I just found my father in laws family. He was adopted in 1945. I tried to trace them on Ancestry a few years ago and found nothing. A few weeks ago I went back on and found a couple of family trees that matched. He is now meeting his 12 brothers and sisters soon.
I am so happy for you. Wonderful that you found relatives. I recently found my dad's mom but she had passed away a while ago. While there is life there is hope...
this happened to me too. i was in shock. i wanted to find my dad since i was 10. someone gave me an ansetory DNA kit for xmas prezzy. and they found 99% percent and child match. he didn't even know i excised. but we made a connection. me and my dad meet for the first time tomorrow. x
is was great but very odd. but i guess we are two strangers meeting for first time. i'm going up to meet my sister and his new wife next wkend :) but i'm hoping we can build a good relationship xx
I was thinking the same thing. He is a great storyteller. I've watched other videos like this and had to cut them off because they were horrible but he's not.
@@learn_moore As with anyone attempting a southern accent who doesn't actually have one, his attempt sounds fake and demeaning. His relatives who are Southerners will be polite, but they will hear and understand it in the same way. He will do better using his normal accent. I have lived all of my seventy four years in different parts of the South and have never heard anyone use "yee haw" except for actors on television or in movies. I'm not saying you are attempting to be demeaning. My assumption from reading your comment in context is that you are simply writing in an ingratiating manner.
I found my son who I adopted 38 years ago just about 3 weeks ago. It has been incredible and I am singing from the rooftops and praising Ancestry for helping me find him. I am finally complete.
You are so fortunate that your mom was helpful. This past weekend, when I called my Mom and told her that my supposed half brother and I tested our dna and found out we were not related and confronted her with the fact that the man I thought was my dad for over 60 years, could not possibly be my dad, she flipped out on me and started yelling at me, saying "How dare you, I think I know who I F@#$!@". I guess that I dared to upset her apple cart by informing her that I have a half sister out there, whose name I never heard of, but who was from the same city and country I was born in. I never thought that I would have this drama so late in my life.The great part is that the man who I thought was my father's children came to meet me and they are insisting the dna test is wrong and they want to be my siblings anyways. It made me re think what family really means.
@@t7954 It is always interesting to know, no? If the mother didn't tell the father anything there seems to always be a high likelihood contact will be a surprise but positive. If the mother left an abusive situation, not so much. There obviously occasional situations where people have calmed down/quit boozing it up and became better people over the years and unknown parents being sh-tbags.
@@Suzyfromtheblock I didn't have biological father name either. DNA connected me to his sister. He never knew of me. Just spoken with him this past week!
I have loved ‘meeting’ you on PBS’ Poldark! I think you are beautiful as a person and in countenance. I am so glad that you learned the true identity of your father! You deserve to have that information. I learned many interesting things from having my dna tested by Ancestry.com.
I found my bio dad and he didn’t know I existed. Life is short ! Go be with him and ask him to tell you stories of his life growing up. Learn about his parents and relatives. Take interest in him and care for him. You would not be who you are without his 1/2 🙏🏻✨ I was meant to be holding my biodads hand when he was 59 and I was 41 taking him off life support from a botched surgery. Please go visit him and give him unconditional love ... you are put in contact for a reason. He also may feel like he was robbed of having you in his life. Ect. I’d take your kids cause he is your tribe and your link to an ancient line of people. I’m so excited for you all.
As a adult who also met her unknowing father I second your sentament exactly. It can bring up many emotions for them, as we too know well. I am grateful for his opportunity as I have been for my own opportunity to meet my father and build a forward relationship with him and my lineage in our time left. How fortunate you were to have the time you had 💕. I send you my condolences and well wishes 🤲.
I was adopted at 4 days old. Through Ancestry and 23 and Me I have found my biological families. My biological mom died in 2016, but I have met my wonderful half brother and his family. My biological dad is in a nursing home, no idea if he ever knew about me. His sister and I have become very very close. Sometimes I think it is easier for aunts and uncles than a parent. Good luck with your journey, mine has been a total blessing.
@@Tangerine-rj5tr An aunt or an uncle is easier because slotting a new niece or nephew into your life is much easier. A new kid changes everything, and that's hard even if you have 9 months to prepare. If the new kid is 40, you have no time to prepare, and you've got a couple of current kids running around expecting half your estate...
This is true, I've been trying to decide if I should reach out to the family of the man who is my bio dad. He doesn't know about me so I'm super reluctant, but maybe through an Aunt or Uncle might be the best way. I also worry about current family status, some people are so funny about finding out their parent was human. I have friends who found out they had a surprise bonus brother who was super excited to get to know them and they closed ranks and shut him out for no reason other than they viewed him as a troublemaker and annoying. I tried to give them my perspective but it didn't help. So the kid was given away through no fault of his own and then shunned as an adult as if it was still his fault. So you can imagine since I witnessed that happening I'm even more terrified to do anything.
Rye Toast Well, give it a shot anyways. I would contract everyone who’s related to him, that way if they only reason he wouldn’t accept you was because he didn’t want anyone to know, well you would have helped him break the news :) the chance is someone will definitely reach out to you and hopefully your bio-dad
@@Rye_Toast Sometimes it's better not to grow up with your biologicals...sounds like your friend's bios were messed up. Sometimes your biologicals go through with your birth and give you up because they truly care and don't believe they can do a good job...have you contacted your bios to find out which yet?
People please make sure you are 100% ready for your results. My cousin took one and ultimately found out that the man that raised his mom (my aunt/dads sister) and my dad wasn’t their biological father. 60+ year family secret revealed. Now we’ve found 8 other siblings and counting...
I was braced for completely crazy sh*t when I did 23andme. Nope, exactly the origins in exactly the percentages my family gave me. And exactly 0 surprise family members. Weak! Got two 3rd cousins who didn't know their dads but were related to me on my father's side. So, maybe we had the same great grandparents. Lol woooo
I found out at the age of 40 that the person I had called dad my whole life was not my biological father via an extensive background check for a job. Oops. Parents had to spill the beans. I had to reprocess all of my childhood memories
It's amazing the inner detective that comes out in these situations! I searched for my bio father for 20+ years. Every lead came up empty. I started saying he was a ghost. Then Ancestry DNA came along and WHAM, I had a match (his sister). Long story short, he passed away when I was 8 months old so I couldn't talk to or meet him. Which explains why I couldn't find him. However, I found out I had two brothers. One of the brothers is supposedly the spitting image of him and his character. We've met and become part of each other's lives. I'm so thankful for him and his family. I hope to meet the other brother someday. Good luck with the rest of your journey! For those who might be searching, I can say I've known quite a few people to get the answers they needed via Ancestry DNA.
