DNA Family Secrets: What is my ethnicity?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ค. 2021
- Podcast: Janine's story • DNA Family Secrets: Wh...
Where do you think come from?
I said Tunisia before.
Tunisia? Lee, where do you think I might be from?
No idea.
Morocco, look you've got this kind of Pocahontas style look and dark olive skin.
Spanish.
Spanish, maybe, who knows.
Janine has lived her entire life never knowing the identity or heritage of her birth father. Her white
British mum always kept her true parentage a secret.
Talk me through why you're taking a DNA test?
So, when I was born it was really obvious, I was not my dad's daughter, but everybody was trying to say I was. And the reason it was obvious was because I came out looking like Mowgli. I had this head of hair, super dark, and it just was, my dad Bill has blonde hair blue eyes.
And your mother's white?
My mum's white. So, my grandmother was really embarrassed about the fact that my mum had, A) had a child when she was 17, and B) it's me, who is not white. And what I find more bizarre than anything is, she tried to palm me off as being a white man's child. Myself and my mum moved in with Bill when I was three days old. And Bill said, ‘look at her skin, look at me, you can't say this is my daughter because it's not’.
And you've got a good relationship with Bill?
Amazing relationship, he's been in my life 43 years and just been the best dad in the world, you know.
Janine, what's the goal? What are you hoping to find out?
I think in an ideal world it would be to find out where I came from. What is within my DNA that makes me, me.
Yeah.
Even if somebody was to say, ‘Janine, this is this is what we've got about you, this is what we know about you’. Then I’d be like, yeah okay.
Today, Janine will receive her DNA test results. She hopes Turi can finally solve the mystery of her ancestry.
Hey, how are you?
I'm good, how are you?
You look lovely.
Thank you, so do you.
How do you feel?
A bit nervous, anxious, strange, strange mix of emotions really.
Well, it's unknown territory, isn’t it?
Yeah, 43 years of waiting for some information.
o next door, just have a chat with Turi and then come back in.
Hello, come sit down. So, actually yours has been a really complicated case and we've actually used some new research techniques, which we haven't done before, in the hopes of providing you with some answers.
I know that you're particularly interested in finding out about your biological father, and so what we're doing is obviously we're taking your DNA and we are matching it against populations from around the world and actually we've got a really clear result. So, we know you are getting strong matches around Pakistan, Northern India and into Afghanistan.
So, let's have a look at a map.
Okay, so you're getting a lot of matches in the Punjab province of Pakistan, which is part of that larger Punjab region of Northern India and Pakistan.
We think that your dad is Sikh, and we actually think that he's Jat Sikh.
What's that?
Okay, so, the Sikh religion is actually quite a young religion, but the Jat people, they're an ethnic group, which goes back much further, in that area. They are major landowners and farmers, and they have strong links to business, in that area. We think that your father probably arrived in Leicester, probably after World War II. So, this is the time when India and Pakistan were separated. And Leicester it's got the highest concentration of Sikhs in the East Midlands, it makes up about 5% of the population.
So, the matches that we are getting back from your DNA are not close matches. So, they are people who you would share a great, great, great grandparent or further, but the surnames that we're getting back are really giving us a hint as to what his ethnicity seems to be. And the surnames that are coming back are things like: Sidhu, Sahodar, Dat, Panu, all of these are Jat Sihk surnames.
But nothing turned up in the databases that could tell us who your father was we could only determine his ethnicity. But that's essentially as far as the DNA has got us.
Wow.
So, how's that?
It has definitely filled a void for me that has been missing, which was where am I from.
Yes, and that's really clear.
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It would be interesting to see a follow-up of this episode. Sadly, her mother could have saved everyone a lot of pain by telling the truth. Bill must be an admirable person because he has been a loving father.
A noble man, IMHO.
At least she now has her ancestral background. It's a good starting point for further research.
I saw her face and I could’ve saved them the DNA analysis and told them she’s half White and half from the Punjab region.
There were two options for this mix to have occurred.
She was either a Romani (Gypsies) and therefore her mixture was generations old. The Gypsies are a mixed people who originated from migrants into Europe from what is today Northern Indian and Pakistan. They left that region over a thousand years ago and when arriving in Europe they mixed with Europeans, such that the ancestry of modern Gypsies is almost equally half Northern Indian Sub-Continent and half European.
