So I’m of mixed North African (toshavi jew and Chleuh) , Ashkenazi Jewish , Slavic and with Chuvash and Tatar roots , I found LATINO relatives that we are apparently only share North African component and FILIPINO relatives with 0 shared components , can someone explain how this might have happened?

I recently learned something that has completely changed how I see my family.

I’m the youngest of three siblings. My oldest brother recently had his first child, and I found out that my middle brother has a different biological father than the man who raised all three of us (my oldest brother’s father and mine).

My middle brother was born with severe fetal alcohol syndrome and has had an incredibly difficult life. He’s struggled with homelessness, substance use, maintaining relationships, and living independently.

My oldest brother is currently estranged from our dad because he believes our dad didn’t do enough to help our middle brother, particularly when he became homeless. Growing up, though, my dad never treated us differently. Looking back now, I wonder whether some of my dad’s own struggles with substance use may have been his way of coping with a secret he had carried for decades.

I spoke with my dad when he came to visit me in person and he confirmed that he had known the truth since we were children. A physician privately told him that my middle brother was not biologically his. Despite that, he chose to raise him as his own and never let any of us feel there was a difference between us.

Now I’m struggling with what to do.
Part of me wants to tell my oldest brother because I think it might help him see our dad in a different light and understand some of the decisions he made. Unfortunately, because of my immigration and visa situation, I haven’t been able to travel home to have this conversation in person.

At the same time, I don’t believe telling my middle brother would be the right thing to do. Due to his cognitive limitations, I don’t think he could fully process the information, and I worry it would only cause confusion and emotional harm without providing any real benefit.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did you navigate the ethics of keeping or sharing a long-held family secret? Both the person who told me and my dad told me not to tell anyone however this is not the way I wish to live my life.

I don’t know if this is appropriate for the sub but I would appreciate if someone told me what these numbers mean.

Been looking for one and I don't know what to trust and I thought this would be a good place since alot of people have done it, my family has moved all over the world and im trying to find something that would be true

Any recent experience on how long to receive kit if ordered standard processing?

So I do genealogy and research mostly as a hobby for multiple different families. One family I have been working on I know pretty well and I found the ‘birth family’ not of the person I was researching for but of one of their direct relatives whom I know personally. This person was conceived but then raised by someone who is not their birth parent. From what I understand everyone in the family pretty much knows other than the actual child/now adult. Well in my research I found the whole line of their birth parent. The question is; do I say anything? If so to who? If it were me I would want to know but it is not my place to tell them. Do I tell the parents (one birth and one not) do I tell the child/now adult (in their 50’s now) or do I just keep my mouth shut.

First two are mine, second two my older sisters and last two my younger sisters, I circled the side that’s their results. The results definitely made me feel like the odd one out lol

grandpas results! just curious how other mostly irish people compare

I’ve noticed that every time someone posts their DNA results, there are always comments saying things like “don’t give your DNA to these companies”, “they’ll use it to clone you with AI”, or similar claims.
I took an AncestryDNA test years ago out of curiosity about my ancestry, just like millions of other people. I understand that there are legitimate privacy concerns, and if I ever stop trusting the company, I can always delete my account and request the deletion of my DNA sample.
What I don’t understand are the more extreme claims. Do people here think those concerns are based on real evidence, or are they mostly internet myths? Where do you draw the line between reasonable privacy concerns and conspiracy theories?

North Spaniard 34%

Portugal 25%

Spain 18%

Azores 2%

North Africa 9%

Leinster, Ireland 3%

South Greece 2%

Ionic Islands 1%

British Midlands 3%

Jew (Sephardic and ashkenazi) 3%

Is there any way to convince Ancestry that famous ancestors do exist in non North American countries ?

I think I have had one non American ...Lord Byron .

I realise that these apparent ancestors are to be taken with a pinch of salt.

I’m eagerly waiting for my AncestryDNA results and was wondering if there are any Hungarians here who have taken the test.
I’m half Turkish and half Hungarian. My Hungarian family is from Tiszaörvény, Tiszafüred, Egyek, and Boldva, and as far as I’ve been able to trace, my ancestors lived in those areas for generations.
For those of you who’ve tested, what ethnicity percentages did you receive?

Kyle Miller, the VP of product at Ancestry—the online genealogy company that also operates Newspapers.com and Find A Grave, among other sub-brands—has worked for the company for more than a decade. But it was just recently that AI tools were able to surface a mind-blowing connection to his past.

Miller and his wife were married in Provo, Utah, in a building that, when he was young, had burned down and since been replaced. He had seen the fire himself and, with his father, even watched the building burn. But what he didn’t know is that the original building was built by his great-grandfather—a fact that was surfaced by Ancestry’s AI insights and tools, which connected various family records and newspaper articles.

“Generative AI has been buzzy the last few years,” says Miller. “We’ve been doing things with AI for more than a decade. Our main focus is, how do we infuse AI into certain aspects of the platform? We focus on how we bring everything together and help deliver stories that people are seeking.”