Listen, I found my 70yr old formerly childless Uncle a 37yr old daughter he never knew existed through my taking the Ancestry DNA test. Her name popped up as a first cousin, and as far as I knew, I personally knew all of my first cousins and she wasn’t one of them LOL Her name however was familiar to me as she grew up in the same NYC neighborhood that three generations of my family had been born in. I grew up there and so did my uncle and even his parents, my grandparents. She’d also been born there, adopted there, and grew up there as well. They probably passed each other on the street thousands of times without knowing they had any connection to each other. She’s quite a few years younger than I am so we just never ran in the same crowd, I knew of her from neighborhood functions and gathering but didn’t really know her personally, just a familiar face & name... But the thing is, her biological mother and my uncle only had a one night fling, so she’d never told him she’d gotten pregnant and they never crossed paths again. Remember though, it was at a time (late 70’s as well) there was a whole lot of that type of free love thing going on and both her bio-mom & my uncle had an alcohol problem during that period as well. So he still doesn’t remember having that one night fling, he’s got no recollection of this woman at all, so maybe she didn’t truly know who the father of this child was either, that is a possibility. However, she did lie and give my cousin a fake name and had her searching for a ghost. Which I found to not really be fair to her, but also not really my place to judge, we can never really know why people do what they do, maybe it was vanity and she was just embarrassed she couldn’t remember who the father of this child she placed for adoption could have been? Who knows... With all that said, regardless everyone’s lack of memory of the night in question, she sure is his daughter, DNA doesn’t lie LOL Ancestry is bringing together families that may not have had any other way to get this finality. It’s really an amazing thing!! My uncle got sober almost 30yrs ago and this revelation has given him a new lease on life. He and his wife of 20yrs had just settled into retirement and thought everything would be calm for the remainder of their lives, they never imagined this happening 😂 They have welcomed this girl as if she’d always been theirs. It’s been a rollercoaster of emotions but I don’t think it could have gone any better than it has 10 months in so far. Our entire family has welcomed her with open arms. So take it slow with your dad, it is all a shock to the system right now, for both of you. When I first told him of the news he kinda ignored it and hung up. Called me back within minutes and apologized for that reaction. Nothing to apologize for, it’s the biggest shock to anyone’s life!! He had to absorb it, tell his wife about it and then call me back to really discuss what I’d found and how I’d found it. Worked out beautifully though.
I have a cousin on my mother's side and one on my father's side that we knew nothing about. The one on my mother's side has not contacted me and she has no tree for her father. I could help her but I guess she does not want to know. The one of my father's side did contact me. She has a full tree and nothing matches me. She matches as a second cousin/1st cousin once removed. I think she is one of my cousin's daughter but she does not believe that. so I said well, I can't really help on how we are related.
That's an awesome story just like his was !!! I have been dyyyiiinnnggg to get an Ancestry DNA kit to just find out my DNA history but all of this family members that you never knew about is just as amazing && I'm sure I have so many seeing as how my father's dad was adopted so all of his biological family before his adopted parents && also my father has 9 siblings with lots of kids just never grew up with any of them unfortunately everyone is in different states or countries && all of my grandparents are deceased as well as my father 💖💖💖😭😭😭💕💕💕
What a delightful man you are. I really enjoyed the story. If you were my long lost son, I'd feel priviledge and honor to call you my son. Much luck; much love to you.
I'm only at 18:55, but I already think you're an awesome person and I love your sense of humor... And I DEFINITELY wanna see the slo-mo shot of you running through the field with your arms out and a huge smile on your face!!! I don't care to whom or what you're running... An ice cream cone, a balloon, your bio dad... You know, whatever! I think you could totally make it work!!! 😉😁😊💜
Great story, will check back for next installment. Wanted to tell you, thE image of the trees on the wall behind you is upside down. I have the same image in my bedroom and had my photogtapher son hang it for me. When I mentioned to him that he hung it upside down, he pointed out that most leaves point to the ground and the backside has the hanging hardware, allowing the image to be hung with the red leaves on the top of the image. Just thought I'd mention it. DEB
I hope my ex-wife is as lucky as you are. She got pregnant when she was a teenager. Her parents encouraged her to have the baby, they're Catholic, and put it up for adoption. She never saw her baby. It was immediately taken from her at birth. All she was told was that it was a beautiful boy. She was 14 then and is now 57. All those years she has wanted to find her son and say she was sorry. I hope and pray one day her dream will come true.
How fortunate that he didn’t reject you outright. Mine did when I was a baby. As an adult, I didn’t feel the need to meet him or to upset a family that he didn’t want me to know.
It sounds like all your information is second hand. Unless you've heard it from the man himself, you only have one side of the story. I've learned even when some things seem unforgivable, an explanation changes everything. You should get his version of events too. Who knows - maybe he made a mistake (as we all do) and thinks about you everyday. :-) Be well.
@@TimeQCelledor TOO MAHY TIMES, IVE HEARD PEOPLE SAY THE SAME THING. MY DAD DIED IN VIETNAM WHEN I WAS A CHILD. GOOD MEMORIES. DONT WAIT UNTIL HE IS GONE. WORST MISTAKE.
I recently found a first cousin I never knew about. We have become really good friends. We talk on the phone & text each other often. We are hoping to meet in person in early spring. Covid has slowed our plans, but we are really looking forward our first in person meeting!
My only sibling a brother, died in 2013. Never having married or had children. My oldest two kids had placed DNA on Ancestry several years ago. About three months ago my daughter received an ancestry email from a young woman that said much to her shock she had just found out her father wasn’t her father. They had all placed their dna in ancestry on a whim and low and behold she matched not with him but matched to my kids as first cousins and two of my cousins as second cousins. Even her mother didn’t know. It was like setting off an explosion in her family. Her mother had only dates my brother for a few weeks. Then went straight into a relationship with the man she would marry and assumed was the father of her daughter. By all accounts he has been an amazing father. She is an amazing and educated young woman. Our family feels like we won the lottery. Her mother feels very guilty. I keep asking how her mom is and telling her to please tell both parents how grateful we are. Hoping to offset their pain. In the meantime we just all keep reassuring her how lucky we feel as a family to have her.
Dude, that story was awesome. Had me hooked right from the beginning. I hope you get to meet all your family some day, including your bio dad. You never know how any of this will change the course of your life or theirs. Embrace the unknown.
As the genealogist of my family, I have to say that you inspired me. This is one of the reasons that many of us put long hours into research. Eight years ago, I was able to connect one of my first cousins to her three sisters. They had never known that their father had a child with another woman prior to their own Mom. It was a great blessing for all. We had a family reunion last year, and the eldest daughter sponsored it. Great time!!!
My husband is adopted and he took a test and found a brother we have left messages on the site and facebook but nothing. I am very glad you have found your Dad great story.
Don’t count that as a shunning. I took years to answer my messages there because life happens and I didn’t log on or check those messages. Look him up on Facebook or relatives with the same last name and location and you can message them there because they check that more often! If people aren’t actively searching for genealogy they don’t check there
Some people are only looking for a quirky little fun fact when they do these tests & are not really prepared for a punch in the gut like finding out your parents or granparents have lied to you your entire life.
Any update? At some point you know you just have to call on the phone or show up at the door and say, "hey bro, I don't know any of my biologicals, are you interested in knowing me?"
Wow! That’s awesome you connected with your biological dad! Great story of how you found him. I think it would be fantastic for you and your family go to meet him one day . I don’t know you, but I see a positive man with a great sense of humor..and your dad will be amazed!
My biological dad never acknowledged I was his daughter but I found some of his siblings through DNA testing. Now I have a friendship with one of his brothers. Crazy how this DNA stuff works. He has passed away now, but there is no denying it. He was the sperm donor. Thanks for sharing your story.
I'm actually about a week away from getting my Ancestry results and hoping to find my father also. Your video came up in my recommendations. Really enjoyed hearing your story and reading the comments... it's given me encouragement and some great advice. Thanks so much for sharing. :-)
@@shonb989 Hi! Not exactly. I did find out I'm half Scottish! Bit surprising... Was always told I'm all black with two black parents but I do look mixed. lol I also found 1st-2nd cousins and possibly a half-brother on father's side. I reached out but never heard back from anyone, but atleast I do have a better idea. Thanks for asking. :)
I found my biological fathers family on ancestry last year. My biological fathers sister came up as my #1 relative. I've always known who they were. Unfortunately my happy ending stop there. Even though I have a wonderful relationship with my Aunt. My biological father wants nothing to do with me. I've never meant him or spoken to him. People ask, Does it hurt your feelings about your father? Absolutely! But I've learned to move pass that. It's a hard pill to swallow ( at first) knowing a parent just out right rejects you, but you can't let it consume you. It's taken sometime to move on but I got one of the worlds greatest Aunts ever out of all of this. There is nothing I would change, because even in my heartbreak. I got the most lovingest, compassionate, caring Aunt I could wish for. I love her to pieces for accepting me when my father wouldn't. I love my Aunt, she was what I was missing my whole life.
