and misstaken heritage it isnt a big deal or their own fault anyhow.
The El Nobody there was a couple in a place called Arkansas in England who found it they were twins given up for adoption when they applied for their marriage license.
Found a long lost sister, who was doing her test while my brother was passing away in hospital. Sadly going from her very small adoption family to our larger one was too much for her. She decided to take time to herself, whilst understandable given the timing it hurt a lot.
KatieMarie because they are from the same database. Some dna test with combined ethnic groups that are relatively close to each other and make it one. Like Irish/British mainly how 23andme is set up. Or other dna test will be like ancestry. And go deeper into the region and blah blah blah. So of course it's not going to be the same.
And you were to stupid to understand why? I have done 2 tests and both came out 100% different.... one came up with (23andme) 100% Balkan.. and the other (FTDNA) 100% South East Europe... can you believe the discrepancy? OH WAIT!!!
Different in what way? Were they the same tests or did they cover different time periods. not all our ancestors show up but we all have a chance of having early bits of DNA from any one of those thousands of ancestors we all have...and share if you go back the right amount of generations. I have noticed different types of DNA tests are available and there are price differences so I image each produce a slightly different part of information or present it differently.. I would check out the validity of the companies that did the tests too...I can see this could be a great scam, sort of like modern day horoscopes or tarot were back in the day. The way I see it we are like any other population of animal, far enough back there was a single male individual very close to our DNA and a single individual that equally been the first female homo sapien,,,even if not that drastically different from its mother or father that weren't quite there yet but who ever the adam and eve were we all came from them so we are all cousins in some way if you could search all the name records properly we would be able to see it. There is actually an Adam and Eve, to understand more you'd have to do some study to see how this works, like I have done.
I found out I was 55% Sub Saharan Africa 13% Southeast Asian and 32% European. I called my parents and asked them if they are both black, "why come" I am only 55% African? We laughed and went about our day. The results didn't change anything in my life. I took the test because I had Groupon for It! LOL!
I'd rather they call themselves black in this country than the stupid "african american" term. Like wtf? I don't run around saying "oh no, I'm not white, I'm Irish American, please call me by my true heritage". We're all Americans. There's no Irish American, Italian American sub-category to checkbox on applications so wtf is there "African American".
My brother had it done and no big surprises. Our immigrant ancestors came from Scotland, Ireland, Ulster, Germany, and Holland/Flanders. If I hadn't been working on genealogy for 40 years, we MIGHT have been surprised by our 9% Scandinavian but I already knew that our Scottish clan was started in the 13th century by a mercenary soldier from Scandinavia who was given lands as a reward for his service to a chieftain. The most interesting was the 30% "generally western European" which basically means we are descended from a bunch of the wandering groups like the Goths, Visigoths, Angles, Saxons, etc. About 1.8% is Neanderthal which is typical for people who are mostly Northern European.
Go to your 23andMe ancestry composition and then scroll down to the section where they estimate how many generations ago a certain ethnicity came into your family tree. At 9% Scandinavian I would expect it was a lot more recently than the 13th century! Even my rather more meager 2.7% is estimated at late 18th/early to mid 19th century. Also, 1.8% Neanderthal is quite low for a Northern European, it's usually closer to about 2.5% - 2.6%.
The “Clayton Bigsby” (Dave Chappelle’s skit as a blind black man who leads the KKK unaware of his black heritage) comment on Craig Cobb pretty much had me spitting out my bagel. Sir Simon, I love you, and I am thankful you are in our lives. 😂💕 We don’t deserve you Papa Simon. 😂
Both my parents were born in Italy, so I assumed I was 100% Italian. Ancestry test showed 69% Italian, 19% caucasus and 8% middle eastern. 1% north african & 1% middle european jewish. Ya never know.
Here is the deal. You have some Arabic, Persian, or Turkish blood lines. Mathematically and regional to Sicily/Italy, probably Arab. The 1% " middle european jewish" should still be from a Semite tribe. Where did the Jews originate from? The middle east/N. Africa, not Europe. Your lineage goes back to the Roman Empire, obviously. Just some of the 1% to 3 % "DNA" researchers seem to throw in and virtually undetectable. The time period would be in question, too. That is just my observation.
Your only 100% Italian because of the fact that you were born there ! Your DNA history will, as it shows above, be different. If anyone on this planet was pure 100% of a particular race then something would be very wrong, as that is all but impossible from what I understand. Why do you think we are all individuals in our own right regardless of our parentage ? For example, in my family on my mothers side, I inherited more fuller lips, which is a trait from her DNA history, but my brothers don't seem to have that particular trait.
+Susan Kay I'm sure there were a lot of switcheroos during the baby boom era (1946 through 1964). There were around 78 million babies born in the US during that 19 year span. Hospital nurseries were bursting at the seams. During one of those years our family general practitioner delivered 1,200 babies. That's 3 babies a day, every day. This was back in the day when mothers spent a week in the hospital after giving birth. Those nurses had to be exhausted taking care of so many mothers and babies. Yep. There had to be a serious number of babies that went home with the wrong Mom.
It never happens if you don't let your baby out of your sight (or your husband's sight if you're sleeping). I never understood people letting someone walk off with their newborn just because the 'nurse' had a smile, a white uniform and a badge...
A friend of mine bought a couple of the Helix DNA test and gifted me with one of them. We're both anxiously awaiting the results. This could get interesting.
My sons grandma was adopted. She did an ancestry DNA test and found her huge biological family. She is real close with her brother and her other new family now. She always wanted a big family and is super happy to have one now.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!! It’s completely ridiculous to continue to push forth this division of Irish-American African -American Mexican-American when true immigrants initially came to this country their DREAM was to be an AMERICAN and become part of this new and amazing melting pot. Then HELLO liberal progressive ideals chipping away away at American ideals and founding Fathers belief in something that could be MORE than what was. Even the founding Fathers new it wasn’t perfect however nothing is but it had the ability to even the playing , ensure citizens rights and create the dream of American not INDIVIDUALS holding and identifying with their native home but immigrating to BECOME part of a new one.
I'm from South Louisiana...I have 3 great great great great great grand uncles from County Dublin that married American Choctaw women and took them home to Ireland.
i kinda wanna order one of these now. I was an only child, both of my parents passed away when i was 23, and they were both only children as well. Im only 31 years old, be kinda neat to know if i possibly had some other family out there.
You should but like the happy brothers enjoy whatever skeletons fall out of your closet instead of pushing the families to divorce court. Maybe one of you three weren't really an only child. If you find a half-aunt just remember it's not her fault for being born.
Go for it ! if nothing else, you will know one way or the other if you have any extended family. The only thing you have to be prepared for is if you do or don't find additional family members, it's either going to be something exciting or disappointing. Please don't think I am trying to be funny or negative, I'm not. Just be open minded. Please let us know if you have found any other family members, it would be nice to hear how you got on.
I just want to let you know that... You are so strong because I am certain that You had it in you but it was definitely not easy for a 23 year old to have that fall solely upon his shoulders. I'm just sitting here in my bed wondering why I am not motivated to get a little rehearsal time to play the piano and then I read your story and that must have been a hell of a year. It's not like that is a hard enough time for someone to be in with only one foot firmly in the same world as the adults. It sounds so lonely. 🌜🍸❤
LOL - I remember watching that video about Cobb the "white nationalist" on "The Trisha Show". I died laughing when Trish said, in her proper English accent, "Hey, Bro". Those best friends who turned out to be half-brothers look like they could be fraternal twins! Amazing. And that last one? My advice is don't ever let your newborn leave your sight in the hospital.
That is actually not quite as alarming as other possibilities. They may be detecting a pattern of reactions based on DNA. This might offer a more predictable result with a lower risk of adverse effects.
