On that same note:
A co-worker did a DNA test, like you did. Posted the results, and some relatives came up on his chart. Additionally, so did one man who had no relational connections at all. This man contacted the co-worker to try and find out what their shared heritage could possibly be. They were not even in the same state or region.
But during the conversation, they found that they had lived in the same city when they were little children. Then came to find out the co-workers father worked in the same business as the unidentified males mother. This led to some interesting conversations about childhood play areas. Which finally led to the idea that someones dad had made friends with someones mom.
It still hasn’t totally played out yet because they are being extra careful with the information. Certain people are still alive.
In the last decade plus, we have had friends, people we did business with and strangers, who found out that their mother’s believed in free love, and sometimes lots of it. Or sometimes wive’s didn’t know that there was another wife of their husband.
So far everyone has connected positively with their unknown relatives.
One woman gets along better with her new ‘sisters’ and their mother than her ‘old sisters’ and her real mother.
In one situation, I got a phone call from a good friend asking what I knew about a doctor, who worked with the same company I did.
I told that friend that the man was a good friend and I helped to get him hired. Then my caller friend told me that his wife’s unknown sister was married to my friend. Could I help open the doors.
I called my corporate friend and told him what had happened and was happening. He said that he needed to talk to his wife. We hung up and in about 5 minutes his wife called in tears saying please connect me with my sister.
I told her to hang up and stay near to the phone. I called my friend out here and asked for his wife. She was in tears when she answered the phone. I told her to call her sister and gave her the phone #.
They bonded immediately, our friend flew back east in a few days to meet her new/old sister.