People who've taken an ancestry DNA test, what dark secrets were revealed? 

You really should tell your children if they're adopted and not to keep that a secret. Because they need to know their medical history. When the doctor asks for a medical history of your ancestors, it ok to say IDK. It isn't cool to say, for instance, no history of autoimmune disease when there history and you don't know.

I was worried about giving away DNA 🧬 to these companies to do what they want with… but, after hearing these stories & how important it is to know your family health history giving up some privacy issues seems worth it. 🙏🏼

Being honest with your adopted children is important! I was adopted and my parents have always been upfront about it and even celebrate my culture's holidays and are very open. We look quite different so I think eventually I would have figured it out but I'm very happy with them being honest about it.

I found out through a dna test that my family lied about being Italian. Apparently we are actually Mexican, but they lived in a conservative area in the US and claimed to be Italian for the purpose of passing. It didn't ruin my life, but as soon as I found out, my mother tried to complain about racism. Like, no. You hid my heritage from me to please racists. I'm not the shoulder you're going to cry on.

I got some surprising results from my 23andme test. I think my mom was wrong about who my biological father was. The story I got was that my bio dad, let's call him "John Smith," died in a car accident before I was born. He was also cajun. So imagine my surprise when my DNA test came back 100% white (I was expecting mostly white but not 100% because, you know, cajun dad) and there were no "Smiths" in my family tree. I haven't looked into it or asked my mom. I don't really care that much, I just thought it was weird.

My 1st cousin (f), my mother's sister's daughter, at some time down the line of the DNA%, switches from maternal related to paternal related. We found out that the man I thought was my Grandfather, was not. His mind was going and during an argument with my father, blurted out that he wasn't his son. That escalated quickly after. No one knows my true Grandfather. He was in the Army Airforce in Frankfurt Germany and supposedly my growing up Grandfather was his best friend. My Dad was born in Mar 1949. Any help would be appreciated.

I love how the title is “dark secret” and the first stories are all sweet meetings of family members that no one knew about. Very wholesome first couple of minutes

8:13 Omg. This is crazy. I am also Ashkenazi Jew, not sure the percent but my great great grandmother immigrated from Poland before the war, AND I found out my grandpa isn’t my father’s biological dad. We only know this because who I thought was my dad’s dad told my father that when he was deployed my grandma wasn’t pregnant and when he returned she was. Definitely was a shock to my dad😅 But crazy that this exact situation happened with someone else😂

I took a dna 🧬 test once and it showed that my biological cousin (who I didn’t know I was related to) is a serial killer truly insane

My older sister is half sister. Which made her feel entitled to steal my inheritance. And she did.

My husbands grandma found out that her childhood best friend and neighbor she had growing up was actually her half sister. Her preacher dad and the neighbor obviously were alot closer than anyone thought.

A family friend was the second of three children to her parents.. but her father turned out to be her mother's ex-husband, while her older and younger siblings were fathered by the man who raised them. She had terminal cancer and ended up getting to meet her elderly father whose one regret had been that he hadn't had any children - bittersweet.

It doesn't always work out. I was adopted. I found out really young. I found and met my bio mother because I had been adopted in the same small town that she came from and went to school with a cousin who was easily intimidated. But those old folks they like to keep secrets and they don't talk about things that make them feel bad. So I did DNA. I know my father's name I spoke to him once (before dna). He was very angry at my mother. And was super on his guard about what I wanted. Told me he'd call me back to make plans for paternity. I never heard from him again. I've done DNA. And I know it's him because I matched to his aunt (the only member of his near family who'd done DNA). None of his family will speak to me. I joined a genealogy facebook group for the town he's from and got kicked out the moment I said who I was. Then a new twist, it turns out that I"m not related to the man I thought was my grandfather on my Mother's (apparently she was the product of an affair) side. He's dead. My grandmother is dead. Only one of my aunts even thought it was a possibility. And the only person who might know (my mother) has been on a bender for nearly a decade and refuses to speak to me. I may never find out anything. There is no one closely related enough to me in a way that I know for sure, willing to do DNA and help me to eliminate common ancestors. I know nothing of medical history. I've never even seen the faces of people that look like me. A soul crushing realization when you discover that not only are you an unwanted shame, and people don't even care enough about the fallout of their actions to give you a medical history and treat you like you are ruining their lives like your very existence isn't their fault in the first place.

I know someone who was adopted. She found her birth Mom and was rejected. Her birth Moms family did not know she existed. Her birth Dad ended up being the man that she thought was her adopted Dad. He had already died when she found this out. That was a cruel thing to do to her. That means her Dad had an affair and did not tell his wife that she was raising the baby from that affair. How messed up!! 😢 She wished she had never had the test done.

Me and my mom helped my ex- stepdad find bio his father and sisters, and after all that and 8 years with my mother. He moved to Indiana and cheated on her. F you Trevor.

Got two secrets. One I knew I was adopted but didn’t know my parents at all. They had to get rid of me when I was sixth months old. That hurts but they did it for good reason. Second my father in law had a one nightstand with some one but he was already in a serious relationship with someone who loved him. Turns out his son who is awful and abusive is the outcome of his one night stand. My father in law really didn’t wNt my ex to be his son. So after the results in he was sad but took ownership and said to his son I will adopt you and love you. Funny thing is his son is 32 yrs old. That’s messed up.