Lizzie BordenSin I’m sure the main reason he doesn’t want to meet you is either he’s afraid of any financial back support if you were in any government aid (which I don’t know if it would be)... I’d i was you, I’d “accidentally bump into him” or have your aunt invite you to a family gathering and casually talk to him before revealing to him who you are :)
Thanks for sharing. Your story helped me because I am currently looking for my birth father. I have found some family, including a brother that my birth mom gave up before she gave me up for adoption. I am going to meet my brother this next week.
That was a really interesting outcome!!! I am not looking for family, but a woman from Argentina (I am Chilean) wrote to me saying that we are 3rd cousins. She was illegaly adopted in 1974 (dictatorships ruled in Chile and Argentina in those years) and, with DNA testing, she found six 2nd and 3rd cousins in Chile, but none in Argentina, so I have been helping her find organisations dedicated to find the children of persons tortured, killed or "made dissappear" by the Chilean dictatorship. We have not had any results yet, but I am sure she will find her biological family here.
@@olwenloud9704 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic she could not undergo a blood test scheduled for last April. She is in contact with the Chilean organisation dedicated to find the children of the dictatorship's victims.
@@LauriPorteña crazy gov. pandemic responses...yall keep your Vit D levels up and get regular sleep and report back when this riveting tale has more details
I hope you do reach out to him again, and more often. While you seem to have a casual interest, it could be that discovering you means the world to him, At his age, there's no telling how much time he has left on the face of this earth, so I think the sooner the better. Besides, he is your children's grandpa now. I've lost too many family as they've aged and passed. Even just a call to say Hi, thinking about you, hope all is well could mean a lot.
Why is he (the dad) not calling him back? At times, we might wanna feel wanted and not a disturbance to other's "perfectly normal life until we happened". I think he has taken a 100 steps, it is time the dad take a baby step to assure him.
You have an awesome attitude! Great storyteller and good detective work! I'm happy you found your dad, kudos to your hard work and diligence! I hope your father has the gumption, and courage to come through, and has an opportunity to meet his grandchildren.. You are a beautiful person! Everyone deserves to know who their parents are!
What an amazing story! I am going through something similar. For the last week I have been helping my dad try to find his biological family. He was adopted in 1948 so it’s not that easy considering we know zero about any of his family. But, just today, I found his first cousin, not removed, meaning that they share a grandparent. It’s so exciting and invigorating to find information like this. My dad has gone 74 years not knowing who he is and it’s been 50 years for me not knowing anything about my dad side of the family. It’s incredible and quite a roller coaster of a journey. I commend you for your efforts in finding him. Thanks for sharing your story!
We are in the process of discovering if a young 36-year-old man is my husband's son. He was never told she was pregnant or that she had a child. We are loving getting to know each other, lots of cousins and grandkids. He came to our family reunion with his wife and kids and we had a blast! So thrilling to find these unknown connections. Still waiting on my husband's DNA and we check it every other hour for weeks now. So exciting to find new family members! Michigan is lovely in the summer!
I had an Ancestry contact that I messaged over a year ago before they responded. But really you kind of have to be prepared to take the good and the bad.
My mom was abandoned in a NYC church in 1929 approximately 2yrs old. Only her name pinned to her coat. . She was adopted at age 4 by a wonder, well off family. But she could never find her family. I recently did 23/me test. Waiting on results. I had a dream that someone called me and it was my mother's relative. That was just a dream, but I have hope. Wish me luck 🍀🍀🍀
This story came at a time I needed it! I found my father at 41. He didn't now I existed it didn't go anywhere how yours went. It nice to know that someone went through similar and had a happier ending.
I found my dad back in 2000 when I was 42. He knew my older sister but didn't know about me. I had 7 beautiful years with him before he died. I still miss him!
I just turned 50 & found my biological father 2yrs ago,, he didn't know I existed either.. with time we have gotten to know each other a bit better...ancestry . Com is great-- when you start getting connections-- took me 7 years to find him & it's because- His uncle did the test.. lol.. He was SHOCKED & SURPRISED -- to find out about me,,especially since I have 9 children.. hope all goes well with your new family....
I'm adopted, as an infant, and Ancestry DNA helped me find my biological father! I didn't renew my heritage.com site so for all I know my birth mother is also waiting. I just met my bio dad, so my birth mother is a little too much for me right now. I can't advise you about hat to do, but I'm so happy that this DNA stuff is solving many hurt adoptees out there now, it's science at it's most wonderful!
I'm happy for you and would encourage you to keep in touch with your dad. Does he have a Christian faith? Be a friend ... it's a one-time relationship. God bless you!!
I love your story. You tell it with humor. When I found my dad, my half sister wasn't too friendly. She handles his affairs and I never was allow to talk to him. She told me she wasn't sure she wanted another sister. I became emotional and began to cry. I hung up the phone. I searched my whole life for him and it wasn't good. Maybe if I had talked to her in a humorous way it would have been different. Who knows. But you know how girls are. We cry all the time.
To both Tangerines, I'm so sorry to hear that and hope they come around and you get to know them before your spirits leave this Earth. Time is so precious and wasteful at the same time so hope yall can get positive memories and closure.
If it’s t too late, find out where they live “Google” or contract a different relative that can bring you to your dad’s home. She doesn’t have the right to keep you from him!
I found my biological father after 27 years of looking. I am truly thankful that I took the chance to find him. I have a wonderful relationship with him! I was so scared of finding my dad for so many years... I remember thinking that “if I find him there’s a good chance that I won’t like what I find“. I believe most of us would feel the same way. The fact is I was raised by my stepfather and didn’t find out that my stepfather was not my biological father until I was about 10. I’m 39 now. I want to say thank you so much for this wonderful story. You have a wonderful voice and you have the gift of storytelling. Being a godly man doesn’t hurt! Your fellow Tennessee brother Clifford Williams
Thanks for sharing your story. I have a similar one in looking for my bio father. Although prior to finding my bio father, I had to actually go through two other men who were candidates. Did DNA testing with both of them (they were with my mom) and came back as not my bio father. I did a lot of the same type of digging as you did and was persistent. I love hw you working your mom and then talking with bio dad that you could see the pieces falling into place. I am like you in that I was not looking for a "dad" so to speak. My solace is in finding him and finally getting the truth about my coming into existence. I was not sure what to expect going forward in terms of any type of relationship. But he and his family including 6 new siblings have all been very welcoming and accepting of me and so have many extended family so I am just going to roll with it and enjoy it. The latest thing to have happen is I found another child that my bio father did not know he had. So I got to call him with the news that he has another daughter. He has taken it all pretty well.
This video popped up in my feed and I must say that you are a very kind man. How you handled everything and everyone with such care. Do you have an update? After all it's been 4+ years! God Bless you on your journey!
JUST REMEMBER, anything under 5% is subject. Take another test as things are updated all the time. It said I also had 10% Iberian Peninsula and then the same test updated that to zero percent 3 years later.
Love your story! So glad you have found your biological Dad! MAKE TIME to spend to get to know him. It will enrich your life in ways you cant imagine if you just let it.
