Yours is the first video where I am seriously contemplating clicking on the link. I was excited to hear the info :)

You have no idea how many, if any of these are true, especially anonymous Reddit posts.

I'm so excited for you! Maybe you could do an episode, "25 things about me" and share all about your learned heritage. How exciting if you learn about new relations! 🤗😊

It was very brave of you to do this on air, because you could have had a nasty surprise. I'm so relieved for you that it is as you hoped it would be. Being a Celt is cool, btw. Red hair is a common Celtic trait, not just Irish. My hair looked dark brown but (at least before the grey hit lol, this was some time ago!) it was all the other colours except any brown. Even now there's red (from ginger through to dark auburn), black and even a bunch of blonde shades, but particularly before the grey first turned up, if you looked at the single strands, none were brown. Don't _just_ cling to "being Irish", you're a mix of the Goedelic and Brythonic (Gaelic & British) Celts, so you have a mix of full and wonderful cultures in you. All closely related, but distinctly different. N E European blood is no real surprise because over the millennia, people from those regions ended up in Britain, so there's a chance that all of these ethnicities have come out of as few as one single generation! (A ready-mix of all the Celts meets up with your ready-made E European+, and there you go. But given the percentages, it's more probable that that line is a mix with a Celt at the point they all join up. Whatever, being a Celt gives you definite cool points lol! I'm Welsh, my husband is English - probably Roman & Anglo-Saxon on his mother's side (blonde hair and she had the Roman nose - thank goodness for plastic surgery lol. I didn't see what the problem was, but she was dead set on it, so who am I to argue?) - and definitely Ashkenazi Jewish from Poland and Ukraine on his father's side (he's the archetypal E European Jew: tall, skinny, balding, has "the nose" 😆. He's gorgeous to me even after 36 years together 💞). Our kids are quite the mix, and as I said, all of the mixes finally combined in one generation (hubby's great grandparents came from Europe during the 1890s pogroms, so it didn't take long for his father's heritage, Polish & Ukrainian, with a hint of German, to come into being. Just that extra generation or two). Some lineages can take millennia to "coalesce", as it were, but it only need take one. By the way, Mayo, Sligo (sl-eye-go) etc are Irish counties. Ever since the Celts colonised Ireland, there's been a lot of back & forth between our Irish cousins and us (us meaning Welsh & Scottish), so heaven only knows who, what, where, when (I won't say "how" 😉) you actually got each bit! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪

Sligo is SLY- GO Galway GAWL-WAY - your pronunciation made me think you were trying to say Galloway. County Mayo. It's an area. A county - like a state, but smaller scale and more unified with other counties, than states are with states. So you are getting the areas where your genes are usually found, within Ireland.

It was in the back of my mind when my daughter suggested taking one. Was I going to find out I have half vietnamese/Korean siblings...was there going to be aunts or uncles or cousins from when my grandfather was in WW2? I really wonder how many half siblings out there that were conceived during war time are out there.

It's not a surprise to anyone that so many 'secret' babies were born due to a war. It's quite natural and it's only our stubborn and silly religious beliefs that make such births 'secrets'. It should never have been that way. Babies are a gift no matter how they were conceived. Although I can't imagine the pain of having a child due to a criminal offence, if you know what I mean. That is also more common than we would like to admit. A horrible situation for both mother and child. But, if people were more accepting and loving towards each other, there would be no shame in those births either.

Trying to help my half-brother with this same scenario, but have hit so many bricks, we came up with 4 family names that gave the closest matches, but no one msgs back =(

I was a result of coming home from Vietnam. I'm 50 yrs old and just found out 2 yrs ago who my real father was and he died 1977 so I suppose ut was never meant to be for him and I.

​​@@Yosetime Fully agree with you. It's criminal to separate mothers from their babies like certain institutions do. I have only found one case of illegitimacy in my family in the last 300 years.Thankully she was brought up with a very loving family,which I can't find any evidence of being related to the child's Mother's family. Investigation ongoing with search do he biological father.She was born in the 1860s.

I feel ya

I too felt this sadness I was my bio father's child. I was hoping my mom had stepped out. He's not a good man. Not the worst but loves his whiskey.

Yeah I sometimes envy my adopted cousin if anything due to him being able to say he's not genetically related to any of these weirdos

you made me laugh!

Hard same. Since my parents weren’t married until I was an adult, I thought at least maybe one wasn’t my actual parent. No such luck!

Jewish ? Like which one of 14 tribes...black Ines white onda turkic semitic or?

Thank you so much ☘️🇮🇪🍀

Respect to your dads dad for doing that 👏 🙌

@@Hannahhink ABSOLUTELY.

Some say the real father is who raises u! So true in this case!

What a wonderful man!

That’s what a “real” father does

That is awesome!

That’s EXACTLY what she was doing.

This is just indicative of those who ate pointing fingers and condemning the loudest are often times guilty of what they're accusing others of, I've seen this time and time again, including my own batshit crazy horrible sociopathic sister

You know what they say....the one who notices the smell first is the one who farted!!

In my opinion, organized religion has done way more bad than it has good. I don't think it was meant to be that way. But power, greed, and money seeped it's way into religion a very long time ago and now just about all religion is a farce. Nowadays it's safer just to pray at home to whatever or whoever inspires you and follow your gut. Make that your religion. Stay away from churches of all kinds.

@@debbylou5729 She literally kept having affairs and babies by other men after she was married. Religion aside, that's alot of damage to a marital relationship and to your kids of many fathers. If she didn't want to be married and have children with her husband she could have chosen a different path. At the very least, don't go around judging others with your bible thumping if you're the one doing the deed. It's deceptive. She had other choices.

