Spokane woman's Ancestry test leads to shocking family secret

I tried it yet millions have swabbing the cheek sending in a sample and unlocking the secrets of your family's past but what if that test on ancestry.com revealed even more it was freaky I called the website and asked him to check my account because I thought I had been hacked and that somebody was playing a sick joke on me well maybe it's happened to someone you know they get the online DNA results back and find ethnic backgrounds they didn't expect or that Lady Gaga is their fifth cousin it's fascinating enough but that Spokane woman you just heard from found something much deeper a family secret buried for decades KXLY 4s melissa luck reports on what happens when you go looking for family history and find family secrets are closer than you think [Music] somewhere amid the bustle of everyday life it is inherent in all of us and need to belong to connect know where we came from it's the basis for an entire booming business DNA by male I just wanted to know my heritage when my ass ethnic background was Tracey Melton was born in Los Angeles and always knew she was different than her sisters two blue-eyed blondes than her Tracy's mother never gave her any details of her dad and their brief encounter what little information I was given was leading to a person who was no longer alive so she never set out to find a father only to find what secrets might be hidden in her DNA health reasons why he's wanting to know you know with cancer scares and stuff related to health issues I wanted to know so she swapped for a sample sent it off to ancestry.com and didn't expect her life to change forever we opened the email and it did the breakdown and it was really cool you know like 39% Great Britain and seventeen Western European and 27% Native American and then there was a link at the bottom that linked me to 673 relatives and we were in shock it clicked on the link and there it was I said although Delgado this is your parent or your child there it was there he was back then he was a firefighter in LA remember that's where Tracy was born and lived until she was a teenager she had gone looking for family history and found her father instead and this is easily where this story could end finally the life mystery solved and Tracy had a connections to someone but really it's where this story begins Tracy reached out to Reynaldo Delgado he got back to her and when he did well you should hear from him she said hello I think you're my father what then a simple question I think I did ask her what do you live and she said spoken and then for a second I thought it was a joke that's because three years ago after a lifetime in Los Angeles Rey and his wife wanted something new they wanted to hike and fish and ski in four seasons so despite having no connections they came north to Spokane as it turns out she does 12 miles for me and I never knew she existed you can see it now can't you and these pictures that chin those dimples unmistakable they met the next day after that initial phone call 35 years was long enough she walked in she did stick her hand out to me I started to and then I said you know she cans with your daughter so we hugged and it was very emotional from the very moment we met him it was very comfortable it felt natural it's very hard to explain it was like I never knew it was something with my seat now they make up for that lost time the talker texts every day have dinners together with Tracy and her kids ray has even met the man who raised Tracy who she always considered her dad I just knew as soon as I saw him that I had to thank him for doing my job till I showed up because I know she loved them their bond innate the similarities go far beyond those trademark dimples we talk about things like what's our favorite ice cream in it we both love vanilla bean and we both love corned beef hash and they both realize the miracle of all of this what if Tracy and Ray had never done the DNA test what if they did it but with two different companies they could have gone their lives never knowing they could have stayed strangers despite sharing the same air every day we probably pass each other at the mall we probably pass each other at the grocery store and didn't even know it instead instant connection an unbreakable bond to strangers once separated for decades now family forever it still sometimes feels very unreal I say I cry almost every morning in the shower just with excitement and joy and I know that a lot of people don't get this kind of outcome it's just like a amazing ride and I never want to get off and the ride is just beginning Tracy and Ray have a lifetime of memories to catch up on and more family to meet Ray's mom is in her 80s she's flying up from Los Angeles for Mother's Day just to meet Tracy since we've been talking about this story we've heard from so many people with stories like this they've learned from these online genealogy sites we want to hear your stories / - 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Published: Tue May 01 2018