anyone get unexpected / surprise results in DNA test?

[Anonymous]

What I think is interesting is that my sister and share the same parents but have pretty different ethnic compositions. My mom is 100% italian, my dad is a combo of german, irish polish.

My sister is 60% italian, with less of the others.
I'm 20% italian, with more of the others.
Also, my son has more italian, 35%, than me.

Pretty cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I think is interesting is that my sister and share the same parents but have pretty different ethnic compositions. My mom is 100% italian, my dad is a combo of german, irish polish.

My sister is 60% italian, with less of the others.
I'm 20% italian, with more of the others.
Also, my son has more italian, 35%, than me.

Pretty cool.

To add, my husband has no italian lineage.

[Anonymous]

wow, pp

my results were completely expected and thus boring. 99 point something percent eastern european jewish. (nor did I find out any new siblings, cousins, etc, which I was glad for!)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My sister did hers and found out we are as white as white can be. Not a drop of anything interesting.

This is such a bizarre comment. White isn't an ethnicity, doofus.

I wanted something interesting to crop up, like a little East African, Somali, Indian, Maori, Roma. Instead, I find out out we're just boring English/Welsh/Irish people, like we've always been told. Frankly, disappointing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

Ok, you win! This is more outrageous than my adoption story, and my story is super crazy. But- yeah, this takes the cake.

Time for patriarchal secrets to end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

As in, a Catholic priest? Was this a consensual relationship between the priest and his mom?

[Anonymous]

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

What you don't explain here is that no privacy was breaches. At all. They used the DNA from a rape kit and sent it to a company which will hook matches- and then they were narrowed down to him.

By the way, if they want DNA, they don't have to breach any platform or sneak. They will just get it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My sister did hers and found out we are as white as white can be. Not a drop of anything interesting.

This is such a bizarre comment. White isn't an ethnicity, doofus.

I wanted something interesting to crop up, like a little East African, Somali, Indian, Maori, Roma. Instead, I find out out we're just boring English/Welsh/Irish people, like we've always been told. Frankly, disappointing.

Just stop it. You're ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

Wow, that's a lot for him to process. How's your dad handling it?

[Anonymous]

My DH already has a 1/2 brother who showed up at his father's funeral. My DH and family had no idea about him (between my DH and his sibling. Parents married until FIL died.)

Now we don't play in the reindeer games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Found out that grandmother was adopted and was Irish which horrified my “Italian” uncles in Brooklyn and Queens.
“Don’t tell nobody!!”

Ha! That's how it is in NY! I thought my Irish MIL from NY was from another planet when she started talking about how Italians do this or that. The Italians were the same way about the Irish. I hadn't realized the cultural identity issues/ us vs. them mentality of Irish vs. Italians in NY.

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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?

I'm sorry, is there a point you'd like to make that I'm not actively helping you towards? Please speak freely if that makes you feel better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH already has a 1/2 brother who showed up at his father's funeral. My DH and family had no idea about him (between my DH and his sibling. Parents married until FIL died.)

Now we don't play in the reindeer games.

I don't understand the last sentence. What are you getting at?

Did mom know? Have your husband and siblings formed a relationship with the half brother?

[Anonymous]

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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?

I'm sorry, is there a point you'd like to make that I'm not actively helping you towards? Please speak freely if that makes you feel better.

+1 I'm wondering the same thing

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What I think is interesting is that my sister and share the same parents but have pretty different ethnic compositions. My mom is 100% italian, my dad is a combo of german, irish polish.

My sister is 60% italian, with less of the others.
I'm 20% italian, with more of the others.
Also, my son has more italian, 35%, than me.

Pretty cool.

To add, my husband has no italian lineage.

OP here. So this interests me because my sibling had her DNA tested and I just assumed mine would be identical. Is the difference because your siblings used different DNA testing companies at different times, do you think? Or do you think it can be that variable between relatives?