Kayla Pounds, well in that case, those tests should be for free or in a super low price... is to know our origins and it should warn ppl about it! This companies r making double profit (from us to know our ancestry and from pharmaceutical for their concoctions)
Reminds me of when I used to work for a company who did drug testing (pre-employment, random, post-accident). It was hilarious when we would get a result back that said not consistent with human urine. I guess they used their dog, cat, horse, etc.
I truly don't wanna know where my DNA is from. Better not to know many things for better sleep at night. I am adopted ,but I will never look for my parents. No point , they are strangers to me ,and better to leave at that.
The only reason I had mine done was because I needed to know some genetic information that I couldn't get from a father who buggered off and wouldn't return. My life sort of depended on knowing.
You don't have to have an automatic notification set up to locate other relatives; that is quite optional. My eldest (half) brother 69yo recently found out through DNA he has another half sister, as well as two more sisters he already knew of, not counting my family. I am kind of envious there. Wouldn't have minded a few more siblings myself, as my other 2 brothers (apart from him) are a bit of a pain. Try to look at DNA as a separate issue; to reveal your ancestral origins, without finding relatives. Up to you then if you wish to pursue relatives or not. My eldest brother's interest was sparked by his children wanting to know more, so he went along with it. He now says he left it too late as his father died a few years ago; leaving a few unanswered questions. His father was married to my mother (remarried to my father) but left her for apparently another woman. So, DNA revealed his father had a daughter with a single woman then married another woman and had 2 more daughters. The newly found eldest sister was upset as her mother died, had akways told her that her father was another man (gave her photos etc.) All dead so no one has any answers why etc.
I found a half sister I never knew about. I’ve met her and gotten to talk to her kids, my other family. It was wonderful. When we met, we showed up in the same outfit. Twice.
My step son keeps finding half siblings. The keep showing up every 10 years or so. His father was a busy man.
Matchrocket 😄 I suppose it’s possible, too, he did some donations at the local fertility clinic. Being able to find people has certainly changed things, though. Do your stepson and his siblings get along?
@@WaterNai No donations, just promiscuous. He was an alcoholic and most likely wasn't too careful in his youth. He's been recovered for a long while now.
Matchrocket I’m really glad he was able to get into recovery. 🙂
Have things gone smoothly meeting the new family members?
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I think I'll take that test to prove once and for all that I'm related to Albert Einstein. Relatively speaking that is.
Severely underrated comment .
Oh yeah I can relate!
we are ALL related to albert einstein.
It has to be true..... this comment is pure genius!!!!
Oh. Very clever!
Just got my results. Turns out I'm a Nigerian prince... I've got some emails to write.
Ed Pokryfky don't write me 1.
Ed Pokryfky lmao
Nigeria is a democracy
Waiting!
not all of us from Nigeria are princes
babe
You missed the story about the Dutch fertility clinician that used so much of his own sperm that people found out trough dna tests that they have 200+ half brothers and sisters!
That's a nightmare if you're trying to avoid invest, they will probably have to find their spouses in another country and still have to do a background check!
Leads to inbreeding he s a pos
Yvo van der hoek An American doctor did that too. They figured it out not by DNA but because most of the kids all had a lazy eye. No joke.
suddenly "Just Beat It" is stuck in my head
We also had a case like that too in Toronto. The guy responsible was thrown in jail afterwards
Best friends for 60 years find out they're brothers?!? Wow, that's like a fairy-tale ending!!! Amazing!
I hope they weren't gay friends.
Go see the play "Blood Brothers." I cried SO HARD when I was studying this play in acting class in high school.
They look identical
@@kayceequesadilla Lots of bromance in that play
Carol Jo Martin lol so true lol
"Your mother is a matter of fact; your father is a matter of opinion."
Old Sioux saying, at least according to my mother.
Unless you you are switched at birth.
That's why you trace horses thru the mare. Never know when they might jump the fence.
It's a traditional Indian saying - no hospital to be switched at.
Sounds like Soiux women know how to party
My Mother-n-law said, "Momma's Baby; Daddy's maybe." She wasn't Sioux.
As someone that was adopted I believe that the parents that love and raised you are your parents, regardless of blood relation. It may be a cool and interesting thing to find out about blood relatives, but the fact remains that your true parents are the people that brought you into their lives and cared for and raised you.
Sorry, but you're trying to change the facts. Your DNA parents are what made you and your replacement parents came along later. You live, breathe and exist because of the former.
@@waynecarversr6375 Well, an adopted child will always know that she was really wanted by the parents who raised her. So I guess I am with the OP here, the parents that raised you are the true parents, no matter of the blood relation.
Yes, nevertheless, children should NOT be switched at hospitals!
@@waynecarversr6375 not completely true. It takes food, clothing, shelter and much more.
Your true parents are your biological parents. Your adoptive parents just took over their job. No amount of denial is going to change that. The #truth is the truth whether you want to accept it or not. 💯
My ex-mother in law always held fast to her Italian heritage. That was until she took a DNA test at the age of 68. Turned out she wasn't Italian at all. No, she was Scandinavian. When she asked her 92 year old mother about this, her mother admitted that the Italian man she had called her Father had a Scandinavian friend....
And, well.... things happen, doncha know.
Yep, in many ways culture is what we make it.
I was gonna choke! 😂
@@lotusland990 .... Cathy?
Sounds like you made that up for likes. As someone who is an Italian citizen born and raised and every generation of my family on both sides before are Italian born and raised too, it’s common knowledge that we can take DNA and 99.999% of us won’t show any Italian ancestry links. Just European links. There’s no such thing as Italian dna. Only dna markers they use from common settlers groups in Italy. Italy is a place where people migrated from France and Portugal, and mostly Middle East and Africa. This is how we get our many different Italian skin tones from light olive to very dark olive. Most of us will show French, Irish, English, Portuguese, Spanish, African, and middle eastern ancestry when taking DNA test. Mostly European. The Italian dna test only shows possible markers that very few of us have from early settlers in Italy. I think your story sounded delicious but is fake, or perhaps the source you got it from wasn’t truthful.
@@ewansteele1785 Knowing what I know now of that family, I don't doubt it for one second
I found my dad and two brothers I didn't have. I'm meeting them in 2 weeks.
A courageous move on your part, Matthew. I hope this works out well for all involved. Best of luck!
This relates to a different kind of DNA testing and is almost 100% accurate.
how did it go
I just got home about 2 hours ago. It went better than I could have possibly imagined! I learned a lot about my family that I never knew I had. I saw that my dad had, like mannerisms, that I always wondered if I would ever see the man face to face that I got them from, and it was truly strange watching that fantasy materialize in front of me. I will be making many more trips back to north carolina to get to know him better.
@@deejaudible thats awesome dude that would be emotional for sure
I'm 53 years old and just learned I have a 74 year old sister born during WWII. My dad never knew.
How did your dad never know?
Naw, your dad knew SOMETHING!!!
Was your dad a GI? Those children were called "Besatzungskinder" here in Germany, there were quite a lot of them.
Wow
@@TheUltimateNatural woman never told him she was pregnant.....
For anyone who's taken a DNA test: check the results regularly, because the company you took it with will update it as it gets more data. I took one with 23andMe that said I was 92% Chinese, 7% Korean, 1% Broadly East Asian, and less than 0.1% Southern European. After a year and a few months, the results have changed: I'm now 99.8% Chinese with 0.2% Broadly East Asian and less than 0.1% Broadly European. Remember: you are only subject to the database the company has, and as its database changes, so too can your results.
@michael browne Not necessarily "wrong" per se, but certainly still not 100% accurate because of the database they have and/or don't have. These tests rely on people taking them willingly submitting their DNA for analysis: the more data they have, the more accurate they are.
