Spokane woman's Ancestry test leads to shocking family secret

I took one of those DNA tests and found that my parents are actually my parents.😪

I'm one of eight siblings. I'm number five. We lost our mother when I was eleven. Separately, my narcissistic stepmother told me and each of my siblings that our dad didn't think I was his child. She said he thought I was the mail man's child. Ten years after she died, most of us did the ancestry test. I am full sibling to all my brothers and sisters.

The hero of this story: The man who raised her as his own. God bless you, Sir. I am glad she had you as a father, and you are awesome to welcome her biological dad. Much respect.

I gave my hubby a DNA test as a Christmas gift one year and after just a week a lady reached out to us saying her mom, who never knew her father, was closely related to my husband. Turns out this sweet older lady was my husband’s aunt. My husbands great uncle had a fling with this ladies mom in the 1930’s while riding the trains as a hobo and without the DNA test she would have never known her father’s family. My mother in law freaked out but thank goodness other family members were accepting and so happy she found them. The lady was in her 80’s but finally found the family connection she had been looking for all her life. It was a wonderful thing to be a part of.

So the mom lied about paternity and denied this dude the chance to know his daughter. This isn’t heart warming. This is sad.

I was adopted through cps at age 5 biological mom was murdered when I was 4 left birth certificate blank. Told I’d never know my fathers identity. It was redacted in the files . Did an ancestry dna and found my father and his family last summer . Greatest money I ever spent

My grandmother found out the man she thought was her father wasn’t. Her mother had hooked up with a random guy at the nearby military base in 1940. Her biological father had already passed, by the time it was discovered, but she’s met her 4 new half-sisters. It was weird seeing 4 strangers who look almost identical to my grandmother.

As an adult adoptee, I found both my original parents separately when I was 61 years old. My father had passed, but I have connected with these siblings. My mother is still living and I have an active, ongoing relationship with her and a few of these siblings. Being with my mother is so natural. I feel like I fit right in the family.

I was told at 12 by the man that raised me that he wasn't my dad, 23 & me proved him wrong. He was my biological father and we found out only 6 months before he passed. Im glad i never treated him like he wasn't my dad though, i always loved him

I got my brother a DNA kit for his birthday. He is adopted and in his records was verbiage about being Native American . Instead he found 2 half sisters and his biological father! It was the best gift I could have ever given him.

My best friend found both her father and her mother with a DNA test. She was adopted as an infant, and simply wanted to find her parents to know about health issues she might face when she got older. Instead, she got new relationships, and she's loving getting to know her biological families.

So blessed to have two father's that love her, some of us have none.

3 cheers to the guy who was her dad for all those years.

She's lucky to find a father who is WORTH finding.

“The miracle of DNA tests!!!”…OR… her mom could have told her who her father was…

I've always known WHO my Dad was, but we just connected in the past few years. And 10 days ago, he moved from Texas to LA to come live with me. I'm 53, he's 81. It's really cool getting to know him. I've always carried the 1 picture I have of him. I was about 9 months old, he was holding me. Now I get to hug him every day and kiss him good night.

The first word he speaks you can hear the tears in his voice. Poor guy. I'm glad she found him.

This is how I found both of my biological parents. As an adoptee you wonder your whole life who you are. I had great parents (both are deceased) and childhood. I took the test at 50. Well I found both of my biological parents. I never met my mother and she wanted nothing to do with me, I think mainly because she lived her whole life based on lies. Her siblings (my aunts and uncles) accepted me, and I have relationships with them. Now onto my biological father; I had already been rejected by my mother, so when contacting my father, I was expecting rejection from him as well; instead he blew me away! I have three younger siblings by him, and he told me about the one night stand he and my mother had. When I first met him ( I was 51 1/2); the first thing I noticed were the back of his hands, and I said to him, "We have the same hands!" We went and had coffee and chatted for two or three hours. The next day I met my younger half siblings and my six nieces. I now know where I come from, and know my medical history, and all this family including lots of cousins!

My husband found a half brother and family. We loved him, he looked just like their father. He died shortly after meeting him, but we are glad we met him.

As a father of two boys and was raised by loving parents, I can't imagine a Mom or Dad who would want nothing to do with their biological children. Glad this woman found her Dad and that he was worth finding.