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Today I mailed off my AncestryDNA sample

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  • chiefr
    You could have .00000000027% of Native American DNA.
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  • beneteau
    I gave my wife one of those kits for her birthday. She knows very little about her family. She hasn't returned hers, yet.
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  • Mr. Perfect
    My takeaway from this is don't litter.
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  • fordsix
    they will know where to go for presidental spare parts[^]
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  • select-fire
    I am going to send them my dogs sample
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  • spasmcreek
    all the more info to add to your social scoring file after GunBroker entries ......skynet is up and running....you may qualify for soylent green...or not
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  • asop
    My wife sent her's in and found out she is 93% Irish[:0]. Explains alot[:D]
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  • wundudnee
    I got a kit for Christmas and sent it in today. I figure that by now the powers that be have all the information on me they want.
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  • jltrent
    My daughter got me one for Christmas "23 and me" with the genetic also.

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  • He Dog
    Now we will find out if you really are human.[}:)]
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  • Ditch-Runner
    My luck I find I have a a few "offspring" I was unaware of [:0][:0][B)][B)]
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  • kissgoodnight
    quote:Originally posted by Ditch-Runner
    My luck I find I have a a few "offspring" I was unaware of [:0][:0][B)][B)]

    I wonder....
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  • montanajoe
    • Community moderator
    not sure I put enough trust in their accuracy of the test,,
    besides,if you don't know who you are by now,you never will,,[;)][;)]
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  • sigarmsp226
    My wife and I did this...Needless to say I was suprised with the results...It was not what we were expecting....Suprised they can tellyou so much with a little spit...Now we get an email almost daily asking us to pay for more details or potential relatives that they have identified that we are related too.....
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  • mjrfd99
    quote:Originally posted by asop
    My wife sent her's in and found out she is 93% Irish[:0]. Explains alot[:D]


    Mines 50/50 Irish/Italian.
    I'd work extra 24's once a month.
    Before mentalpause.
    During mentalpause - I left for 24 months. [B)]
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  • Mobuck
    I know all I need to know about my family. From where I sit right now, I within 7-8 miles of the last residences of 3 generations of my family(both maternal and paternal) and paternal side of spouse's family.
    Too bad families get blown to the four winds and have to do this stuff to "find" themselves.
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  • babun
    This reminds me of my standant reply when someone jokes about me being mostly bald.

    I tell them, "Every man has 46 chromosones. If you want to use yours
    to grow hair, thats okay. I've got better things to use mine for . !!
    [;)][:D]
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  • Smitty500mag
    quote:Originally posted by chiefr
    You could have .00000000027% of Native American DNA.


    One-Drop Rule.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
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  • mogley98
    First of all obviously it is accurate they have caught several people using the DNA matches.

    Secondly I know from personal experience it is accurate in that my first cousin was identified as my first cousin when he sent his in and my daughter was identified as my daughter when she sent hers in.

    The 23 and me is more info in my opinion a better deal even though Ancestry probably has a larger match base.

    Knowing who you are due to three of four generations living in the same place is fine but with research you can go back to your roots PRIOR to coming to America unless you are Pocahontas
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  • Brookwood
    I'm afraid if I ever sent my sample in that they would find the missing link that they have been looking for. Don't want to be disturbed by all of the hoopla media, men in black, strange helicopters, gov't men in space suits at my door, etc. etc. [:0]

    Must be feeling "special" today! [:D]
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  • allen griggs
    I sent mine in to 23andme.com
    And I am mostly Welsh, Irish, and Scottish, which goes along with family lore.

    Bonus: I am also 3 percent Neanderthal. Some of the highest Neanderthal DNA ever tested.
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  • He Dog
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    I sent mine in to 23andme.com
    And I am mostly Welsh, Irish, and Scottish, which goes along with family lore.

    Bonus: I am also 3 percent Neanderthal. Some of the highest Neanderthal DNA ever tested.



    Did your ancestors drive trucks in the Neander Valley?[:D]
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  • allen griggs
    Yes they did, and they spoke German.
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  • select-fire
    My Great Grandpa when he got mad would speak German.
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  • Brookwood
    Quote: "More erosion of ones' right to privacy that is freely surrendered."

    A good point but we the people are actually paying for this so called "service"[:0]!
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  • DPHMIN
    My grandmother traced our lineage to 1816, when the first ancestor came into Texas from Arkansas. That's far enough back for me.
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  • Rocky4winds
    I have a friend who's mother sent her sample in just for fun. Her parents were both Norwegian, as well as her grandparents. When her sample came back saying she was 1/2 Norwegian and 1/2 German, it caused a bit of anxiety for her. It also explained a lot of things for her. She was the last child, born several years after her three brothers. Her father never told her that he loved her, even though he showed some affection to her older brothers. Her father, when drunk, would become verbally abusive, especially to her mother, and accuse her of all sorts of things. Her father died in his early 60's from too much alcohol, and her mother suddenly began to enjoy life so much more without him.

    She found out that her biological father was different, obviously, from what she had been told. Her mother was in a miserable relationship, meets a guy (who was also married with a kid) and gets the attention she needed. Obviously her "father" knew that he wasn't the dad. And apparently her older brothers either knew or strongly suspected as well. Her biological father moved shortly after she was born, probably because there really aren't too many secrets in a small ND prairie town.

    It definitely explained a lot of things for her, though it was hard to have to learn them second-hand.
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  • serf
    quote:Originally posted by mogley98
    First of all obviously it is accurate they have caught several people using the DNA matches.




    The also had to let out of prison many convicted innocent inmates unjustly convicted. This the plus side of the technology but as always there is the negative side.

    serf
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  • nutfinn
    I did one for my daughter. So I am from Finland, I consist of Finland, Sweden and Norway 100%)

    My wife is from Alabama.

    Daughter's results

    49% Finland
    27% Sweden
    9% Norway
    85% me [:D]

    7% England, Wales & North Western Europe
    5% Ireland & Scotland
    3% Germanic Europe

    She did not go 50/50 [:)]
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