Posted on 06/07/2025 5:40:23 PM PDT by RandFan
Matthew's dad had brown eyes and black hair. His grandparents had piercing blue eyes.
There was a running joke in his family that "dad looked nothing like his parents", the teacher from southern England says.
It turned out there was a very good reason for this.
Matthew's father had been swapped at birth in hospital nearly 80 years ago. He died late last year before learning the truth of his family history.
Matthew - not his real name - contacted the BBC after we reported on the case of Susan, who received compensation from an NHS trust after a home DNA test revealed she had been accidentally switched for another baby in the 1950s.
BBC News is now aware of five cases of babies swapped by mistake in maternity wards from the late 1940s to the 1960s.
Lawyers say they expect more people to come forward driven by the increase in cheap genetic testing.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Trusting that the father is the father and not the milkman or the traveling salesman kind of shoots a hole in trusting ancestry/dot/com.
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Makes no sense.
I saw one episode of that show and that was it. I even remember the name of the kid he thought was swapped. P. Peters. Actually that’s the only thing I remember.
That was SUCH a good episode! Well before it’s time. :)
That one was real funny.
And that was actor Greg Morris, later on “Mission: Impossible” and after that the Las Vegas Metro Lt. on “Vega$.”
I remember seeing him on old “Twilight Zone” episodes, too.
Ancestry is just fine. What Ancestry reveals has been a source of pain for those who never suspected the facts of their parentage. Ancestry exposed a fertility doctor in Idaho Falls.
One of my close friends learned he was adopted around age 10. Paperwork in his mom's dresser drawer. Ancestry found his sister...adopted by another family. They finally met in person a few months before he died from lung cancer.
Ancestry data has both good and upsetting revelations.
When babies were born at home, this wasn’t a problem.
Well, they got it!! I read that if you are hospitalized there on a weekend, you better have family bring food, clean linen, bandages, etc., because NHS staff ain't gonna be on the job till Monday!! You won't even get an aspirin-or a glass of water to take it!
A symptom of early NHS bureaucratic negligence. When you run your healthcare system like an assembly line, parts interchangeability leads to accountability not being as important as productivity.
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