According to Garuda Purana, one of the reason behind this dosha is due to abnormal or unnatural early death of any ancestor. If the last rites of the ancestors has not been performed in the righteous ways. It is also said that the soul of our ancestors & departed family members does not get peace (shanti). Or due the bad deeds of any of the ancestors the family got cursed and the next generation has to suffer that curse. It is believed that Pitra Dosh can occur up to the 7th generation. In most of the cases of Pitru Dosha, a native born in a family lineage is one of his own Ancestors. Sometimes we find that we are constantly suffering inspite of no bad deeds done by us in this life time, we are not getting any results of any of our hard work. In some cases even the native is earning good but the savings are draining out due unexpected expenses or diseases.
For more details visit About-Astro