Great story teller the best I have seen on TH-cam . Nice voice and personality. Keep doing what you are doing . You do it well compare to the other boboso out there
Amazing story! For a moment, when you were listing all the ways/attempts you’d tried to contact your biological dad, I though you were going to say he got spooked and never replied... but I’m glad that you did speak to him, and his family. I hope you’ve heard from him again since.
My half sisters and I found each other through cousins on 23 and me. It is an amazing tool!!!!!!! We have all recently met our biological mother and have a wonderful budding relationship. Thanks for sharing!
I enjoyed this so much! So glad you found your dad. I agree with Kaluca also, you have a great voice and a good storyteller! I feel like I know you. Wishing you the best!!!
It’s good to know there was no resistance or ill will on either side. In the course of building my family tree I took a ydna test, later I took a dna test with Ancestry and discovered my biological father isn’t the man who raised me. My biological “father” was a man who raped my mother. As it turns out my dad passed away last year within weeks of me finding this out never knowing the truth and I’m thankful for that. Dad was retired from the Army and a retired Assembly of God Pastor in Arkansas. This new knowledge has not changed who I am in the least. I know who I am in Christ and in my family - who could ask for more! 🙂✌️
Just watched from Grand Rapids, MI! What an awesome story. Thank you for sharing. If you ever need any local help I'd be happy to assist. Hope things are well and God bless!
Well, here I am hoping to see an eventual outcome, hopefully a meet up with all the family & a big bear hug with pops but then I looked at the preamble and it was 6 years ago! Sorry I'm a little late but did you ever meet up with daddio? I'm hanging in here. ☺️.
Being from Michigan (near Grand Rapids and Wyoming) made your story a little bit more connected for me. Super glad you were able to actually connect with your family and Dad. Hope it continues for you.
Love your story! Honestly, make the effort to get out to Michigan to meet your Dad. Make that memory before it becomes a regret. Saying a prayer for you and your father.
I found your story fun. I use facebook, facebook friends, and google to do research on my family tree. I found, through DNA, that I had a different father than I thought.. so the whole thing has been fascinating.
What a fabulous chilled-out guy. A lot of men aren't as adept as yourself on the phone or internet, but better in person when sharing a task. Best wishes to you.
This happened to me this week. I found what I thought was a aunt, turns out it was my half sister...She is still taking this all in, so I only have talked to her husband. They put me in touch with my biological father...I'm going to call him in the morning. They also gave me info for my biological Mom.
@@gabrielmzomkunda9487 we have talked twice for more than an hour each time. It's funny we have never met, but have so much in common. I am looking forward to a long lasting friendship.
That's great you found him. At least he knows he has a son that he didn't know he had. My husband who will be 70 in a couple weeks, never knew who his father was but ancestry,com helped him find his bio sisters, brothers, and finally found out who his father was after all these years. He is thrilled to have found his bio family. Years of heartache finally healed. Don't give up trying to get to know him. It's important. You probably look like him.
I’m adopted and my aunt’s DNA results appeared on my Ancestry.com results as a first tier relative and I recognized her name. I wrote her a little note explaining I didn’t want to intrude, but wanted to say hello. She proceeded to block any further messages. At least I know my heritage background now, and that’s enough.
Although it looks rejecting she may have blocked you out of a need to protect herself. You never know what else is going on in someone’s life or their emotional stability.
I'm 21, I lost my mom last November & today I found out that the man that I was told was my father for 21 years isn't. Ancestry is my next step on my journey to find my father. Your video has just given me the hope that I need. Maybe just maybe I'll get all of my questions answered. Thank you.
I was adopted so I had no name of my biological father or mother I’m 49 found out 3 years ago I did ancestry and found out a have a close family member he was also adopted so we’re doing a dna test we might be half siblings or 1 cousin 🙏 he doesn’t know anything about he’s biological family either pray please so we can be siblings
I found my biological half brothers twins using ancestry DNA. We have the same mother. I was born in May 1952, they were born May 1956. I lived with their biological father and my birth mother from the age 12 to 20. They never told me about my brothers they adopted out from hospital. My mother and my stepfather .. their biological parents never told me about my brothers. I have now found them. And thinking I was an only child. Now I have a wonderful family..I never knew. I've never been so happy in my life to find these wonderful people. Tomorrow is my 68th birthday. And I go to celebrate it with my dear brothers and their wives, and children, grandchildren..
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Curious to hear the 'rest of the story'.
I just found my father in laws family. He was adopted in 1945. I tried to trace them on Ancestry a few years ago and found nothing. A few weeks ago I went back on and found a couple of family trees that matched. He is now meeting his 12 brothers and sisters soon.
I am so happy for you. Wonderful that you found relatives. I recently found my dad's mom but she had passed away a while ago. While there is life there is hope...
@@Forgiven7777 Wow! That's awesome!
@@MainlandBoricuas Keep hope alive and Blessings to you on your journey La Boricua (Sorry grams passed before meeting her, my condolences)
this happened to me too. i was in shock. i wanted to find my dad since i was 10. someone gave me an ansetory DNA kit for xmas prezzy. and they found 99% percent and child match. he didn't even know i excised. but we made a connection. me and my dad meet for the first time tomorrow. x
And????
is was great but very odd. but i guess we are two strangers meeting for first time. i'm going up to meet my sister and his new wife next wkend :) but i'm hoping we can build a good relationship xx
Clair...I'm 41 years into my reunion. It's a bit surreal and odd at first. It takes time for things to gel.
clair shephard I’m in the same situation. Waiting for my kit. It comes tomorrow. Using it to see if he is my dad
how cool, let us know how it turned out, if you wish to.
You have a great voice and you're a good storyteller.
Was a great story. Notice how anybody associated with Tennessee (save his Mom) he added that good ole country accent. yee haw .
I was thinking the same thing. He is a great storyteller. I've watched other videos like this and had to cut them off because they were horrible but he's not.
@@learn_moore As with anyone attempting a southern accent who doesn't actually have one, his attempt sounds fake and demeaning. His relatives
who are Southerners will be polite, but they will hear and understand it in the same way. He will do better using his normal accent.
I have lived all of my seventy four years in different parts of the South and have never heard anyone use "yee haw" except for actors on television or in movies. I'm not saying you are attempting to be demeaning. My assumption from reading your comment in context is that you are simply writing in an ingratiating manner.
I found my son who I adopted 38 years ago just about 3 weeks ago. It has been incredible and I am singing from the rooftops and praising Ancestry for helping me find him. I am finally complete.
You are so fortunate that your mom was helpful. This past weekend, when I called my Mom and told her that my supposed half brother and I tested our dna and found out we were not related and confronted her with the fact that the man I thought was my dad for over 60 years, could not possibly be my dad, she flipped out on me and started yelling at me, saying "How dare you, I think I know who I F@#$!@". I guess that I dared to upset her apple cart by informing her that I have a half sister out there, whose name I never heard of, but who was from the same city and country I was born in. I never thought that I would have this drama so late in my life.The great part is that the man who I thought was my father's children came to meet me and they are insisting the dna test is wrong and they want to be my siblings anyways. It made me re think what family really means.
I literally just found my biological father this evening... then your video shows up.
Have you decided to contact him? How did it go?
@@t7954 It is always interesting to know, no? If the mother didn't tell the father anything there seems to always be a high likelihood contact will be a surprise but positive. If the mother left an abusive situation, not so much. There obviously occasional situations where people have calmed down/quit boozing it up and became better people over the years and unknown parents being sh-tbags.
How did you find him?
