WHO IS MY MOM?!?! | Ancestry DNA Results (SHOCKING FAMILY SECRET!) | European 

I found a half sister I never knew existed yesterday through my Ancestry DNA results. Still in shock.

Yes, we too "discovered" that an old family rumor was true . My husband,s Dad is not his father. Not totally shocking if you knew his biological mother but still it was sad for my husband to find out that his "Dad" that had raised him after they had divorced at his age of 2 was not his father! Also, a "long lost" second cousin of mine contacted me trying to locate his father's family who happened to be my 1st cousin. My cousin, his father, has passed but he has now went from being a only child to having 5 half sisters!! He also has a living uncle and more cousins!! They are so happy to have found one another and hope to meet in person one day !

That actually happens a lot more than people realize. It's just that now we have the DNA testing to show it, so family secrets are coming out. There is even a support group on Facebook now for people in similar situations as your mother. It doesn't change what her relationship with her father was.

That is wild! I can't imagine. You guys are looking at it the right way. Reaching out and hopefully expanding the family. :) Sending love and support.

Great set of videos on you and your family's DNA journey! and congrats on the almost 2 months old little one! (just saw him on your insta page)...

Ah, the possibilities! What an amazing journey! Thanks for sharing!

This is definitely shocking and fascinating, I hope everything worked out for everyone as well as could be expected, if you have time please post an update if you are able to ❤️

I was terrified when you suddenly opened your mouth at 6:13 with that background sound lol. I'm still waiting for that 23andMe updated video tho

Better to know then not to. So far my results were pretty straight. Now my wife's that was a whole different story. Finding half brothers that were adopted no one knew about. Really crazy.

Irish, Scottish and Cornish are Celtic. English are Saxons and small % dna can be traced to Romans. My mother found out at age 85 that her dad was not her biological, thanks to Ancestry.

Happened to me. At age 60 I learned who I thought was my biological father was not. It was ok by me because he always said I was not his when he was alive.

Very interesting but actually some Iberian ancestryDNA isn’t that unusual in the low confidence categories for a British or Irish person its highly likely that it isn’t really Spanish as we think of it today but rather it’s a reference to the ancient link between the celts of Britain and the basque people of northern Spain/south western France. This is especially common in Irish people and welsh as well as in Cornwall where there they can test as having up to 10% Iberian DNA on ancestryDNA but it will be catagorised as British on other testing sites like 23andme. Also I’d check to see if you have any updates on ancestryDNA as your minor low confidence regions can often disappear altogether as have happened to mine recently. :) very cool video though .

I checked my results again recently, and they had changed pretty substantially, and the low confidence regions disappeared. Bet yours did too.

I think you are correct. Celtic people lived in the British Isles and Northern France and Northern Spain. England was named for the Angles, one of three Germanic tribes that invaded the British Isles and were the ancestors of the English people.

Ancestry DNA. The worst thing that ever happened to family secrets in the whole wide world.

Hi Ash, I could trace my own ancestry to the Antonin family of Ancient Rome. That being said, the Antonin built a wall in Great Britain and many Brits have this same Y-chromosome as yours truly: R-M167. Its labelled Celt-Iberian and was present throughout the Mediterranean and its loyalties were divided between Hannibal of Carthage and Rome. You're Armorican (english channel) like me. Your truthfulness will be beneficial to you.

The farther back you go in time, of course your DNA is going to start spreading out. I think ancestry's percentages are roughly based on the last 500 years (I think)

The Basque people live in the Iberian Peninsula, and they are the genetic cousins of the Irish, they share the same DNA. Also, the Basques have the highest incidence of Rhesus negative blood in the world (Irish also a high percent), if your Mum is RH negative that would also connect her to the Basques and the Irish. The Basques live in Northern Spain, but they are not genetically linked to the Spanish, no one knows where they came from before they settled in the Iberian peninsula, the Irish descend from them. Hope this helps. BTW "Who is my Mum", title misleading, clearly you know who your Mum is.

