DNA Family Secrets: Who is my birth mother?
Podcast: Margaret's story • DNA Family Secrets: Wh...
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Around three-quarters of a million people in the UK are adopted, but before the law changed in 1975, most adoptees never knew the identity of their birth parents.
Margaret was adopted when she was just six months old. She's wondering if analysing her DNA might reveal the truth about her biological family.
My mum and dad tried for family, but it wasn't successful, so they went to see the priest and the priest put them in touch with the adoption agency in Southport.
Southport and Liverpool a lot of Irish ladies came over, for the adoption. So, I've made up this story that she was an Irish lady, she came over had me and probably went back to Ireland.
Margaret is on her way back to the University of Leicester. Turi and our team have been analysing Margaret's DNA to find out about her birth mother's ancestry and attempting to trace her family.
Today she's joined by husband Paul to get her results.
Margaret how are you feeling?
I woke up feeling very excited this morning, you know, I've not known for 67 years, not known and now today I will.
Do you want to head next door and Paul and I will wait for you?
Okay.
Hello.
Come on in, take a seat. It's lovely to see you again how are you doing?
And you, yeah.
Good, okay so what we did was we were taking your DNA and we're analysing it against people in databases that total about 25 million people. So, we're looking for first cousins, second cousins, third cousins, this kind of thing.
So, it's probably going to come as no surprise, but you come back as 93% Irish and you've actually got concentrations in particular parts of Ireland. So, let's have a look, let's show you. So, you actually have concentrations in places like Leitrim, Cavan, and Louth. So, in this kind of area. So, you've got central Ireland here and then you've got Ulster in Northern Ireland. So, definitely your parents are Irish.
So, I know that you were particularly interested in finding your birth mum, now, fortunately for us DNA testing is really popular in Ireland. There's also apparently about 80 million people worldwide who claim Irish ancestry, many of them in areas of parts of the world where DNA testing is also very popular. So, that's what we're looking for and we're trying to home in and see if we can find out who your birth mum is.
We got lucky. So, we found one first cousin, six second cousins, 19 third cousins and we know about this because of how much DNA they share with you, and that led us to your grandparents. So, your grandparents are Margaret and James. So, that led us to concentrate on their daughters and more specifically their youngest daughter Bridget.
So, let's draw you this family tree. So, this is your family tree, so, you've got Margaret and James and they have a daughter Bridget. Bridget has two children and we talked to them. So, her two children they really didn't think that Bridget had any other children and there was this family story that the eldest sister had had an illegitimate child, who had been given up for adoption. Because we wanted to be really sure which one of these two sisters was your mum. So, we took your DNA, we analysed it against Bridget's two children and that gave us our answer. So, your birth mum is Bridget.
So, this would be with her husband, you would come off here with your biological father and you come off there, so, you have got younger half siblings.
Yeah.
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Always frustrating with these videos that we don’t see the ending
Spoiler ending to find out what happened after (from Turi King podcast)..... She got a photo of mum and letter from half siblings. Turns out mum is still alive but has very severe dementia. Margaret went over, was welcomed by half siblings who took her and introduced her to all the family. She also got to spend some time in the care home with her mum! The mum sadly passed away not long after, but she has two new siblings she is close to now
@reneedoiron7560
4 ай бұрын
Thanks! ❤
@debbiee6535
4 ай бұрын
👍thank you
There is one thing about dna tests and results, that people seem to forget: you can't match much to the exact, if the person's dna has not been submitted, or found.
My 3x great grandfather was the last one born in coCavan Ireland he came over with his parents Margaret and Barney Burns during the potato famine x
I always find it odd that people in the UK and USA only want to know who their birth mother is but not their birth father
@benedictewrstad8379
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve seen a lot of similar shows from both the UK and Norway, and this is a common theme. In adoption-cases the biological father honestly doesn’t always have to be involved more than one night, while the biological mother has been pregnant in nine months and given birth. So while a father absolutely is important from birth on, some babies would not have had that opportunity anyway. some babies are conceived through rape or a one night stand etc so I guess there are many reasons why information about a mother are more important emotionally than information about a father.
@JenShea
5 ай бұрын
As a woman who was adopted, and has her own child, I think I can answer that, in part. Often the birth father has no idea… mine did not (and neither did his family, who I did find… he, my bio father died tragically in a plane crash when I was 8)… but I know that when I had my own daughter, I realized how difficult it would have been to give me away! I carried my precious cargo for nine months. I nurtured her, I protected her… she is a part of me that no one else could ever be! So, after she was born I had more empathy for my bio mother. I started to think about how she must have felt to have to give away a child she grew, protected and, according to my non-identifying information, she wanted to keep. In the end, we never met. In my 40’s she had an opportunity through Children’s Aid, but declined, saying she never told anyone… that her current family didn’t know anything. Shame, her daughter found out about me after she died and it really hurt her… messed her up actually. Secrets come out, eventually. Why let them ruin your relationships.
