DNA kits?

[Addicting]

I ordered two of the Mother’s Day specials. We will see how this shakes out.

 

[44hunter45]

Found my biological paternal great aunt and also found out why my maternal grandmothers parents looked like Geronimo. U.S. Army already has my DNA and they will probably use it to develop super soldiers in 100 years.

Disclaimer - Not pointed at you brother. Just where my mind goes.

Kathryn White

MY SON CHRISTIAN WHITE GOT HIS GRADUATION PICTURES AFTER GRADUATIING FROM THE SOUTH TEXAS 2 MINUTEMEN MILITIA TRAINING SCHOOL. CONGRATULATIONS CHRISITIAN PROUD MOMMA #WeArePatriots

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[Redmt]

I was adopted and found birth mother 20+ years ago from leg work. We couldn't get any father info from her or the family. I had thought about doing it to find him but it would be a very long shot. Besides that I was a sperm donor all the way through highschool. I don't need any surprises at my age.

 

[thusby]

I was adopted and found birth mother 20+ years ago from leg work. We couldn't get any father info from her or the family. I had thought about doing it to find him but it would be a very long shot. Besides that I was a sperm donor all the way through highschool. I don't need any surprises at my age.

Dad?

 

[Redmt]

Dad?

If you're not very handsome and incredibly rich, not ready to support your long lost father in a manner that I deserve then kiss off.

 

[beaglegun]

BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Islander]

Pretty sure your data gets sold fyi

You opt in or out.

I've done Ancestry.com, 23 and Me, and CRI Genetics. Similar results.

Don't wait. Hard to do after they are gone.

 

[howl]

This reminded me of a fella in high school who complained his father made him break up with, to never see again, a new girlfriend. He reported dumping her was awkward but drama-free because her mother had told her the same thing before he arrived at her house. I guess testing has some merit for young people in rural areas.

That and making sure she didn't participate in any mRNA experiments!

 

[Scott85]

I downloaded my data to another site and this is what it came up with.

 

[LuketheDog]

So this is kinda cool, before he passed and pre-DNA kits, my grandad researched and paid for some research on his family line from us grandkids and as far back as they could go. My daughter was learning about immigration from Europe a few weeks ago so I copied a couple pages of it for her to trace the dates some of her ancestors came to the US.

 

[Wild Bill]

This thread inspired me to do the Ancestry free trial and I've traced part of my dad's side back to the 1700s back in Prussia and Bavaria. Working on getting that far on Mom's side later.
Pretty incredible at the data and records the have available.
I had a good idea about my ancestry and where we came from, and this pretty well verified it. Almost pure Kraut, with just a tiny splash of Sweed.

 

[schmalts]

Wife was an orphanage baby. She always wanted to know the answers. I got her a kit a couple years ago from Christmas but warned her not to have expectations too high for what she might find and I was right. She got lucky she was adopted because the biological mom was not the greatest person and she had a total of 8 kids with 3 men. The wife did make contact with one sister that said she had been watching for her to pop up on the registry. She remembered mom went to the hospital to have a baby and didn't come home with one. Family services intervened and made sure My wife was going to go to a better place in the end, and in this case they succeeded. From what the wife has found of other siblings she is not interested in making contact with the ones still alive. There are a couple cousins she would like to meet though. She has no regrets in the test, but was hoping for a better picture but she got the answers she was looking for.

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

A stronger legacy is keeping your family dna map a secret from government agencies.

That’s already been lost because of your cousins.

 

[TOGIE]

pretty sure the government already knows more about me than i know about me.

so, what's a fun little DNA test gonna do?

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

My BIL claimed he was Cherokee and his mother supposedly had the card to prove it. Turns out he is ZERO % native american
He doesn't know we all learned the truth from his daughter.

Some of my family keeps that native ancestor myth alive too. What do you get when you put 60 white people in a room? Full blooded Cherokee.

 

[thusby]

Nothing to do now but wait for your social score and see if you can nab a contract to help install those facial recognition cameras.

 

[howl]

 

[SFC B]

Like some others have said my DNA and fingerprints have LONG since been public domain between the military and local and federal LEO positions. Further, some of the assignments I have had and things I have been exposed to have given me a pragmatic/fatalist view. If the government WANTS to know something about you or gather data on you they WILL. That being said I recently did my my Ancestry and was a bit surprised. I am officially the whitest person on the planet AND have the Viking path of DNA (Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland) that was not known previsously. Also, have NOTHING south of about Austria. The English and German was known (although I anticipated much more German as that is where my name came over in 1840). Another native tale did come about for my wife's results though. She has a grandmother that is a real POS, drunk and the excuse was always she had a "disease" because Indians are predisposed to alcoholism.......Wife and kids came back 0.0000000000% Native. Turns out grandma is just a horrible, mean drunk.

I am sorry to hear about your mom but glad you have some time to prepare.

• England & Northwestern Europe
  37%
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  Scotland
  28%
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  Sweden & Denmark
  14%
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  Germanic Europe
  8%
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  Ireland
  6%
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  Eastern Europe & Russia
  4%
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  Baltics
  2%
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  Norway
  1%

View all 2,600+ regions tested

 

[Greyman]

I did Ancestry DNA and found out I'm white. Really, really white. All British Isles and Scandinavia. My family on both sides have been in America since the 1600's so I thought someone in my past might have mixed it up a little, but apparently not.

 

[Bigjay73]

Here's my top geographical areas from ancestry and 23 and me. Quite a difference, and they change from time to time. Always made me a bit skeptical of their accuracy