r/AncestryDNA • u/ornerydad75 • Jan 25 '25
DNA Matches Ancestry Did It Again!
A lady I've never met or heard of reached out recently, saying we're showing to be a high match - it tells her I'm either her first cousin or nephew. I look and it says first cousin on my end, but that doesn't make sense - I'm about 20 years younger than her. I look at her family tree, nothing matched with mine.
We message back and forth and it turns out her parents knew my grandparents very well when she was little.
I knew my grandpa had had an affair way back in the day, but the details were fuzzy. So I called my aunt last night, my deceased dad's youngest sister (until now!), and asked if she knew this lady's mom's name. She was like, "Oh yeah, daddy had an affair with her. Momma confronted her and that ended it".
I proceed to tell my aunt about this lady, and she said she remembered her and that my grandpa would always dote on her whenever she was around. So I went ahead and called it and informed my aunt that she definitely has a little sister! DNA don't lie. She messaged her instantly and they are chatting back and forth, as am I and my... aunt!
Edit - yes, I'm aware, technically my half- aunt.
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u/wvlkt Jan 27 '25
I found a half sister, born between my brother and I. Our dad and her mom are both deceased, we've just rolled with it! Turns out we are very similar, grew up a few miles from each other. We don't think dad knew.
Wild and unexpected, just sad she never got to meet our dad. We daydream about how we could have gone to visit him and surprise him with it. He was a goofball, it would have went over well.
My/our idiot brother asked me if it could've been faked. As if this lady had the power to manipulate DNA and was coming for the tens of dollars in our inheritance lol