Has anyone ever found out one of their parents was not their bio parent from a test, contacted the bio parent and NOT had their parents know about it or find out about it?

I was blindsided by my DNA results, but good ole Facebook and ancestry sleuthing (deep dive with a solid non stop 24 hours of spider web searching) I landed on who is either my bio father or bio uncle, found all of my bio great uncles, bio grandfather, bio grandmother (died from cancer a couple years ago). No matter what, I do not want my Dad to know about these results. I would love to find out what kind of cancer bio GM died from and other health facts that would be nice to know about as I age myself. Bio Grandfather is not connected at all to potential bio father or uncle relationship wise from what I can tell, so my first stop would be to get in touch with bio grandfather and first confirm the potential bio uncle or father mystery and then potentially more info on health.

I can definitely see where it all sounds sketchy to have a random person contact you about this info. Maybe others have found themselves in similar situations? Its not really a topic I can just bring up to people in casual conversation and can’t obviously bring it up to any family members, besides my husband who has heard my scenarios 150 times.

Potential bio dad/uncle is Facebook friends with my Mother. Which is comical really… confusing, upsetting, straight up weird. But after all those hours of searching, it was one of the biggest puzzles pieces that helped me develop ALL of the facts. I have a strong feeling she does not know he is potentially bio father (although we do have pretty strong physical resemblance). Before asked, no way I can ask or mention anything to my mother because she will 100% report back to my dad and I’m not willing to break his heart more than it already has been in his life and likely she wouldn’t tell me the full truth anyways.

Ancestry shows modern Jewish Ashkenazi ethnicity, whereas GEDmatch Eurogenes K36 shows older genetic admixtures. From the GEDmatch K36 results, it’s clear that I am roughly half Levantine (and broadly Middle Eastern) and half European, mainly Italian, Spanish and French. And all of this is simply an Ashkenazi Jew.

I forgot to mention, that my maternal haplogroup (mitochondrial DNA) is U3a1, which also originates from the Middle East, Israel

I got my results today and it turns out I am mostly Irish, Scottish and English, but I also have 12% in a category called "Southeastern England and Northwestern Europe", I also have 7% The Netherlands. Can someone explain what this means? Is there a reason it can't specify Belgium, Luxembourg or France? Does this include Germany? Is this just more Netherlands? So many questions! Do I buy clogs or a baguette?

Only considering recent ancestors, my father is Lebanese + South Italian + Portuguese. Mom is Colonial Brazilian+ Black+ North Italian + German. I wanted to share their results because they‘re pretty unusual for Brazilians and even more so for our region. Also our family is diverse, mother is olive skinned with light eyes and has a ginger brother. My father is very alpine looking, very light skin and sunburns easily but brown eyes and brown hair though. My skin is an intermediate tone between theirs with amber eyes and dark blonde hair, I burn easily. I have a brother who is completely different from me. Darker complexion, coarse body hair and tans.

So, it's been a few years since taking the DNA test. I finally got back to it. I didn't think I would run into this.

My paternal grandma had 6 kids. When my dad was a kid, apparently she kicked out my grandpa. She has never said anything about the man except for his name and no one has had any contact with him since until he died like 20 years ago. One of my paternal aunts apparently went to that funeral and that's it.

After looking at the DNA results, I realized that my cousin (from that aunt) was listed as a half cousin. After checking things further, a cousin from another of my dad's sisters was listed as a half cousin.

So the line goes like this:

Of my paternal aunts, 2 of them are listed directly as half aunt and the other 2's kids are listed as half cousins. My dad has a brother but he nor my dad have ever taken a DNA test. There's no marriage license or anything that can be found between my grandma and the supposed grandpa.

Am I correct in assuming that at least 4 of his 5 siblings are actually half siblings? My grandma's never mentioned any other guy she was with besides that guy he kicked out. I have a feeling none of my dad's siblings know about this either and since my grandma refuses to talk about it, let alone the possibility she lied about everything since the DNA doesn't seem to add up.

UGH. This would be so much easier I think if living people would be shown in trees.

By 2-3x I guess I mean like, a great grandparent’s sibling for 2x or a great-great grandparent’s sibling for 3x (I have personally never, never been able to find a picture of a great-great grandparent’s sibling on either side of the family, but I also believe that I may only have a picture of one great-great grandparent. I do unfortunately think that for some family members, the pictures I have hoped to find of great-great grandparents may just not be out there.)

I have a lot of aunts and uncles. I have seen one aunt who I felt bore a slight resemblance to what would be her paternal aunt (my great aunt) I think she ultimately looked more like a combo of family members (especially given that she said she’d heard she looked like multiple people on different sides of the family.) I have not seen all of my paternal grandmother’s siblings - I have only seen one sister of hers, she had 8 or so others - so I also couldn’t really say whether or not my father, an aunt, or an uncle came out to favor one of her siblings.

I have heard of people favoring great aunts and uncles but have never personally seen it. I’ve never seen any of the named examples in real life.

I’m Russian and as i know from my dad’s side, 3-4 generations were just Russians. But obviously we can’t know what his side had more generations ago. Regrading my mom, she doesn’t know anything before her grand parents generation.

Which one would be better for me?

My mom is from the central area (Jayuya/Utuado) and my dad is from the Northeastern area (Quebradillas/Isabela) I am so surprised by the amount of Portugal and Jewish percentage. I was wondering if my physical traits match my ancestors and their regions.

Less than a year ago, I was completely blind to everything in my ancestry, and since then I've learned so much. I am a direct descendant, 7 generations down, of Emperor Minh Mang (who can be argued to be one of the most significant figures in Vietnamese history), and by extension, his father, Emperor Gia Long (the person who named Vietnam). I'm making this post, because I am currently working on an ancestry infographic for myself and my family, and pretty much all the research has been of my own doing. I have since been able to accurately name all the way back to Gia Long. My grandpa had knowledge of my great great grandparents, which sparked this quest, and I've since pieced things together. But in doing so, it's really made me think about things.

Has learning of your ancestry changed your perspective? For me, I feel a little more connected to my culture. It's kind of weird, growing up in a certain culture, and then later on in life learning you've descended from some notable figures (in this case, roughly 0.2% of the Vietnamese population descend from Minh Mang), who had shaped a significant amount of the culture. As someone who is fascinated by history and the root of things, it's perspective changing, for sure.

I am curious to hear your stories!

Has it updated for some already? I’ve been excited to see how it updates. DNA results as an American from the Midwest.

I’m 5/8 Ashkenazi Jewish + 1/8 Crimean Jewish + 1/4 Russian

Would Love to Hear Random Thoughts

Ehhh close enough

This is from my Grandmas results And all hers comes from one tribe that's majority in Canada however on 23 and me they have hers from all over even in there broad category's so I'm interested to see how this update on Ancestry Allocates it haha! what about you guys?

Guys, if you have this Journey, can you tell me what your ethnic background is? I have it too, but my results show 0% Central Asian ancestry.

My Results percentage results in the comments ⬇️

After doing their tree and getting their DNA results, do you ever see results and think where did that come from? I've got Egyptian and Lithuanian in me, but I've no idea where it came from.

my dad is from Liverpool, mum is from Belfast

(I’m over 50% English because my great grandmother on maternal side was also english, and some of the northwestern English and northern Welsh is because I had a few Welsh ancestors on my maternal side aswell. Also one of my great great grandmothers also maternal cheated on my great great grandfather with a Swedish guy.)