It isn't wrong. What happens is more people from your leniage take the test adding a more complete proper picture of all of your backgrounds. Everyone who does it increases the accuracy.
It's so facinating!!! I love DNA stuff.
Now they have your dna use it as their liking and clone you
Yes, and they explain why. If people were only to read how the information is obtained, etc. Also, people should have their family history (genealogy) to compare. We did that and the DNA test confirmed our genealogy. Also,people should research not just their family history, but the history where their ancestors came from. DNA testing tells thel truth in your genes which is something people deny for the most part. And yes, the science behind it is complex but incredibly the most exact tool we have-- not perfect, just exact.
@@aeo8596 I wouldn't mind people making clones of me if they really wanted to. Not sure why they'd bother, but all the power to them.
My grandmother, who was born in 1889, was adopted. We had no idea who her biological parents were. I had my 97-year-old mother take a DNA test. Thanks fo finding numerous 2nd and 3rd cousins, we were able to find out who my grandmother's biological parents were. A family mystery that had lasted for 130 years was solved thru the power of spit.
"Can uncover secrets that have been buried for years or even decades."
Yeah, like the fact my mother cheated on my father and told him I was his for 30+ years. I told my Dad and he knew already, but chose to be my father anyways. I am very lucky to have a man like him in my life. I am more like him than her. Turns out though, I am half Thai, so that is pretty cool.
First Last your father is very special! Cherish him as he does you.
Billy Rodriguez 1 in a million that is for sure. He is a grandpa now and he loves it.
Interesting. My 3 sons are half Thai. Doesn't yours show a little?
@@49525Bob I have a lot of Thai features that I had no idea were Thai in the first place. My hair, skin color, body composition, lips, nose, etc. My eyes are kind of between almond and round. Growing up I had my doubts about my origins but I really wanted to be my father's son and my mother insisted that it was because my family is part native American which made me look the way I do as compared to others. I bought it because I wanted it to be true. Took the ancestry DNA test and bam. I ended up being the one to tell my Dad the truth. He said he always knew, but thought I was Mexican. I am my father's son regardless of DNA. My son takes after me a lot. He is just a little lighter skin color than me. My wife is full blown white. I have met my biological father, he is really cool. He is from Thailand but moved here at the age of 6.
What a wonderful man! You are so damn lucky.
There is a much simpler reason for Brits to have N American Native blood. From the 1600's on Brits in the fur trade send their half native children back to England and Scotland to be raised as Europeans. Thousands of children were absorbed into British society. A large percentage of Brits no doubt have Native N American blood. Well known part of Canadian history.
very cool side story... thank you.
Or maybe, just maybe it could be due to all the American soldiers who have been in Europe over the years.
@@noone6037 who are thoose NATIVE north american soldiers???
@@noger1234 What? You never heard of White and Native Americans inter breeding? Also, what about mixed white/native American citizens immigrating to Europe. There are many ways the native American DNA could have been introduced.
Wow!!!
#1: The Golden State Killer was captured 30 years after his reign of terror because distant relatives had incidentally gotten their DNA tested, and the FBI was able to use a process of elimination on that family tree to track down Joseph James DeAngelo.
Zed - I have to admit, this was a very satisfying outcome, even though I get nervous about the gov't having our DNA on file.
Just goes to show that these DNA outfits are fronts for the government.
Zed Williams Yea and did you know it was a DNA test result that set him off?
Zed Williams I think that’s a great thing !
I have absolutely no problem with how they found him. If i had a family member that was a serial killer I would want them brought to justice.
My late father always said he grew up in an orphanage. Thanks to a DNA test I connected with a cousin and learned that my dad wasn't an orphan, he was a teen runaway. I will be meeting members of his family in person next month. I am thrilled to know the truth and to have found his family.
Lol
How did it go?
The switch-at-birth last story was pretty shocking. Wonder how many people that has happened to who have never discovered it.
If you look at the Google search for that question it's freakishly common. Not in other countries but the US. I made my husband keep an eye on our baby the entire time, so I didn't have to worry about it.
switched at birth one i think would hurt me. like your whole life was not meant for you
Life is what you make it! Don't feel sorry for yourself over the cards you were dealt, feel obligated to play the hell of out them...
sherylcopon I would think that it would have hurt the parents a lot more. Amazing how fragile people sense of self and family are.
My mother swore before she left the hospital with her newborn that the baby had been switched. The baby she saw come out of her had thick, curly hair; the baby the nurses brought back had straight blond hair. My sister grew up to have blond hair and green eyes, unlike all the dark haired, brown eyed people in my family. She also missed inheriting neurological disorders from my dad's exposure to Agent Orange that plague the other four siblings. She refuses to get a DNA test because she fears it will reveal we're not related by blood and she was meant to be raised in another family entirely. This would mess up her sense of identity, religion, everything.
The thing is, we grew up in the same house, she's my sister, blood or not, religion is her choice, and while it explains the genetic differences, it does not change her past experiences. Life is simply what it is, and we make the best of what we're given.
Personally, I'm hoping to find out that I have another sister. I had a doppelganger growing up, people saying they saw me in the neighboring town, even got in trouble when people said they saw me shopping during school hours. I've always been curious if this was my other sister.
But it was meant for you.. Thats why it happened
@@rhov-anion updates?
I'm adopted and did my DNA test through Ancestry. A little over a month ago, my Biological family found me through a match on Ancestry. I love my family that raised me so much, but I have enough love in my heart to embrace all of my newfound family too. I and my half-sister talk every day. My birth mom passed away a year ago but I'm enjoying getting to know the rest of the family through Face Time chats. Strange thing, I look A LOT like my birth mom. That's the first thing any of them say when they see me. MY real mom that raised me is very happy for me and is supporting me fully in all of this. In a few months, I'm planning on going to meet all of them.
At 62, Ancesry DNA test told me that my dad wasn't my dad. I was raised as a proud 100% Hispanic man. Family has direct roots to Spain. I look different, but my mom told me that I got my fair skin and blue/ green eyes from the ”Spanish genes.” It turns out that I'm 73% Scottish/Irish/English and 13% Hispanic and Native American. Ancestry connections led me to a cousin that told me who my dad was. He was a singer/guitarist in a country music band that traveled to honky-tonks all over the southwest US. He was married, but traveled alone and apparently enjoyed himself. I found two half-brothers and three half-sisters from three states, but sadly have only been able to contact one of my sisters. One of my brothers didn't reply to my effort, and the others have their mother still alive, so I haven't attempted contact. It's not my place to cause pain to anybody, especially for my own needs. After all of these years believing that I was full Hispanic, and my mom taking her secret to the grave, I sort of feel like Steve Martin in ”The Jerk.” 🤪
That's crazy. Was there a dad in your life?
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All mankind originates from Aethiopia. So, obviously, nobody is 100% hispanic.
Your mom was smutty
Yeah, I did this whole Ancestry thing... Found out I'm 15% frog. Never been the same since.
you mean you almost croaked????
Same
And a great RIBBIT! to you sir!!
We all have warts We try to hide .....
So 85% of you wants to keep fighting, while the other 15% wants to surrender. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I am too scared to do these tests - They may tell me my parents are really my parents... At least by not doing this test I can still live in hope I was adopted :P
Tracey, that statement is so funny! 😂
Lmao!!!
That's just hysterical, Tracey. Fun-nee. Lol. Ahaaaaaaa! Comment of the year. (I hope though it was a tongue in cheek comment, though and you're parents are fine.)
Hahahhahahhahaha
Tracey Wilson . Wow 😄
My dad was adopted as a baby and so was his siblings. A year ago a cousin of my dad found me on Facebook after having done a DNA test. She reunited my dad with his brothers and sister a year ago. I never expected that and thought it was a joke till I read all the details. I still talk to them regularly. And we're all thankful she brought everyone together
Consider yourself lucky.. Back in your Father's day, Abortion was illegal..
The funniest of these videos is the reactions when people find out they're partly from a group they've spoken poorly of.
Or when they show themselves to hate a certain country or people when they get a result and they start crying that always gets me 😂
Agreed. These are rare comedic gold. Diamonds in the rough if you will.
Those always give me such an evilgasm 🤣😈
What's funnier is that guy who was offended to hear he had sub-saharan African in him... that "Iberian thing" was probably from the Muslims who conquered the Iberian Peninsula for a lil bit, and because of their very long history of enslaving sub-saharan Africans, are part sub-saharan African, so that DNA test was right.
My Grand mother recently took a DNA test through Ancestry and learned that she has a sister who is a Hicks Clinic baby. My grand mothers sister was birthed and given up for adoption at the Hicks Clinic in Georgia. Since finding each other, My grand mother and her sister have met face to face, and were even asked to do interviews for a documentary that is being produced about the clinic.
If you like weird history, the hicks clinic is a pretty cool thing to read about.
I just watched a video of a black woman who found out that she of European decent on her mothers side and she was so upset she cried. This is the problem with racism. We should be proud of who we are. If we are hateful enough that we will be upset if our DNA doesn’t match our racist views, we should stay away from DNA testing of any kind!
Yes, I saw it too, she was deeply shaken, it was pathetic. I bet she does not consider herself a racist, but she is, just the same as the white supremacist guy in this video.
She probably has European DNA due to slavery, you understand what that implies, right...?
No it wasn't bc of slavery. Watch her video she tells the story. Looks like another racist against white people here.
Could you link it? I'm interested :)
Angie I don’t know how to do that bc i watch RUclips on my phone, but the title of the video is: “shocking African ancestry dna results I’m upset” the channel name is Nina Hope
Luke I am your father..... because ancestry.com says so.
Cher England-Johns Ahh the old Mandela effect, it's really " No, I am your father." Lol
Or..... is it the Mandella effect?
No.. it's now, whos ur daddy Luke?
Cher England-Johns 😂😂😂😂😂
Cher England-Johns My daddy was Emperor Palpatine and my momma was Lieutenant Ulhura it was an Intergalactic interracial marriage.
How interesting! I found out my 9th great grandmother is Rebecca Nurse. One of the women hung as a witch in the Salem witch trials.
My 5th great grandmother is Mary Elizabeth Surratt. I think every Civil War buff knows that name.
I descend from her brother Jacob Towne.
That's cool! I mean, not the Salem Witch Trials, but the historical connection. Also, it's funny- you said 9th great grandmother so I replied here instead of posting my own comment...Ancestry revealed that I'm the 9th great granddaughter of Patrick Henry through my maternal grandfather. And we always assumed his and other male relatives' Middle name of Henry was just a random middle name that had caught on and been passed down. But now I know. And the part that's not cool about all that is that my ancestor may have said "give me liberty or give me death" but he was also a slave owner on a large tobacco plantation. Too bad Grandpa Pat didn't hear the meaning behind his famous patriotic speech during the American Revolution.
Lol, my mom's been German for 88 years til ancestry DNA told her she was 83% Irish 🤣
Kim & William Skinner She has no known Irish heritage?
K893 893
A little there was one Gertie McFarlan as a great great grandmother. But she was under the belief that all the Schaffer side we're German and that her mother was German. Obviously not
Kim & William Skinner is it really accurate??
Kim & William Skinner The way these ancestry tests work is they base it off of self reported ancestry. If you claimed in your initial assessment to be 100% german descendant you would have been used as a “German” reference and your DNA would be added in with others until they had a giant reference. This skews the results because think they are 100% stuff that they aren’t.
Could be true when you look at the history of the british isles including Ireland. In some parts of the UK it's difficult to distinguish between the DNA from the UK and the upper parts of the Netherlands and Germany. Because of the many migrations in the past (AngloSaxons remember?) So some people might have made the trip from Germany to England and then to Ireland in the past.
My dad figured out that his grandfather’s (Puppa) name wasn’t actually Barnett Louis Miller, it was really Ber Lieb Meirel and that he came from Poland during the Holocaust. Also he is actually like 0.1% Native American, and we are Jewish, so now he calls himself Crazy Horse Rabinowitz.
I found out I'm Ashkenazi, and my father's family came from Leipzig, Germany just before the holocaust. My real name would be Brentlinger, but was changed at the port to Robinson. They weren't permitted entry to the US. So they tried again, going through the California port of entry and were allowed in finally. And my mother was native American.
I'm also Jewish and Native American...
Oh thats AWESOME!!!! LOL...your dad has an excellent sense of humor :D
NOT true.
Rowan Spiritwalker Most of the religions do not subscribe to this belief. It began when Joseph Smith claimed he was visited by an angel and given golden tablets that were lost for 1500 years. He claimed to have had them deciphered and even named a scholar whom he claimed verified their authenticity. This same scholar was contacted and he stated that the tablets were gibberish and made up of bits and pieces of ancient languages jn such a manner that whomever created them had no knowledge of what the words meant.
I've always been obsessed with Vikings and I found out I'm actually 18% Scandinavian but the most interesting part was I found out my great grandfather actually came to America in 1930s and was a WW2 vet! He then ran into some trouble and fled to Cuba (my gran told me the real story when I confronted her). That test was the best money I ever spent.
@ Irene Arlet One of my relatives tested with FTDNA and received nearly 50% Scandinavian results. With "upgrade," his results were 0%. I've taken many of the commercially available tests for an interest in the science and genealogy and health concerns. They are inconsistent at present .... from 100% Euro to varying minor admixtures across tests.
Those raping and pillaging vikings got around! ;)
Viking was an occupation - not a race.
@@andyb6866 Wrong. Viking as a term has definitely also been used to describe people living in certain areas.
I had a dna test because I was adopted as a baby and was obsessed with finding my roots. I have dark blue eyes, white skin with dark brown red tinged hair and high cheek bones. People have asked me if I'm Jewish, Spanish, or Italian, plus I never felt that I was 100% white British. Took a dna test in my 50s a few yrs ago and it's absolutely fascinating, I am over the moon. I have alot of German and Polish genes probably on par with the British genes but what I am most happy about are the Shapardi Jewish, Bedouin Arab, and Native American ancestors that turned up . This explains alot to me because they are the ones I have always felt most connected to all my life. Plus the usual viking blood from the Scandinavian areas that most people with British dna have due to the viking invasion . I'm also related to Marie Antonette probably from my Austrian blood line. When it comes down to it we are all related. Brilliant stuff. Better than all my birthdays put together.
2 English women have more native American DNA than Elisabeth Warren, thats funny
best comment of the week by far!!!
Churchill too.
😂🤣😂🤣
You dont know that so dont b a tool.
dank donkerson it would be funny if she didn't use the Native American money to get every single place that she is if she didn't use it for college for her education to get the jobs that she got easier to make it up in our politics easier it's a crime she should be in jail nothing funny about it
Has anyone asked if these test are just a way to get samples from anyone who hasn’t committed a crime yet? (Pre-crime Unit)
I think 23 and me was sold this year, the new owners now own all of that data. Pretty scary if I’m honest, and I don’t get freaked out by data things that often.
yes I wondered from the
get-go if the "authorities" can access these sites to cross-reference with crime DNA. the answer is YES they do and they have solved many crimes thru that.
I'm fine with this. I don't plan on murdering anyone and if I were ever accused it would exonerate me.
Absolutely they are!
@@ResidentMilf you obviously dont understand nor deserve liberty
Ancestry DNA has been one of the greatest blessings in my family's life. It gave my mother closure (she was given up for adoption when she was younger and was finally able to get answers after 68 years due to adoption records being closed for 100 years in the state where she was born) and it connected us with other family that we were worried we would never meet. I know DNA results can often lead to heartache, but in the case of my family, there was so much joy.
This weekend our family is going to meet my mother's brother we never knew existed. Thanks Ancestry!
I just wanted to see my family tree. My results weren't what I expected either. They sent me a seed and said start over
LOL!!!
Somebody tell that person that Iberia is in Europe...
for real lol he first needs a history and geography lesson
@@AndreaVoehm a brain to process all that info might suit him better first
yup that too@@ashketchup9555
@YoungD3mon314 anything to not be "the wrong color" of course. Frankly, I think he needs to watch the episode of M*A*S*H where the doctors infuse a racist soldier with the "wrong" kind of blood then give him the reality (if it wasn't for a black Dr inventing the modern blood transfusion process, he'd have died)
YoungD3mon314 not really, there is blonde and pale people there believe it or not 🙄
I grew up thinking I was 100% Lithuanian (Baltic), but my DNA test says I'm only 53% Baltic. According to different DNA websites I'm part Russian, Finnish and broadly Eastern European (likely Polish/Belorussian) as well. Turns out my maternal grandparents, who were orphaned during WW2, were from wealthy intellectual families that I knew nothing about. Those kinds of people used to travel more, study abroad, marry foreigners and tend to be more ethnically mixed than ordinary farmers. There's still so much I don't know. DNA research is fascinating.
Those friends look exactly alike! Was everyone blind?!😂😂
D Mc; I thought the same thing. Maybe there was a ocular genetic defect in everyone else.😂🤣😂
I had a friend growing up who was practically identical to me, we always got mistaken for one another (even by our parents, from a distance).
Absolutely zero genetic relation. (Trust me, I have all my dad’s medical problems, the older we got the less alike we looked, and her family didn’t move into our town until we were both four.
@@darlabible1325 me too! They DID look alike. Crazy.
I was thinking identical twins.!!
My daughter is adopted & has a great relationship w/asst birth family.
You can never have too many people who love you!
My wife did hers and she found she was 70% Scandinavian, 29% English and 1% Middle Eastern. The first 2 sort of expected but the last 1% got her on the hunt and found who in her family in the 1700 went to the middle east and married a local woman. It was fascinating.
Ahmad Ghosheh has a
...
300 years would mean it should be more than 1%
Ahmad Ghosheh how she do that? I’m 11% middle eastern and would love to find out about my family 😂
The 1% Middle East should bring shame upon your family.
Remember, just because you're related to someone doesn't always mean you're family.
It's all relative.
That’s so deep
i mean it does cause when i met my half brother i felt a connection where it's like he's a stranger but i know him from somewhere
Amen
I was always told i was 100% Italian and that my husband was of multiple ancestry. My son did the test and sure enough, it came back 50% Italian and pretty much all of the ancestry we thought my husbands family was. Worked pretty well for us.
Nicole Abate-Levy, Same here. 😊 No surprises. It confirmed the family tree.
I'm 100% human, beat that.
dont be so sure.
There may be Neandertaler DNA in your genome.
I have about 3% Neanderthal DNA. If you are of European descent, you probably have some, as well. Many people on New Guinea have Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA, as well, making some of them have as little as 92% homo sapien DNA.
Sea Hawks Apparently I’m 99%-100% human & 1% Unknown, according to 23andMe lol.
Neandertaler were Human!
I did an ancestry test and now I’m in jail for a murder that happened in 1819. Smdh
So how are u commenting???
😂
U must be joking neh😅 it more than 200 yrs.
Paroled by now lol
When my parents died in 2010, I discovered that my dad was not my father. I do not know who was my father, though the evidence points towards one individual.
People have tried to get me to take DNA tests, but I have no interest. For 56 years I called my mother's husband dad because that is who he was. I could not have had a better dad. To me, the other man was little more than a sperm donor. He did nothing to raise me, even though a letter that I found suggested that he knew about me. Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.
I have no intention of taking DNA tests because I do not wish to insult my dad's memory. The man that appears to have been my biological father has died, as far as I can find out. I have no idea whether he had other children, and I am not bothered because they would be strangers.
I understand why others take tests, but it's just not for me.
The "dad" that raised you, was a very lucky man. I can only bet, he was extremely proud of you. You sound like a wonderful person.
I agree, DNA tests may help some people but in some cases they can cause great harm and much upset. Sometimes too much knowledge can be a very bad thing and things are best left alone!
Even if you don't care about your heritage, a DNA test can prevent you or your kids from starting a relationship with a close relative.
My brother and I are adopted and we got DNA test for Christmas. No surprises on the ancestry part, but I found my birth mother and family through that.
Amy Futch that's cool
How about your brother? Did he find his mom too?
A week after my brothers funeral, my father received an email from his unknown daughter (who is the oldest of all my siblings - I'm the youngest).
Her mother put her for adoption and never wanted contact - despite being found years earlier. Since then we have introduced her slowly to her extended family (180+) when she previously only had am extended family of 4.
I throught the timing was funny and did some research, turns out the same time my brother was passing away in hospital, she was doing her DNA swab to find her family.
Brothers spirit guided her to y'all ♥️
Do the swab again. How do you know she didn’t take it from your brother?
@@Kuulei265 damn straight to the skepticism
@@Kuulei265 because I never left his side while he spent two weeks dieing in hospital.
James Dean My deepest apologies for my cynical comment. I shouldn’t allow the few horror stories I’ve heard color my perception, or my heart. I am so sorry for the loss of your brother, and wish your family the best.
It’s amazing what crap parents would tell their kids. Now everyone needs to come clean. It’s for the kids really. You need accurate medical information if nothing else.
Women will never tell the truth about their sexual escapades... That will never change.
@@THOMASTHESAILOR probably because women are judged for their sexual trists than men
@@Ripleys_mom That's true, because they should be..
"Shocking" is too strong a word. Shocking is finding out you're related to ELizabeth I or Hitler. Not some pleasant person who had no idea you were alive.
zachariah Kane or the guy that found out his father was Charles Manson.
And if you were related to Hitler why would that matter? You're your own person.
@@PuerRidcully i wish i was related to Hitler
Emmanuel - why? Hard time growing a moustache?
+Piotr: _"if you were related to Hitler why would that matter? You're your own person."_
I'm sure people you told would totally see it that way. Who wouldn't like to be associated with Hitler! After WWII everyone started naming their baby boys Adolf!
Kidding, of course... After WW2 no one named their boy Adolf anymore, at least in Sweden (surely elsewhere too), where it was always a common/popular name before (including w/ royalty; our crown prince's name was Gustav Adolf). This is true to this day! Or so I think. [goes to look it up] Yup. There are currently 185 men in Sweden named Adolf. Compare with Lars: 89 046.
"Sure thing, Clayton Bigsby".... I just died a little, laughing so much. 😂😂😂😂😂
Bob? From Atlanta?
Bob Jones has
lmao
“Sure thing Clayton Bigsby” 😂😂
The only thing that could've made that white supremacist's results better is if he was 1/3 African, 1/3 Hispanic, and 1/3 Jewish 😂
Well the US government considers it an ethnicity. Get over it
@Robeltoable yeah they do consider 'Hispanic' to be an ethnicity spanning the entire Spanish speaking world. What they actually refer to on pretty much EVERY application that asks the optional ethnicity question is Hispanic and non-white Hispanic. If you do even the smallest bit of research you will see that the US government considers it an ethnicity.
@Robeltoable just to end your ignorance, check the pew research centers website
@Robeltoable first, why do you keep bringing up Portuguese? White supremacists tend to not like the HISPANIC people a lot more than the south Americans. second, whatever kind of 'conspiracy theorist' you are... It still doesn't change the fact the US government uses there poll information quite a bit. If you don't believe the government considers 'Hispanic' an ethnicity.