Either that, or she was a person of recent Punjabi/White mix.
Since she said her mother was White, that means her mixture was recent and thus not a Romani. She was half Punjabi and half White.
Every child deserves the right to know WHO their biological parents are. We need to stop the culture of secrecy and abandonment surrounding adoption. If you patented a child take responsibility and acknowledge having done so. Such a shame that we put the parents rights over the child who grows up with lies and secrecy only to bare the shame of someone else’s mistakes. I am adopted so I know too well.
The reason for secrecy is so that bio parents cannot interfere etc with raising the child, or extort money from the adoptive families etc. The courts would be full of hellish situations where bio parents were there because they "didn't like" this or that about the adoptive parents and changed thier damned minds, and were even telling lies about the adoptive parents to get the courts to reverse the adoptions. I would never adopt a child (and I am infertile) whose bio parents could walk up to the door, or to the school and tell the child I was not thier mom, or say that if I did not give them money they would tell my pre-teen lies to get them to leave me for them, or scare smaller children into being afraid of me etc. And don't say it wouldn't happen. I would never adopt a child whose parents could not wait until age 18 to find out where (if the kid is okay with it only) thier kid is. Adoption should NEVER become a co-parenting situation, especially in cases of abuse etc, kids deserve to get the hell out of that, not have to deal with life-long depression and anxiety from thier bio and adoptive parents fighting over who gets to/how to raise the kids all the time. Adoption is NOT a "YOU pay to adopt them, but I still get to tell you how to raise them" scenario, and that it what some would turn into. My great grandad (CO) was dumped, and I mean dumped, I have newspaper articles about it from the early 1900s, in an orphanage after his mother (BB) died. He was 4, his brother (WO) was 2. His father (JO) was in and out of jail for many things (news articles again) including cruelty (now called domestic abuse) to his wife, and refusal to "pay maintenance" (now called child support) to the foster family. JO was not in jail at that time. Back then, in that state, if a kid was left parentless (like a dead mom BB and deadbeat dad JO) they could go to a foster home, but only if the parents paid maintenance, if not, the kids went to an orphanage. In one article (JO arrested for refusing to pay maintenance) said that the reason he wasn't paying was because he "didn't think that the house of Mr and Mrs Graham was the right place" for his kids... Yeah, right into the orphanage they went, and right into jail (again) went JO. Until grandad CO left the orphanage at 16 and took his brother WO (14) with him. While my great grandad was not adopted, parents like JO would have had NO RIGHT to co-parent with the adoptive parents if my great grandad or his brother had been adopted. There is more to the story, like JO was also married to CO's mom BB and another woman (bigamy) in a neighboring state (jail for that too) at the same time. Then BB (listed in the census as a nurse) died of tuberculosis and JO married a third woman without divorcing the second (jail again). Then JO had 3 more kids with the third woman. There is even more than that, but neither of us has the time to read JOs soap opera life in a TH-cam post.
@@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059 Amen!
Bear, not bare. Bare means naked.
Amen we'll said.
Maybe if women weren’t shamed.
My DNA is 100% Irish, Scots, Welsh with 1 Viking raid worth of Scandinavian.
I am very pale with lots of recessive traits. My full sister is more olive skinned with hazel eyes.
My cousins, are full Irish.
Among the three sisters are brown hair and eyes, black hair and blue eyes and blonde hair with blue eyes.
All this is to say, you can’t just go by looks.
Dark is dominant. Two blue eyed or green eyed parents cannot ever have a brown eyed child.
A child cannot be darker than either parent.
Two brown eyed parents CAN have a blue eyed or green eyed child because that is lighter snd more recessive.
But darker than a parent? No
If you see that the child had another parent who fathered the child or the the child was adopted or they were switched at birth or some other reason.
Love theses episodes, needs to be longer, so up lifted👌🏽
The full. Radio s if this show ARE long. A little too long and drawn-out and repetitive. But very good of course. Just dinetimes I got the fast forward button after hearing the same thing repeated for the fourth time
As a Punjabi Hindu she's got pretty apparent Punjabi features but I still watchd and wasn't surprised lol. Also, Professor Turi King saying she was certain the father may be of Sikh heritage based on being Jatt is a stretch. Whilst many Jatts are Sikh, many are still Hindu and retain the original faith of Punjab. Surname can tell you the clan someone is from but not necessarily the religion they may practice because at the end of the day all of these surnames are Hindu surnames with Sanskrit meanings and converting to another faith won't change that. For example, there are many Gills, Brars, Cheema's (Jatts) that are Muslim, as well.
