Searching For Our Adopted Friend's Biological Family 23 & Me DNA Test Professional Genealogist React
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In this Professional Genealogist Reacts I watch "Searching For Our Adopted Friend's Biological Family (23 & Me DNA Test)" by Shared Channel. In this video Lisa Hiser takes a 23andMe DNA test and her friends at Shared Channel, Lily Marston and Joslyn Davis, goes through her DNA test results.
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@linusfotograf 3 жыл бұрын
After a few seconds I felt my introverted self wanting to leave the room but then I realised these women were only on my computer.
@thegirlwholovesmusic 3 жыл бұрын
Same. The white girls were way too much for me.
@NiamhCreates 3 жыл бұрын
I've seen their video before, and thought those two women were SO INCREDIBLY ANNOYING. I kind of felt bad for the adopted girl. I agree with your comment about the one woman making her kit private. We recently had a DNA match that broke down a brick wall in our tree. We never would have known that my 2nd great-grandmother had a first husband (and children) without that DNA match.
@kabardinka1 3 жыл бұрын
Agree, joking about being left in a basket is incredibly thoughtless and crass. They're joking about a profound loss and trauma.
@kimforestleaf 3 жыл бұрын
I was adopted (from Lebanon) and I'm very interested in finding out more about my close relatives, so even if some of the videos you react to are not very constructive, your comments and advices are tremendously helpful. This type of content is so precious and I always enjoy watching it. Thanks a lot 🙏
@UriyahMommy 3 жыл бұрын
I agree, I’ve been researching my family genealogy for 2 years now and I have definitely come a long way and discover a lot about my family. On one side of my family I was able to trace my 6th great grandmother who was a slave. But it really sucks when people make their profiles private or family trees on ancestry private because most times they’re close relatives and it’s hard trying to break through. But I’ve learned to message them just like you proving a possible connection. Unfortunately some are interested and some just don’t care to know. In my mind it’s like why do a test, you could help a lot of people looking for their families. I agree CM number can give more of closer relationship.
@florecita5059 3 жыл бұрын
I am from South America and my ancestors were from the Amazon Indians (I don't know which tribe LOL😃 ) and part of Spaniards(Spain) your research is very interesting, I already subscribed,thank you 🌺
@donnaroberts281 3 жыл бұрын
I helped one of my matches find his birth mom. Turns out he is my 2nd cousin once removed. It was really cool to work the matches and figure out where he fit. One thing that was confusing to me was that he matched two of my 2nd cousins at about the same cM as he matched me - but if he fit into the family the way I thought he did, he would have been their 1st cousin (once removed). I did a little more tree digging and found out that my great aunt had been widowed and left with two infant sons. Her second husband adopted the boys and they took his surname. My known second cousins were through the second marriage. That explained the (lack of) difference in expected cMs - they were half first cousins once removed. I was able to tell him who I thought his grandfather was, and connect him to someone who would know more. This story has a happy ending, he met up with his birth mom and half siblings and they all got along great. Hopefully this was less babbly than that video. Do you know anything about the new show Nancy Grace is involved with? It sounds like it may focus on forensic and/or genealogical DNA in crime solving.
@GeneaVlogger 3 жыл бұрын
I feel like I saw a trailer for the Nancy Grace show but I honestly don't remember much about it. Maybe I should rewatch it and do a reaction?
@donnaroberts281 3 жыл бұрын
@@GeneaVlogger That would be great. She was talking about it with a beauty KZfaqr that I watch. She didn’t really explain it well though. Or maybe I didn’t listen well. But I’m pretty sure she said “family DNA”, which sounds promising. It’s called Bloodline Detectives
@dragonwings36 2 жыл бұрын
As someone who was adopted I feel so sorry for the poor adopted girl having to deal with her two "friends". I definitely understand your annoyance with those two girls. I'm also irritated.
@MuriKakari 2 жыл бұрын
I loved this video (in addition to all the reasons below), but mostly because your irritation with the hosts is hilarious and informative.
@patrickwallen5065 3 жыл бұрын
My sister did a DNA test and some women in Florida that was adopted. My one uncle got a girl pregnant before he was married and put the child up for adoption, so it worked out well for her.
@torchape 3 жыл бұрын
This video would have been better if they looked at the results with some kind of goal, maybe be a little serious. What they produced was absolutely worthless.
@moonknight4053 3 жыл бұрын
Nice channel bro, I’d like to call myself an amateur genealogist lol as I’ve found out info in my family and partners that no one else has. I really enjoy watching DNA result type of videos too
@phoboy5922 3 жыл бұрын
thank you i have found your videos useful
@rivkyb7840 3 жыл бұрын
A fourth cousin? I have about 18000 of them kina hora! I guess it part of being European Jewish.... I am weirded out to contact a third cousin. Let alone a fourth, which by the way can be related to me a few times....
@MuriKakari 2 жыл бұрын
My 3rd + removes cousins/4th cousins reached out to everyone... because they were opening a restaurant and setting up a facebook group for our large, loud family.
