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My family found an estranged relative from a one off affair in another country through Ancestry's "probably related" tool. It was an incredible experience.

Sample mixups and other mistakes can happen. I know of cases where family history could become exposed through these tests, but if you get results that are unexpected it's worth some follow up to be sure.

https://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/5975653/with-genetic-testing-i-...

This guy gave his parents the gift of divorce.

Ugh.

The guy has a PhD but writes like a BuzzFeed writer.

Unreadable.

(as told to Julia Belluz) means that he didn't write it himself despite the use of first person.

There's something said about making material accessible to the "everyman" if you want your material to be widely accessed.

But the DNA matching is just revealing the facts though which is true. Emotionally it is hard, but it's just revealing a fact.