Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

‘It’s shocking, it’s disbelief’: Ohio family files lawsuit after DNA Christmas gift reveals mix-up
ktla ^ | Jennifer Jordan,

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 ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: ancestry; dna; fertility; helixmakemineadouble; paternity; spirtos
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-69 next last
To: BenLurkin

My German mother once said to my father, “ The children got their stubbornness from your side of the family. “

My Father, not dropping a beat replied, “I would agree as your side of the family still has their stubbornness!”


41 posted on 02/03/2022 3:08:54 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Spirtos?


42 posted on 02/03/2022 3:18:41 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lee martell

I discovered my father’s father was not who we thought, but a man who loved near my grandmother and apparently attacked her one day.


43 posted on 02/03/2022 3:21:13 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: alexander_busek

That tree was a telephone pole anyway…


44 posted on 02/03/2022 3:21:33 AM PST by greatvikingone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: alexander_busek

“No one who has invested a mere month of effort in researching his family tree would be surprised by the DNA test findings.” -— For most people, yes. A small percentage, like me, would discover that 25% of his tree was wrong, due to rape.


45 posted on 02/03/2022 3:24:28 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

They have to get a DNA test comparing only father and child DNA.

While the genealogy test is performed as accurately as it can, if you read the white paper of the supplier on how their test works, you’ll see they are correlating submitted DNA to a database of DNA that the supplier believes are associated with certain countries/regions.

This is not the same as comparing the submitted DNA to that of the father. If you compare Dad’s genealogical test to that of the kids, you’re more likely to be “surprised” because of the number of correlations performed.


46 posted on 02/03/2022 3:28:11 AM PST by fruser1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Using these DNA testing sites is giving your DNA to the government.

These DNA testers have already broken secrecy at the request of law enforcement to find criminals using DNA.

The more DNA samples they have, the more they can track anyone. Even if you did not give a sample, the government can find you by using the samples given by relatives.

How long before DNA is ‘planted’ by the FBI to frame political opponents?


47 posted on 02/03/2022 3:45:55 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lee martell

How does a dna home test do any of that?


48 posted on 02/03/2022 4:02:53 AM PST by Adder (Proud member of the FJBLGB community: /s is implied where applicable.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: ifinnegan

I discovered last week that Kamala’s paternal grandmother was:

Beryl Christie Finnegan

Dreadful, another one.


49 posted on 02/03/2022 4:07:56 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: lee martell
"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."

I remember back in the 70s when they novel, "Roots," came out and the miniseries followed. It spawned a whole new interest in genealogy. I remember a priest at our church was giving a sermon and quipped that, "Now people are spending a lot of time and effort to uncover their family's past, and once they do, many end up spending even more time and effort trying to cover it back up!"

50 posted on 02/03/2022 4:14:18 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: alexander_busek

Siberians migrated to Peru.

Some of them also went west to the Baltic region. So, yes, eastern Europeans can have the “Peruvian” DNA.


51 posted on 02/03/2022 4:31:52 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: alexander_busek

Ah, yes. She was. Thanks!!!!

She was over 6 ft tall, white skin and blonde hair. Her adoptive family was olive skinned and shorter of stature.


52 posted on 02/03/2022 4:58:42 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

among other things such as solving old cold case crimes, these DNA tests have revealed to people how much infidelity went on in their families. Its more than I think many suspected.......


53 posted on 02/03/2022 5:13:14 AM PST by FLT-bird
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

These home DNA tests are of limited accuracy, I don’t think they should qualify as proof in court.


54 posted on 02/03/2022 5:35:24 AM PST by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: campaignPete R-CT
Siberians migrated to Peru. Some of them also went west to the Baltic region. So, yes, eastern Europeans can have the “Peruvian” DNA.

I'm well aware of the migration of Siberians to / settlement of the New World, etc. - but the way this is then portrayed by ancestry.com as "Congratulations! You're 16% Peruvian!" is a complete joke, and angers me.

It is utterly misleading and probably has a political motivation.

Regards,

55 posted on 02/03/2022 6:10:55 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: eclecticEel
These home DNA tests are of limited accuracy, I don’t think they should qualify as proof in court.

The family here has definitely gotten a forensic lab to confirm the findings (else how would they have identified the true biological father?).

Regards,

56 posted on 02/03/2022 6:12:24 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: srmanuel

Have you tried looking for your grandmother on the 1910 US census? It should tell you what her family thought her age was in 1910.


57 posted on 02/03/2022 6:46:21 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: campaignPete R-CT

The Q haplogroup of Y-DNA is extremely common in indigenous populations of the New World—in some cases over 90% of the men. It is found in Siberia and is very rare in Europe (but found in a couple of families I am descended from—not my direct paternal line). I don’t think that would help me learn Quechua.


58 posted on 02/03/2022 6:50:17 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Verginius Rufus

I probably should but she died long before anyone ever thought about the Internet much less Ancestry.com, but since her birth was never recorded, there is no guarantee it’s accurate on the census, she always knew what she was told her birthday was, like said she had no birth certificate.

Most people today can’t fathom living the way people did in 1906 Florida in the middle of the woods, farming and trying to feed your family.


59 posted on 02/03/2022 6:52:04 AM PST by srmanuel (`)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: llevrok
My wife discovered she had more German in her than English. Which may explain why she often breaks into a goose-step.

They all break into a goose-step sooner or later. Especially so during "the change."

60 posted on 02/03/2022 6:55:38 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-69 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson