Have you ever had a DNA test?
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My family has written records of our history over the past 382 years. Why would I need to go back further??????
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susie: 31548873052827/comments/31548951579163
I'm at 279 variants with more Neanderthal DNA than 91% of the population. Possibly explains why I was born so hirsute.
is that you in the background in allens family picture??????
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My Grandmother traced our ancestors to 1816, when the first one came into Texas. That's far enough back for me.
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Yup, had it done to test the old family story about a Cherokee princess. Turns out, no Native Americans in my wood pile in at least the last 5 generations. Some genes from the middle east though. I'm getting a camel. Eat your heart out selectfire.
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My French Canadian ancestors walked across the New York State border backwards, so the U.S authorities thought they were leaving....
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I have never done a DNA test.
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He Dog: 31548873052827/comments/31548944184219
Yup, had it done to test the old family story about a Cherokee princess. Turns out, no Native Americans in my wood pile in at least the last 5 generations. Some genes from the middle east though. I'm getting a camel. Eat your heart out selectfire.
Weren't the Eastern Indians clearly from the Middle East?
I've been plugging my theory about the Bimini road. It was thought to have been debunked when found to be made of beach rock, i.e. natural sandstone that forms by itself.
But what if it were built just like the Aztec causeways across Lake Texcoco? They made two walls of pilings side by side and filled the space in between with sand and rocks, with a wooden road on top of the sand and rocks.
If there were something like that in the Bimini lagoon which is seawater, it would only take a few decades for the sand to start to mineralize and be able to hold its own shape when the pilings rotted away or were eaten by marine worms.
The causeways were made to be collapsible in case of attack. Whoever built the Bimini road might also have had dozens or hundreds of other docks which they disassembled when necessary but this one was unable to be disassembled, maybe because some disaster like an epidemic befell the crew.
Last, I've noticed that the Ottoman Empire's invasion of Eastern Europe peaked right around the time the Spanish were confiscating the New World's gold. Perhaps they were trading for it and plowing the profits into gaining more land in Eurasia.
If you knew of two continents where the natives didn't know what the gold was worth, and there was a wealth of other resources, wouldn't you keep it a secret?
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I would love to have a DNA thing done but anonymously. I don't want any contact with ANYONE as a result, don't want to end up in a database, don't care about long lost relatives.
I wish I could just find out about my origins and nothing else. Once you submit your DNA, you've opened up a can of worms that you can't contain.
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[I wish I could just find out about my origins and nothing else. Once you submit your DNA, you've opened up a can of worms that you can't contain.]
Yep, exactly.
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Daddy said they ordered me out of the Sears&Roebuck catalogue
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Sorry soreshoulder, all the non-extinct Native Americans, including the islanders have DNA from Asia, primarily Mongolia. Languages can even be traced to specific areas. Apart from Scandinavian evidence on the East coast of Canada, there is no evidence of settlement originating from the old world. Ya can't believe Thor Hyerdahl, though he was an entertaining read.
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I don't know about that. They'd probably just assume it was post-Columbian if they found any DNA from the West coast of the Old World. It need not necessarily be so. They need not be purely old world in order to be part old world. I don't know if the languages of the Eastern tribes were much like any European or North African language. But paintings of them just don't look particularly Northeast Asian.
The Bimini road can be dated to before 1513 because there is a map from 1513 depicting the stones above water, meaning they had been there long enough for the pilings to rot away but not so long that the stones sank into the lagoon floor as they eventually did. So it must have been built at least a half century before 1513 because beach rock takes a few decades to form, but not too much more than half a century or they'd have been underwater.
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I think The pentagon had a warning out about getting DNA tests into the public domain. Oh well You guys have fun swapping stories about it.
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A member of the House Intelligence Committee warned Americans to stay away from DNA testing services as the information could be used to develop bioweapons targeting specific groups of Americans or even individuals.
Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., made the comments during an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on Friday, saying many Americans are far too willing to give up their DNA information to private companies.
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The Native Americans arrived in New Mexico somewhere between 15 and 30 thousand years ago. Plenty of time to arrive
in The Carib for the winter of 1450.
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He Dog: 31548873052827/comments/31548960281243
The Native Americans arrived in New Mexico somewhere between 15 and 30 thousand years ago. Plenty of time to arrive
in The Carib for the winter of 1450.
Castaways would have had technology and technical skill the Natives did not have. They would also have had some knowledge of extracting resources and selling them to the Old World.
They might have been secretly trading with the Ottomans via pirates or something.
Obviously what was found of the cultures of the new world in the east was nothing like any known European or North African culture or someone would have mentioned it. But they could have absorbed and learned from castaways or traders.
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I'm bettin' at least one DNA test here would come back as 'alien'...
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I ran my DNA 12 years ago and I must admit, I had some trepidation. I thought some 30-year old gal might pop up on my porch one day and say, "Hello, Daddy! Nice to meet you!"
That hasn't happened so far.
I was delighted to see that I am off-the-charts with high Neanderthal DNA. As my girlfriend's teen age grandson said, when I told him about my Cave Man ancestry, "That explains a lot." I say, if the shoe fits, wear it.
There has been no ill effect so far, the test basically confirmed family lore, I am Irish, Scottish and Welsh. As a registered Mick I can now tell the joke:
What is an Irish Seven-Course Dinner?
A potato and a six pack.
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allen griggs: 31548873052827/comments/31548973649947
I ran my DNA 12 years ago and I must admit, I had some trepidation. I thought some 30-year old gal might pop up on my porch one day and say, "Hello, Daddy! Nice to meet you!"
That hasn't happened so far.
I was delighted to see that I am off-the-charts with high Neanderthal DNA. As my girlfriend's teen age grandson said, when I told him about my Cave Man ancestry, "That explains a lot." I say, if the shoe fits, wear it.
There has been no ill effect so far, the test basically confirmed family lore, I am Irish, Scottish and Welsh. As a registered Mick I can now tell the joke:
What is an Irish Seven-Course Dinner?
A potato and a six pack.
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He Dog: 31548873052827/comments/31548960281243
The Native Americans arrived in New Mexico somewhere between 15 and 30 thousand years ago. Plenty of time to arrive
in The Carib for the winter of 1450.
There are Native Americans with non-land bridge DNA for sure. Since DNA tests only happened 500 years after Columbus, how do you know whether their non-land bridge DNA is pre- or post-Columbian?
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People even today go back and forth across the Bering Strait. They have very likely been doing it since before and then after the land bridge, no argument there.
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He Dog: 31548873052827/comments/31548961733275
People even today go back and forth across the Bering Strait. They have very likely been doing it since before and then after the land bridge, no argument there.
Right, but not the Atlantic, not before Columbus...even though a decade ago a 70 year old man rowed across it alone.
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Yes, I had one done along with giving my mom one as a gift. She came back just fine. Mine came back as almost-human like.
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I researched my family tree.......
Turns out I'm the sap!
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And since I am reportedly at least a wee bit o' Irish on me mudder's side, I will make the following statement:
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.
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My wife looked up her family tree ............................... turns out she is the Branch Manager. 😋
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Right, but not the Atlantic, not before Columbus...even though a decade ago a 70 year old man rowed across it alone.
In fact Scandinavians (Vikings likely) are known to have crossed to Canada well before Columbus.
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He Dog: 31548873052827/comments/
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In fact Scandinavians (Vikings likely) are known to have crossed to Canada well before Columbus.
Indeed. It's been well documented for decades. There was a reasonably good (though the presentation is horrible) documentary called "The Norse: An Arctic Mystery" on Amazon Prime detailing the current work by professor Sutherland who is expounding on research done in the 60s at a site in Newfoundland that chronicles Norse trading in the area even (ostensibly) prior to Lief Ericsson.
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I absolutely never wanted to know anything more than verbal and written family history. I mean, what harm or good could it do? I couldn't change it if it was bad. I couldn't claim some lost glory if it was good so what's the point. Also, I am the end of my great-grandfathers paternal lineage. So, no one to pass any info down to my kids anyway.
Deep in the back of my mind, I wonder if there is some ulterior reason for publicly offering DNA testing. Is there a huge DNA database the government(s) of the world maintain just waiting for future kids to screw up and they'll be caught because of their parents curiosity.
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No more green font. It was my whole point. People who think they are Native American may actually be something else.
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No more green font. It was my whole point. People who think they are Native American may actually be something else.
I caught that.
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