The professor said that most South Asians in the region are Sikh so Jatt Sikh is much more likely than Hindu.
Yeah the Jatt part was to sweeten a bitter pill. She didn't look happy
You are also forgetting she is not looking at just that but the city in which they tied him to in England which she stated had a high Sikh immigration, so shes not pulling it out of no where really
'Original faith of Punjab' good on ya. Just make shit up.
@@ericeric3117that's not true, actually. Jaat sikhs are not the majority population in that region. Jaats are. And Jaats can be Hindu, Sikh or Muslim.
Hats off to Bill amazing father
That's a beautiful story - the ethnicity of the biological father, and the love and devotion of her real father, Bill. R E S P E C T .
I was told to tell my child his father was dead. I refuse to carry on generational lies that only bring more suffering. We loved each other but couldn't be together. One day my husband and I told our son about his bio-father but it's now up to him to decide if he wants to take that information further. It's so heartbreaking to watch full grown adults trying to find their origin and the other show 'long lost family'.
You can’t tell by looks based solely on parental resemblance. I have a cousin who looks nothing like either parent or her two siblings, nor like any of her cousins by facial shape and coloring. My brother was sorting through family photos from our paternal grandparents, and found a woman she resembled: my dad’s & her mother’s aunt. Clearly, we get random genetic variation that makes us each unique. We’ve all seen litters of puppies and kittens show variety (even if a single father). It will never make sense to rely on this luck of the draw by itself. Look for the crazy uncles or “black sheep” of the family in previous generations, too. (Personality traits are probably just as or more important.) And then, of course, their ancestors.
I love this video...
What a wonder… this lady finally knows the truth, I’m very happy for her!!. My biggest wish is to heard the truth one day. Difficult situation when the parents refuse to give us the opportunity to know where we coming from.
Wow!
My husband knows his family history going back to 1610 in Cumberland - the English -Scottish Border, Penrith and East Cumberland. We know that 1 great ,Great grand father was born in the Furness District of Lancashire, and that 1 G.G.G.grandfather came from Scotland. We also know that the Cumbrian dialect sounds like Danish. Imagine our surprise when the results came back -59% Norwegian, 22% Swedish ,18% Scottish and only 1 % English. We got a letter from Ancestry requesting why this unusual result had occurred . answer - Most people from the North of Cumbria, and Northumberland are of Norwegian/Viking Descent and the people of Durham and North Yorkshire are Danish/viking.
. The Cumbrian dialect closely resembles the Norwegian dialect spoken to the south of Oslo , which must be where my husband's ancestors came from. East Lincolnshire also has a relatively isolated population who are of Danish/Viking descent. Families stayed where they were born for centuries ,and movement away from Cumbria only really started in the 20th century. My own Ancestry is part Belgian ,Netherlands / German descent . My G. G. Grandfather was bornin 1810 in Huls ,near Krefeld ,one KM. from the Netherlands 'border. Our eldest son looks as if he stepped ff his Viking long boat yesterday.
My 4 x g.grandfather is from North Cumbria and me and my mum and one of my siblings (so far) have the Viking Disease!!
The geordie accent from Newcastle-upon-Tyne is almost the same accent heard in Danish.
Interesting. Some of my ancestors came from Cumbria to (what is now) the US in the 1600s. I wonder if we have this same strong Norwegian tint!
My Ancestors were from Cumbria and ended up in Lancashire
@llcooljay520 there's a town in texas called Barwise, a proper Cumbrian surname
There are some children left on door steps that will never know their parents. I am glad this lady knows her ethnicity now.
Too bad her mom won't or wouldn't tell her. Raw deal.
She does look like a Sikh. We have many Sikh in Malaysia too
Being Sikh is a follower of a religion ,not an ethnic group
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I grew up in a suburb of Toronto with lost of India ex-pats. She looks north indian/ punjab/ sikh to me.
I thought Pakistani when I first saw her.
