Another Broher from Yet Another Mother!

dusty

dusty

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Today I found one more brother from my father's sperm spree of over 15 years! Now I have a matching brother for brother and one sister for me. Two of the new brothers also have brothers that are my fathers and my sister has a brother that is a brother also. That makes with the 5 original core family kids a total of 13 kids. He only knew of one.

Then as I was checking my DNA I see another cousin pop up that I never knew about. She traces the side of the family (my mother) back to before 1800 on a cotton planation as a slave. She and I share DNA, so I messaged her and hope to hear from her soon.

Maybe she can help with the fact that my father's side of my first known black DNA was in central Georgia at the same time this new black ancestor was...maybe on the same planation or one nearby??

Help.
 

Well, my father would be 107 now and I am 78. I was the second child born to him and my mother in the core family. Most of the extra "kids" are in their seventies.
 

I know...but my mother's DNA is all Dutch and my father's is Scotch Irish, English and Welsh for the most part. My mother's crossed the northern US on the Oregon Trail in covered wagons. I think finding out what a mish mash of races I am made of is cool.
 
You may be gullible and scammed too. I'm not sure you should jump into the pool
of stuff you never had a clue about until what this week. If you have few contacts
with your known living relatives ? I would think wisely about the lawyer contacting you.

(Then as I was checking my DNA I see another cousin pop up that I never knew about.) WTF !

You know, you're known by the name your known by. Lots of Smiths out there.
 
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Why do you say that? Ancestry is the source of my info for my southern roots and I did my own research genelogically through records for my brothers and sister.
 
My Ancestry DNA popped up recently ….that I’ve got a half sister somewhere @dusty ( the half sister ) has not got a registered “ tree” so I’ve got no way of tracing her ….i was always curious why my father and mother got married when he was only 17 ,( my mother was 20) …Im the eldest and 1 was not born for just over 2 years after they got married ….. could it be my mother had a child before me ? and adopted that child out?
My father was barely 17 he birthday was in August ..and they married in December ( I’ve got their marriage details on my “full birth certificate “ which includes date / location ect where they married
 
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Kadee said:
My Ancestry DNA popped up recently ….that I’ve got a half sister somewhere @dusty ( the half sister ) has not got a registered “ tree” so I’ve got no way of tracing her ….i was always curious why my father and mother got married when he was only 17 ,( my mother was 20) …Im the eldest and 1 was not born for just over 2 years after they got married ….. could it be my mother had a child before me ? and adopted that child out?
My father was barely 17 he birthday was in August ..and they married in December ( I’ve got their marriage details on my “full birth certificate “ which includes date / location ect where they married
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Does the DNA match give any info at all?? If not there are lots of ways you can trace and find her. You are an Ancestry member, right? That's half the battle. You must research through your mother's line, beginning with where she lived when she was born... do your father's side. Contact the board of health where they were living, use newspapers for announcements, check for any living relatives that may know something and knock on doors, make lots of phone calls.


I do this everyday for people. It's harder to get lost than you think.
 
I had a job to find the info again @dusty and I only seen it a few days ago , I don’t check very often but I wanted to add a photo I took of my father just before he was killed ( shot) at 43 years old

I met him for the first time when I was 24 he was killed 2 weeks later ..so I know little of his side of the family , ( I had it done 6-7 years ago ) but I don't follow it much its mind boggling…
I know many names on my father’s side through ancestry …. but don’t know them he had 9 siblings including 2 who died young ,so I’ve prob got many relatives out there .

when my DNA results came ,it said I had German heritage ….and my thoughts were “ rubbish” my ancestors are Cornish but with further research I found my fathers mother was born in Germany. ( I met her once )

Im the same age as you born in 1946 and I don’t have allot of living relatives and don’t know anyone at all on my fathers side ( sadly )
 
papa tiger said:
You may be gullible and scammed too. I'm not sure you should jump into the pool
of stuff you never had a clue about until what this week. If you have few contacts
with your known living relatives ? I would think wisely about the lawyer contacting you.

