# Met my sister today. Almost 64 years after her birth

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**Created:** [November 18, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/met-my-sister-today-almost-64-years-after-her-birth/925847 "2020-11-18T01:21:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/met-my-sister-today-almost-64-years-after-her-birth/925847/5 "2020-11-18T21:16:18Z")

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Excellent story. Glad to hear its started out well.

Here’s a post from another thread that mentions similar ideas, some of which worked out well and others not.

> [@With DNA testing, are unidentified Jane/John doe bodies still a thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-dna-testing-are-unidentified-jane-john-doe-bodies-still-a-thing/925608/18):
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> Adding genetic information to family genealogic histories can lead to surprises or unusual situations. Lots of folks have found out that, for example, they have a sibling who is only a half-sibling, or that their sibling is actually the child of an older sibling or cousin so-and-so, or that they were not genetically related to their parents for whatever reason, etc.
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> I have a coworker who recently found out that her deceased brother may have fathered a child when he was in high school through a match on her DNA kit results.  
> Or maybe it was that other brother… but the age difference would have been criminal…  
> She’s mulling the information now and hasn’t decided how to handle the situation.
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> Another coworker who was adopted used a DNA company kit in the hopes of identifying and finding out about her biologic family.  
> About 2-3 years after this coworker created her account she received an in-website contact from a man also in the same database who said there must be an error because they were closely matched. She explained that she was adopted and what she knew about the circumstances of her adoption. She never heard from the man again and did not pursue contact with him again herself either- which was the whole point of her using the DNA kit inn the first place- to find biological relatives.

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