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Folks who did 23andMe, Ancestry, etc, what was your experience? what things did you learn? -- nm

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Dec 15 '21, 17:36

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We've never needed to do any of that kind of research. We've got the Book. -- (link*) - znufrii Dec 15, 18:09 4
- hey I have one of those too. strangely not written by a family member. -- (link) - mafic Dec 15, 20:39 2
  - Just clickedyour link. Yeah it's one of those books. We got ours the same era. It's trash. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 20:44
  - We had one maybe 30 years ago. It turned out to be mostly bullshit.Check the footnotes. - loosilu Dec 15, 20:42
- We had oral history and some relatives did paper research. DNA showed much of it was complete bullshit. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 19:41
I think I win this one hands down. I found out my father is not my biological father. - pmb Dec 15, 17:49 25
- WOW!!!! you win! how are you doing with it? -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 19:35 2
  - I’m fine with it. My dad Is my dad regardless. I don’t feel much need to dig further other than for medical history. One of my kids is fascinated -- (edited) - pmb Dec 15, 19:42 1
    - good on you, and wish you the best handling the kidson this topic. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 19:48
- crazy. that's like a plotline from House (if someone had a rare disease). -- nm - mafic Dec 15, 19:00
- wow, that is amazing -- nm - Beaker Dec 15, 19:00
- So she did that with both of you? -- nm - jnine Dec 15, 18:31 15
  - Yes. My younger sister is my father’s biological daughter. She was the oops kid who is 6 years younger than me. -- nm - pmb Dec 15, 18:49 14
    - I just read the original post linked below. You think your mother didn't even know? That is very crazy. -- nm* - jnine Dec 15, 19:08 8
      - It ultimately turned out she did. As I said, it unfolded with small bits of info over time. -- nm - pmb Dec 15, 19:39 7
        
        that's amazing. I suggest someone write it out? my storiy of finding my father's cousins thru his mother - loosilu Dec 15, 19:45 6
        
        more - loosilu Dec 15, 19:54
        
        My older sister has really done all of the digging and tracked everything. She’s thought about writing a book. She and her half-sisters get together - pmb Dec 15, 19:53 4
        
        awesome! I have turned out to be the family historian so this is my job. -- (edited) - loosilu Dec 15, 20:01 3
        
        Interesting. It's all pretty fascinating, but I also find it sort of daunting myself. I'm glad my sister's done it, but I think it would be sort of - pmb Dec 15, 20:12 2
        
        in my case I would not say overwhelming. Just have to get off my ass and write it. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 20:39 1
        
        I would think it might be overwhelming for pmb because it's his father, not unknown cousins -- nm - jnine Dec 15, 22:32
    - Did you ever find out why she did it? Sorry if it's too personal,just ignore my question if it is. My dad found out his father wasn't his bio dad and - jnine Dec 15, 19:05 4
      - She just simply wasn't getting pregnant. In those days I don't think they tested any fertility of men. I suspect the dr. told my mother she was - pmb Dec 15, 20:21 1
        
        I'm surprised they didn't require a married woman's husband to give written consent in those days. Times were very different. -- nm - jnine Dec 15, 22:35
      - have you been able to identify your bio grandfather? -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 20:05 1
        
        Yes. He was a family friend. I don't know how my grandmother knew it wasn't her husband's child. My dad is the 6th of 7 children and my grandmother -- (edited) - jnine Dec 15, 22:49
- Holy crap. I don't think you've told us this before!! -- nm - Pocket Jones Dec 15, 18:14 3
  - This all makes me want to do something wild I can confess to on my death bed. -- (link) - Max Dec 15, 19:00 [Backboard] 1
    - thanks much for link! -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 19:37
  - It was pretty crazy and literally unfolded slowly over the course of about 3-4 years but was only confirmed by my aunt a couple of months ago (just - pmb Dec 15, 18:51
mine -- (edited) - loosilu Dec 15, 17:47 2
- didn't you say you were surprised to find out you weren't irish but from cape briton/france? -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 15, 20:09 1
  - I am actually more Irish than I thought. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 20:46
Once I got my family lines in place I took on a project to map everyone in US history with my surname, and the most fun thing was seeing the migration - Max Dec 15, 17:47

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