14 Jul Three Of The Most Shocking Ancestry DNA Result Stories You’ve Ever Heard

With ancestry DNA tests becoming exceedingly popular in recent years, more and more people are becoming curious about their ethnic makeup. While some people’s results match with what they expected, many end up with a list of results that change their identities forever. If you haven’t done a test, these ancestry DNA result stories might either intrigue you towards or scare you away from getting a kit yourself.

1. The DNA test that ended in divorce

A stem cell and reproductive biologist, going by George Doe, told Vox about when he gave his parents a 23andMe DNA kit as a gift. He mainly intended to discover any health history the family should know about, but what he found was much more shocking. His ethnicity seemed to match what he expected, but he found something at the bottom of the page that read: “check this box if you want to see close family members in this search program”. He checked it, and found that he shared 22% of his genome with someone else in the database: a man named Thomas.

George asked his dad if he knew of any Thomas, and he said no. But when they checked his father’s “close family member” box, Thomas popped up, with a 50% genome match- meaning that George’s father was also Thomas’s father. The news of the secret son ended up dramatically affecting George’s family, with his parents getting divorced and nobody speaking to his father anymore. Though he says he doesn’t regret doing it, George does wish the 23andMe had a warning for what these results could entail: “I would want a warning saying, ‘Check this box and FYI: people discover their parents aren’t their parents, they have siblings they didn’t know about. If you check this box, these are the things you’ll find.’” In the wake of his family’s separation, George regrets not thinking of the test’s implications, saying he thought, “This wouldn’t happen to me”.

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