(STUDY FINDS) – More than 80 percent of people who use genetic testing to locate long lost family members strike gold, new data reveals. That can be very exciting news for many — and it may also be crushing for others. Finding distant relatives can bring families closer, but using DNA testing services to find relatives can also reveal dark secrets, researchers say.
There has been a boom in people researching their family history following the popularity, and now a growing number of people are using genetic genealogy to find distant relatives and retrace their family trees. But how effective these relative-finding services are and whether people find what they are looking for has remained a mystery.
The study from Baylor University researchers concludes that most people who sign up for direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic or relative-finding services are happy with the results. But for some, like those who discover their parents are not who they thought, the results can be very different.
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