My great grandmother got married and had 8 children. Her husband died and after a while she remarried. DNA testing confirms that the 4 youngest kids were not fathered by my great grandmother's first husband, but by her second...... while the first was still alive.

My great grandma fibbed on her birth year

Only the mother knows.

It’s like when people say their ancestors emigrated “the right way” based on family legend.

My uncle's 'sister' was actually his mum!

I’m obsessed with my family tree. I know 1 out of 10 birth certificates have the wrong father. Isn’t gonna stop me. Give me more people to research.

A friend’s youngest brother was found as a baby in a village on the side of the road during some unrest in my country. A lot of people were killed during that time. They assumed his family were killed and took him in. Raised him as their own. He actually looks a lot like them. As far as I know, he still doesn’t know. Yeah, birth registration wasn’t regulated then so his birth certificate has his adoptive parents names.

This may have happened to my uncle, he was living with a woman briefly and he died and she claimed it was his but idk the truth weird family stuff. Kid is like 30 now 😬

One thing that 23andme & all the other genetic testing has exposed in this country is the high amount of incest that has happened & probably continues to happen 😲😡

This blew up a bit! Loving your stories - families, eh? Full of secrets! Ps, I’m in Australia, so different countries have different rules about official records. Now the killer, who was the real dad? Are you sitting down?