Yes, how did you find him
Bluff! I'm your real dad😆
I just found my biological dad via Ancestry and he had no clue. We live in a strange world of technology these days...
J R same here
J R happy for you J R I sadly can’t find mine as I have no name
Oh wow
How?! Can you share?
@@Suzyfromtheblock I didn't have biological father name either. DNA connected me to his sister. He never knew of me. Just spoken with him this past week!
My dna test confirmed who my dad is. That made me very happy as I was made to doubt for 30 years.
Mrs. Enys was it with ancestry?
I have loved ‘meeting’ you on PBS’ Poldark! I think you are beautiful as a person and in countenance.
I am so glad that you learned the true identity of your father! You deserve to have that information.
I learned many interesting things from having my dna tested by Ancestry.com.
I found my bio dad and he didn’t know I existed. Life is short ! Go be with him and ask him to tell you stories of his life growing up. Learn about his parents and relatives. Take interest in him and care for him. You would not be who you are without his 1/2 🙏🏻✨ I was meant to be holding my biodads hand when he was 59 and I was 41 taking him off life support from a botched surgery. Please go visit him and give him unconditional love ... you are put in contact for a reason. He also may feel like he was robbed of having you in his life. Ect. I’d take your kids cause he is your tribe and your link to an ancient line of people. I’m so excited for you all.
Awwwe that was beautiful!! He was blessed when it matters most. Blessings to you and yours that was just awesome!
As a adult who also met her unknowing father I second your sentament exactly. It can bring up many emotions for them, as we too know well. I am grateful for his opportunity as I have been for my own opportunity to meet my father and build a forward relationship with him and my lineage in our time left. How fortunate you were to have the time you had 💕. I send you my condolences and well wishes 🤲.
''I found my bio dad and he didn’t know I existed.'' nice... anything else?
I love the positivity!
@@evax555 they said they held his hand as he passed... Pretty sure they got very close
I was adopted at 4 days old. Through Ancestry and 23 and Me I have found my biological families. My biological mom died in 2016, but I have met my wonderful half brother and his family. My biological dad is in a nursing home, no idea if he ever knew about me. His sister and I have become very very close. Sometimes I think it is easier for aunts and uncles than a parent. Good luck with your journey, mine has been a total blessing.
That's true. For some reason bio parents freak out.
@@Tangerine-rj5tr An aunt or an uncle is easier because slotting a new niece or nephew into your life is much easier. A new kid changes everything, and that's hard even if you have 9 months to prepare. If the new kid is 40, you have no time to prepare, and you've got a couple of current kids running around expecting half your estate...
This is true, I've been trying to decide if I should reach out to the family of the man who is my bio dad. He doesn't know about me so I'm super reluctant, but maybe through an Aunt or Uncle might be the best way. I also worry about current family status, some people are so funny about finding out their parent was human. I have friends who found out they had a surprise bonus brother who was super excited to get to know them and they closed ranks and shut him out for no reason other than they viewed him as a troublemaker and annoying. I tried to give them my perspective but it didn't help. So the kid was given away through no fault of his own and then shunned as an adult as if it was still his fault. So you can imagine since I witnessed that happening I'm even more terrified to do anything.
Rye Toast Well, give it a shot anyways. I would contract everyone who’s related to him, that way if they only reason he wouldn’t accept you was because he didn’t want anyone to know, well you would have helped him break the news :) the chance is someone will definitely reach out to you and hopefully your bio-dad
@@Rye_Toast Sometimes it's better not to grow up with your biologicals...sounds like your friend's bios were messed up. Sometimes your biologicals go through with your birth and give you up because they truly care and don't believe they can do a good job...have you contacted your bios to find out which yet?
People please make sure you are 100% ready for your results. My cousin took one and ultimately found out that the man that raised his mom (my aunt/dads sister) and my dad wasn’t their biological father. 60+ year family secret revealed. Now we’ve found 8 other siblings and counting...
Wren Mason You're absolutely right about mentioning being ready! It's life changing!!
I was braced for completely crazy sh*t when I did 23andme. Nope, exactly the origins in exactly the percentages my family gave me. And exactly 0 surprise family members. Weak!
Got two 3rd cousins who didn't know their dads but were related to me on my father's side. So, maybe we had the same great grandparents. Lol woooo
I found out at the age of 40 that the person I had called dad my whole life was not my biological father via an extensive background check for a job. Oops. Parents had to spill the beans. I had to reprocess all of my childhood memories
Once your biological dad takes a look at you, the connection will happen.
You are a lovely person.
All My Best
It's amazing the inner detective that comes out in these situations! I searched for my bio father for 20+ years. Every lead came up empty. I started saying he was a ghost. Then Ancestry DNA came along and WHAM, I had a match (his sister). Long story short, he passed away when I was 8 months old so I couldn't talk to or meet him. Which explains why I couldn't find him. However, I found out I had two brothers. One of the brothers is supposedly the spitting image of him and his character. We've met and become part of each other's lives. I'm so thankful for him and his family. I hope to meet the other brother someday. Good luck with the rest of your journey! For those who might be searching, I can say I've known quite a few people to get the answers they needed via Ancestry DNA.
Listen, I found my 70yr old formerly childless Uncle a 37yr old daughter he never knew existed through my taking the Ancestry DNA test. Her name popped up as a first cousin, and as far as I knew, I personally knew all of my first cousins and she wasn’t one of them LOL Her name however was familiar to me as she grew up in the same NYC neighborhood that three generations of my family had been born in. I grew up there and so did my uncle and even his parents, my grandparents. She’d also been born there, adopted there, and grew up there as well. They probably passed each other on the street thousands of times without knowing they had any connection to each other. She’s quite a few years younger than I am so we just never ran in the same crowd, I knew of her from neighborhood functions and gathering but didn’t really know her personally, just a familiar face & name... But the thing is, her biological mother and my uncle only had a one night fling, so she’d never told him she’d gotten pregnant and they never crossed paths again. Remember though, it was at a time (late 70’s as well) there was a whole lot of that type of free love thing going on and both her bio-mom & my uncle had an alcohol problem during that period as well. So he still doesn’t remember having that one night fling, he’s got no recollection of this woman at all, so maybe she didn’t truly know who the father of this child was either, that is a possibility. However, she did lie and give my cousin a fake name and had her searching for a ghost. Which I found to not really be fair to her, but also not really my place to judge, we can never really know why people do what they do, maybe it was vanity and she was just embarrassed she couldn’t remember who the father of this child she placed for adoption could have been? Who knows... With all that said, regardless everyone’s lack of memory of the night in question, she sure is his daughter, DNA doesn’t lie LOL Ancestry is bringing together families that may not have had any other way to get this finality. It’s really an amazing thing!! My uncle got sober almost 30yrs ago and this revelation has given him a new lease on life. He and his wife of 20yrs had just settled into retirement and thought everything would be calm for the remainder of their lives, they never imagined this happening 😂 They have welcomed this girl as if she’d always been theirs. It’s been a rollercoaster of emotions but I don’t think it could have gone any better than it has 10 months in so far. Our entire family has welcomed her with open arms.
So take it slow with your dad, it is all a shock to the system right now, for both of you. When I first told him of the news he kinda ignored it and hung up. Called me back within minutes and apologized for that reaction. Nothing to apologize for, it’s the biggest shock to anyone’s life!! He had to absorb it, tell his wife about it and then call me back to really discuss what I’d found and how I’d found it. Worked out beautifully though.