The Sikhs are great people!!!
lol generalizing much. No one group is ever wholly good or wholly bad. That's the reality.
@@panjabipandit My thoughts exactly
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Sikh and ye shall find.
Well, she looked really happy when she found out. 🥴
Not
LOL! Yeah, she's thrilled!
She probably never considered that area and I think the Afghanistan bit freaked her out.
My work colleague from Latvia and Russian heritage, with Grandma from Kazakhstan did her DNA. I went into work and said have you got the results?!!! "Oh Gail I'm so boring" 😂 96% Russian. No Kazakhstan or anything else apart from bit of Eastern european. I'm sure she'd be happy to swap some 😂
Hmmm even if her parents were white, she could have had dark grandparents. It's not impossible.
The family would have known that.
Could she have been switched at birth? Was her mother's dna looked at?
You can't tell by skin color some ethnicities. No way.
Might not of been consensual between her mother and biological father.
there's always that chance especially when the mother wont say anything.
Yeah that is possible.
She’s from Leicester and seriously couldn’t guess that her father might be from Pakistan? Gimme a break.
If he’s Jatt Sikh it’s a way higher chance her father is from Northern India.
Northern India or Pakistan? It’s a mute point.
I saw her face and I could’ve saved them the DNA analysis and told them she’s half White and half from the Punjab region.
There were two options for this mix to have occurred.
She was either a Romani (Gypsies) and therefore her mixture was generations old. The Gypsies are a mixed people who originated from migrants into Europe from what is today Northern Indian and Pakistan. They left that region over a thousand years ago and when arriving in Europe they mixed with Europeans, such that the ancestry of modern Gypsies is almost equally half Northern Indian Sub-Continent and half European.
Either that, or she was a person of recent Punjabi/White mix.
Since she said her mother was White, that means her mixture was recent and thus not a Romani. She was half Punjabi and half White.
@@dsp6373 that’s really interesting to know!
Why can't they find her dad(?) Farmer
not in a database
She looks like a French Moroccan Jewess, possibly Armenian; or perhaps a Sicilian.
She looks a sardarni 😊
Is very interesting to see this videos!. I knew this lady could be Anglo India because of her complexion and the darker skin complexion around her eyes. Pakistan use to be part of India but they change their religion to Muslims because of the influence of Muslims from the Arabs who used to crossed the Indian ocean in the past unfortunately.
I've learned a bit about this watching Ms Marvel. The show partly takes place during the partition
I saw her face and I could’ve saved them the DNA analysis and told them she’s half White and half from the Punjab region.
There were two options for this mix to have occurred.
She was either a Romani (Gypsies) and therefore her mixture was generations old. The Gypsies are a mixed people who originated from migrants into Europe from what is today Northern Indian and Pakistan. They left that region over a thousand years ago and when arriving in Europe they mixed with Europeans, such that the ancestry of modern Gypsies is almost equally half Northern Indian Sub-Continent and half European.
Either that, or she was a person of recent Punjabi/White mix.
Since she said her mother was White, that means her mixture was recent and thus not a Romani. She was half Punjabi and half White.
Shame on her mother for keeping her father's name from her. What were her reasons, I wonder. Her step-father knew from day one that she wasn't his daughter so no secret to be kept there. I feel very strongly about this for I don't know who my biological father was, I say was, for I'm getting to be an old biddy so chances are that he's dead, but darned sure my mother did for obvious reasons but chose not to tell me. She's long dead now so can't force it out of her and when she was alive and I dared ask, she closed up like a clam.
I'm just a Russian gay man from Moscow, currently going through a bunch of videos on TH-cam to escape the ever growing horror around, BUT
I need to say that I feel you in a strange way. A couple of months ago my childhood annual summer break friend contacted us to ask us who he's father actually was. His mother died, when he was in his teens, my mother was her closest friend but my mom had moved out from that little town years before he was born. My mom didn't know and didn't dared to ask her friend. It seemed to be a dead end. But after a long and a laborious process of endless calling, texting, writing through that small town (less than 10k people) my mom finally managed to find who his father was. It'm not saying it's easy, but it's sometimes possible, especially if you are mentally ready to ask uncomfortable questions to the people you barely know.
@@freshname Yes, dire times for Russians when all sympathy, rightly or wrongly, is going to Ukraine. What to say but stay strong, hopefully, one day soon, the conflict will end. As for me personally, I'd kind of come to terms with the fact that my biological father would remain a mystery, and at age 69 adopted the adage that if you can't do anything about it, accept it and let it go. All my mother's sisters are also dead but when alive one of my aunts told me she wished she could help and swore that she knew nothing. Only one sister, she confided, knew the truth but that sister was very close to my mother and would never divulge my mother's secret even under torture, it's a manner of speech!! In fact, it's after watching a few of the videos posted by Ancestry.com and listening to the testimonies of persons like myself who didn't know who their biological father or mother was and hence the reason why they decided to take a DNA test with satisfying or disappointing results. So admit I'm contemplating ordering a kit online. In France, where I live, there is a very strict policy about getting your DNA tested, in fact, it's illegal for ethical reasons they maintain and you can get fined €3,750 around. So won't be able to get it done in France, so abroad I shall have to go. I haven't yet made up my mind. Желаю Вам всего хорошего (By the way, I don't speak Russian, just googled how to translate "I wish you well" into Russian, hope the translation is ok!!
@@EVALLOYD The translation is perfect. Google is quite good at transliterating short, unambiguous phrases. It's so nice of you to go to such a length.
On the sympathy point. Sympathy is where it should be, I'm sure. They are being bombed, not us. It's criminal here not just to vocally show any sympathy towards Ukrainians, but even the slightest hint of disapproval of the war is either a felony or a crime, but I'd be safe to say it, unless somebody decides to go through my phone one day, which I doubt would ever happen, - that no-one I know approves it. Nobody. Everybody is either silently depressed, or confused or "it's not really happening" type of numb. But I'm in Moscow. The sad thing is that not enough is done to help Ukrainians even now, after all the things seen and done. My Moscow friends, who live and work Netherlands, are hosting a Ukrainian lady with a child in their apartment. And they say that the locals still don't get what's really happening and what it all really means for the whole continent.
Nevertheless, to the subject. Time, unfortunately, does work against solving those kinds of things. We are in our late thirties, and my mother is in her late seventies. That's obviously much younger than the age of your aunts, unfortunately. But one more piece of information. The vital clue on who his father was came not from a friend or a family member (that lady was a sole child, and very secretive, proud lady) but surprisingly from some sort of a frienemy and a rival. Time has healed the wounds, I guess. My mom just decided to reappear in the life of pretty much every person her friend once new. And it turned out that one lady in her early 80s, had high hopes for a marriage with an older widower. But that widower choose the other. It was a secret affair for some reason. And that's how my childhood friend was born. It turned out that that man even brought his own grandchildren to play with him on a playdate a number of times. That's how he could see his son. As it turns out, his children (now both in their late 50s) knew about the affair, but disapproved of it very much. And those half-siblings didn't come forward to care about my friend, when he lost his mom at fourteen years. They were his only living relatives by the time.
I don't know, maybe I should've not told you this story and acceptance is indeed the very best way forward. Maybe the only one. I cannot possibly know, obviously I'm not somebody who has experienced what you do. But I've seen how much relief even the saddest news can bring (his half-siblings lived 20 minutes away, knew all along and didn't care!) and I know that the most important peace of information can bring the most unlikely person.
Sorry for that long long long comment and the story. But for some reason I wanted to tell that story to you after reading your comment.
Good luck and please keep safe.
@@EVALLOYD DNA testing is illegal? Why?? If it's your choice and your will, how is it unethical?
@@limiv5272 A lot of people find out from DNA testing that their biological parents (mostly fathers) are different to those who raised them. For the same reason, it's nigh on impossible to find out what your blood type is in Ireland - doctors just refuse to share this information with patients.
It amazes me that this powerful tool that exposes truth and provides people with answers is considered unethical.
I think she is a romany.
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I've never met a sikh I didn't like immediately. They are fantastic people ❤
The little girl look excited about being Spanish 😅🤣😂🤣😂 LOL. Most Spanish people are not that dark, love. I hope she is also excited about being sheikh, the sheikh's are great group of people.
Actually we range all types of skin color. From white to almost black. Why would you say spanish people aren't this tanned.
