And, yup, theyreally did learnsome wild things.
The rub was that my aunts husband was married to another woman before he married her.
I guess he has a punch in."
Herd_That
2.
“I have an uncle that was put up for adoption.
He contacted my grandma and she thought he was going to extort her (my grandparents are well-off).
Turns out hes a multi, multi-millionaire on his own.
They still have limited contact, though my dad has reached out and formed a relationship.
RolandDPlaneswalker
3.
“My male cousin did one and found a female cousin we did not know about.
He reached out to her and apparently our deceased uncle was good friends with her mother.
Mom wanted a baby so uncle got her pregnant simply as a sperm donor.
Our female cousin lived a few blocks away from my grandmother.
She had met her a few times going around selling Girl Scout cookies or something.
My grandmother had no idea that she was buying cookies from her granddaughter.”
OrangeTree81
4.
I found his first marriage certificate but nothing about a divorce.
I’m pretty sure he was a bigamist.”
khegiobridge
5.
This guy and my cousin matched as cousins and he had a name from his birth certificate.
He had been adopted at birth.
Turns out my mom was married before she was married to our dad.
Her first husband was an abusive a-hole and they had separated.
She got pregnant and went to another state and had this baby and put him up for adoption."
“None of us (my generation) ever heard about this, the big family secret.
This was in 1948 when being an unwed mother was not a thing you did.
So my half-brother is 10 years older than me and we both have the same first name.
We are both veterans.
He in Nam, me a Cold War-era vet.
We have been writing to each other for about two years now.
Very much a trip.”
[deleted]
6.
“A friend discovered that her father was not really her father.
Her mom had an affair and she was the result.
It tore her family apart.
Also, her ‘father’ did not know he was not really her biological father.
Note: she was 45 years old when this happened.”
AgentElman
7.
GIZMO8Z
8.
“My uncle took one and found out he had a 34-year-old son.
She never told him.
What’s wild is that they both did pursue the same degree in university.
But as you could imagine it came as quite a shock.
They are in contact as far as I know and getting to know each other.”
ChemicalOC
9.
Weary_Molasses_4050
10.
“My great-grandfather thought that he was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust.
He eventually stopped receiving letters and he assumed his brother and family had died.
We found that he moved to Brazil, and we got in touch with his great-grandchildren.”
plantbasedginger
11.
She is the youngest of all the siblings."
We have no idea her reasons for giving her first and last born babies up.
Obviously, she never thought anyone would find out."
what-in-the-actual
12.
“I (34) found out that my dad (78) is not my biological father.
ThisOldHomebrewery
13.
“My grandmother’s dad had a whole family before he married her mother.
Apparently, back East he was married and had seven children.
He then peaced out and they never saw or heard from him again.
She took the DNA test and was shocked when it matched this whole other family.
Her brothers were also pretty shocked.
They don’t really talk about it at all.”
bee73086
14.
SearchingForHeritage
15.
“I found out I had another sister.
My dad cheated on my mom when she was pregnant with me.”
Dropkicklover
16.
It took me a few minutes to realize what that actually meant.
“Called my mom and she literally said, ‘That’s interesting.’
She did not, and just refused I talk about it.
Honestly, I was just shook.
I did not see it coming and it was never even presented to be a possibility to me.
My sister ended up doing a DNA test and it showed that we were half-siblings.
I went no contact with my mother four months ago, due to this incident and several others.
sunshineykris
17.
“A woman over in Chicago decided to find out who her real parents were.
So through the magic of Ancestry she was matched to my grandfather.
She reached out to him and told him who her mother was.
So now I’ve got a new aunt!”
dazeyd
18.
“I was adopted and always knew I was adopted.
My parents told me that I came from a family that had already had all of their kids.
They lived several towns over.
I was a surprise.
Three years ago my wife decided to take some DNA tests.
I figured what the heck?
When the tests came back, I found out I had a first cousin.
They had listed a public email.
I emailed them, started comparing notes, and wham!
I was in for quite a surprise.”
“First, I was not born into a ‘traditional family.’
Instead, my bio mom was single.
Second, I was not a late addition.
I had four sisters and one brother.
I was the baby, but only by a couple of years.
Third, most all of them lived nearby.
Finally, nobody knew I was alive!My biological mom had passed.
She had kept the pregnancy secret from everybody else.
She told nobody else.When my sister told the rest of the family?
They didn’t believe her!
So when I finally looked them up, she was like, ‘See!
I told you so!
We have a baby brother!
‘It was an amazing experience.
I had no idea what I was getting into when I sent that DNA test off.”
ExistentialismFTW
19.
“My wife is adopted (but found her bio mom) and did one of the genetic tests.
Someone matched with her and asked if she knew such and such a name.
valeyard89
20.And lastly, “A full 100% older brother.
My mother got pregnant by my father before the were married.
Mom gave the baby up for adoption, and then returned home.
A couple years later, she married my dad and had three more children together, including me.”
To paraphrase fromStar Wars, there is another.
My sister took a DNA test, and a couple of years later she got a hit.
Freeagnt
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