re: Anyone have dark family secrets revealed by DNA testing??

I've talked to the oldest half sibling, he is about 6 yrs older than me. Really nice guy.

The first text I got from him was: "It's your big brother XXXX, when is a good time to call and catch up on the last 40 yrs".

I'm a bit overwhelmed with how great this has turned out. I wasn't real close with my mom's family, my stepdad (I have his last name) whom I've known all my life passed away in Jan 2004, and I have 3 younger half siblings. So potentially having a large family is a new concept to me. My wife is originally from New Orleans and has a large family and extended family so it is funny that mine could end up being bigger.

Doing some research, it seems that my wife's grandmother and my grandfather both grew up in the Irish Channel in New Orleans, although they were about 10 yrs apart in age.

It's just crazy how life turns out.

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It's just crazy how life turns out.

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True that.

My grandfather apparently really got around, so I wouldn’t be shocked if I had a half-uncle/aunt out there that I don’t know about. My uncle’s sister got a DNA test and they found out they have a half sibling and now he’s after the inheritance money. I’m curious about my genetic background, but given those two things, not going to do it.

This wasn't found out through DNA testing, but this was information that basically came out within the past 2 years.

So this is all from my wife's family. Even though I consider my in-laws as my own family, I'm kind of glad this foolishness is not on my blood-family's side.

So, my wife's mother is 1 out of 7 kids. All 7 kids have the same 2 parents. They are all from a small country town in Mississippi. Grandparents never left the town, and 3 siblings still stay in town. My wife's grandparents are both amazing people, best parents and grandparents ever(atleast that's what my wife and mother in law believed) and their marriage is something to look up to, after all they made it 63 years until their untimely deaths in 2020(R.I.P to both of them, I dont wish to speak ill on either one)..
My mother-in-law is the 2nd to youngest. The oldest 2 children are 16 and 18 years apart. So the 7 are spaced apart, but all still very close. So 2 years ago at my wife's uncle retirement party, there was a guy there who introduced himself to my wife as her brother. This caused alot of drama, but ultimately he was not lying. My mother in law knew nothing about this. My mother in law and her younger brother went to their parents house to demand answers. Grandmother is in nursing home, but grandfather lives at home by himself. My wife and I rode as well because she wanted answers. Grandfather came clean. He was not the perfect loving father that he portrayed himself as for many years. Outside of his 7 kids with his wife, he had 9 other kids outside the marriage. 9 kids by 4 different women. The oldest child older than my wife's oldest uncle, and the youngest about my mother in law's age.

In other words, he didnt just slip up once or twice. He was a habitual cheater, for at least 20 years, and who knows maybe longer. The oldest 3 of my mother in-law's siblings all knew, but they made a pact 40 years ago with their parents to keep the outside siblings secret from the younger siblings and all the grandchildren.

My wife was distraught. After all this is the man who she looked up to, and since her own father was non-existant, she used to pray that she could marry a man who is just like her grandfather. So this was definitely tough on her.

Anyways, fast forward to last November, and grandmother passes away. She had been sick for a while, and she finally went. After the funeral, we finally found out who some of the other women were. Grandfather was a deacon at his church, and had been a member there for like 70 years. Turns out, 2 of the other women were also members at the church. As in these 2 women and grandfather still attend the same church. And one of the women was one of the former pastors' wife. My wife heard a story about her grandmother about 50 years ago going ape shite at their church fighting different members, it was so bad that they had to have police called because she wouldn't calm down. well, now we finally know the reason for her fighting.

Fast forward again, grandfather succumbs to Covid in February. Very tragic and untimely, and absolutely nobody expected it. More drama ensues, because even though they were practically non-existent until 2 years ago, all of the other 9 kids suddenly wanted to be included. So, all 16 kids were included on the obituary. After the funeral, my mother in law took a photo with her 6 siblings. After that one, the oldest brother had an idea to get a real family photo with everyone in it. So, they grouped in 16 people, technically they're all siblings, but most don't even know each other. Most awkward family photo of all time.

And to top it all off, my wife's first cousin, found out that the guy she lost her virginity to in high school, was the son of one of the other outside siblings. Aka years ago she unknowingly had sex with her first-cousin.

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So yeah. DNA testing shows the man who used to n let me drive his combine and would take me to the swimming holes in Oklahoma was a depraved monster..

Thanks 23 n me. I miss the ignorance.

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Holy frick! Thank God you weren’t born female.

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So the guy is the son of your Great Grandfather and his daughter?

Did he seem mentally challenged or physically? Retarded?

That's some legit incest there one step down from Brother-Sister baby.

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I’d say that’s much worse than brother sister incest. At least siblings may not know exactly what they’re doing.

My DNA results all came back pretty much as expected. No real surprises.

With simple genealogy stuff, I did find some slave owners and the family behind the Throckmorton Plot to get rid of Queen Elizabeth I.

The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.

My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really.

At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

Pretty diluted though. I how many People know their great grandparents. He was always a POS who trash talked other family. But I was 15 when he died. So it's not like I knew him well.