I when that specific Scottish bits were points out in the test because I know that a big chunk of my ancestory should be Scottish but I also have English.

I saw a documentary on the Celts, there had been a drought in the Mongolian area and they could no longer survive there. They ended up in Europe, as in Scotland,England and so forth. Which would explain Portugal , as they went through there to get to England,Scotland,France and Germany

What were the error bars on the estimates? My test shows I am 23% Irish and I know that estimate is way off. But looking at the large error bar it covers what I know from my family tree. At 6% I suspect the error bar includes a range from 0 to 9% so it may just be the inaccuracies in the algorithm that they used for their analysis.

We took those and found out my moms dad was her dad all along. Lol she just looks more like her mother.

Did you ever find out about the half sibling of your mom's? I want to do a DNA on my twin grkids because it's been said they possibly have 5 half siblings. They know of one for sure. All this popping out kids and giving them away is going to lead to many shocking "I love you, but my DNA says you're my brother/sister!" So many don't know that their biological parents should have to leave contact info for the kids. They can give the names of parents then say don't contact us, at least they can look up info without contacting the biological perso.

interesting what you have found. What a shock. I found also my kids with different cousins, different amounts of % also a shocker.. cause we can not explain it, and they look like twins.. Also, I found people with your last name, and related to that name, in my myheritage list, as my 3rd cousins... (i am 39% English, 36% german/ french/ dutch (western Europe) and 20% Scandinavian and 1% middle eastern, 3% eastern Europe... i know Italian, Spanish, french etc, south European went to England. and people from germany are a lot mixed with english, and therefore we are now this much English, and they mixed in england with scandinavian. As they strived a lot for a long time in England. But these people also went to USA and other places, Canada, Australia in the big move... So the most family I have are Americans. I found on gedmatch (gedmatch is free) a lot more DNA .(.southern, and Asian, and African on some chromosomes i am 20% subsaharan)... and looking at the big move around the world, is i guess, how you find all of us.. our entire family... i never knew before i was this much English... i expected so much southern...but now i understand how it makes sense...and find more family because i understand where to look, they moved from south to north...and then around the world... Because gedmatch and also familytreedna give a lot more information you might find more clues there... and the way our families moved, and thus places to search for answers, and because they show lists of people that are related to you. good luck

Have you looked at the new update that happened a few day's ago?

I knew you were Spanish/ Mediterranean as soon as I saw you. It’s all in your face.

My sister in law took a DNA test to see if she matched with the man she was told was her father. My husband and his mother had already taken the DNA test and these particular cousins matched them as 3rd and 4th cousins. But my sister in law was matching them as close family and 1st cousins. I was handling her account and new right away that my mother in law had deep dark secret that was coming out through DNA. My mother in law confesses to sleeping with her very own 3rd cousin and had my sister law from him. This was 50 yr old secret. My husband was shocked his sister is his sister/cousin.

That is really high british dna,my families lived in yorkshire since forever,and im only 58%

That is shocking. Hopefully your mother is doing ok with this and that the Ancestry relationship match contacts you. The unknown can me so hard. Here's to you and your mom getting some answers.

The most interesting thing I found out was unknowingly I dated a third cousin! We were from different states there was nothing to lead us to believe we were related.

What part of Wales are part of your family's Ancestors from? I come from Northwest Wales.

Are you Spanish or Italian on your father’s side, due to the surname Serrano?

I can’t believe it either!!!

Any updates?

Well this past year all three of us girls (myself and 2 sisters) took ancestry DNA .. We are in our 60s and we found out our youngest sister had a different dad... It was a shocker, I am not even sure my dad knew even though my mother and dad never divorced or seperated. Come to find out, my youngest sisters apparent father happens to be our God father that owned a private school to which we all went to when we were very young. Since both of my parents passed before this DNA was done, we can not ask any questions... even our God parents are passed before my parents died so.... never know what skeletons are in those closets.... huh?