@gail9299
5 ай бұрын
Lots of people in this series looking for their fathers!
@lilykhandker4126
5 ай бұрын
@@gail9299 very few!!
@nicolad8822
4 ай бұрын
It’s pretty obvious as a first step. Your mother carried you for 9 months then laboured to give birth and yet gave you up. Being a sperm donor is easier to walk away from. Often they go looking for fathers one they hear the story from the mother. These shows started before they were widely using DNA, the birth mother’s details were on the adoption files, the father’s often not.
My DNA test showed that I had 204 Irish cousins
@brendajerez2235
2 жыл бұрын
Keeping busy!!!
@lilykhandker4126
5 ай бұрын
1st, 2nd, 3rd
This is not the full story. Where's the rest?
my mom from Derry my cousin is my brother she let us all know a few yrs back he known my aunt and uncle adopted him...more family secerts have come out helped 2 men who are my sec cousins find their birth da both of them are half brothers and now are part of the family
I have my DNA on Ancestry and 23&me and so far I have over 5000 cousins, the majority of them being 3rd or further removed. I have, last year, found the single relative for whom I was searching, together with 3 “beautiful bonus” very close immediate family members. I have not been in touch with all the cousins - it would take me a very long time and too much money, I suspect.
Is this part of a documentary or tv show? Want to find out if she could meet her new found family.
@jiyu9277
2 жыл бұрын
A tv show called Family Secrets
What about her father??
Why have you made the music so loud that it is hard to understand what you are saying? I can't keep on listening to this, although I would like to.
@lijohnyoutube101
3 ай бұрын
I can barely hear the music…
❤️❤️👍👍
So, you just turn it OFF ? That is ALL ? Good grief !
@ProfessorTuriKing
2 жыл бұрын
Please do watch the programs. This is just my part of it. The next bit will have you reaching for tissues!
@carolcole570
2 жыл бұрын
@@ProfessorTuriKing . If I can find them, I would Love to watch them ! I assume I will find them under your name ?
@ProfessorTuriKing
2 жыл бұрын
@@carolcole570 There are 3 full episodes on BBC iPlayer, Margaret's story is in episode 2. Try the link and see if you can access them (location and UK TV licensing dependent) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sthc/episodes/player
@carolcole570
2 жыл бұрын
@@ProfessorTuriKing episode 2 is about Janine. Forget it. I am not really techno minded. Too old. However, if you might know of a DNA test that might show if I have even just a speck of Jewish blood in me, please give me the company name. I have done Ancestry DNA and also Heritage. Frankly, those two keep sending me hints, and I think they are scams. They had my DNA connected with my sister-in-law, for goodness sakes ! Well, Turi, you have a wonderful day in our Lord.
@nillyk5671
2 жыл бұрын
@@carolcole570 23andme is better than Ancestry imo and a lot better than Heritage. 23andme showed a small percentage of Ashkenazi Jewish in my blood. I read an article about a guy whose results kept showing "European Jewish" 😕, that was it. He was so frustrated as he wasn't getting any geographical information on his dna and he rejected Judaism as his religion. He took a dna test on LivingDna and he finally got the answers he needed.
And...... What a pathetic ending!
She uses her hands extensively to express herself but I have never seen anyone with hand position like this with every finger spread out. Very odd.
Can't believe a 'professor' would still use the word "illegitimate" in the C21st. There are many other factual and non-judgemental adjectives such as "ex-nuptial".
@sassygrammy1258
2 жыл бұрын
😜🤪🤣🤣😜🤪🤣🤣 It is what it is.
@nillyk5671
2 жыл бұрын
Are you illegitimate or do you have illegitimate children? Like the other commenter said "it is what it is". That's the word that was used back in the day and that word came with a whole set of circumstances that explain what happened hence the use of the right word. Ex-nuptial won't change anything. You could use it today but it happened back then and if you have a problem with that word, that's on you and your self esteem.
@carolcole570
2 жыл бұрын
ParArdua. Oh, good GRIEF ! If a person was illegitimate…….he is illegitimate ! Period !
@carontownsend9890
2 жыл бұрын
Please don’t be ridiculous.
@bernadetteflynn5005
2 жыл бұрын
Ffs