anyone get unexpected / surprise results in DNA test?

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My African-American DD found out she has a strong European royalty background on her paternal side. She also has a relative that came over on the Mayflower and another who fought in the Revolutionary War. She is now a member of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution).

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Anonymous wrote:My maternal grandmother was 100% French Canadian. All my other family is a grab bag of 100s of ethnicities. So if I do the test, will it come back as 100% French Canadian?

Where did your grandmother grow up? My mother is French Canadian too. Nova Scotia.

Northern Minnesota. Her grandparents immigrated from Quebec. I haven't done a dna test but we did a family tree and her family came over from France in the 1500s and we're some of the first settlers in Quebec.

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Anonymous wrote:My maternal grandmother was 100% French Canadian. All my other family is a grab bag of 100s of ethnicities. So if I do the test, will it come back as 100% French Canadian?

Where did your grandmother grow up? My mother is French Canadian too. Nova Scotia.

Northern Minnesota. Her grandparents immigrated from Quebec. I haven't done a dna test but we did a family tree and her family came over from France in the 1500s and we're some of the first settlers in Quebec.

It would be interesting to know if there is also historic Native ancestry. A lot of settlers took Native wives partly due to a lack of European women at that time.

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Anonymous wrote:My stepson’s showed that DH (his dad) wasn’t his biological father. So that was unexpected.

Doh! What did they do?

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Anonymous wrote:According to 23 and Me, 99 percent of my ancestors are from various parts of the British Isles, and 1 percent are from Northeastern India. My ancestors have all been in Virginia for more than 300 years so I assume the ancestor from India must have come over as a servant to an English immigrant. I haven’t been able to identify specifically who it was. Possibly the used an anglicanized name.

It’s may be a Roma rather than an Indian.

Roma are from Central Europe and Middle East, not India.

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I gained a long-lost brother.

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Anonymous wrote:My African-American DD found out she has a strong European royalty background on her paternal side. She also has a relative that came over on the Mayflower and another who fought in the Revolutionary War. She is now a member of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution).

How would a DNA test tell you these two things"?

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Anonymous wrote:According to 23 and Me, 99 percent of my ancestors are from various parts of the British Isles, and 1 percent are from Northeastern India. My ancestors have all been in Virginia for more than 300 years so I assume the ancestor from India must have come over as a servant to an English immigrant. I haven’t been able to identify specifically who it was. Possibly the used an anglicanized name.

It’s may be a Roma rather than an Indian.

Roma are from Central Europe and Middle East, not India.

But their ancestry prior to being there is largely Punjabi

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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.

That is common in AA families we always hear about that mythical Indian great grand something. My mom told me a long tall tale about our Cherokee "ancestors". Now, we are African mixed with English or Scots Irish

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I found out my grandfather was a serial killer. My mother was 1 and put up for adoption. They obviously didn't tell her about her roots. She's in her 80s and frail so she doesn't know. My grandparents, her adoptive family, were wonderful to her and me, and that's what I wasn't her to remember as she's fading.

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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?

So it’s not about the Native American part?

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We found and connected with several cousins who were conceived by sperm donation several decades ago.

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Anonymous wrote:We found out we have a half sibling about 10 years younger than our youngest whole sibling. Dad (long dead) had either had an affair or a one night stand. We’ve managed to track the guy down on social media. Wasn’t hard. We’ve reached out, and he has no interest in meeting us.

Just curious, did the half brother grow up with a father? Do you know his side of the experience? (Was his mom married too? What was he told about his father?)

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Anonymous wrote: I found out I’m a direct descendant of Jesse James. Yep, that was a surprise.

Do you have family from Missouri?

My friend has some relation to Jesse James and they just think it's so cool. Her kids told us "he was like Robin Hood, he stole from the rich and gave to the poor."

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My dad's entire life as he knew it was obliterated by a DNA test 5 years ago.

-His brother was a half brother
-He had a full sibling that had been put up for adoption
-He had 3 half siblings (2 from his dad, 1 from his mom)
-And drum roll please......his brother's biological dad was the Catholic pastor of their church who had mentored them all his childhood, he told his confessions to, etc