@Robeltoable race and ethnicity are 2 ways of saying the same thing. You are thinking nationality
When my son did a 23 and Me test we learned that we have Ashkenazim (Jewish) ancestry we were never told about. I was a teenager before I learned that my great-great-grandmother was 100% native American. Up to that point my very English grandmother had always told me that my father's side was 100% German (true) and that my mother's side was a mixture of English and Scottish-- ONLY. My grandmother's racism caused her to deny my true genetic makeup, while keeping her own Jewish ancestry a secret. I recommend 23 and Me above and beyond the other genetic testing kits because they give MUCH more information than just ancestry. We learned that my son has NO genetic predisposition to any serious illness, which was a HUGE relief to me. I was very concerned that he may have inherited the heart disease that runs on his father's side, or the degenerative nerve diseases that I have.
calichef1962 so what is you dna make up ?
Are there blood tests involved? I have enough needles in a day haha
Madzie 2000 No blood. Any dna kit is a tube mailed to you and you spit in it and mail it back.
This isn’t just sending your DNA in to see what you are, it’s handing over your unique genetic code for some company’s database.
Yes. Exactly.
This 100%
Sloe Bone - That's why I haven't done it yet. I've done all kinds of research, & I would love to do a DNA test, but I'm scared to...
What if I were to get a DNA test? I mean I'm the living definition of garbage, so my genetic information is practically useless.
So...
Welllllll , Just found out for myself... Just like I thought.
I'm a "Heinz 57"
I am American of several generations decent. I don't have to get tested to know I have VERY mixed ancestry. Heinz 57 sounds better than mutt, so, me too.
@@jamespeden9472
James,, I think the bottom line is not our mix blood line.
But instead, how we turned out as a man...
@@JBSHARPSHARP rather proud of my mutt blood, to be honest. A citizen of the Melting Pot. Shows it's working. But, my family loves me and my friends respect me, I couldn't ask for more. Be well. Live LARGE!
@@jamespeden9472 If I could give you more thumbs up I would
@@johnkendall6962 Thank you. It's taking longer than the founders expected, for a lot of messed up reasons, but we're getting there. Hopefully before another hundred years go by our national motto will be, "Us mutts gotta stick together!" Be well my friend.
"Mommy's baby, daddies maybe." - My mother.
Yikes!
DNA test: "Daddy Needs Answers!!!"
Oh damn
Here in New York City Wednesday October 16th 4:47 a.m. eating a cookie reading your comment. I think it's cool.
A lot of Pandora's boxes are being opened.
😀
Pandora's, Jessica's, Marie's, and a whole bunch of others' boxes were opened, lol
Oh, mine were!
Took home the wrong baby?! 😳😳😳 Time for a lawsuit.
Tamira Bennett Volk These DNA ancestry tests also show proof of cheating. This lady I worked with took a DNA test. Her stepmother would always get mad when she asked her "father" for money. Apparently she cussed her out and told her he wasn't her real father. Turns out her bio father was a white man. Her mother (black) kept denying it, but after she showed her the results she confessed one of the men she had an affair with was a white coworker. Now she is pissed at her family for lying all this time.
I have a theory this happened way more often than people think, it’s only going to come to light if you are doing DNA or possibly blood tests. Back in the day babies shared the same nursery and didn’t have wrist or ankle bracelets, so it was pretty easy to return them to the wrong place. It almost happened to me, luckily Mum took one look and said “this isn’t mine.”
It's not a rare thing, so everyone should get their dna tested.
There have been many children who had been delivered to wrong parents , in the past . And it sure happens now to , we hav had several such issues in Norway .
The best way to avoid getting the wrong kid is to go to a foreign country, and have a kid that looks different from all others. :) (My son being mixed looked different than all other local kids, so it was easy to spot him in the ward. :D )
I just did a DNA test, and found out I have an older half sister. She lives in France. My father appatently had a French girlfriend during WWII who got pregnant. He was wounded and sent home. The baby mama assumed he died and told her daughter this. She took a DNA test hoping to find her family. It turned up my cousin as having common Gene's. She contacted him and told him she knew her dad's name did he know him. He messaged me on Facebook. I messaged her and told her about my dad. Then I took a dna test. It came back that we share 23.3% of our DNA, meaning we are 1/2 sisters.
“Iberian thing?” As in the Iberian peninsula? As in Spanish and Portuguese?
as in Europe yeah lol
As is build a wall
It is a separate result from Western Europe in the DNA results....historically populated by different tribes of people. It is also to give more location accuracy for your results.
Shape Shifting Iberian..
i'm even surprised someone knows Portugal
Hey, I've got a great business idea - We'll create a world-wide genetic database so we can track people even more closely. The kicker is, we'll get the suckers, er clients, to pay for the tests with a bit of gravy for us.
You are closer to the truth than you know.
Believe me; if the “powers that be” want your DNA, they will get it. Almost everyone has had a blood test done for one thing or another by the time they are adults. Does anyone really think that the medical cabal doesn’t toe the line to the elite?
Then they can sell those results to ad agencies for more gravy!
Ad agencies can then target the individuals based on most likely diseases and disorders they can get. Ad agencies swap info with each other all the time so now even if it’s not all in one database it’s still easy to get!
TravelingSamaritan, I like the way you think!
Mmmmm I had my DNA test done, I found out I was 50% vacuum cleaner, and other 50 part a broom.
... I found out I am 50% microwave and 50% vibrator... guess which is mother, which father :)
hahaha :)
Swiffer Sweeper? What are you doing online?
Pika Chu - Oh hahaha... Your sense of humour sucks, but only sometimes...
Lol😎
Wow. An Irish/Jew.
Wants to be a lawyer but could never pass a bar.
that's bad
Why is it when I hear 'jew' jokes I hear them in Eric Cartmans voice? 😂
@@Kazza_8240 because your Mother was Barbara Cartland and your Father was Hellmann's mayo
LOL
@@Kazza_8240 As you should, they are terrific. All the best from Israel :)
The two friends that discovered they're actually brothers... How could nobody know that? They look so much alike in the photos and video clips in this video. But that's cool they finally discovered that. I bet it made some things make more sense after all those years, like how they always felt such a close bond.
SophieMia806 my thoughts exactly....they look a lot alike
One of my jr high friends and I share no recent ancestry.. We look so much alike that people thought we are sisters.. Some teachers could not be sure which of us was in their class..
SophieMia806 my thought exactly
Well obama is hawaiian and he looks so much like the other islander born there, Bette Midler
LM i guessed you missed that Bette comparison
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97% european 3% iberian thing? So 100% european?
What do you expect from a racist? If he's ignorant enough to believe he's better than someone else based on skin color he's not going to be smart enough to do a bit of geographical research. Lol
what? Iberian skin is basically white. It's the hair that is normally black and the eyes brown, but the skin?
@@polemikful Like Italians they have some northern African DNA in the mix, as have many Europeans, actually. European history is such a mish-mash of who occupied whom and who fled where that you'll find all kinds of DNA throughout Europe. For example, it's not too uncommon to find Iberian DNA in the Netherlands or Belgium, because between 1522 and 1718 the Spanish occupied this and parts of what is now western Germany. And Spain wasn't actually that old when Columbus sailed to the Americas in the 1400s, a few years before that the southern parts of Spain had still been occupied by Muslims. In the 1200s the Mongolians reached what's now Poland and Hungary and left their DNA there aswell.
Yes I know. I believe the average north african dna in Spain is about 3%. Less in the north, more in the south. Having that in mind I would say spanish are basically european and white. To be technical 97% european and white.
It means you're partly Basque, an ancient group from what is now Northern Spain and extending a little into France. They are believed to have been around before the Romans or even the Celts ... So more European than even the 'Europeans' :-)
We found a long lost sibling whom we were told died decades ago! He's very much alive and doing very well
Would love to see a video on your family's story.
