But what happens when the results are shocking? Many people, she found, have turned to support groups on Facebook as they try to come to terms with surprising revelations about their own origins. Last year, I asked my dad for a 23andMe kit for my birthday. I also got my dad and stepmom kits for fun; they bought another one for my husband. I got my results first I cheated and peeked , and was shocked to find out I am half Italian.
Neither of my parents has any Italian heritage. Click on DNA relatives. Because I was worried that my dad would find out the same way I did, through the website, I spoke to him in person that same day. I was told that she worked at an Italian restaurant and had a relationship with the owner. When my mom was very ill with cancer, I worked up the courage to ask about this. My mother denied it so emphatically and angrily that I felt foolish and ashamed wasting the limited time we had left asking a question that implied she was unfaithful to my father.
