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I was adopted at three days old so I never knew any of my genetic history. When I decided to find out…I was a tad disappointed that I wasn’t a Viking…I not only found out my genetic history, I found a full blood brother and sister! It seems my parents weren’t married and grandmother forced my mother to give me up for adoption…it was 1952 and single motherhood was NOT a Thing. They married the next year and had more children…my siblings.

I now have a picture of my blood mother and father and pictures of my siblings…I may even go to meet them at some point. It’s a very strange feeling having been an only child all my life to suddenly have sibs. I’m still processing it!
 
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Wow, Patty! Oh my gosh, if it were me, I would want to meet them!
 
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No surprises, and it did confirm that unfortunately small shred of German ancestry that I’d uncovered through conventional genealogical research several years ago.

This was AncestryDNA. It looks like 23andMe might be more detailed. I might try it as well, if the price were right (holiday discounts, etc.).
 
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I did mine.

Basically I’m a melange of various Mediterranean ethnicities. And a little bit of Persian.

Not too big of a surprise, since my parents were both born in Sicily.

My mitochondrial DNA is found primarily in Ireland and Poland. I found that the most interesting.
 
It is simple meiosis.

Crossing over, random assortment and random fertilisation ensure a healthy mix of genes are supplied. It increases variation which is important in any species survival.
 
I was curious about the accuracy as well. I took a test from Ancestry a while back, and am tempted to take another one to see if I get the same results.

The result said make DNA was mostly Eastern European with a touch of Scottish, Native American (perhaps I’m related to Liz Warren 🤣), Ashkenazi Jew, and French. Interesting results. Perhaps it would explain why, as a kid, I’d ask mom for my allowance and she’d say “$5? Why do you want $3? Fine, I’ll give you $1.50!”
 
A friend of mine has known and documented Native American ancestry, but when her kids took this test, only one of them showed Native American in their profile 🤨
 
I had mine done recently 75% Irish.
I would be very interested for my siblings to also test (quite a few of us) we vary,some throwing more to mums side of the family,others to dad’s 🙂
 
It has to do with the way the chromosomes divide—but it casts doubt on the accuracy.

I mean, you can believe it if it tell you you’re Irish, but what is the test “not” revealing?
 
A friend of mine has known and documented Native American ancestry, but when her kids took this test, only one of them showed Native American in their profile 🤨
That’s actually not completely surprising. There are many historical cases of Native American tribe members that were genetically European or other non-Native and adopted (or sometimes captured) into the tribe. So legitimate documented membership in a tribe but very different genetics.
 
I was adopted at three days old so I never knew any of my genetic history. When I decided to find out…I was a tad disappointed that I wasn’t a Viking…I not only found out my genetic history, I found a full blood brother and sister! It seems my parents weren’t married and grandmother forced my mother to give me up for adoption…it was 1952 and single motherhood was NOT a Thing. They married the next year and had more children…my siblings.

I now have a picture of my blood mother and father and pictures of my siblings…I may even go to meet them at some point. It’s a very strange feeling having been an only child all my life to suddenly have sibs. I’m still processing it!
Your story sounds familiar to my high school friend. We are 67 now. She recently found her biological family through DNA testing. Her biological mother died after giving birth to a sibling when my friend would have been 5 years old. Her birth father is in his 90’s so she is lucky to have met him and her brothers and sisters.
Her biological parents were not married either and that is why she was given up
for adoption. However, they later married. She visits them often even though
they live in different states. She just found her biological family about 16 months
ago. Her adoptive parents snd adoptive sister have all passed.
 
One interesting thing I learned is that Native Americans belong to the same genetic group in North, Central and South America. They are genetically the same. Pretty cool.
 
Because their ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Asia into North America.
 
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