This Christmas DNA Test Changed a Family for Good

You are not the father!

Edmund

• Published in Funny
• January 1, 2019

A big industry today is that of tracking your ancestors using archive documents and using your DNA to track your lineage. Ads for companies such as Ancestry.com (who originally had a business model of searching from archive information but have since expanded to DNA tests) or 23 and Me are regularly shown on tv and on website banner ads as well as doing sponsorship deals with various online personalities such as missfender.

If you've done a DNA test because you're trying to work out who a biological parent could be, places like Find My History can help. They specialise in DNA analysis and can help you, even if you were adopted and have no info about your birth family.

Most people today roughly know where there family comes from so there is not real massive surprises but occasionally people get surprises when they decide to look up their lineage, and that definitely comes with the territory of a DNA test.

This guy on Reddit bought DNA tests for his family for Christmas got one of these surprises.

The story

This is why you don't buy DNA kits as gifts. It can (unlikely but still clearly possible) start fights

Update 2

So luckily this story didn't end badly and actually brought the family closer together as they shared the memory of a loved one. It is brilliant that this story had a happy ending. That being said, as stated earlier don't gift DNA kits for Christmas guys.

Here is the response others had to this story. Some provided stories of their own.

I wouldn't tell her that though.

On the whole, yeah but I can't understand what led to getting the family DNA tests to begin with.

Just in general?

Only a worthwhile game if it ends with Maury Povich delivering the results.

Nope.

I really want to hear the full story of this.

A bombshell like that can really change a family dynamic.

Edmund