Genetic ancestry tests.

[rockcasbah]

My son wanted to do one. He was very intrigued. My husband said don't do it because that is how the government will get your DNA. Who knows what they could do with it. True story.

I am not giving my DNA away unless she gives a great blowjob.

 

[BrokenBarbie]

I am not giving my DNA away unless she gives a great blowjob.

Don’t give the Feds any ideas...

 

[hobbit.]

My son wanted to do one. He was very intrigued. My husband said don't do it because that is how the government will get your DNA. Who knows what they could do with it. True story.

Sending your DNA of to a private company, what could possibly go wrong ? its a bit like saying dont trust facebuck with any personal information, or that free computer software would send your private information back to unscrupulous companies.

I might be being cynical but other than for health reasons (see above re where you information could / might end up) i cant really see what difference it makes knowing where your great great great grandparents came from or if your mum /dad was confused about their own ethnicity - people get confused for a lot of reasons.

Now if someones DNA shows a definite link to Hitler or Mengele that might be different and worth knowing at election time ?

 

[SpeareChucker]

Yeah...



WHAT I am is more important than WHO I am.




BUT! I do seem to have superior genes. Long hair, no gray, no dolf...

 

[bellisarius]

Vat had his done. English and N. European. Given that I had already done an Ancestry workup back to the early 1600's there was no surprise in the DNA profile.

 

[Saint Peter]

Who controls the results? Did you have to sign anything when you spit in the cup?




its alright
we know where you've been

 

[oggbashan]

My wife had hers done. It confirmed what she already knew:

Her father's line had been English for many generations. Her mother's line was Yorkshire except for her great-grandfather who was Polish.

I haven't bothered with mine. Both sides were English back to the 17th century and only before then does my mother's line get interesting - there is a link back to an English nobleman's younger daughter who married a local farmer when her family were on the wrong side of a dispute with the KIng and lost all their lands. Through her, the line goes back to King Henry II and the counts of Provence. Also, in the 15th Century, a Spanish knight from Pamplona who had to flee Spain after an affair with the wrong noble's daughter...

 

[FescueFan]

The ancestry dna ethnicity estimate changes all the time. When my test was first done, it said that there was less than 1% native American. So, I figured my Viking ancestors brought back a couple native Americans to have their way with. Then, that went away, but there was still a percent Irish, and again, I assumed my ancestor brought home a maiden for house duty. Now, I'm just a boring 63% Norwegian and Swedish with the rest being Eastern European.

Time for some akvavit and a kishka.

That's not boring....you're a rather uncommon minority man.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Mine said east central Africa. I think they went back too far.

 

[RobDownSouth]

My father is half Irish (just like Bobo's redhead father) so I was raised being told I was 25% Irish. Then I took the DNA test and found I was actually 37% Irish, so I obviously had some from mom's side as well. 63% Norwegian/Swedish (just like Thor) but no great Viking stories...just a photocopy of my Nordic relatives paperwork when they immigrated through Ellis Island in 1911.

Interestingly, I'm not much for pining for the fjords.

 

[rockcasbah]

No DNA samples given here, but my ancestry is all England Wasp on all sides for over 300 years, with a wee Irish, probably in the woodpile.

Bone structure and coloring (tall, blue eyed, dirty blonde) suggests some Germanic ancestry behind the known English roots, but that's pretty common.

 

[Dribble]

Genetics is a probability game when it comes to ancestry information like this. Just because a DNA test says nope, doesn't mean it is not real. Each chromosome segregates randomly, and recombination occurs all the time. Unless the sequence is highly conserved (in both sides of the equation), it is just a flip of the coin as to whether you still have the sequence.

(0.5)^4 = 0.0625. So after 4 generations, there is only a 6% chance of retaining that DNA sequence...and recombination lowers this with each generation. The stories of hidden secrets originated from somewhere...they don't just happen. Don't be so ready to call people a liar.

 

[hobbit.]

the counts of Provence. .

Come to mention it, there is something of a count about you

Genetics is a probability game ..they don't just happen. Don't be so ready to call people a liar.

Thats a bit like the little known fact that a lot of first children are born premature

 

[ishtat]

I haven't bothered with mine. Both sides were English back to the 17th century and only before then does my mother's line get interesting - there is a link back to an English nobleman's younger daughter who married a local farmer when her family were on the wrong side of a dispute with the KIng and lost all their lands. Through her, the line goes back to King Henry II and the counts of Provence. Also, in the 15th Century, a Spanish knight from Pamplona who had to flee Spain after an affair with the wrong noble's daughter...