Thought my family was from the uk turns out we’re scandivian and German lol

@@michaelkeeping8040 It's funny how things work out sometimes.

To be fair, the family could have originally been from Ireland, there was a great deal of immigration to Scotland from Ireland in the last few centuries.

Thought we had Welsh heritage with Italian roots, turns out I have strong Irish heritage with 2% italian

Trace it back a few more generations and it could end up being the same family.

Yup, that was my first reason for not ever wanting to do a DNA test years ago when they first came out. Insurance companies wield too much power in the U.S.

Thank you!

Indeed I was!

What timing. But sorry about your loss.

Awesome! Thank you!

@@list25 Wait a minute, I thought this channel became a pet or something of that nature channel??? I enjoyed watching list 25 and was saddened when it was cancelled or something like that, I'm a bit confused.

I live in England, I'm also Irish, Scottish and Welsh no red in my beard though just grey now as a 60 year old woman! 😂 best wishes all x

My nephew has red in his beard

I appreciate that!

Welcome back to you too!

Thank you so much!!

Of course!

Glad you enjoyed it

You are so welcome!

Welcome back.

So you know, a lot of times the twin is absorbed by the mother's body, not the other twin. In L.F's case her own body absorbed the twin.

There have been more cases found like hers because of DNA testing. One mom lost her 4 kids until a social worker was there when the 5th was born to prove she was a chimera.

What on earth do you think they could do

Me too. Although my sister had hers tested.

Oh, please, if they want your dna, they already have it. The Gov is anyone dies not need a third-party company to get your dna. You drop your dna everywhere you go.. and what exactly are thy going to do to your dna??? Torture it??

I'm paranoid about what they could do with it, too; that's the last thing I need to happen... 😓

@@jcfreak4ever1 again... What exactly do you think someone can do?

My pleasure!!

The red hair Irish/Scottish thing is a bit of a myth. Many Scots have huge amounts of Scandinavian dna, people from the south of Ireland - like those from South Wales - have a lot of Spanish dna!

Actually the original Irish and Scottish had dark features/ hair like Spanish. Blonde and red hair from danish or Norway Vikings etc that raided and stayed.

What I’ve found out that only some parts of the DNA shows up, not exact. I also have paperwork trail from Germany, but I don’t show any in my resultsScandinavians traveled a lot. My sister shows the German.

You’re probably distantly related, especially if your families have stayed in the same area.

@@robinanderson8211 That's what I'm telling myself, lol. My DNA did not match any of my father's family who also took the test. None of their names appeared as a DNA match.

@@rridderbusch518 FYI the "real" father is the one who raised her. A birth father is not at all the same thing.

Absolutely!

Welcome aboard!

Hello!!! I am curious as to how much percentage is Scottish versus Irish but that map seems to have me in County Mayo

Aww it's almost like a modern day Brady Bunch where she has the girls and you have the same number of boys and adopted each others kids.

@@cecelastname6362 When you love someone and want them to be in your life you have to love their kids too or it's a useless relationship.(married 18yrs) Plus we both had piece of, well you know ex's, that give up their parental rights.

same

Welcome back!

That was the word I was looking for LoL but I couldn't think of it. I was just so excited

@@list25 from the west of Ireland, I live in limerick not far from Galway, those areas are beautiful you should visit and do the Atlantic way tour, it would be a nice welcome home tour

I read that as "Do the American tour" and I was like, do us Americans get put on a different tour?? Are we that obnoxious??? LoL

@@list25 honestly a lot of Americans do the tour lol, highly recommended if you do decide to visit.

Glad you enjoyed it!

A lot of DNA kits do tend to have sales every now and again

@@list25 I know, my mother in law did that, but even at a discount I will never be able to, but thanks.

Fries in mayo is the best

@@list25 It really is!

THE MAYO IN HIS DNA RESULTS IS A COUNTY. SO IS SLIGO, WHICH HE MENTIONED TOO.

So rude ! You and your husband lack some intelligence for you to share this online, how pathetic 😒

Maybe she had her reasons for not telling you who he is. I'm sorry

You bet

Thank you kindly

I care! Thanks for sharing

@@list25 np Mike lol

To add when you once divulge that you suffer from psoriasis I went oh he’s Irish. Cause Ireland holds the record for the highest cases of it in the entire world.

Wait, really???

@@list25 Really. Yes. I’m going to ask around for you for the cure cause we’ve the best specialists on psoriasis here cause it’s so prolific.

I was

Of all my cousins who did DNA tests, the one I match the most with is the one who was adopted out at birth. When I was 2 & 1/2 years old my mother brought me along to wish my unmarried aunt well before she left for the hospital to give birth. Mom thought I was too young to remember her huge belly. I waited 60 years to find him. One of your aunts or uncles had a child that you don't know about. AncestryDNA was my 3rd test, and that's where I found him. MyHeritage seems to be the most popular DNA test now. Happy hunting!

I am!

Well that was a rollercoaster

@@list25 Agreed. The aunt and cousin did help with the health questions and we are still in contact. They were not participants in the other events. It was an interesting trip to say the least.

One of my grandfathers was a rapist, too. So far DNA tests have turned up two extra uncles. One of them looked like an identical twin of my dad. Oh yeah... rapist grandpa was a *Judge!*

@@rridderbusch518 Wow! The criteria for a judgr jis a bit stricter now thank goodness. I hope that your family is taking it well.

@@aprilr.9956 Thanks! My parents died before I knew. Rapist grandpa was born in 1898 (I'm old, ha ha!) so my parents never knew. That goodness for that. He got to be the small town Judge by being a bully. He was cruel to all of his relatives. I learned the hard way to NOT tell my siblings and cousins on that side who tested and got the same results. They're in denial :-/