Well I just watched something on tv about the dna of a mother not matching her children. She was their biological mother but the tests kept coming up that they were not her children. There is a term for it but I cannot think of it right now. Her children were taken away from her until it could be proven that they were her children. Sometimes this could happen. Also when my relatives learned from me that their father and grandfather was adopted I received about half good responses and half horrible responses. to this day I have half of my cousins saying that I am wrong and won't believe that my grandfather on my father's side was adopted. They would not speak to me for years. I have the original adoption papers that not even the court has, I have proven it, but they still say no. I have met the grandchildren of my grandfather's sister and there are similarities and such. One must take it one second and step at a time. Some will be completely upset and others accepting. I grew up in a variety of households never really knowing who my real family was, but my real family are all of those blood related and not and those that raised me and those that never knew me. My older half brother absolutely is in denial about his birth father after 40 years of searching because he doesn't want to believe. He is mad at me for finding this out and won't speak to me about it. I figure the man that he wants to be his biological father that was never around is not his father and the father that is biological that was never around is not his father but my father who raised him was his father. And all of the relatives that want to get to know him are his relatives and those that don't want to be bothered are not family. but he doesn't see it that way. that is all I have to offer I hope it helps. Carrol Mick On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Suzanne Matson < holtzclaw.research@yahoo.com> wrote: > How have various family groups dealt with the following scenario which > happened in my husband's family? > > Y-DNA studies were done to see if various lines were related. One came > back as completely unrelated. The parents of the person tested are living. > He had grown up in his family thinking of course that he was a biological > child of both parents. Needless to say, this person is devastated and the > family is in real turmoil. > > I am not saying don't do DNA studies but I am asking how you would deal > with this. > > As we work on our various Germanna lines, we may encounter the above > situation at some point. > > Suzanne Collins Matson > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Carrol Mick Mick Worms, LLC www.mickworms.com

I think what you are referring to is a chimera. That can be a person who has two sets of DNA. It is thought that may result from a set of twins that merge very early in the gestation process. If the mother's DNA is sampled , it may not match that of her offspring because the "wrong" DNA was in the sample. A second sample from a different part of the mother, however, may match the offspring. In at least one case was later determined that the mother was a chimera and had different DNA in different parts of her body. Carrol Mick wrote: Well I just watched something on tv about the dna of a mother not matching her children. She was their biological mother but the tests kept coming up that they were not her children. There is a term for it but I cannot think of it right now. Her children were taken away from her until it could be proven that they were her children. Sometimes this could happen. Also when my relatives learned from me that their father and grandfather was adopted I received about half good responses and half horrible responses. to this day I have half of my cousins saying that I am wrong and won't believe that my grandfather on my father's side was adopted. They would not speak to me for years. I have the original adoption papers that not even the court has, I have proven it, but they still say no. I have met the grandchildren of my grandfather's sister and there are similarities and such. One must take it one second and step at a time. Some will be completely upset and others accepting. I grew up in a variety of households never really knowing who my real family was, but my real family are all of those blood related and not and those that raised me and those that never knew me. My older half brother absolutely is in denial about his birth father after 40 years of searching because he doesn't want to believe. He is mad at me for finding this out and won't speak to me about it. I figure the man that he wants to be his biological father that was never around is not his father and the father that is biological that was never around is not his father but my father who raised him was his father. And all of the relatives that want to get to know him are his relatives and those that don't want to be bothered are not family. but he doesn't see it that way. that is all I have to offer I hope it helps. Carrol Mick On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Suzanne Matson < [1]holtzclaw.research@yahoo.com> wrote: How have various family groups dealt with the following scenario which happened in my husband's family? Y-DNA studies were done to see if various lines were related. One came back as completely unrelated. The parents of the person tested are living. He had grown up in his family thinking of course that he was a biological child of both parents. Needless to say, this person is devastated and the family is in real turmoil. I am not saying don't do DNA studies but I am asking how you would deal with this. As we work on our various Germanna lines, we may encounter the above situation at some point. Suzanne Collins Matson ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [2]GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. mailto:holtzclaw.research@yahoo.com 2. mailto:GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com