We have 2 friends, actually wives of friends, who discovered that they had other families they did not know about.
They took a chance and met the unknown relatives and their families. Things have worked out very well.
A professional business man, we know gave the major Ancestry DNA kits to a sister and a brother. He had bought a test about a year before.
Turned out that they had
3 different Fathers. Their mother was a true 1960’s love child. The Fathers didn’t know that they sired a child with this woman.
Now all of them get together on functions.
A cousin’s husband found his birth family through DNA. They visited last summer and he met his dad and siblings. They had a great time. I don’t know all the details nor how it’s worked out longer term but it was really meaningful to him.
I had a great-grandfather who had at least one child by a woman who was not my great-grandmother. I have hopes of meeting them this summer, though the relationship hasn’t yet been proven by DNA. Circumstantial evidence is pretty strong. My great-great grandfather had at least two families. He sort of appeared and then disappeared again after a few years. I’m hoping DNA is going to help us fill in a lot of blanks.
“true 1960’s love child” = true hippie whore.
I know someone who sent in his DNA and was contacted by a woman who was his first cousin. He sent an email to his 5 uncles asking who this person was. All his uncles got very upset with him. Nobody fessed up.