I just don't trust this system. Example as to why, I'm in a rare blood group, as such I donate it. However I've been contacted a few times by private parties who where willing to pay me directly for my blood, as well another time where I was asked to donate bone morrow, again, outside party. Now, I'm down for either of those but at my discretion and not by leaked blood records in which I had to threaten legal auction for it to stop. Just be warned, you never know where your DNA will end up and don't be surprised if you meet an exact copy of youself someday, albeit without the acne, obesity and hair loss problem, aahhh the power of DNA cloning.
That's my fear too!!! That they might clone us... Maybe I live in a fantasy world. Maybe not.
Did you know that they got the BTK killer's DNA through her daughter's pap smear from when she was in college? Kinda scary.
Anyone can get your dna by hair though so
hi. I was wondering if when you donate blood, have they ever ask you to donate for a specific person? Im asking because i was having surgery, and my husband was my match, and wanted to donate specifically for me for the surgery. Whatever wasnt used, the hospital was welcome to it for their blood bank. He had been donating for years, but this was the first time that the issue to donate for a specific person (me) had come up. Anyway, the hospital said no....he could not donate specifically for me, and they gave some bogus reason that "it is too stressful on the donor to donate for someone that they know". Now honestly....that is the biggest bunch of bull. Just wondered about your case and what you have encountered.
s s - I had heard that as well. The reason given to my friend was that she could save and store her own blood but not her husband's. If they allowed that, people who are wealthy would be buying up blood whereas those with no money would have to wait for blood that was freely donated. Who knows what the real reason is?
+Jenni_: _"Anyone can get your dna by hair though so"_
Don't know what the end of that thought is, but surely an intelligent person would see how that's vastly different. Who is collecting anyone's hair to put it in a database?
if the test finds out your half extraterrestrial would they tell you?
I doubt they know what extraterrestrial DNA is even like
could it be the "unknown" part of the dna...
Thoth dawhite No, they'd probe you.
Thoth dawhite Mine came back 3% potato and they told me.
😂😂😂😂 I know I am! I'm waiting for my results to come back. I know I'm only 10% human! 😄
i though for sure that no.1 would be like a brother and sister getting married and having a kid, before finding out that they where related
The El Nobody ....the British show host Jeremy Kyle had on boyfriends finding out they were brothers
yea me too, it is realy the most tragic of relative related instances. Out of no fault of their own they find such, in other cases of cheating and misstaken heritage it isnt a big deal or their own fault anyhow.
The El Nobody there was a couple in a place called Arkansas in England who found it they were twins given up for adoption when they applied for their marriage license.
England, Arkansas is a US city.
Found a long lost sister, who was doing her test while my brother was passing away in hospital.
Sadly going from her very small adoption family to our larger one was too much for her. She decided to take time to herself, whilst understandable given the timing it hurt a lot.
I have a friend who sent off DNA tests to several different DNA centres and they all came back different.
That happened to me!
+KatieMarie Exactly! That is all too common. :(
KatieMarie because they are from the same database. Some dna test with combined ethnic groups that are relatively close to each other and make it one. Like Irish/British mainly how 23andme is set up. Or other dna test will be like ancestry. And go deeper into the region and blah blah blah. So of course it's not going to be the same.
And you were to stupid to understand why?
I have done 2 tests and both came out 100% different.... one came up with (23andme) 100% Balkan.. and the other (FTDNA) 100% South East Europe... can you believe the discrepancy? OH WAIT!!!
Different in what way? Were they the same tests or did they cover different time periods. not all our ancestors show up but we all have a chance of having early bits of DNA from any one of those thousands of ancestors we all have...and share if you go back the right amount of generations. I have noticed different types of DNA tests are available and there are price differences so I image each produce a slightly different part of information or present it differently.. I would check out the validity of the companies that did the tests too...I can see this could be a great scam, sort of like modern day horoscopes or tarot were back in the day. The way I see it we are like any other population of animal, far enough back there was a single male individual very close to our DNA and a single individual that equally been the first female homo sapien,,,even if not that drastically different from its mother or father that weren't quite there yet but who ever the adam and eve were we all came from them so we are all cousins in some way if you could search all the name records properly we would be able to see it. There is actually an Adam and Eve, to understand more you'd have to do some study to see how this works, like I have done.
I found out I was 55% Sub Saharan Africa 13% Southeast Asian and 32% European. I called my parents and asked them if they are both black, "why come" I am only 55% African? We laughed and went about our day. The results didn't change anything in my life. I took the test because I had Groupon for It! LOL!
Ngaire Hodge lol that's what's up
Well typed, 001islandprincess.
I'd rather they call themselves black in this country than the stupid "african american" term. Like wtf? I don't run around saying "oh no, I'm not white, I'm Irish American, please call me by my true heritage". We're all Americans. There's no Irish American, Italian American sub-category to checkbox on applications so wtf is there "African American".
Rose C get over it.
My brother had it done and no big surprises. Our immigrant ancestors came from Scotland, Ireland, Ulster, Germany, and Holland/Flanders. If I hadn't been working on genealogy for 40 years, we MIGHT have been surprised by our 9% Scandinavian but I already knew that our Scottish clan was started in the 13th century by a mercenary soldier from Scandinavia who was given lands as a reward for his service to a chieftain. The most interesting was the 30% "generally western European" which basically means we are descended from a bunch of the wandering groups like the Goths, Visigoths, Angles, Saxons, etc. About 1.8% is Neanderthal which is typical for people who are mostly Northern European.
Go to your 23andMe ancestry composition and then scroll down to the section where they estimate how many generations ago a certain ethnicity came into your family tree. At 9% Scandinavian I would expect it was a lot more recently than the 13th century! Even my rather more meager 2.7% is estimated at late 18th/early to mid 19th century.
Also, 1.8% Neanderthal is quite low for a Northern European, it's usually closer to about 2.5% - 2.6%.
I found out I have no father. I'll be opening a church soon. Bring $$
😁😁😁😁😁
The “Clayton Bigsby” (Dave Chappelle’s skit as a blind black man who leads the KKK unaware of his black heritage) comment on Craig Cobb pretty much had me spitting out my bagel. Sir Simon, I love you, and I am thankful you are in our lives. 😂💕 We don’t deserve you Papa Simon. 😂
Damn skippy. Save your money, we are all African. There send me $1 each and I’ll call you even.
You should watch the Craig Cobb clip, it's hilarious
That’s like saying you should watch the original Star Wars. Of course I did, and I wore out the video tape as well.
SupremeOverlordess
SupremeOverlordess i saw that Chapelle skit and I still have not seen a skit funnier than that one.
I almost cried with number one, not so strange that they're Jewish, but the switched at birth! That's heartbreaking!
Geez! This was stressful to watch, chill out man! Way too fast! Missed some of those, no more coffee for you...
For real...
too fast? I sped it up because it was too slow...
I was thinking the same. .
Exhausting listening to him 😁
Definitely. He talks way too fast.
Kristina Baker..don't you have a pause button?
The one about the best friends is amazing.
How sweet was that?
Both my parents were born in Italy, so I assumed I was 100% Italian. Ancestry test showed 69% Italian, 19% caucasus and 8% middle eastern. 1% north african & 1% middle european jewish. Ya never know.
@ I think this is pretty clear.. caucasus are not arabs lmao it's doesn't matter if they were muslims or not; they are not arabs.
Here is the deal. You have some Arabic, Persian, or Turkish blood lines. Mathematically and regional to Sicily/Italy, probably Arab. The 1% " middle european jewish" should still be from a Semite tribe. Where did the Jews originate from? The middle east/N. Africa, not Europe. Your lineage goes back to the Roman Empire, obviously. Just some of the 1% to 3 % "DNA" researchers seem to throw in and virtually undetectable. The time period would be in question, too. That is just my observation.
