Advice on DNA test please

[EdinaMonsoonsWardrobe]

Auntie / niece. So many things on Google has anyone ever done this please? Recommendations appreciated. I don't want to spend money on something that isn't accurate... many thanks

You suspect you have a niece or aunt and you want to check? Why do you suspect this? What is the involvement of the parent/sibling?

I am the niece and I am in my early 40s. Potential (hopefully Auntie) is 38 and we are truly the best of friends but there is a doubt on paternity so we just want to know for sure. Both of her parents are deceased. We don’t intend to involve other family in this. We just want to know. We will be the only two people emotionally affected by this.

You’re assuming there isn’t any doubt on your parentage?

If you’re the niece,, the link would be through your parents, not hers. You’d be the child of one of her siblings. Where is the unknown coming from?

Absolutely zero doubt on my own parentage whatsoever. Zero. My mother and father are one biillion percent my mother and father. What we need to know for sure is that my mother's father is indeed my auntie's father. My late grandfather remarried a lot later in life after divorcing my mother's mother... and what we want to know for sure is that "Alice" whom he had later in life is actually his biological child. The lady he married is now also deceased.

I’ve done one when my son’s dad wanted a test before providing maintenance.

They are accurate but it could come back
”inconclusive” if theres not enough matches to tell either way. You might not as there is only 2 of you.

You get the report showing which bit of DNA got tested and results from all the tested people ie the code name, then my dna 29:30 the dad 29: 32 and then my son 30:32. Some have one marker ( which my son shares) as presumably they are males and only shared with males but not sure.

A company called Cellmark did paternity DNA testing required by what is now the Child Maintenance Service in the early 2000s for someone in my family. Just had a very quick glance at their website and they are able to be used by the general public if that helps. No idea on cost etc.