anyone get unexpected / surprise results in DNA test?

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Anonymous wrote:I wish women could get info on their father's side. Well, you can, but you need a male relative to do the test, and I don't have one.

New tests can show both parentage apparently - OP here - this is my son's one which shows what we already knew about my side of the family and is showing us now also this combined with my DH's side. There's a lot of overlap, we're from the UK and have a lot of Irish / Welsh / Scottish ancestry (70%) and Scandinavian (they invaded Ireland substantially). The Maori percentage was about 8% which isn't huge but is also not trace

Nope. Women only have X chromosomes. You need the Y to get the haplogroup info on heritage from the father's side.

NP. That's good to know, but I'm not sure what it means. For example, if my female cousin takes a DNA test, it'll show her mother's line, but not her father's? If her brother, my male cousin, takes the test it'll show the father's line?

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Anonymous wrote:Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

I’m surprised you find this surprising. Many African Americans have a lot of European ancestry.

Maybe someone along the way said Native American to explain why they looked so white, because they didn’t want to get into the pain of explaining or thinking about their white ancestors raping their black ancestors….

NP-yes that’s true but 50% is higher than average

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Anonymous wrote:My DH had almost 10% Native American ancestry. No family knowledge or even legend - was a complete surprise.

That is very cool

Why is it cool?

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White husband about 10% west African ancestry.

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Anonymous wrote:White husband about 10% west African ancestry.

I won't take the test, but my cousin's test also showed a small % of West African ancestry. We have a strong Spanish heritage, so I assumed this harks to raids on coastlines over millenia.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH had almost 10% Native American ancestry. No family knowledge or even legend - was a complete surprise.

That is very cool

Why is it cool?

Is it not cool to find something out about your heritage which you otherwise would never have known, as it is undocumented anywhere other than in your DNA?

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The tests are not 100% accurate.

Ours were pretty much exactly what we though with about 5% of something we knew nothing about that we figure is within the margin of error and not actual heritage.

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Yep. Spouse and siblings found out they were a product of mom’s affair.

Good times!

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I thought this one was surprising.

SACRAMENTO — The dramatic arrest in 2018 of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was all the more astounding because of how detectives said they caught the elusive Golden State Killer — by harnessing genetic technology already in use by millions of consumers to trace their family trees.
But the DNA-matching effort that caught one of America’s most notorious serial killers was more extensive than previously disclosed and involved covert searches of private DNA housed by two for-profit companies despite privacy policies, according to interviews and court discovery records accessed by The Times.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-08/man-in-the-window

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Anonymous wrote:I thought this one was surprising.

SACRAMENTO — The dramatic arrest in 2018 of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was all the more astounding because of how detectives said they caught the elusive Golden State Killer — by harnessing genetic technology already in use by millions of consumers to trace their family trees.
But the DNA-matching effort that caught one of America’s most notorious serial killers was more extensive than previously disclosed and involved covert searches of private DNA housed by two for-profit companies despite privacy policies, according to interviews and court discovery records accessed by The Times.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-08/man-in-the-window

Yeah I thought that was pretty cool too. Glad they got him.

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I wouldn't be surprised at much with my child who we adopted. Curious if the birth father is actually the birthfather but don't want to open up that can of worms, especially if he is.

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Anonymous wrote:The tests are not 100% accurate.

Ours were pretty much exactly what we though with about 5% of something we knew nothing about that we figure is within the margin of error and not actual heritage.

It is more likely just further back DNA than your known family tree would imply. It's not necessarily an "error" just more historic information.

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Anonymous wrote:Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

I’m surprised you find this surprising. Many African Americans have a lot of European ancestry.

Maybe someone along the way said Native American to explain why they looked so white, because they didn’t want to get into the pain of explaining or thinking about their white ancestors raping their black ancestors….

Unless you knew, why would you assume that narrative when it might be false?

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Nothing very surprising for me. DNA results very much aligned with what I'd heard as a child.

Did find out my mom had a cousin (now deceased) who'd apparently put up a child for adoption years ago. So in a family with very WASPy names we now have a cousin with an Italian name and surname but no Italian ancestry.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing very surprising for me. DNA results very much aligned with what I'd heard as a child.

Did find out my mom had a cousin (now deceased) who'd apparently put up a child for adoption years ago. So in a family with very WASPy names we now have a cousin with an Italian name and surname but no Italian ancestry.

Have you met this cousin?