@catsparkle 3 жыл бұрын
Dear God, those two women were AWFUL. I want Lisa to get nicer friends.
@nthnu 3 жыл бұрын
My mothers American side I can trace back quite a ways, but my father's Colombian side has a serious brick wall at his parents. Been at least a decade researching but one of these days the wall will crack, maybe 😆
@whizadree 3 жыл бұрын
Wish i could find my Biological Fathers side ... always come up blank :/ (adopted)
@GeneaVlogger 3 жыл бұрын
If you haven't yet I would suggest looking at SearchAngels.org and submit your case. This is a free service (although you can pay for fast-paced) and they may be able to help you figure it out!
@whizadree 3 жыл бұрын
@@GeneaVlogger Submitted to info to them
@MazOfBmet 3 жыл бұрын
I want to a recommend some videos you can react to there is a lady on KZfaq called deconstructing with dawn who did not know her father was. She had her dna test done and went into her matches and found her fathers family. I watched these a while ago so cannot remember exactly which video but she has a playlist called ancestry journey. I enjoyed her videos.
@GeneaVlogger 3 жыл бұрын
Can you send a link? I'll definitely add it to the list.
@jasoncowley4718 3 жыл бұрын
30,000+ dna cousin matches here and I swear 98% of those matches have 0 family trees.
@TheEndeavoringFamily 3 жыл бұрын
More than likely, it was that the child ticket was free. In the states, lap tickets for infants usually doesn't cost anything. Also, babies ARE left at orphanages in baskets and in the baby drop box in Seoul. The big problem with this though is that they're putting the matches on the spot and that could spook a match into silence. Their video is awkward. Adoptees and NPEs have better times finding their family members without that kind of "help". Adoption maybe NBD in America but, in Korea its still very much stigmatized.
@raquelfigueroa5539 3 жыл бұрын
I didn’t like their video, but I like your video!!
@joanjensentanatsu Жыл бұрын
I am adopt from Korea, and i just have taken both 23andme and MyHeritage. I was "Fund"
@cefcat5733 3 жыл бұрын
An adoptee is often fearful about the mere possibility of meetings with real relatives but actually it is a natural right and only unnatural restrictions can interfere. I wish you courage and blessings if you are searching. My friend found her mother's name and then backed out of the search. She has put it off for maybe another year....
@cat3rgrl917 3 жыл бұрын
idk how it is now but at one time in Korea children who where fathered by foreigners where either left at orphanages or left out to die. This is why so many came to the US.
@ginagaladriel 3 жыл бұрын
So far as min 15:10 I've cringed so much, I think if I do it one more time I might freeze that way lol... (not for you, but for the two girls on the left... even the adoptee is like... what are you even talking abt). Pausing again at min 18:32.. yes, that map is to where the persons who took the DNA "are currently located" or where they "call home" so it may be very well many of those persons are descendants from adoptees, as thus far they have not compared person to person (or used the advanced dna comparison tool), it would be hard to tell... so far they just seem like a joke to me more than actually helping their friend find her family Pausing yet again...min 25:06... she might want to upload to Wegene, which is "specialized" for "Asians", I think Korea has one DNA lab, but I cannot recall on top of my head...
@skyner3299 3 жыл бұрын
My mom did a 23 and me last year, they said found her possible cousin or 2nd cousin. Nope turns out he was her brother
@JediSimpson 3 жыл бұрын
Is he a half-brother?
@AntonioDellElceUK 3 жыл бұрын
I believe that 23andMe does sell to Korea but probably not many people test there... also 23andMe is not really international, only English and most forms with American units only btw they just updated the ethnicity results... and they suck a bit...
@GeneaVlogger 3 жыл бұрын
I'm quite unhappy with some of what 23andMe is doing to remonetize old testers interested in genealogy. I think my feelings about this are quite in par with Robert Estes from DNA Explained - dna-explained.com/2020/10/26/more-losses-at-23andme-including-no-ethnicity-update-for-v2-v3-or-v4-chip-customers/
@ymhktravel 3 жыл бұрын
Generally speaking, asians are not as obssessed about their origins as caucasians. So what if you know where your ancestors came from.23andME is not suitable for asians as their data pool consists of mostly european DNAs. Wegene might be more accurate.
@sassytoonsball-ruck58 3 жыл бұрын
🙄 most interesting piece was your interjection of “what a 4th cousin” really means & your clarifying the difference between making your DNA intel private or public on 23nMe site ...so much is of this is her friends trying to “create content” .... not really any ‘genealogy relevant’ conversations or ‘genetic matches’... which suspect was what Lisa did the test for...a lot wasted time listening to meaningless dialogue (‘content’) by the boundary-less who found themselves hilarious just give Lisa HER 23nMe findings & let her read& research & decide what is relevant & share worthy ... Hope Lisa watches this & consults w-you cuz I liked your suggestions
@saraschneider6781 Жыл бұрын
Skip to 8:06 to avoid wasting your time.
