Ancestry dna.

[AG1210]

I've always had an interest in family history, even when I was a kid but that was just limited to my mothers side. My grandmothers side is particularly interesting and I've been researching my grandads side since he died. He never spoke about his family much, his dad died when he was 5 and don't think he knew a lot himself.

Anyway,

I have never met my father. Him and my mum split when she was pregnant with me, he lives locally, I know his name, could find him easily enough. But I'm 30 and never met him.

I would really like to do an ancestry dna test. Not so much that I want to find connections more so with the ethnicity side. Although connections might be cool. There must be a lot of relatives on my grandmas side.

but, the issue with my father is holding me back. Am I ready to match with potential relatives. He was a bit of a womaniser so good knows how many kids he has. What if they are on it?? I'm not sure if I'm ready to find any half siblings. I know my bio dad had a baby when he was 16 in a totally different area, he never met and probably still never has.

would you?

I feel like it's holding me back from something I really want to do!

What's the worst that could happen?

You don't have to use your real name on your account so you can keep who you are private if that helps.

And if someone messages you can ignore it.

Do It!! I didn't really know much about my dad's side of the family( was very reluctant to talk about them) it's quite interesting and I have found quite a lot of relatives I never knew existed. You can have a user name and keep yourself anonymous but if you do get some close matches it might just pique your curiosity to find out more

Ty. I would hundred percent be curious, but the very thought of it is daunting too! Probably have loads of relatives on his side - that's if they are on there of course.

to add, for reasons I won't go into I have recently discovered that the children my bio father has his with his current wife do not know I exist (they are late teens - early twenties I believe). The 2 he had before this know I exist and we've met. They know their dad, I don't. But he is said to have more kids 🤦‍♀️ So worried there's the chance his kids could find out about me without him telling them? But j guess that really isn't my problem!

Thanks all

He has numerous kids with different relationships if you can't already tell 🤦‍♀️ 2 with his current wife, who he actually stayed with but they don't know I exist despite 2 of my of half siblings knowing! Plus others that he doesn't see and j don't even know who or where they are!

Do it. You can keep your discoveries to yourself if you don't want to share the information.

They might be quite pleased to find another sibling!!

Hello, I have recently conducted a sibling dna test via alphabiolabs with my brother it has come back as 57 million times more likely that we are full siblings rather than the alternate hypothesis of half siblings.

after family doubts which made us test in the first place I’m nervous to be happy about the results incase they are incorrect.

do this seem like a conclusive likelihood for a sibling dna test?

thank you for reading