Yes English people are descendants from Anglo Saxons/Scandinavians and the Irish, Scottish and Welsh are Celtic :)

The problem with "origin" genetic markers like "Iberian" is that we do not have hard data but statistics. A man who could not swim drowned/died crossing a river with an average depth of 2 feet - statistics. The original Iberian inhabitants in Roman times were likely ancestors of today's Basques. Today's Iberians have genes from Goths, North-Africans and Romans and 80% of Spaniards have 2 'Jewish' markers. IIRC

What sources were you consulting to get to 12th century. Thanks

I am related to a lot of serrano's on my dads side

If you got back into the 1200s on some of your ancestors, you are a real good genealogist. Records back that far are virtually non existent.

Upload your raw dna data results to my heritage family tree dna and 23& me for FREE. You will get haplogroups in 23& me which might show if you your ancient lineage.

Through the YEARS. People are abandoned, adopted or lied about who the daddy is etc.

Don't forget about territorial differences through time. Great Britain, for example, would have had changing borders due to wars, etc.

How much did that cost with having a specialist?? How long do they help?

Doesn't she look like an American actress or celebrity? I'm pretty sure that I have seen this face before on a celebrity. Can any American here help me with this?

Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians ate originally from northern Europe Denmark Germany etc area. Breton Brittania Romans called Celtic Gaelic tribes. Vikings from Scandinavia raided Britain before Germanic infusion giving the blonde hair and blue eyes.

Grandma had been running around.

Yeah this happened to me last year. I was matching someone who was from my dad's Hometown and just assumed that they were from one of the female lines that I may not know of. they got their dad tested and my dad matched him like a half Uncle. that's when I had to call my oldest cousin and and talk to her and found out that my grandmother worked for this other gentleman and there was talk that they had a thing going on. Well it was more than just talk.It is still very shocking to me I have been doing my genealogy for over 20 years)my dad died 4 years ago and will be five the 30th of this month and he never knew. I can't get my two first cousins on my paternal side which it's only 3 of us, to test, even though I bought the DNA test for them very discouraging.

Ages ago, a gentleman would send his son on a grand tour to discover the world, build a network, experience potentially scandalous things far away from home. I forgot the author/references, but one of these grand tourists wrote home: the women in the Netherlands are chaste after marriage; the women in France are chaste before marriage; the women in England are never chaste.

What do you mean you found them??? Did they give you names and informatjon about them???

Iberian Peninsula is like 30% Irish

ah yeah oct 2019 they just did another update on ethnicity results looks one again.

Has no one heard of the "Black Irish" here?

This is really shocking. Any updates?

Please watch the Irish, British and the Scottish Native Peoples...this will definitely clear up “why” they are extremely adamant about the separate identities! Ha ha 😉🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🏽🔑🧬💗

i dont know why ppl are SO SHOCKED or devesasted . your parents grand parents are Human. and such things happen. And he Dad IS her Dad no matter what(who was in her life?? not dad or bio dad?). and to be harsh, suck it up get over it and just accept it there is not a thing you can do about it.

I thought British means English, Scottish and Welsh

Go on DNA Painter.

Girl You last name is mediterraneo.

They separate the British from the Irish because of their history in fact they share the same genetics because of the mixing of thousands of years of close existence! Realistically it is hard to separate them but it's culturally expedient to do so! My family has all of the above English, Welsh, Scottish ,Irish with a random Dutch or German in the tree!women cheat as many as 10 percent of the people walking around the planet don't know their real father! Genealogy can't explain what happened in a random house in the 1500s but genetics can!

What's up with all these pretty chicks doing DNA? Where are the average looking people? They dont get online and tell people their results? Only pretty ones? Whatever....

Loving the fit physique

To say that she is not super diversed is ridiculous... And for people out there, don't do those test, they keep your DNA info, and they can sell it to any interested buyer.

So your white got it 👍

Why cant you just get to the point? All you ppl on here think we want to listen to you just talk.

You are not from good back ground