Of course she is darker than her parents but she isn’t what we call dark. Im guess calling herself dark in the region that she believe her dad is from Maybe considered dark
I don't know what you're taking about. She certainly is dark by northern European standards. Even brunette northern Europeans aren't typically her skin tone and it's also obvious by her facial features she's half South Asian.
@@aaaah9568 Well, what I typed in the last sentence is not making sense to me either. I’m African American and if we describe another AA we would say Light skin, or fair, brown skin, dark skin if darker than dark skin you are really dark. If slang is used some would say for a light skin person mainly for females she would be call Red bone (old saying), for brown (chocolate), for darker ( dark chocolate) for very dark ( blue black- this is a negative saying so not used anymore) and if you skin is pale, and you may have freckles with lighter hair you are Light Bright and Damn Near White ( Negative old saying). In the second sentence I was trying to say. I guess in her region she would be dark.
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I was thinking Lebanese.
She did not look happy, about her ancestry.
She's not that dark.
Northern indians arent so dark.
In comparison to the average northern European she is
Dark enough.
Everything is relative, compared to her mother and adoptive father she is dark skinned
@@limiv5272 True, but in the U.S she would be considered "White."
She looks South East Asian, really obviously
All punjab people are not Sikhs
I saw her face and I could’ve saved them the DNA analysis and told them she’s half White and half from the Punjab region.
There were two options for this mix to have occurred.
She was either a Romani (Gypsies) and therefore her mixture was generations old. The Gypsies are a mixed people who originated from migrants into Europe from what is today Northern Indian and Pakistan. They left that region over a thousand years ago and when arriving in Europe they mixed with Europeans, such that the ancestry of modern Gypsies is almost equally half Northern Indian Sub-Continent and half European.
Either that, or she was a person of recent Punjabi/White mix.
Since she said her mother was White, that means her mixture was recent and thus not a Romani. She was half Punjabi and half White.
@dsp6373 (watching this short April 2024.) I found your post and assessment so interesting. We ALL have the brain computing to undertake fine analysis of other human specimens. But, only compared to who we've already seen. I'm not closely acquainted with Romani people, so my guess was Egyptian or Lebanese in her mix. Like other comments here.
Why do the do the interview/ reveal in that bare room at that dinky little table and low chairs. It looks uncomfortable and makes it hard to show the people their information.
Get a real table and chairs for god’s sake.
Why are you balancing notebooks on your knees and having to hold them out to the people to peer at from a distance?
In one episode the gentleman was very tall and he could barely cross his legs. It looked very awkward. It distracts from the importance of the scene.
@Katmandu Dawn OCD a little?
@@rridderbusch518 No, actually,
but as someone who works in the hospitality and ergonomics field I am a firm believer in providing spaces that work and are comfortable for guests.
That set up is neither in my opinion.
How do you share their family tree from across a wide coffee table while sitting on low slung chairs that force you to be leaning back?
That has nothing to do with OCD. That’s common sense.
Is there a reason you took the snarky route? Just a little trolling to while away the time?
My comments at least were meant to improve the reveal for the guests. This is a big moment for them. They should be able to enjoy it comfortably.
@@katmandudawn8417 Donate to them then.
@@rridderbusch518 why, are they suddenly a charity that needs help to buy a table and chairs?
Daft.
it's in a room where I presume that lady works at the uni of Leicester
You are still 50% of your mother.
She looks white to me....
You look white to me..
Look closer.
Gypsy from northern India.
She looks pretty white to me…
Look closer.
wow, what a family disorder if one's got to ask about "his ethnicity". Please try to be a little more faithful.
Obviously it was a pub closer hookup with a stranger or maybe a restaurant employee that her mother may have worked with. The fact that she chose to keep it hidden from her daughter was unfair because she had a right to know. In Fairplay to the man who chose to raise her knowing full well she was not his
@bbrabow1gmail I think the Sikh faith officially forgoes alcohol. Suggesting your pub theory is unlikely. I think this lady was born in the late seventies (being 43 yo here). So, perhaps her bio father was a neighbour, co-worker or employer of her mother. I imagine both would have been aware of the racial attitudes in Leicester at the time. The Sikh community would probably have been no more accepting of a biracial child. My instinct is that her mother did everything to shield her daughter, including the attempt to pass off dear blonde, blue-eyed Dad Bill as her birth father!