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Bought my wife a Ancestry DNA test for our anniversary. Got myself one too. Nothing much popped up on her side She's a lot more Finnish and Baltic than she is Russian but its all the same area so nothing weird and not enough Russians take the test to pin down any direct relatives. Kind of a let down for her.
Mine on the other hand. I have to stop talking smack about the Irish and absolutely the Scottish. English, Swedish Norwegian etc. Typical white as the driven snow eurotrash. Anyway Ive known about my Grandma for a few years since my younger brother had a test done . Yeah. I have a whole bunch of 1st cousins I didn't know about. I talked to one of them a few times over the last week and she happens to be a researcher who works uniting adoptees with their birth parents and she knows more about DNA than seems reasonable and we pieced together who grandpa really is. My mom has a slew of 1/2 brothers and sisters she didn't know about and I can't tell her about.
In any case don't get a DNA test if you aren't ready for whatever might come up. Sometimes its not what you think. My newfound cousin told me the same thing. Its seldom a good experience if you thought your family was all Pollyanna I didn't.
Mine on the other hand. I have to stop talking smack about the Irish and absolutely the Scottish. English, Swedish Norwegian etc. Typical white as the driven snow eurotrash. Anyway Ive known about my Grandma for a few years since my younger brother had a test done . Yeah. I have a whole bunch of 1st cousins I didn't know about. I talked to one of them a few times over the last week and she happens to be a researcher who works uniting adoptees with their birth parents and she knows more about DNA than seems reasonable and we pieced together who grandpa really is. My mom has a slew of 1/2 brothers and sisters she didn't know about and I can't tell her about.
In any case don't get a DNA test if you aren't ready for whatever might come up. Sometimes its not what you think. My newfound cousin told me the same thing. Its seldom a good experience if you thought your family was all Pollyanna I didn't.
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