3:20 not all women actually develop a bump, it's not strictly necessary. It is rare but entirely possible for a pregnancy to instead shift organs into the chest cavity and produce no real external sign of pregnancy, no bump.

I discovered an uncle. Reached out to him, turns out my grandmother had a child that she put up for adoption at birth. Hes friends with my dad now after they met, and the really strange thing is for a while in the early 90s they worked together and had actually already met, never knowing they were half-brothers

#13 There was a day and age where adoptions where considered a shameful thing. The adopted children were usually illegitimate (ie bastards), and for parents to be "barren" (fertility issues) was looked upon as some form of divine retribution.

this topic is always interesting

It’s Hollow the feeling of finding family you didn’t know you had that was there all along all the what ifs go away all the mystery or ignorance of it… leaves you empty feeling.

Some of this was very wholesome

I'm Related to Napoleon by 60% I am RELATED To FUCKING NAPOLEON!!?!?

Some women go their entire pregnancies without anyone knowing. Women with a retroverted uterus will often carry babies in their back and pelvis rather than upfront. I had 4 pregnancies. My pregnancies with oldest and youngest, I wore normal clothes such as sweats, overall shorts, etc, and most people didn't know I was pregnant. My other two pregnancies were normal upfront pregnancies. It is totally possible to be pregnant and nobody know about it.

I took a 23andMe years ago, no weird family stuff like in the vid, but I am a "mutt" so to speak. I'm Lebanese first and foremost, but in higher percentages(>/=10%) also English, Polish, and French, and in lower percentages(

You know, one of these sounds remarkably like my cousin via my father's half-brother(who we only learned even existed shortly before their mutual father's death).

Basically people shouldn't wrap their identity so much into their race and ethnicity because it might turn out not to be it. I always tell my siblings that I wouldn't be surprised if I am not their sibling because my mother has a questionable past and hid a secret baby she had before meeting my dad. What would make me happy is if we did a dna test and it turns out that she isn't my mother that I was swapped in the hospital...I dream about that often.😂

On my dad's side we're descended of the Hugenots who fled from France who persecuted people for their faith. My ancestors were dead poor. On my mother's side we were from the Netherlands and - India! A guy married an Indian girl from Goa and even though my family today are all white, we all have Indian blood. But her features pops up now and then. Dark sleek hair and dark eyes can be seen in my family on my mother's side now and then. On my dad's side, blue eyes everywhere. We also have Scottish blood, and the temper to match. My sister is a great example.

What? This is really weird…

My niece is huge on researching her family tree, so she persuaded a load of us to do Ancestry dna tests to help her find more accurate results. She discovered that my dad's dad wasn't his dad. There were no matches at all with anyone on that side of the family. My dad already knew the woman who raised him wasn't his mum. The story seems to be, the man who raised my dad came back from WW2 to find his wife pregnant and stayed with her. Baby was born (my dad,) and 2 days later, his wife died from childbirth complications. He then registers the birth naming himself as father and raises the boy as his own, never indicating anything to the contrary. My dad discovered in his 70s that instead of having no siblings, he actually has 2 brothers and 2 sisters, all married with extended family. His biological father died a few years before this all came out.

One of my best friend's mom, is actually her older sister. Edit: To explain. Her older sister adopted her as a daughter.

Story 4 Mom hiding her pregnancy is possible. I have known women that were late term pregnant and hardly showed.

Story 11 - Just because they didn't share DNA doesn't make him not her dad. He _chose_ to be her dad, biology be damned. If anything, that's just wholesome. 😊

Sort of a reverse of it. My mom and dad, for many a reason, divorced. Dad was concerned my younger brother didn't look like him, and was paranoid Mom was cheating. Well, we did a DNA Test. Guess who's 100% our Dad's loinfruits? Me and my little bro.

9:40 -- He was so her real father! He might not have been her father by birth but that don't make him any less of a father to her at all!

I knew i was adopted from when i was old enough to understand

people should not be to disappointed just because they aren´t the ethnicity they think they are. If it´s just this reason ... because all humans are related to each other pretty close. Just saying. That´s a big reason we should stop fighting each other.

One of my GrandMothers had a child with a soldier during the World Wars. We always thought it was an American Soldier but I'm not American. I am purely from Europe. I am 3% GERMAN. My Grandmother had a child with THE ENEMY!

As a white guy i have some dark ancestors?

w o w

My ancestry is well documented for hundreds of years in every direction--except one. Somewhere at the end of the 19th century, my mother's mother's family records come to a dead halt. NOTHING. DNA testing revealed I have black ancestry. Enough said.

I found out that I am 28% oppressed and a frog.

6:42 “Our mom has been wrong”, no your mom was lying,

first one is weird you already married father of that baby why not searching for your children ?

I love ur videos but this background is so disturbing

My great, great, great, great grand uncle (I think I got that right) was a known slave ship captain. I didn't need a test to know that though, we're very much not ashamed of it. What a lad, some giant Germanic dude who looked like me hundreds of years ago just whipping nogs on his boat all day. Glorious, I'd switch places with him if I could.

First?

Gotta love women.