In 2016, Christine Jacobsen decided to take an at-home DNA test because she was curious about her heritage.
"I expected the results to show that nearly all of me was Danish," Jacobsen, who was 64 at the time of her Ancestry.com test. But to her shock, her pie chart estimated that a quarter of her DNA came from West Africa. The Ancestry matches she received were far too distant to help find any close relatives.
So 2 years later, she did a similar test using 23andMe, which matched her with a Black woman the company identified as a likely first cousin. The women compared their shared DNA & set up a family tree, quickly concluding that her biological father was brothers with the woman's father.
"It was the '50s and '60s & my parents were liberal progressives," she said. They would often put her to bed without a babysitter & then head out to listen to jazz in Harlem. Sometimes they'd tell her they were having "friends sleep over,."
In her mid-teens, Jacobsen realized that the sleepovers were swingers parties — events at which married or partnered people have casual sex with others.
Traditionally, a swinging couple "is supposed to be in the swinging event together & it's supposed to cement or unify their relationship."
But Jacobsen said that when she was a teen, her mother broke the rules of swinging by having a relationship with another participant. Her mom's lover & confidant would "hang out" at their home.
One night in 1968, she had a fierce argument with the man, whom she recalls exclaiming: "What do you know? You don't even know that your father's Black!"
Jacobsen said her mother started screaming. "Oh my God, you promised you'd never tell."
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Source: Yahoo News
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