I have a cousin on my mother's side and one on my father's side that we knew nothing about. The one on my mother's side has not contacted me and she has no tree for her father. I could help her but I guess she does not want to know. The one of my father's side did contact me. She has a full tree and nothing matches me. She matches as a second cousin/1st cousin once removed. I think she is one of my cousin's daughter but she does not believe that. so I said well, I can't really help on how we are related.
but she thinks her father is her father and does not want to believe differently. I suggested she get her sister tested to see how they matched.
NativeNYerChicHK ...thanks for sweetest story
That's an awesome story just like his was !!! I have been dyyyiiinnnggg to get an Ancestry DNA kit to just find out my DNA history but all of this family members that you never knew about is just as amazing && I'm sure I have so many seeing as how my father's dad was adopted so all of his biological family before his adopted parents && also my father has 9 siblings with lots of kids just never grew up with any of them unfortunately everyone is in different states or countries && all of my grandparents are deceased as well as my father 💖💖💖😭😭😭💕💕💕
OH I MEANT TO ASK..... HOW MUCH IS THE ANCESTRY KIT ANYWAY ????? && WHAT ALL DOES IT COME WITH... INFO YOU GET... ETC 😁😁😁
What a delightful man you are. I really enjoyed the story. If you were my long lost son, I'd feel priviledge and honor to call you my son. Much luck; much love to you.
I'm only at 18:55, but I already think you're an awesome person and I love your sense of humor... And I DEFINITELY wanna see the slo-mo shot of you running through the field with your arms out and a huge smile on your face!!! I don't care to whom or what you're running... An ice cream cone, a balloon, your bio dad... You know, whatever! I think you could totally make it work!!! 😉😁😊💜
:) Agree!
Best Suggestion ever ...
Great story, will check back for next installment. Wanted to tell you, thE image of the trees on the wall behind you is upside down. I have the same image in my bedroom and had my photogtapher son hang it for me. When I mentioned to him that he hung it upside down, he pointed out that most leaves point to the ground and the backside has the hanging hardware, allowing the image to be hung with the red leaves on the top of the image.
Just thought I'd mention it.
DEB
I was contacted by my 1st cousin. We shared the same grandmother on our father's side. She's Absolutely great. Meeting up before the year is out.
Wow I would like to meet my father side of the family as well ❤
I hope my ex-wife is as lucky as you are. She got pregnant when she was a teenager. Her parents encouraged her to have the baby, they're Catholic, and put it up for adoption. She never saw her baby. It was immediately taken from her at birth. All she was told was that it was a beautiful boy. She was 14 then and is now 57. All those years she has wanted to find her son and say she was sorry. I hope and pray one day her dream will come true.
How fortunate that he didn’t reject you outright. Mine did when I was a baby. As an adult, I didn’t feel the need to meet him or to upset a family that he didn’t want me to know.
It sounds like all your information is second hand. Unless you've heard it from the man himself, you only have one side of the story. I've learned even when some things seem unforgivable, an explanation changes everything. You should get his version of events too. Who knows - maybe he made a mistake (as we all do) and thinks about you everyday. :-) Be well.
@@TimeQCelledor TOO MAHY TIMES, IVE HEARD PEOPLE SAY THE SAME THING. MY DAD DIED IN VIETNAM WHEN I WAS A CHILD. GOOD MEMORIES. DONT WAIT UNTIL HE IS GONE. WORST MISTAKE.
@@TimeQCelledor Absolutely true. Get closure one way or another... at worst he confirms what you already believe and nothing changes...
I recently found a first cousin I never knew about. We have become really good friends. We talk on the phone & text each other often. We are hoping to meet in person in early spring. Covid has slowed our plans, but we are really looking forward our first in person meeting!
We found a sister we never knew we had. What a wonderful thing.
My only sibling a brother, died in 2013. Never having married or had children. My oldest two kids had placed DNA on Ancestry several years ago. About three months ago my daughter received an ancestry email from a young woman that said much to her shock she had just found out her father wasn’t her father.
They had all placed their dna in ancestry on a whim and low and behold she matched not with him but matched to my kids as first cousins and two of my cousins as second cousins. Even her mother didn’t know. It was like setting off an explosion in her family. Her mother had only dates my brother for a few weeks. Then went straight into a relationship with the man she would marry and assumed was the father of her daughter.
By all accounts he has been an amazing father. She is an amazing and educated young woman. Our family feels like we won the lottery. Her mother feels very guilty. I keep asking how her mom is and telling her to please tell both parents how grateful we are. Hoping to offset their pain.
In the meantime we just all keep reassuring her how lucky we feel as a family to have her.
Dude, that story was awesome. Had me hooked right from the beginning. I hope you get to meet all your family some day, including your bio dad. You never know how any of this will change the course of your life or theirs. Embrace the unknown.
Any family will be lucky to be part of your life
Any family will be lucky to be part of your life
As the genealogist of my family, I have to say that you inspired me. This is one of the reasons that many of us put long hours into research. Eight years ago, I was able to connect one of my first cousins to her three sisters. They had never known that their father had a child with another woman prior to their own Mom. It was a great blessing for all. We had a family reunion last year, and the eldest daughter sponsored it. Great time!!!
My husband is adopted and he took a test and found a brother we have left messages on the site and facebook but nothing. I am very glad you have found your Dad great story.
So sorry
I don't log into my 23andme very often and haven't logged into Facebook in 11 years. Maybe he's just not seeing your messages. Have you Googled him?
Don’t count that as a shunning. I took years to answer my messages there because life happens and I didn’t log on or check those messages. Look him up on Facebook or relatives with the same last name and location and you can message them there because they check that more often! If people aren’t actively searching for genealogy they don’t check there
Some people are only looking for a quirky little fun fact when they do these tests & are not really prepared for a punch in the gut like finding out your parents or granparents have lied to you your entire life.
Any update? At some point you know you just have to call on the phone or show up at the door and say, "hey bro, I don't know any of my biologicals, are you interested in knowing me?"
!Warning! at 12:07 . If you are using earphones, lower at that point the sound. I was shook at that point.
lol me too
hahahah That must have been the big buzzing that scared me, too!
Wow! That’s awesome you connected with your biological dad! Great story of how you found him. I think it would be fantastic for you and your family go to meet him one day . I don’t know you, but I see a positive man with a great sense of humor..and your dad will be amazed!
My biological dad never acknowledged I was his daughter but I found some of his siblings through DNA testing. Now I have a friendship with one of his brothers. Crazy how this DNA stuff works. He has passed away now, but there is no denying it. He was the sperm donor. Thanks for sharing your story.
I'm actually about a week away from getting my Ancestry results and hoping to find my father also. Your video came up in my recommendations. Really enjoyed hearing your story and reading the comments... it's given me encouragement and some great advice. Thanks so much for sharing. :-)
Did you find your dad? or get the results you were looking for?
@@shonb989 Hi! Not exactly. I did find out I'm half Scottish! Bit surprising... Was always told I'm all black with two black parents but I do look mixed. lol I also found 1st-2nd cousins and possibly a half-brother on father's side. I reached out but never heard back from anyone, but atleast I do have a better idea. Thanks for asking. :)
I found my biological fathers family on ancestry last year. My biological fathers sister came up as my #1 relative. I've always known who they were. Unfortunately my happy ending stop there. Even though I have a wonderful relationship with my Aunt. My biological father wants nothing to do with me. I've never meant him or spoken to him. People ask, Does it hurt your feelings about your father? Absolutely! But I've learned to move pass that. It's a hard pill to swallow ( at first) knowing a parent just out right rejects you, but you can't let it consume you. It's taken sometime to move on but I got one of the worlds greatest Aunts ever out of all of this. There is nothing I would change, because even in my heartbreak. I got the most lovingest, compassionate, caring Aunt I could wish for. I love her to pieces for accepting me when my father wouldn't. I love my Aunt, she was what I was missing my whole life.
