re: Anyone have any good DNA kit stories?

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Wife stumbled onto birth parents. School principal knocked up a teacher at a conference... I guess I should talk more kindly about my wife's birth parents...

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Pics of your wife?

I knew some folks who worked at schools, I’m wondering if they’re related.

TIA.

You gotta tell us the artist.

Bieber.

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Apparently my DNA is untraceable and they don’t know where I came from

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You're most likely the line of Cain then.

I can't... They would already kill me for posting this much! Ha! You would not recognize him unless you were into some weird offshoot of Jazz....

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With familial DNA being used to solve so many cold cases these days, something just doesn’t sit right with me

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Yep, my wife and I love cold case and 48 hour mystery. It’s becoming very common and you could get a match even if it’s someone far down your family tree and now You’re in the case

My mom’s side has some shady characters from the backwoods of Calcasieu parish. No doubt there are some bodies buried somewhere

Sat next to a guy and his wife on a plane a few years ago. We engaged in some chit chat. When I asked him "so what brings you to City X...", he said that a DNA kit led to the discovery that his deceased father had a secret second family for decades without either side knowing. If that wasn't awkward enough, he went on to explain that the meeting did not go well when the other family discovered that the primary kids had been lavished with nice things, private school and vacations while they were left destitute.

They are not BS...

My wife was adopted and at the age of 50 she decided to do ancestry to see what her heritage was. No interest in BIO family stuff.

She gets the results and was shocked. 99% eastern European. She was convinced her whole like she was Irish. In 5 mins we learned the results included DNA relatives. WE had no idea.

Anyway.. her BIO first cousin was on Ancestry and matched her perfectly as a 1st cousin. I then figured the BIO mom and later the BIO dad. Through research.

My wife found she has a full sister. Her BIO parents were childhood sweethearts. The mom got pregnant her Freshman year of college. They married 3 years later and had another child.

The BIO mom was pissed that I dug up her secret. The sister and my wife are BFFs. It is a beautiful relationship and something both needed.

The DNA tests are very accurate...

I don't, but three of my wife's adult nieces do. They got tested on 23andMe. Results showed they were not actually sisters, but rather half-sisters, each fathered by a different man, none of which was the husband of their mother.

I was adopted. I wasn’t looking and didn’t really care too but my Brother in law bought 23&me 6 years ago. I initially Had a few 2nd and 3rd cousins but no close matches. Then one day I get a hit on a first cousin. Ask her if she knew of anyone that gave up a kid for adoption on Christmas Eve. She said she didn’t but would ask her Aunt who “knows everything about the family”. The Aunt tells her that it was her. Her Aunt was my birth mother. Found my birth mother and full sister. It’s been pretty cool. She said my birth father had been killed in a car wreck. Prob drugs or booze if we have the same genetics.