Ancestry
This is from an email I got a couple weeks ago. This is the entirety of the email, actually. Commanding and to the point!
What this new thing looks like is two circles, one for each parent, each with a breakdown of ancestry/ethnicity/whatever.
So the surprises will come more easily now. It makes things that much clearer. I had chalked up the perplexing emails over the years to confusion on the part of the sender. A retiree with a newfound interest in genealogy, the messages stabs in the dark sent to anyone with a particular last name, for example.
But seeing my two circles, one of them with zero percent Ashkenazi, and the other one immediately familiar—that would be hard to ignore.
Then again, I skipped over the brother-is-my-half-brother information for quite a while. I thought maybe he’d entered something wrong. So maybe I’d do the same with this information if I wasn’t expecting it. It took a lot for me to get to the point where I called the 800 number and explained there was an error in my report.
By the way—it’s wild how many donor conceived people do the phone call thing! Those customer care people have a whole script for it. But I thought I was different, of course. And so do so many other DC people. We couldn’t have it that wrong, especially this late in life!
I wonder how many parents know how easy it is to discover the truth. And as the technology accelerates (as it has even over this past year while I’ve been…VERY INTRIGUED by this) it will be difficult NOT to find out.
More about this soon. I’d be curious to hear from any donor recipient parents, of course.
Thanks for reading.