Lizzie BordenSin I’m sure the main reason he doesn’t want to meet you is either he’s afraid of any financial back support if you were in any government aid (which I don’t know if it would be)... I’d i was you, I’d “accidentally bump into him” or have your aunt invite you to a family gathering and casually talk to him before revealing to him who you are :)
This is my fear, that my father or siblings would reject me :/
Thanks for sharing. Your story helped me because I am currently looking for my birth father. I have found some family, including a brother that my birth mom gave up before she gave me up for adoption. I am going to meet my brother this next week.
That was a really interesting outcome!!! I am not looking for family, but a woman from Argentina (I am Chilean) wrote to me saying that we are 3rd cousins. She was illegaly adopted in 1974 (dictatorships ruled in Chile and Argentina in those years) and, with DNA testing, she found six 2nd and 3rd cousins in Chile, but none in Argentina, so I have been helping her find organisations dedicated to find the children of persons tortured, killed or "made dissappear" by the Chilean dictatorship. We have not had any results yet, but I am sure she will find her biological family here.
I would be fascinated to know what you found out.
@@olwenloud9704 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic she could not undergo a blood test scheduled for last April. She is in contact with the Chilean organisation dedicated to find the children of the dictatorship's victims.
@@LauriPorteña crazy gov. pandemic responses...yall keep your Vit D levels up and get regular sleep and report back when this riveting tale has more details
This is so brilliant! Ty for the video. Searching for my DNA relatives as well. ❤️
I hope you do reach out to him again, and more often. While you seem to have a casual interest, it could be that discovering you means the world to him, At his age, there's no telling how much time he has left on the face of this earth, so I think the sooner the better. Besides, he is your children's grandpa now. I've lost too many family as they've aged and passed. Even just a call to say Hi, thinking about you, hope all is well could mean a lot.
Why is he (the dad) not calling him back? At times, we might wanna feel wanted and not a disturbance to other's "perfectly normal life until we happened". I think he has taken a 100 steps, it is time the dad take a baby step to assure him.
@@kenrow3604 Maybe his father feels cheated, saddened, and upset over not being told he had a son.
@ShariSez1 The way you started says more than the point you are trying to make. You can do better than that.
Love that you can make that sort of joke about it -- it's good to be able to laugh about tough situations. 😄 I wish you the best!
You have an awesome attitude! Great storyteller and good detective work!
I'm happy you found your dad, kudos to your hard work and diligence!
I hope your father has the gumption, and courage to come through, and has an
opportunity to meet his grandchildren..
You are a beautiful person! Everyone deserves to know who their parents are!
What an amazing story! I am going through something similar. For the last week I have been helping my dad try to find his biological family. He was adopted in 1948 so it’s not that easy considering we know zero about any of his family. But, just today, I found his first cousin, not removed, meaning that they share a grandparent. It’s so exciting and invigorating to find information like this. My dad has gone 74 years not knowing who he is and it’s been 50 years for me not knowing anything about my dad side of the family. It’s incredible and quite a roller coaster of a journey. I commend you for your efforts in finding him. Thanks for sharing your story!
Incredible story, really happy you have connected with your extended family
We are in the process of discovering if a young 36-year-old man is my husband's son. He was never told she was pregnant or that she had a child. We are loving getting to know each other, lots of cousins and grandkids. He came to our family reunion with his wife and kids and we had a blast! So thrilling to find these unknown connections. Still waiting on my husband's DNA and we check it every other hour for weeks now. So exciting to find new family members! Michigan is lovely in the summer!
I had an Ancestry contact that I messaged over a year ago before they responded. But really you kind of have to be prepared to take the good and the bad.
My mom was abandoned in a NYC church in 1929 approximately 2yrs old. Only her name pinned to her coat. . She was adopted at age 4 by a wonder, well off family. But she could never find her family. I recently did 23/me test. Waiting on results. I had a dream that someone called me and it was my mother's relative. That was just a dream, but I have hope. Wish me luck 🍀🍀🍀
This story came at a time I needed it! I found my father at 41. He didn't now I existed it didn't go anywhere how yours went. It nice to know that someone went through similar and had a happier ending.
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You seem like a genuinely good dude. I hope everything works out for you.
Enjoyed your video! If you are up for an update, I'd love to hear the next chapter of the story.
I found my dad back in 2000 when I was 42. He knew my older sister but didn't know about me. I had 7 beautiful years with him before he died. I still miss him!
How is everything now almost 3 years later? Can you do a update?
I just turned 50 & found my biological father 2yrs ago,, he didn't know I existed either.. with time we have gotten to know each other a bit better...ancestry . Com is great-- when you start getting connections-- took me 7 years to find him & it's because- His uncle did the test.. lol.. He was SHOCKED & SURPRISED -- to find out about me,,especially since I have 9 children.. hope all goes well with your new family....
I hope he gets to meet his grandkids, this really wasn't his fault. Glad it was a happy ending!
I'm adopted, as an infant, and Ancestry DNA helped me find my biological father! I didn't renew my heritage.com site so for all I know my birth mother is also waiting. I just met my bio dad, so my birth mother is a little too much for me right now. I can't advise you about hat to do, but I'm so happy that this DNA stuff is solving many hurt adoptees out there now, it's science at it's most wonderful!
The story you told was fascinating. Thanks for sharing your search!
I'm happy for you and would encourage you to keep in touch with your dad. Does he have a Christian faith? Be a friend ... it's a one-time relationship. God bless you!!
I love your story. You tell it with humor. When I found my dad, my half sister wasn't too friendly. She handles his affairs and I never was allow to talk to him. She told me she wasn't sure she wanted another sister. I became emotional and began to cry. I hung up the phone. I searched my whole life for him and it wasn't good. Maybe if I had talked to her in a humorous way it would have been different. Who knows. But you know how girls are. We cry all the time.
I'm so sorry that happened to you.. Extremely selfish on her part. :( Don't beat yourself up, you're completely in the right here.
To both Tangerines, I'm so sorry to hear that and hope they come around and you get to know them before your spirits leave this Earth. Time is so precious and wasteful at the same time so hope yall can get positive memories and closure.
Family is not always FAMILY!!!
If it’s t too late, find out where they live “Google” or contract a different relative that can bring you to your dad’s home. She doesn’t have the right to keep you from him!
If he raised someone like her, maybe you were the fortunate one?
I found my biological father after 27 years of looking. I am truly thankful that I took the chance to find him. I have a wonderful relationship with him! I was so scared of finding my dad for so many years... I remember thinking that “if I find him there’s a good chance that I won’t like what I find“. I believe most of us would feel the same way. The fact is I was raised by my stepfather and didn’t find out that my stepfather was not my biological father until I was about 10. I’m 39 now. I want to say thank you so much for this wonderful story. You have a wonderful voice and you have the gift of storytelling. Being a godly man doesn’t hurt! Your fellow Tennessee brother Clifford Williams
Thanks for sharing your story. I have a similar one in looking for my bio father. Although prior to finding my bio father, I had to actually go through two other men who were candidates. Did DNA testing with both of them (they were with my mom) and came back as not my bio father. I did a lot of the same type of digging as you did and was persistent. I love hw you working your mom and then talking with bio dad that you could see the pieces falling into place. I am like you in that I was not looking for a "dad" so to speak. My solace is in finding him and finally getting the truth about my coming into existence. I was not sure what to expect going forward in terms of any type of relationship. But he and his family including 6 new siblings have all been very welcoming and accepting of me and so have many extended family so I am just going to roll with it and enjoy it. The latest thing to have happen is I found another child that my bio father did not know he had. So I got to call him with the news that he has another daughter. He has taken it all pretty well.
