Posted on 02/02/2022 9:49:22 PM PST by BenLurkin
It was back in 1991 when Jeanine and Mike Harvey went to Dr. Nicholas Spirtos, then the chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Summa Akron City hospital, now Summa Health System, for help conceiving a child.
But that DNA test Harvey Galloway took would reveal a shocking mix-up. Mrs. Harvey’s egg was fertilized not by her husband’s sperm, but by another man, also a patient of Dr. Spirtos, as stated in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Court of Common Pleas in Summit County.
Harvey Galloway recently discovered her biological father is not Italian, but part Irish and Welsh.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Harvey is an Italian name?
At one time before artificial insemination and IVF, it was estimated the husband of the mother was not the biological father in 10% of babies born. In many cultures if a woman did not get pregnant after a year or so of marriage, there was no divorce but other remedies were sought.
Lucky lass, fy nain is from Anglesey
“Harvey Galloway recently discovered her biological father is not Italian, but part Irish and Welsh.”
Well, that explains the alcoholism.
I read a story recently where the babies were put in the wrong women and they ended up switching them to the right families a few months after they were born.
Those home use DNA test kits are a mixed blessing. If you trace the lineage back far enough in some particular direction, you’re very likely to find out things you may have been better off not knowing. For medical use, such tests serve a great purpose, to warn potential parents what recessed genes may be passed on to any unborn children.
Of the people who really get into ‘researching’ their family tree, I have found some are truly just curious, while others are searching for something that is missing in their lives.
Some are searching for something that would explain why their lives are developing as they presently are.
It’s almost like consulting a Quija Board for answers.
The Texas Pizza Bread she made raised other questions.
If you trace your lineage ... you’re very likely to find out things you may have been better off not knowing.”
Like what?
That we are both among Biden’s Finnegan cousins
My wife discovered she had more German in her than English. Which may explain why she often breaks into a goose-step.
Qualites most people aren’t terribly proud of; criminal or adulterous behavior, multi-generations mired in extreme poverty. Unusual but still incurable diseases. All these are part of the human condition, but the average researcher may have hoped for more uplifting results, something worth chatting about vs worrying about.
“Ja Voll!”
(totally!)
😆
(And my lineage includes German ancestry)
My family has strong Jewish heritage we never knew about I’m 25% Jewish my mother was 50% Jewish, the Jewish heritage was defined as ashnakanzi jew
Well, if you’re Kamala Harris, you might find out that your ancestors owned slaves.
There are some stories out there that the child’s uncles or other persons were actually their father.
This information, released, has a tendency to destroy family relationships.
“If you trace your lineage ... you’re very likely to find out things you may have been better off not knowing.”
Like what?”
I was wondering the same. The ones you can most easily trace way, way back descend from royalty, but having such ancestors doesn’t make you special. Nearly everyone whose ancestors came here before the Revolution can trace back to royalty.
Some of my fave ancestors weren’t royalty, but pig thieves. Very clever pig thieves. In early Colonial times, the settlers would mark their pigs by cutting notches in their ears and turn them out in the woods to fatten up on the acorn mast. Each family had a special distinctive “mark”. Then they’d round them back up for hog-killin’ time. My dastardly ancestors would snitch their cousins’ hogs and eat them up, which did not set well with said cousins. Finally, the third year it happened, the cousins called in the Constable (who turned out to also be an ancestor, but through a different line).
Oh what to do? My terrible pig-thieving ancestors cut the ears completely off those poor piggies! And claimed that was their “mark” when the Constable came to investigate. Well, the Constable was no dummy and didn’t buy it, of course. But there was no proof, the ears being long gone, so while the cousins got their pigs back, my ancestors did not end up in the stocks or the pokey or wherever pig thieves ended up in those days.
It’s funnier when you read it in the Colonial records, in the language and spelling of the time.
Actually, genaeology is a great way to get kids interested in history. You learn how people actually lived back then, about patterns of migration, and develop a great appreciation for those who came before us and made America a truly great nation, whether as farmers, blacksmiths, soldiers, shopkeepers, whatever. Extra bonus is they learn how to do primary research. You also come to appreciate why it was called “The American Experiment”. This had never really been done before. It was new, it was risky — but thanks to the great wisdom of our Founding Fathers, it turned out pretty darn well.
Now we’re in serious danger messing it up, of course. :(
“That we are both among Biden’s Finnegan cousins”
Not me.
He’s Irish catholic. Came here way after my ancestors.
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