@lauraleecreations3217 3 жыл бұрын
❤️❤️❤️👍
@DanielWoolfolk 3 жыл бұрын
Your frustration on some of these is palpable.
@DanielWoolfolk 3 жыл бұрын
That's a good thing.
@Chaotic_Pixie 3 жыл бұрын
I have a rare surname. If you have my surname, I will friend you on FB. Period LoL The odds are high we are somehow related in the last 6 generations if you're in the US and if you're not, I wanna figure it out LoL
@cefcat5733 3 жыл бұрын
Talk about storchs!
@bobsmith471 3 жыл бұрын
I agree with this guy in his comments about the 2 women (on the left in the results part)...OMG...could the valley girl wannabes that are trying to make the video about them PLZ be eliminated from the vid?! or at least silenced. I feel for the adoptee that has has to sit thru this....she obviously seems like she's thinking about how long this torture with them is gonna last.
@donotsupportterroristgroups 3 жыл бұрын
Lisa's friends are just attention-seekers, she needs to dump them!
@pennylayne 2 жыл бұрын
It pains me when they talk about percentages instead of CM. Everytime you review a 23andme video, I’m *hopeful, but ready to be let down lol. Good gravy, these friends are kind but clueless.
@MonicElle 2 жыл бұрын
Omg, those woman was really annoying 😳
@hawkeyescoffee6399 3 жыл бұрын
Oh goodness, their vid was the most cringe dna results vid I've ever watched. Painful. I felt secondhand embarrassment on behalf of Lisa. They even shot her down and ignored her when she said 4th cousin was not relevant. I know it was "for entertainment" but it's not entertaining if you don't understand what you're doing. And why did they print the results out like that? I agree that some matches can really open doors, for example I discovered a whole branch of my dad's great aunt's family that left England for the US, the match was a 3rd cousin & had a tree linked to their profile and it was a _revelation_ . Then with another I've also been able to look up a name on ancestry of a cousin and back trace them to find where they link to my tree (funnily enough they turned out to be 2nd cousins to the first person but from a different line). On the other hand, I have matches with people who have filled in nothing, not even a rough area they are from (not even a country) let alone surnames or town; I get that some people are adopted or have holes in their tree (we have a fairly confusing jumble surrounding my mum's father) but in that case just put that in your bio because the people you match with may be able to help you even if you can't help them. It's a lot of money to do these tests so I don't really understand people doing it and not getting involved in it, especially now 23 & me have their little tree function too (although that has caused much confusion too really so that's also a user beware situation).
@saraschneider6781 Жыл бұрын
Her "friends" are being so insensitive.
@Maigodseki 3 жыл бұрын
These friends are quite annoying...
@ymhktravel 3 жыл бұрын
I'm not really interested in that 2 annoying women yabbing yabbing away and reading out from some paper. Just cut straight to the point and show me the percentages in terms of her DNA origins. Boring way of presenting it.
@karmagal78 3 жыл бұрын
These 2 gals, so cringey! Yikes!
@chrisanderson6330 3 жыл бұрын
They are so annoying!!! Won’t be checking out their channel.
@juniperq4900 3 жыл бұрын
I kinda feel bad for the adopted girl. She clearly is disconnected from her bio fam and where she came from as a survival tactic and this online is strange
@janeth3008 3 жыл бұрын
Didn't enjoy this one. It really was that bad. The 2 (noisy) ladies made it about them, and they over talked each other. Had to f forward. 🤷🏾♀️
@saraschneider6781 Жыл бұрын
Yeah it shouldn't have been posted, the original video or the review.
@angelgoddess1981 3 жыл бұрын
Added note...as I watch, dude! Please be more respectful!
@mikhailbraggs3822 3 жыл бұрын
He's being respectful! He's just stating the facts! GEEZ! 😞
@saraschneider6781 Жыл бұрын
It's the girls that that are being rude.
@Renamatic 3 жыл бұрын
These 2 white women are so annoying. I feel sorry for the adoptee girl. haha
@saraschneider6781 Жыл бұрын
This was such a waste of everyone's time. I had to 👎 this one. Sorry
@eleonoreopdenberg9008 3 жыл бұрын
Jeeeeez, this woman is soooooo ANNOYING. She is not saying anything and rambling like hell
@angelgoddess1981 3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps you should check out other videos on their channel by people that you are watching the DNA tests of. These ladies are amazing. Joslyn is the brunette. Lisa, the adoptee, and Lily the blonde. The were originally part of clevver media, then it's parent company went bankrupt so Jos and Lily along with the former manager of clevver all started this company. They are and Cover a little of everything. It's an entertainment channel. To be completely honest this is not the first time you have come of as a tad bit arrogant and better than. I completely understand that you're a professional genealogist. But remember these people are normal everyday people doing the tests and reading their results. Not everyone one is educated on areas of the world and places where they may be from. I personally have done my own DNA test, and have been building my tree on ancestry.ca for a few years now. I consider myself fairly knowledgeable but obviously not a genealogist. All in asking is for some more respect for the people that may be not doing it to "your standards".