How did a home DNA test finally reveal the truth

Susan was nothing more than confused when he saw the first results from the home DNA test kit.

Now in the mid -70s, a woman did not know much about her grandfather, and she paid money for a special test to see if she was throwing anything unusual.

Um As far as I know, as far as I know it was wrong, I noticed that there were too many Irish heritage, or he says.

“But I just pushed aside and I didn’t think anymore. I stopped paying for my subscription and that’s it.”

It wasn’t too much outside.

It took six years for Susan to realize that everything he knew about the family history was wrong – not the real name.

Later, in the 1950s, he learned that he was changed at birth for another baby girl in an intense NHS birth ward.

The case is now the second of the type of BBC. Lawyers, cheap genetic tests and lineage websites, they expect to come to the forefront more than the explosion, he says.

Susan, a sharp, funny woman with white hair, tells her story from the sunny front room somewhere in Southern England.

Her husband sits next to her, runs her memory and is carved from time to time.

After receiving this DNA test almost ten years ago, the genealogy company entered the wide family tree and allowed other users to communicate close or distant with genetic relatives.

Six years later he received a blue message.

The stranger said that his data matched in a way that can only mean something: he must be his genetic brother.

“This was just panic. Every feeling that came to my mind, my brain was everywhere, or he says.

Susan’s first reaction was that he might have been secretly adopted. Both families died a few years ago, so he gathered the courage and asked his brother.

He was sure that everything was a scam. His sister was always a part of his life, and he was “absolutely sure of one of his first memories of his mother’s pregnancy.

Susan still had doubts. He was slightly longer than his brother, and he never resembled the rest of the family with his striking blonde hair.

The eldest girl made a little digging and found a copy of all births registered in the local area on the day her mother was born.

The next baby girl on the list had the same surname as the man who was registered in the NHS hospital, who contacted him through Genealogy website.

It could not be a coincidence. The only explanation was a mistake or mixture in this birth ward more than twenty years ago.

Until recently, such cases had not been heard in England, but in other countries there were a handful of examples.

Today, the standard application in NHS is to place two groups around the ankles of babies immediately after birth and keep the mother and the child together as they stay in the hospital.

In the 1950s, motherhood care was very different. Babies usually separated, placed in large nursery rooms and looked by midwives.

“The whole system was much less complex at that time,” he says, Jason Tang, a London law firm, who represents Susan.

He continued: “The personnel immediately did not make a card or label or just fell and put on the wrong baby or the wrong cradle.”

Since the end of the 1940s, England has seen a post -war explosion on the newly established NHS, where he applied more pressure on intensive birth services.

This, of course, has not meant anything for Susan for decades.

“Normal, working class” grew up as part of the household, met her husband, and worked with a “practical” clinical role for NHS.

In his young years, he remembers his family as a very good, loving ç couple who do their family “and always encouraging me.

Susan, “In a way, I’m very glad they are not here to see this,” he says. “If they watch me there, I hope they don’t know what’s going on.”

If the house DNA tests had been present before, she could not think that they could tell them the fact that they would be “very terrible.”

“But for me, I don’t think something has changed about them, you still don’t think it’s a mother and father, or he says.

On the other hand, his relationship with the man he always knows as his brother thinks that he is strengthened by what he lives.

“In fact, it brought us closer to each other. Now we meet more often and I get cards sent to my dear sister ‘.

“Both he and his wife are absolutely wonderful, to be honest, I cannot praise them enough.”

At that time he remembers that he received another “good letter from a cousin,” Oh don’t worry, you’re still part of the family. “

As for new blood relationships, he says the situation is more difficult.

The man who contacted him met with his biological brother and laughs while remembering how much they both look like.

“If you make him a wig and some make -up, he’d be honestly me,” he’s joking.

He also saw the photos of the other woman he tradled at birth and the photos of his sons.

However, it was not easy to establish a relationship with this new side of his family.

Orum I know they are my biological relatives, but I didn’t grow up with them, so there’s no emotional connection there, or he says.

“Basically, they closed the ranks to their sisters, who were admirable, and I understand.”

Susan’s genetic parents died a few years ago, but he was said to be similar to his biological mother.

“I still want to learn a little more about him – what he looked like, and all this – but I will never do it, you’re going here, or he says.

“But if I take the emotion from it and think logically and clearly, I was better than how I grew up.”

Susan is one of the first compensation receiving compensation in such a case – the amount is not explained -.

NHS had to do a second DNA test before Trust accepted his historical mistake and made an apology “very nice”.

Last year, BBC has reported another decimal case After a DNA test kit is given for Christmas, babies changed at birth re -emerging.

Susan said that the settlement was never about money, but that he had admitted that a mistake was made years ago.

“I think you always want someone to be blamed, right?” he asks.

“But I know that this will be with me for the rest of my life. I just wanted a result.”