Your only 100% Italian because of the fact that you were born there ! Your DNA history will, as it shows above, be different. If anyone on this planet was pure 100% of a particular race then something would be very wrong, as that is all but impossible from what I understand. Why do you think we are all individuals in our own right regardless of our parentage ? For example, in my family on my mothers side, I inherited more fuller lips, which is a trait from her DNA history, but my brothers don't seem to have that particular trait.
No one cares
@@screamdream4337 - And........ ! I see you don't get the point of what is being said.
What's great about this man is that he does not drag the whole thing out , like some do , he goes straight to the point .
The last one is the most interesting...
+Susan Kay I'm sure there were a lot of switcheroos during the baby boom era (1946 through 1964). There were around 78 million babies born in the US during that 19 year span. Hospital nurseries were bursting at the seams. During one of those years our family general practitioner delivered 1,200 babies. That's 3 babies a day, every day. This was back in the day when mothers spent a week in the hospital after giving birth. Those nurses had to be exhausted taking care of so many mothers and babies. Yep. There had to be a serious number of babies that went home with the wrong Mom.
It never happens if you don't let your baby out of your sight (or your husband's sight if you're sleeping). I never understood people letting someone walk off with their newborn just because the 'nurse' had a smile, a white uniform and a badge...
A friend of mine bought a couple of the Helix DNA test and gifted me with one of them. We're both anxiously awaiting the results. This could get interesting.
My sons grandma was adopted. She did an ancestry DNA test and found her huge biological family. She is real close with her brother and her other new family now. She always wanted a big family and is super happy to have one now.
really cute and amazing
3:44 Last time I checked, Iberia was part of Europe, right?, unless continental drift has separated the peninsula to another continent in these years.
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The Irish and Jewish mix-up? Does that explain the existence of Leprecohens?
i spit-snorted at that one. LOL
President Chaim Herzog of Israel was Irish.
My favorite that people always say is their grand mother was a full blood native American princess.
We always say who was the king and laugh.
#1 is a serious mindfuck . Imagine learning you were switched at birth .
It was the fathers that were switched at birth, and they were dead before they learned about it
A girlfriend of mine found her real father and half-siblings on this!
I’ve known many who’ve done Dna tests and found biological family!
Spoiler : Both were the same person
tell us more about you and your friends!!! what did you have for lunch yesterday?
When people ask me if I'm Irish American or German American, I say "Don't no, don't care." I was born and raised in America so I'm just an American.
Yes!!!! Well said!!
Feel you brother 🇺🇸
ABSOLUTELY!!!!! It’s completely ridiculous to continue to push forth this division of Irish-American African -American Mexican-American when true immigrants initially came to this country their DREAM was to be an AMERICAN and become part of this new and amazing melting pot. Then HELLO liberal progressive ideals chipping away away at American ideals and founding Fathers belief in something that could be MORE than what was. Even the founding Fathers new it wasn’t perfect however nothing is but it had the ability to even the playing , ensure citizens rights and create the dream of American not INDIVIDUALS holding and identifying with their native home but immigrating to BECOME part of a new one.
Best post on here
@@autumnroberts3086 what? African Americans didn't immigrate to America we were brought to America unwillingly.
I'm from South Louisiana...I have 3 great great great great great grand uncles from County Dublin that married American Choctaw women and took them home to Ireland.
Wow!!!
Finally a few Irish people that can tan...lol
Little that I know, my bio father’s great great great grandma was Choctaw-he was from Sabine, Louisiana
i kinda wanna order one of these now. I was an only child, both of my parents passed away when i was 23, and they were both only children as well. Im only 31 years old, be kinda neat to know if i possibly had some other family out there.
You should but like the happy brothers enjoy whatever skeletons fall out of your closet instead of pushing the families to divorce court. Maybe one of you three weren't really an only child. If you find a half-aunt just remember it's not her fault for being born.
feeling that family line extinction pressure eh?
Carter Rossi I just found a new first cousin!
Go for it ! if nothing else, you will know one way or the other if you have any extended family. The only thing you have to be prepared for is if you do or don't find additional family members, it's either going to be something exciting or disappointing. Please don't think I am trying to be funny or negative, I'm not. Just be open minded. Please let us know if you have found any other family members, it would be nice to hear how you got on.
I just want to let you know that... You are so strong because I am certain that You had it in you but it was definitely not easy for a 23 year old to have that fall solely upon his shoulders. I'm just sitting here in my bed wondering why I am not motivated to get a little rehearsal time to play the piano and then I read your story and that must have been a hell of a year. It's not like that is a hard enough time for someone to be in with only one foot firmly in the same world as the adults. It sounds so lonely. 🌜🍸❤
LOL - I remember watching that video about Cobb the "white nationalist" on "The Trisha Show". I died laughing when Trish said, in her proper English accent, "Hey, Bro". Those best friends who turned out to be half-brothers look like they could be fraternal twins! Amazing. And that last one? My advice is don't ever let your newborn leave your sight in the hospital.
Sylvia Ross These companies actually tamper with genetic tests of known racists.
News story this week relayed that these companies that perform these tests are now selling the DNA material and data to the pharmaceutical industry
1aikane
Where's your proof?
That is actually not quite as alarming as other possibilities. They may be detecting a pattern of reactions based on DNA. This might offer a more predictable result with a lower risk of adverse effects.
Steven it opens up many dark possibilities beyond belief. No consent is included as well
Kayla Pounds, well in that case, those tests should be for free or in a super low price... is to know our origins and it should warn ppl about it! This companies r making double profit (from us to know our ancestry and from pharmaceutical for their concoctions)
you mean pharma cover of nsa right?
My DNA test confirmed what I had already suspected: I am a meat Popsicle.
Super Green
my dad found out that his father wasn’t his father so now i have new cousins, aunts and uncles.
who lied
@@sluggo610 The dads mom problably
I discovered I was 25% African Serval. I think someone’s cat contaminated my sample...😬
Meeoww... 😼
Reminds me of when I used to work for a company who did drug testing (pre-employment, random, post-accident). It was hilarious when we would get a result back that said not consistent with human urine. I guess they used their dog, cat, horse, etc.
Servals are beautiful--be grateful you weren't a capybara.
I truly don't wanna know where my DNA is from. Better not to know many things for better sleep at night. I am adopted ,but I will never look for my parents. No point , they are strangers to me ,and better to leave at that.
The only reason I had mine done was because I needed to know some genetic information that I couldn't get from a father who buggered off and wouldn't return. My life sort of depended on knowing.
I really don't care much. I'm afraid of that su bSaharan be. So I am staying away from tests. Ignorance is bliss. It's just my paranoia.
Her husband got pregnant??????
Lucky! She had someone to take on half of the pain of child birth!
You don't have to have an automatic notification set up to locate other relatives; that is quite optional.
My eldest (half) brother 69yo recently found out through DNA he has another half sister, as well as two more sisters he already knew of, not counting my family. I am kind of envious there. Wouldn't have minded a few more siblings myself, as my other 2 brothers (apart from him) are a bit of a pain.
Try to look at DNA as a separate issue; to reveal your ancestral origins, without finding relatives. Up to you then if you wish to pursue relatives or not. My eldest brother's interest was sparked by his children wanting to know more, so he went along with it. He now says he left it too late as his father died a few years ago; leaving a few unanswered questions. His father was married to my mother (remarried to my father) but left her for apparently another woman. So, DNA revealed his father had a daughter with a single woman then married another woman and had 2 more daughters. The newly found eldest sister was upset as her mother died, had akways told her that her father was another man (gave her photos etc.) All dead so no one has any answers why etc.