(Then as I was checking my DNA I see another cousin pop up that I never knew about.) WTF !

You know, you're known by the name your known by. Lots of Smiths out there.
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There were no lawyers contacting me on this. I do my own research, have contacts I use that are good. No one has ever asked me for anything. I started this past time 60 yrs ago and not gullible.

Thanks for thinking of me though.
Kadee said:
I just went looking for that match again @dusty it said 1/2 sister a few days ago …now it’s got 1/2 sister OR ..cousin
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Kadee said:
I just went looking for that match again @dusty it said 1/2 sister a few days ago …now it’s got 1/2 sister OR ..cousin
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Don't worry about what degree Ancestry says you are to your new relative, just try and find her first. Then go from there. I'd try to help but I stick to USA and some Canada.
 
Dusty, do you have any interactions with these new relatives.

My granddaughter was very interested in Ancestry, so I joined. I was looking at the charts that she linked and saw totally incorrect info on my father. She had created this chart and filled it in with what she thought she knew based on a name. Unless something is a direct link by Ancestry, be cautious with those charts.
 
Jules said:
Dusty, do you have any interactions with these new relatives.

My granddaughter was very interested in Ancestry, so I joined. I was looking at the charts that she linked and saw totally incorrect info on my father. She had created this chart and filled it in with what she thought she knew based on a name. Unless something is a direct link by Ancestry, be cautious with those charts.
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If she put wrong info into your tree/chart then you can go back and change it. That will send her a leaf to her input. I've had to do that a few times. Yes be careful with any and all info gotten through other sources. Do the work and make the calls, get the info from family or from census, historical sources. Then go back over it and check it again.

No, I do not interact on a personal level but I do get invoved as to their famiy history when it comes to my tree. I am very professional about this. It is not a past time as much as it is a deep desire about the history of this country and my people.
 
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This is an interesting thread. I may belong to the kind of people who never showed any interest in ancestry. I do know my parents and grandparents (from my grandparents only 1/4 personal). That's enough. I just don't care, since it doesn't matter to me.
 
My step father whom was no relationship to me , pops up every now and the due to being involved with the family
I found some interesting newspaper cuttings someone had posted that he was in-fact a child sexual abuser and went to court for such crimes ( this happened before he was involved with my mother ) , he also abused his own daughters ( my half sisters ) 10 years younger than me
( one died 20 years ago ) so it’s not all “ nice things “:oops::oops::oops: that pop up on such sites during family research
The 1/2 sister had a child to her father ….and I’ve mentioned it before ( she was 14) she took the child home from hospital then the child vanished so she spent many hours trying To find out where the child went ….and even on her death bed ..she was still searching never found anything ( she died at 49)……some members of our family said she was lying but she had proof from the hospital where the child was born and the ….fact no records of adoption

This happened before I moved to South Australia..I was still living where I was born in NSW
 
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George1959 said:
This is an interesting thread. I may belong to the kind of people who never showed any interest in ancestry. I do know my parents and grandparents (from my grandparents only 1/4 personal). That's enough. I just don't care, since it doesn't matter to me.
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Am with you, @George1959. My DH's roots are from Denmark and he has this ancestry interest also, which I just don't share. We are all here for a fleeting time...and gone.
 
dusty said:
Today I found one more brother from my father's sperm spree of over 15 years! Now I have a matching brother for brother and one sister for me. Two of the new brothers also have brothers that are my fathers and my sister has a brother that is a brother also. That makes with the 5 original core family kids a total of 13 kids. He only knew of one.

Then as I was checking my DNA I see another cousin pop up that I never knew about. She traces the side of the family (my mother) back to before 1800 on a cotton planation as a slave. She and I share DNA, so I messaged her and hope to hear from her soon.

Maybe she can help with the fact that my father's side of my first known black DNA was in central Georgia at the same time this new black ancestor was...maybe on the same planation or one nearby??

Help.
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So fascinating @dusty!
 

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