Maths is the big problem Og. That Spanish knight would be one of about 60,000+ ancestors in the same generation, and if you go back to Henry II if some ancestors did not appear in many different spots you would end up having more ancestors than the population of the time.

2 4 8 16 32 etc.

 

[Adre]

I was told very early I was English, Irish, Scotch, French, and Welsh.

Reckon I won’t pay someone to disagree.

The first appearance of my exact surname was on the Isle of Man a few centuries ago.

 

[oggbashan]

Maths is the big problem Og. That Spanish knight would be one of about 60,000+ ancestors in the same generation, and if you go back to Henry II if some ancestors did not appear in many different spots you would end up having more ancestors than the population of the time.

2 4 8 16 32 etc.

I know. One of the women in my maternal direct line had an unusual set of names, so unusual that searching for her is very easy. She is the only person on the whole Ancestry database with those two names.

She married and had twelve children all of whom grew up and married with most having a similar number of children who survived...

Some other descendant from her has worked out that there at least 2,500 of her descendants currently alive with the number increasing every week...

 

[Rightguide]

Don’t give the Feds any ideas...

They already have access to those DNA databases. There is no electronic database in the United States they can't access at any time.

 

[LLCox]

German, English , Irish...

Lawyers in NY contacted my father when I was twelve and told him a guy in Ireland died who had a million or so dollars found in the walls of his house and a Will leaving it to a Mr. Cox in the US. There were eleven Mr. Cox's in the US and all were supposed to check their ancestry to see who fit. It wasn't my father but we did find Dukes in England to horse thieves in Texas. Yippie-Ki-A.

 

[oggbashan]

They already have access to those DNA databases. There is no electronic database in the United States they can't access at any time.

And around the world. They are even watching us...

 

[butters]

Genetics is a probability game when it comes to ancestry information like this. Just because a DNA test says nope, doesn't mean it is not real. Each chromosome segregates randomly, and recombination occurs all the time. Unless the sequence is highly conserved (in both sides of the equation), it is just a flip of the coin as to whether you still have the sequence.

(0.5)^4 = 0.0625. So after 4 generations, there is only a 6% chance of retaining that DNA sequence...and recombination lowers this with each generation. The stories of hidden secrets originated from somewhere...they don't just happen. Don't be so ready to call people a liar.

that's a truth, for sure

i'd be interested to get a test but not too worried.

i was told i was english born but go back a couple of generations or three and i was french on my mother's side and german jewish (originally russian jewish) on my father's, with splashes of american (some link to a sunlight soap heir ) and a couple of others i don't recall.

when i finally got access to my father's birth records, it looks like his father was a british soldier and he was born in this country to a british wife. not at all what i was told... that he, and about 11 siblings had been smuggled out of germany just before ww1, sans parents; he was a new baby.

both my parents are dead so i can't ask them for confirmation, but perhaps the details on his british birth certificate weren't true, or they were and he spun a lie to my mother. *shrugs* it won't keep me awake at night. maybe if i researched whether or not his siblings were listed as children of the same couple as his parents, it would give me more insight. oh well

 

[oggbashan]

My wife had family anecdotes about her great-grandfather that she was sure had been 'improved'. Her extensive researches proved that the stories were correct in every detail.

My father told me that he and his parents and siblings were bombed out of their dwelling in the City of London by a bomb dropped from a Zepplin in 1915. I now know the exact date and time the bomb was dropped, by which Zeppelin, the name of the commander, and that at the time it was the world's largest bomb ever dropped from the air - 550kg. It had been inscribed (in chalk in German) "Kaiser's Gift".

Only two people were killed - two men who came out of the public house, carrying their ale, to look up at the Zeppelin.

 

[Wrong Element]

I will probably have mine done some day. My mother's side of the family is Irish all the way through, but while I assume I'm mostly English on the paternal side, there's some uncertainty there because my grandmother was adopted (her mother died giving birth to her), and I know nothing at all about her ancestry.

 

[jaF0]

Once upon a time, way long back ago, I was told there is some Native American, I forget the tribe. I don't think there's enough to claim ancestry though. I'm not really interested in doing any tests or starting any research because there may still be some alive that I don't want to know anything. I don't if they contact anyone during the process, but I don't want even that possibility.

 

[stickygirl]

I won't get mine done in case my mother really did adopt me.

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

It's mostly BS after about the 6th or 7th generation back. Record keeping for the average schmuck was so poor, if not non-existent, prior to about 200-220 years ago.

I am supposedly a descendant of Gaius Julius Caesar. Hard for me to believe the crap they tell you. I think they do it just so you will keep digging deeper.

I suppose depending on your beliefs and religious affiliations, one could easily claim to be from the blood of Adam & Eve.