This video popped up in my feed and I must say that you are a very kind man. How you handled everything and everyone with such care. Do you have an update? After all it's been 4+ years! God Bless you on your journey!
JUST REMEMBER, anything under 5% is subject. Take another test as things are updated all the time. It said I also had 10% Iberian Peninsula and then the same test updated that to zero percent 3 years later.
👍🙏💝Happy for you. I hope things went well after this video.
The most important reason to make connection is to find out the health history and know what you should watch for in the future.
And know where you came from and reunite with lost family members
Love your story! So glad you have found your biological Dad! MAKE TIME to spend to get to know him. It will enrich your life in ways you cant imagine if you just let it.
Great story teller the best I have seen on TH-cam . Nice voice and personality. Keep doing what you are doing . You do it well compare to the other boboso out there
Amazing story! For a moment, when you were listing all the ways/attempts you’d tried to contact your biological dad, I though you were going to say he got spooked and never replied... but I’m glad that you did speak to him, and his family. I hope you’ve heard from him again since.
Finally, an enjoyable DNA results video!
My half sisters and I found each other through cousins on 23 and me. It is an amazing tool!!!!!!! We have all recently met our biological mother and have a wonderful budding relationship. Thanks for sharing!
Man, I was so into your story that I checked for a follow-up. Hopefully one day.
Ok, now I wanna know more !! Congrats on your success in finding your biological father. You have a great outlook on the subject.
I love how working church connections helped - it is all about knowing when services end : )
I enjoyed this so much! So glad you found your dad. I agree with Kaluca also, you have a great voice and a good storyteller! I feel like I know you. Wishing you the best!!!
I loved your story, would have loved to find a long lost relative like you, great personality.
It’s good to know there was no resistance or ill will on either side.
In the course of building my family tree I took a ydna test, later I took a dna test with Ancestry and discovered my biological father isn’t the man who raised me. My biological “father” was a man who raped my mother. As it turns out my dad passed away last year within weeks of me finding this out never knowing the truth and I’m thankful for that. Dad was retired from the Army and a retired Assembly of God Pastor in Arkansas.
This new knowledge has not changed who I am in the least. I know who I am in Christ and in my family - who could ask for more! 🙂✌️
My husband just found out his three siblings have a different dad. My husband is the only child of his dad.
I couldn’t help but cry tears of joy for you watching this. God bless you and your reunited family
Just watched from Grand Rapids, MI! What an awesome story. Thank you for sharing. If you ever need any local help I'd be happy to assist. Hope things are well and God bless!
Well, here I am hoping to see an eventual outcome, hopefully a meet up with all the family & a big bear hug with pops but then I looked at the preamble and it was 6 years ago! Sorry I'm a little late but did you ever meet up with daddio? I'm hanging in here. ☺️.
Forgot to say messaging from Australia 🇦🇺👋👋
This was so cool to listen to. Thank you for sharing
Wow, Your story is incredible! You are a great investigator. I hope you and your dad can get to know each other. I wish you well.
You did excellent detective work..good job..at least you found him..you are so funny..thx
Yes and Wow ! Enjoyed your story, beautiful voice. Thanks
Was captivated.. Thanks for sharing your story.. Get to know him, enjoy the ride..
Oh my gosh. Your story. My story. Except, I haven't reached out. Thanks I needed this story.
Reach out for goodness sake! If you wait too long and they pass, you’ll live with regrets.
Reach outtttt 🥰🥰
Being from Michigan (near Grand Rapids and Wyoming) made your story a little bit more connected for me. Super glad you were able to actually connect with your family and Dad. Hope it continues for you.
I have to know about that moment: did you look like him when you saw his picture on Facebook?
Love your story! Honestly, make the effort to get out to Michigan to meet your Dad. Make that memory before it becomes a regret. Saying a prayer for you and your father.
Fabulous listening to your story, you are a great story teller, I would like to know more.
I found your story fun. I use facebook, facebook friends, and google to do research on my family tree. I found, through DNA, that I had a different father than I thought.. so the whole thing has been fascinating.
I wonder if something happen to him cause there is no follow up on this matter, he stop making videos a year a go...
What a fabulous chilled-out guy.
A lot of men aren't as adept as yourself on the phone or internet, but better in person when sharing a task.
Best wishes to you.
This happened to me this week. I found what I thought was a aunt, turns out it was my half sister...She is still taking this all in, so I only have talked to her husband. They put me in touch with my biological father...I'm going to call him in the morning. They also gave me info for my biological Mom.
fishermanmitch1 Salzman ...thanks for sweetest story can you keep informed us what happened please
@@gabrielmzomkunda9487 we have talked twice for more than an hour each time. It's funny we have never met, but have so much in common. I am looking forward to a long lasting friendship.
Mitchell Salzman ...oooh that's good if you have spoke ...keep updates me bro ..your story is very moving !
I sure will. We are making plans to meet over the Summer.
Awesome story. Inspiring me to call someone too
That was quite the struggle you went through, but I'm glad you found him.
That's great you found him. At least he knows he has a son that he didn't know he had. My husband who will be 70 in a couple weeks, never knew who his father was but ancestry,com helped him find his bio sisters, brothers, and finally found out who his father was after all these years. He is thrilled to have found his bio family. Years of heartache finally healed. Don't give up trying to get to know him. It's important. You probably look like him.
I’m adopted and my aunt’s DNA results appeared on my Ancestry.com results as a first tier relative and I recognized her name.
I wrote her a little note explaining I didn’t want to intrude, but wanted to say hello. She proceeded to block any further messages. At least I know my heritage background now, and that’s enough.
I'm so sorry that happened. D:
Your dad has a lot to talk about.
Wow, sorry to hear that. That's wasn't nice of her gosh. Stay blessed
Although it looks rejecting she may have blocked you out of a need to protect herself. You never know what else is going on in someone’s life or their emotional stability.
That’s horrible. I would look her up on Facebook and find other relatives and contact them. Don’t give up because if one person!!!
I'm 21, I lost my mom last November & today I found out that the man that I was told was my father for 21 years isn't. Ancestry is my next step on my journey to find my father. Your video has just given me the hope that I need. Maybe just maybe I'll get all of my questions answered. Thank you.
I hope questions were answered.
Fantastic story!!! Any updates?
Very compelling story. Hope to hear the next chapters soon.
I was adopted so I had no name of my biological father or mother I’m 49 found out 3 years ago I did ancestry and found out a have a close family member he was also adopted so we’re doing a dna test we might be half siblings or 1 cousin 🙏 he doesn’t know anything about he’s biological family either pray please so we can be siblings
Great story telling. I like how you did not drag it out like some people. Congratulations on finding your dad.
I'd say it's less that "Ancestry.com found him" and more like "you hunt him down"... 😜
I found my biological half brothers twins using ancestry DNA. We have the same mother. I was born in May 1952, they were born May 1956. I lived with their biological father and my birth mother from the age 12 to 20. They never told me about my brothers they adopted out from hospital. My mother and my stepfather .. their biological parents never told me about my brothers.
I have now found them. And thinking I was an only child. Now I have a wonderful family..I never knew. I've never been so happy in my life to find these wonderful people.
Tomorrow is my 68th birthday. And I go to celebrate it with my dear brothers and their wives, and children, grandchildren..