UPDATED Bought the Ancestry.com deal? What are you looking for?

If your dad isn't keen why don't you do it? You will get the answers, just a generation further away.

I bought it for my soon to be daughter in law. They are having a baby in a few weeks and I want to add in the baby's other side. Her mother's family is from Maine and my dad's family is from Maine. I wonder if there will be any people that show up on both trees?

My grandmother was "married" three times, and preceded in death by each husband.

First husband last name = Smith. He died young, and no children with my grandmother (for sure)

Second husband last name = Jones. He and my grandmother lived a married life (but never married because... well he had another whole family a couple hours away. Anyway, there are 3 kids thought to be of this union, of which my mom is oldest. All three kids have last name = Smith (first husband not the man believed to be their father)

Third husband last name = Miller. Comes in to the official picture (mom's memory) when the two youngest were grade schoolers and Jones was then dead. I've always known him as my grandfather. He passed when I was in high school.

Here's where it gets messy. Most people see a resemblance where there is none, if you tell them there is a relationship. So, most folks went along with it. I don't know of anyone officially questioning it until I was an adult looking at pictures of my uncles. They are the spitting image of MILLER!!!! The one uncle (middle kid), who is now the age of my grandfather in my memory could be a ghost coming back from the grave!! I mentioned it to my mom (who looks NOTHING like Miller, or my grandmother) how strange it was. You know the whole "feed em long enough they start to look like you..." She told me that there was a particular childhood memory that she knows Miller was part of. My grandmother told her that the only time they went to that setting was when she was 3, well before either younger sibling. So, there is much talk (open now that Gram passed) that Miller is truly the father of the two uncles that bear the first husbands name!

I would love to know the truth. I did get my mom an ancestry DNA kit last year (she still hasn't used it!) but that wouldn't solve the mystery of the uncles unless I could get them to do one too. But, while it is of no relevance emotionally to me who their father truly is, it is likely sensitive to them. I don't know that it's ever been brought up. But surely they have looked in the mirror!

lesserknownpea I hope you get the answers you've been hoping for!! Best wishes!

We started looking for native American due to family lore. My paternal grandfather's grandmother was 1/8th Cherokee.
Mom shows a trace amount for native American. My sister also a trace and none for me although I connect to the family DNA circle of a Cherokee ancestor.

The surprise is my dad and sister both carry a small percentage of Persian. No one else on dad's side has done the test (yet) I've always wondered why he looks so different from his family. His parents are both short, very fair with lighter brown hair (not blond but not dark brunette) 2 of his siblings are blue eyed red heads. The other is a green eyed "dishwater blond" Dad's hair was a really dark brown with dark brown eyes and a warmer toned skin. The Persian explains a lot but where did it come from?

I have not bought it but my 87 year old dad got his birthparent names from his preadoption birth certificate. His birth parents were:
Everett P. Harrison (32 on 6/15/31) born in Colorado residing in is Angeles in 6/31. His birth mom was Genevieve HarrIson age 23 in 1931 residing in Tacoma, was, born in Ohio. No one has been able to find anything on these two. If anyone is bored please see if you can find any wedding records.

Oops I just realized you meant the DNA kit. Yes I bought one for my Dad and sent it in Friday. Very curious.

Are you Irish?

A lot of Persians immigrated to Ireland before 1600.

I am blond/with blue eyes. My father looked like a Persian prince with his jet black hair and dark blue eyes. The whole Irish clan had black hair and dark blues.

I know a woman from Idaho who is of some middle eastern/ Spanish descent ( father), mother was white. . She was adopted in the sixties.

I did the 23andme one. And then DH bought me the ancestry one for Christmas. I love family history and have tried to do our genealogy several times but don’t get very far.

But my main reason is to have my dNA out there. My dad believes he has a son out there that the mom has kept hidden from him. So if he ever does his own, maybe we will be a match. My dad has tried to find this kid for years and the mom threatened legal action against him the last time he got close. She was messing around on her husband and doesn’t want anyone to find out. I don’t care if the kid is or isn’t, but would love to give that peace of mind to my dad. I feel like he has a right to know.
(The “kid” is a grown man now, probably in his 30’s)

That’s very kind of you

ah! Thanks for that info. Yes, we are strongly Irish (in the 25-30%) 

Actually it doesn't mean that.

Unless both parents were tested you don't know for a fact where the Turkish DNA comes from. You also can't assume that you got exactly half of your Father's Turkish DNA (you get half of his total DNA but it isn't in exact half quantities of each ethnic group)
The most you can reasonably guess at is that your father probably had at least 25% Turkish DNA, and possibly more.

In theory your Dad could have been 80% Turkish and you got your 25% from that or he could have been only 30% and you still got your 25% from that.
Or he could have had 20% and your mother 5% and you inherited those sections of DNA from each of them...there's a myriad of possibilities.
Without testing your mother and father separately the only thing you know for sure is that you have 25% Turkish DNA that was inherited from one parent or a combination of both, which parent it is from or how much...you can't know from just your test.