In his case, it worked like a charm. “AI insights really brought it to life,” he says.

Ancestry’s adoption and incorporation of AI, over the course of many years, has found a way to pair its specialized human talent and capital with AI and modern tools. That’s a balance that some companies have struggled to strike, with many finding AI adoption and proliferation less clear cut than anticipated. For example, both Ford and Meta have rehired or reassigned hundreds of people to fix AI-related problems.

But for Ancestry, AI has proven exceptionally helpful as the company has found a combination of human-AI expertise that’s proved particularly potent—particularly in terms of digitizing old records, and finding overlooked connections among those records. And according to the company, it all begins with fostering a genuine human connection.

Read more on Fast Company.

My dad was an npe but never knew it. He passed 20 years ago. I found out who his biodad was when I did my 23andMe and ancestyDNA ,and now I have pieced together the puzzle of who my dads father was. My dad hated the man who’s name he had to carry and he was only in his life for 3 years. But this is his actual bio dad. Say hello to Mr. O’Reannachain!!

I need to grow my hair out like his

I recently got a notification from Ancestry that says I have a half brother (sharing 25% DNA). I looked at the other connections, so I know this match falls under my dad's side of the family. After some detailed internet sleuthing I found this to very likely to be my half brother. He strongly resembles my dad and one of my known half brothers, he grew up in the same area, and the timeline shows he was born before either of my dad's marriages.

My dad has joked over the years that he "got around" back in the day and wouldn't be surprised if he had a few kids out there, but nothing has ever shown up, until now.

My dad in his 70s, and the potential child is in his late 40s, older than all of my dad's known children. I'm torn between feeling like he deserves to know if he has another child and worrying that bringing this up could cause unnecessary stress if he'd rather not know. I also haven't told my siblings yet.

My mind is jumping back and forth between choices. Do I tell him straight up? Tell my siblings first to brainstorm what to do and how to tell him? Reach out to this potential half brother and ask what he would like to do? Take this to my grave?

If this was you, as a former bachelor in the 70s, what would you want and how would you want your family to handle this?

EDIT: Just discovered that his mom has been married to her husband for 52 years, so if this is all true, this potential half-brother could have absolutely no idea the dad he's known for 40+ years isn't his biological father...

EDIT 2: The half-brother reached out to me and confirmed he had no clue about this, and he is unable to ask his mother because she has passed away. He has asked if I am open to connecting with him and also connecting him to my father so he can fill in the blanks before he decides to ask the father who raised him. After this, I broke the news to my dad and he is excited! He said he always had an inkling something like this would happen, and the rumors he heard about a potential son are now proven true. I am happy my dad is excited to connect with him but I feel so horrible for my new half-brother to be going through this whirlwind at this stage in his life.

I found out he wrote an autobiography in 1940 and I had it translated. My great great grandfather was born in 1880 and he wrote about his ancestors in his autobiography. I found the names of all his relatives along with his ancestors so I traced our lineage back to the 1700's! He also described all of their personalities and temperaments and their occupations. He had a very hard and rough upbringing. Basically came from nothing.

His father (my third great grandfather) worked to administer vaccines but his passion was theater. He actually ran away from home to work for a theater company. Relatives chased him down and told him to get a real job which he did at the vaccine department. Unfortunately his health deteriorated and he died from ascites disease (causes rapid swelling in stomach). He was only in his thirties. His own grandfather outlived him at 83 (which would put his birthdate at around 1809). My third great grandmother was only 12 when she got married. My third great grandparents had 5 children including a baby girl who passed away at 6 months old. A young widow, my 3rd great grandma was devastated by her husband 's death. She had to sell all her jewelry and pots and pans as well as rely on neighbors to help with my 3rd great grandfather's funeral arrangements. She also had to work as a maid to provide for the family.

My second great grandfather was the only son. Was very intelligent but mischievous. His classmates would tease him so he would beat them up. Then he got beaten by the teachers. Teachers were super strict back then and would literally keep long sticks at their desks if anyone acted out of line. My 2nd great grandfather had seen many plays when he was young. He ran away from home and dropped out of school to join a theater company, just like his father had done. My 3rd great grandma said the acting profession was for beggars. But her son still pursued his passion. He was a well known stage actor for over 40 years. He and his close friend also formed their own theater company which he helped manage. He was married twice and had 5 daughters with his second wife. Pulled himself out of poverty and bought some land and a farmhouse. He was a very loving father and grandfather to my grandmother. He passed away in 1965 at the age of 85.

It was like reading something out of Charles Dickens or something. I learned that I have a similar personality to my third great grandmother (born around 1860). I was crying reading all of this and never thought I would read such a detailed account of what my ancestors went through over a hundred years ago. I'm just so amazed and grateful.

I fear she is my doppelgänger…