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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maya Oppenheim

‘I did a DNA test and found out I had 7 siblings I didn’t know about’

John Chambers

A man has told of the “emotional rollercoaster” of discovering he was conceived using a sperm donor after members of his family were given ancestry DNA kits for Christmas.

John Chambers, 37, a composer who lives in London, told The Independent that following the revelation, when he was in his early thirties, he tracked down the donor by going “down a rabbit hole” and trawling ancestry websites for years. He later learned he had seven other half-siblings from the same donor.

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