Board 8 > So it turns out my family has a weird story that's just come out...

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My entire immediate family took DNA tests, including me. A woman contacted us saying that she got a related DNA hit to us, but not to our mom, which meant it was through our dad. Her mother was put up for adoption and didn't know her parents, and has been trying to figure it out since like the 50s.

A bit of family rummaging and more DNA tests later, and it turns out that my great-grandmother on my dad's side had seven sisters, and only one of them was old enough at the woman's mother's date of birth to have had a kid out of wedlock and put it up for adoption. But her descendants won't take a DNA test to confirm it because they don't want to know that their grandmother dumped a kid at an orphanage.

So now the woman's mother, who's like 85 or 90 (I don't remember how old) and desperately wants to learn who her parents were before she dies of old age, is being blocked from confirming that this was her mother. No one has any idea who the father could be, since this was in the 1920s.
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whoa
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the descendants know that their grandmother dumped a kid at an orphange AND that they are too shitty to offer closure to a dying old woman

sick family anagram
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Why did this random (I'm sure very nice) lady have access to your DNA?
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This reminds me of how my great-grandmother (mom's mom's mom), shortly before she died, revealed that her husband, my great-grandfather, was not the father of my grandmother, and that instead it was some Mexican construction worker she had a fling with before marrying my great-grandfather. I learned I was an eighth Mexican that day.
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banananor posted...

Why did this random (I'm sure very nice) lady have access to your DNA?

On ancestry.com, you can click to make your DNA public so that if someone has similar DNA, it automatically tells you both.
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