Family Secrets: What a Spokane cop discovered through DNA tests
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2018
- Millions of people use DNA tests to learn more about their own ethnicity. But one of Spokane's best known police officers is using them to investigate her own father's sordid past and search for family members she's always suspected may be out there.
Her dad was a runner. I’m more interested in what he was running from. Forget DNA. Where are those FBI files?
Same, I really want to know more!
My dad told us we were Irish because he had a grandmother who was born in Dublin, however our paternal line is from Scotland and we are 5th generation Canadian.
The historiography of ireland and scotland is inextricably linked. Scotland is named after the Scoti an irish tribe from the north that invaded and settled on the east coast and islands of scotland. For generations Ireland was known as the big Scotia and scotland the Little Scotia. If you are familiar with brave heart, when robert bruce took back Scotland from English control he opend up a second front in ireland by making use of dynastic ties installing his brother Edward as high king of Ireland, he turned out to be the last one eve. About 300 years later mass migration and settlement of Scottish Presbyterians in north east ulster changed the socio political landscape of the north of ireland. Ditto about 200 years later during the Irish famine many irish catholics migrated and settled in scotland. Bottom line genetically and historically they are an extremely similar people. Religion is the key difference, with migration to the new world protestant ppl usually using ulster irish or ulster scotch labels, with their catholic counterparts using an irish or irish catholic label.
That is not unusual, I had ancestors from Northern Ireland and was always told they were Irish, but really they were Scottish. A little research showed their surname was not Irish but Scottish and they have always been Protestant not Roman Catholic. Many Scots settles in Ireland, particulary what is now called Northern Ireland, hence the constant conflict between Protestants and Catholics, even though we both share the same Celtic DNA.
wonder if any of my great grandmothers Irish family are still in County Cork, their last name was Conroy. also wish I could trace my dads dads family, but sadly i have such a common last name never have had any luck
That is **EXACTLY** Like great grandfather. He raised his kids telling them he was 100% Irish, He went by John Smith. He had WILD stories about how he didn't have any records because the courthouses burned down or there were floods. You name it. He also claimed he joined the military 2 years before he was supposed to because someone 'signed him in' ... and while he was in the military, my grandmother and her siblings were raised at Fort Mead and a few other military places... we couldn't find really any information about him before that. The family jokes have always been 1. He was a very 'creative' guy that couldn't keep his stories straight. 2. He didn't look Irish. In fact, people always look at my mom & gramma and ask if they are Jewish. 3. He seemed to have weird connections to people he knew all over the place that seemed to defy logic. So along comes the DNA test. Gramma and quite a few of her siblings took them. Come to find out. #1. He wasn't Irish! He was 99% JEWISH. (so everyone WAS right). 2. The relatives on his side of the family don't seem to know who he was. He's like a total mystery at this point. #3. My gramma is still in total denial because she loves her father... but now has to admit: he really was a liar that fed them nothing but deception her whole life. We STILL don't know who he really was.
I have always known that my fathers family changed their surname by adding two silent letters, who does that, complicates their name? I was told I was German. Someday I hope to do the DNA test myself. I put my legal name through a program that tells your probable ethnic background, it said German. I took off the two silent letters, it had no clue. I changed the C to a K (as I have seen a last name spelled that way) and it came out Russian Jewish. That makes sense as it was changed around 100 years ago, and why change it unless it was to hide something... But I would like to know.
Could he have been an "out of wedlock" baby, which was kept secret from the family? This could be one scenario.
Ireland and Scotland are are the same close proximity people travel back and forth. Since so that information can get lost in backgrounds. As for Story telling of families each person in a different direction time and place.
Wow what an amazing story.......
What did her dad do? Why was the FBI after him?
Yeah, really.
It was probably something mundane like embezzlement. He wasn't D.B. Cooper.
Probably child support lol. They take that stuff as seriously as murder it seems sometimes.
I have always been told I was 1/4 Scottish, 1/4 Swedish and 1/2 Irish, but since one side of my family has roots that date to 1760's, there is no telling what else is hiding in my history.. Indian? black?
Alien?? maybe you're not even human
I think it's odd that people share these private family events but at the same point I'm so happy to see and hear about lives like this because I know family who needs this closure to and this gives me hope.
*He was either a criminal on the run or was WAY up there working undercover for the government....*
Their father is a seed planter !!...put one here....two over there...and so on..and Surprise...he is now a founding father of a miniature of united nation !!
She lost me at "a psychic told me..."
Awesome story
Me too.
Her sire was a sketchy guy...
Amazing how the changes in technology are going to begin to change the accountability of negligent parents, but only if they are men. For some reason a woman can decide to abandon a child to the state but if she keeps a child the sire can be held to finance that child up to being put in jail. I'd love to see women held to account the same way.
What's the use of talking about your father now ?
What's the use of your question?
@@1964crf it's too late to talk about someone who's dead ! What's the use ?
Closure
Because some people want to know more information about their family. Where they came from etc. My mother never knew what happened to her father. She died 26 yrs ago. We now have that information because of DNA testing. I'm so glad that my family has those answers. My mother died not knowing.
@@IMa-qe3xj It's not just about him, most of us would like to know where we come from. The really just human nature.