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[151949]

My first cousin & i both did the ancestry one - we did not come back even near a match, despite that our fathers were identical twins. So I'm highly doubting these tests.

[happycat]

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@151949 wrote:

My first cousin & i both did the ancestry one - we did not come back even near a match, despite that our fathers were identical twins. So I'm highly doubting these tests.

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That is very odd.

[shoesnbags]

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@151949 wrote:

My first cousin & i both did the ancestry one - we did not come back even near a match, despite that our fathers were identical twins. So I'm highly doubting these tests.

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Wow, that's strange. My son just did the test with Ancestry, and three of my first cousins popped up as close matches. These are children of three different aunts of mine. I was impressed, and was motivated to order my own test from Ancestry. 

[ginirn]

sometimes these tests reveal family secrets that are shocking.  My daughter found out she had a half sister she never knew about.  Her biological father had a child put up for adoption when he was about 14.  In your cousins case only her/his mother knows the truth.

[Roni18]

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@happycat wrote:

I don't want to hijack @Laura14's thread, but I'd like to ask something.

My grandfather didn't know how his dad was. His mother would never say.

If I were to do one of these tests, how much could I possibly find out?

TIA

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@happycat  I have done the Ancestry test.  They have DNA matches that you can look at.  One lady contacted me saying she had done the test and she was pretty high up on my match list.  Her mother had been adopted as a child and she didn't know the parents.  From looking at our shared matches I was able to tell her what family we had in common and we think we narrowed down who her grandmother may have been.  This related back to one of my great-grandmother's siblings kids.  

You would need to know as much about the rest of your family tree as you could so you could rule out those matches. 

[Roni18]

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@shoesnbags wrote:

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@151949 wrote:

My first cousin & i both did the ancestry one - we did not come back even near a match, despite that our fathers were identical twins. So I'm highly doubting these tests.

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Wow, that's strange. My son just did the test with Ancestry, and three of my first cousins popped up as close matches. These are children of three different aunts of mine. I was impressed, and was motivated to order my own test from Ancestry. 

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@151949 

I have found the Ancestry test to be very accurate.  When I did it, my uncle was the first one to pop up on my matches and I didn't even know he had taken the test.  Also, coming up immediately was a large number of relatives that I had talked to over the years in doing genealogy on Ancestry.com (people I already knew to be my relatives.) I have since had other close relatives to do the test and they come up immediately.   

[Financialgrl]

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@ginirn wrote:

sometimes these tests reveal family secrets that are shocking.  My daughter found out she had a half sister she never knew about.  Her biological father had a child put up for adoption when he was about 14.  In your cousins case only her/his mother knows the truth.

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@ginirnand @151949  I was just going to post the same.  ALready posted that myself, and two of my cousin's children and I were a match and we all know each other so that was no surprise.

However, there is a woman showing VERY HIGH probability of being related to all of us as our cousin.  We know it has to be based on our maternal grandmother bc that's who we all have in common.  We believe our grandmother had a child either given up for adoption or back 100+ years ago may have gotten pregnant and "disappeared for a year" and her child was raised by someone outside the adoption agencies.  All very possible.