Posted on 12/08/2019 12:20:14 PM PST by sodpoodle
Last year, at the age of 71, I discovered through an Ancestry.com DNA test that my biological father was a Mr. D. T. Trotta, who was born in 1913 and passed away in 1980 when I was 33. The secret was never revealed to me either by him or by my mother.
She was determined to have a family, but after seven years of marriage to her first husband, she had three miscarriages and no children. I am curious if, after 39 years, there is any chance of recovering an inheritance as a biological heir.
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This isn’t hard to believe since your mother’s line goes back to the 1600s. Your ancestors of that era likely have millions of descendants.
By the way, if your ancestors of the 1600s were in American, you and I are very likely cousins.
Likewise here, but a more recent one.
Also, you owe me a beer: I can also claim Charlemagne!
(But there's a hitch!)
Or he might have lost everything betting on harness races.
That’s too bad. 23andme interface is easy. I hope you try again. Sounds like it could be worth it for you.
I’ve done ancestrycom and of those I know, I am shocked at how accurate they are. Of those I do not know, I do believe they are my blood relatives.
“I’m a descendant of some English king...”
Who better to pay reparations?
Transfer the DNA to MyHeritage and FamilyTreeDNA for free. You may get additional relatives. I have mine on all of them including 23andMe (have to pay for that one). I am getting a lot of data on 23andMe that is not on Ancestry. MyHeritage is very popular with foreign countries, and you may be surprised what you find even if you think no one in your family ever left the US.
I’ve been waiting for some news (trouble) like this from ancestry.com. That DNA business is going to cause a lot of trouble and people are spending their entire lives tracking down “matches”. I have a cousin I haven’t seen since she was about 5 years old - in the ‘40’s....who spends all her waking hours on it. I filled in some family info for her but that’s all I intend - I don’t care about someone in England back in 1506 or whatever...
I am fascinated by the mindset of this 71 year-old.
For all intent and purpose, he thinks he’s entitled to this complete stranger’s [supposedly ‘father’, through DNA test (!)] life long fruit and labor.
What did this person do to deserve any inheritance?
My grandfather on my dad’s side was German-came to this country in 1905 or so. Some of his family went back to Germany in the mid to late 30’s and sided with Germany
23 & me shows I have some distant relatives in Argentina and S. America. Wife wonders if they were from Nazi’s.
Have already contacted some relatives in Germany and Europe so far and plan to meet some day.
It would depend on how he wrote his will.
If he left his money to “my children” then yes.
If he left his money to “My children, Denise, George, and Fred” and you are not any of those people then no.
LOL. Get real. The will went through probate 30 years ago if there was one. Any money is long gone.
“Then there’s MY tree, which is full of poor Irish Catholic peasants who have scattered to the four corners of the world. Since they were pretty much illiterate”
Sounds like my family line bunch of poor, nobody peasants.
Most wills exclude illegitimate children, and most jurisdictions exclude claims made years after the estate is settled. It isn’t fair to the other heirs.
A couple of years ago some ex employee from one of those DNA testing companies said they would put in some lineage to a minority, mostly black, on everybody's report. They said they did it to mess with people in case they were bigots.
Would you settle for lunch with the Duchess of Sussex?
No, the estate was settled long ago.
Might want to check other sources to determine ancestry. My son went through ancestry.com and was told he had German, British isles, and French in him. His grandfather was 1/2 Cherokee Indian and it was not mentioned he was traced there. They aren’t all correct.
According to Family history daily, they say “Can you really take their reports at face value? The answer is a resounding no. While your results certainly contain truths, accepting your ancestry report without additional interpretation will often lead you to confusion and inaccurate assumptions about your family’s history.”
rwood
If you've got MA ancestors, you're golden. Every library carries every town book with the records up to 1850. RI is a major pain. They gathered, published; gathered more, published again; REPEAT. Painful to work thru. But NY is horrific unless your ancestors were in the Dutch Reformed Church. For any Livingston descendants (Right Click "View Image" for full size):
Greedy little bigger, eh?
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