DNA Ancestry Test Kits. Have you done one or knows someone who has. Accuracy?

[Mitchapalooza]

Yeah I'm pretty much what I've been told I was. Turns out im also 2% middle eastern. Allahu Akbar

 

[Crystallas]

Yep, mine was accurate. You do come across occasional mishaps. Just need to apply a cross-check mentality, like anything else. Remember, you aren't discovering the truth about your family and everything else you learned is null and void, but using this as a second method confirming or adding more questions with results more than anything.

I have a Scottish friend who did one, and it said he was 100% Korean. Posted the results on his feed with a lot of lulz. Somehow they contacted him and let him retest, and next one said he was something like 90% Korean. Never did anything that would mess with the results. Amazing, because he has a whole official clan ledger/history for himself and family with the kilt patterns and crest, all that (forget the *correct* names, but whatever, too lazy to goog).

Also have cousins that are full brothers two years apart, both had different results. One is an x-ray tech, which may or may not mean anything.

 

[Bears_804]

Taking a genealogy course currently. We went through a lot of the DNA sites last week. Apparently ancestry is the best if you’re looking for real connections in bloodlines vs the others. I think 23andMe goes a little deeper into your DNA. Can tell you certain genetics to watch out for.

 

[SERE Bear]

DNA data collections are also used by various three letter orgs just like social media pics and postings.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/tec...ta-for-facial-recognition-algorithm-1.4259579

It doesn’t bother me but its something to consider.

 

[Houston]

Hopefully they use my DNA in the future to create some sort of creature or something.

 

[LordKOTL]

Wife did ancestry. Came back as like 97% Western Slavic and 3% Baltic...which was pretty much expected.

As for me? If I wanted someone to have my DNA I'd shoot it on their back.

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

I'm sending my spit off tomorrow, interesting to see how much Native American I am.

 

[airtime143]

DNA data collections are also used by various three letter orgs just like social media pics and postings.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/tec...ta-for-facial-recognition-algorithm-1.4259579

It doesn’t bother me but its something to consider.

Discard a bottle or shed a hair in the wrong place at the wrong time and it might bother you plenty!

You may not wander around areas with murders and rapes... but eventually as technology gets better and cheaper, dna will be used for lesser crimes.
At that point, there might be a real risk of getting your life interrupted just for buying a soda and throwing it in the wrong recycle bin... sitting around answering dumbass questions and ruining a day.

Personally, I wouldnt even consider getting one done unless there was a strict and actionable privacy code.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

This is anecdotal, but I know three people who were adopted and only one of them was willing to do this. The other two had no desire to even know.

So it just makes me wonder how much of their client base is made up of adoptions.

 

[number51]

This is anecdotal, but I know three people who were adopted and only one of them was willing to do this. The other two had no desire to even know.

So it just makes me wonder how much of their client base is made up of adoptions.

My wife was adopted and she won't do it. We've had some discussions on this, I want the the medical background for our daughter, wife says it would be unfair/disrespectful to her "parents" the people that raised her, who have passed away, so I don't think it will bother them. I don't understand it, she doesn't even want to talk about it.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

My wife was adopted and she won't do it. We've had some discussions on this, I want the the medical background for our daughter, wife says it would be unfair/disrespectful to her "parents" the people that raised her, who have passed away, so I don't think it will bother them. I don't understand it, she doesn't even want to talk about it.

I can understand not wanting to see the ancestory, but the medical background is a different test, no?

 

[Mitchapalooza]

I'm sending my spit off tomorrow, interesting to see how much Native American I am.

1/1024th

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

I'm sending my spit off tomorrow, interesting to see how much Native American I am.

85% midget

 

[number51]

I can understand not wanting to see the ancestory, but the medical background is a different test, no?

I don't know, I'll bet somebody here knows. Is there a way we can just get family medical history, and not names and dates?

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I don't know, I'll bet somebody here knows. Is there a way we can just get family medical history, and not names and dates?

I thought it was a regular test through your doctor. My wife's brother died of cancer, and she took some test to see if she could develop something. That had nothing to do with ancestry.

 

[number51]

I thought it was a regular test through your doctor. My wife's brother died of cancer, and she took some test to see if she could develop something. That had nothing to do with ancestry.

I didn't understand, you mean a test my kid would get at the doctor. Okay, that sounds like a great way to get the info without pissing anyone off.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I didn't understand, you mean a test my kid would get at the doctor. Okay, that sounds like a great way to get the info without pissing anyone off.

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/testing/genetictesting

^ That's what I mean. It allows for the testing for possible development of disease, but doesn't necessarily mean you get your origins. So you get to see what you watch for, and you don't piss off the adoptive parents.

 

[number51]

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/testing/genetictesting

^ That's what I mean. It allows for the testing for possible development of disease, but doesn't necessarily mean you get your origins. So you get to see what you watch for, and you don't piss off the adoptive parents.

Good info, thanks.

 

[The Boletarian]

The Vikings did get around!

Yeah we did.

 

[Higrader]

My daughter just did 23 and me. It say she's 37 percent Polish and no Lithuanian. I'm 50 percent Polish and 25 percent Lithuanian. Her Mother has no Polish or Lithuanian. Something's wrong.