DNA testing kits: Family secrets revealed

well this open here is an album of family photos first what is my mother she was very beautiful I think she used to be a hat model part-time at least he's another lovely one it's one of her with me I was born in July 1947 that's just one of her on her wedding day with my father for my 70th birthday I got a DNA test from my two nieces and from my sister it was a lovely present and I thought it would just show me my global origins about a year later I realized that it had another page but there was a stranger in there and it really went from there and my sister did a test and the only person that we hadn't got in common was my father and therefore my dad was not my biological father it was amazing shock we were very close together we loved each other and I think we really looked alike you can see from that we both have sadly the same profile it just didn't occur to me that he wasn't my dad just didn't these tests are often gifted for Christmas or birthdays and the rates of people testing is increasing exponentially so you spit in here that's your genetic legacy preserved forever as a genetic genealogist I have to disclose to a client or to anybody who takes a DNA test it is a possibility that they will discover that their father is not their father it is common enough that I have to do that every single time and three times in my family alone people have discovered that their father is not their father in my own family I discovered that my grandmother was illegitimate this is my great-grandmother she was Catholic she was sainted in our family so not that what she did is any reflection on her morally but it just never crossed our minds nobody can keep these sorts of secrets anymore because the truth is in our DNA and we can test our DNA incredibly easily and the databases are now so vast that anyone can very very easily find out the truth of who their parents are that's me my brother that's not right that's me so you can tell the difference really when I actually full of color I never thought I was black if that makes it so just ulti tank I thought my mom went dad was my dad let me just treating me must their son lies and you know the love was dead to the other Shia for I was a throwback was my granddad was dark like me when people were telling you now that can't be your dad and all this all this week that's just ignored it I was a really strong woman and that was it he's my son didn't anybody to ask any more questions I decided to get my dad DNA test because for years growing up I was asked by those people Burma from where are you from I want to know where my ancestors have come from why I'm here and yeah just I couldn't have that question my favor and going to your connections yeah the DNA test came at my mum's I was Italian on my bad side she was just staying young came from West Africa it's nice to know now it's partly I love that but at the same time and then I'm just what the DNA test wasn't for me as him to find out my regional death my dad was dating when I was born so he took me on well she had a feeling she was with him or that bit and I will never know so whatever the reason was he was my bad that bad need to go look for anyone who's it's quite apparent that I'm different in my family and I've always felt like the cuckoo in the nest and I've always been a sad person right from way back I remember from when I was little always feeling sad and it does make me wonder whether the cause of the sadness was a kind of primal or fundamental feeling of being different I spent hours and hours and hours looking for my dad of course who wrote me live now but his family will be I found some lovely people we've got DNA in common all my father's side and we formed a little Facebook group and we're all working together on finding this person that we all have in common I'm meeting my cousin Cheryl in Ireland we're meeting in the apartment we're staying over and we're trying to put together all the pieces it's like a jigsaw puzzle with bits missing I think it just feels really weird enn just show where we match these are all the people we share yeah it's been a year almost doesn't they come out four years yeah I do think so I think about more and more people are doing it yeah yeah I'll take it I can't describe it but it's like the very first step on to feeling that I'm filling in that blank about who my father was a Patel so this these two people yeah so there are actual relatives and it's like the beginning [Music] it's hard to describe how important it is I have to know parents today only to realize that even if a child got to their teens in there for something was a bit fishy they would be able to just that would be all blown out of the water or bond in it that certain fact truth you can't rewind it getting that on a piece of paper it's just I think us incredible I think there's about to be the biggest explosion of DNA testing and skeletons coming out of covers probably lots of people a bit worried about it before people who go to their graves with a secret and now of course the secret may come out there will be quite a lot of problems but I think there'll also be lots of happy endings

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Length: 7min 6sec (426 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 20 2019