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Has anyone discovered anything cool from doing Ancestry DNA?

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fluoxe · 08/10/2024 10:59

Unexpected ethnic origins, for example? I’m a bit wary of doing it for the usual reasons but I do think it would be interesting to find out so I get why people do it.

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HotCrossBunplease · 09/10/2024 09:31

TennisLady · 08/10/2024 11:45

I highly recommend listening to BBC podcast 'The Gift.'
Each episode is someone's story following what they discovered following doing one of these DNA tests, and some of them are shocking.

Came on to recommend this! The one about the guy in Australia with the American Dad was mind-blowing!

HotCrossBunplease · 09/10/2024 09:33

I also highly recommend this, it’s an amazing story and much more complex than it initially seems

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qg3q

BBC Three - Stranger in My Family

Luke searches for his biological father, who mum met on a girls’ holiday in the 90s.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qg3q

HotCrossBunplease · 09/10/2024 09:34

User100000000000 · 08/10/2024 17:44

She forced your mum to give her DNA sample?

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Yes, I don’t understand how this can have been possible when your cousin was not a blood relative of your Mum?

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TennisLady · 09/10/2024 09:38

HotCrossBunplease · 09/10/2024 09:31

Came on to recommend this! The one about the guy in Australia with the American Dad was mind-blowing!

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The one where she discovers she has African in her DNA and her behaviour afterwards was... bizarre.

Chenanceau · 09/10/2024 09:48

girlwhowearsglasses · 08/10/2024 18:17

Missing great aunt that nobody ever mentioned - my mum didn’t know about and her dad didn’t count amongst his 7 siblings. She died on her own in a different town in her fifties. I am thinking maybe severely disabled or black sheep of family in some way, but even if she went off with the wrong man/was a lesbian and shunned/ was Downs I’m surprised she wasn’t known about as she was the youngest sibling

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