Bizarre Online DNA databases win ever popularity in the US. The phenomenon has already to breakthroughs in some of the cold cases led, and to the discoveries of some surprising relationships. As with Shauna Harrison (41) from the vicinity of San Francisco, which dácht that they any child.

In our country should sperm of one donor, but with six different women, but in the U.S., that restriction is not. The number of brothers and sisters can be so nice up, such as the American Shauna Harrison experienced.

Harrison logged two years ago in her account of ‘23andMe’, a website which DNA comparisons offer on the basis of speekseltests. She put her profile on public and immediately received a response from someone who claimed that they were both the same donorvader had, a jew of Russian descent. Harrison knew that they were conceived with sperm from a donor. Her parents had her that told her 27th, because Harrison as gedoctoreerd gezondheidsspecialiste asked to her genetic background.

What they do not could comprehend, is that her ‘family’ would be extended to 29 half-brothers and -sisters. That is now the case. And while Shauna thought she was an only child. All 30 of them are between 24 and 41 years old, and they share the same father. Shauna is the third oldest. Most of them live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Many went their entire lives to schools in each other’s vicinity. Some knew each other even before they knew they were family.

“It is really strange – that is the only word that I can come – the feeling when you meet someone, because you know that your DNA shares with each other,” said Harrison at CNN. “We have a very separate relationship with each other.” Harrison was asked a lot of questions. “Two of us were on two and a half weeks of eachother, and two others were born two days apart. That kind of things seem to me to be a little strange. We come from the same steel, we are almost twins? I do not know! How does that work?”

Also her half-sister, Jodi Hale, grew up as an only child. When they too, as no. 15 of the gang, her other brothers and sisters found out, she responded shocked. “What am I doing? I want it all”, she thought. But the meeting with some members of her new family was fascinated by Hale as well. It turned out they had the same interests and love for mathematics.