Has anyone taken one of those ancestry DNA kits?

[muwarrior69]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/04/27/ancestry-genealogy-dna-test-privacy-golden-state-killer/557263002/

It's bad enough facebook has my picture. I'm not giving anyone my DNA.

[tower912]

Was your DNA at crime scenes 30 years ago?

[🏀]

Was your DNA at crime scenes 30 years ago?

Topper's DNA has been at every Arby's murder in the last 30 years.

[mu_hilltopper]

Topper's DNA has been at every Arby's murder in the last 30 years.

35.

.. But reading the reports on this ancestry DNA hunt .. it's not just YOUR DNA that you need to worry about, it's all the yahoos in your family tree.   

Once your Uncle Leo sends in his spit, you're screwed.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I have done on Ancestry.com.
I was DNA matched up to second cousins who are definitely second cousins and one third cousin who is definitively a third cousin.
Region results roughly corresponded to how I thought it would.  7% or less was a surprise as it appears there were other world regions that had 1% or less or were listed as possible test error.  (A bunch of <.1% results.)

[warriorchick]

My parents did 23 and Me.

To quote my brother, "Spoiler Alert - we're white."

Except for finding out my dad is 4% Italian/Iberian Peninsula, we are German and Anglo Saxon all the way.

Oh, and my dad has something like 60% more Neanderthal DNA than the average person.

[rocket surgeon]

Yes

First off, you have to spit into this vial first thing in the morning before you have anything to drink or eat.  Well, the best I could muster up was a bunch of foam and after the mrs and I got our results back, they didn't have enough "foam" to tell me what I was and when I re-spit and sent it back, they lost my sample.  My wife on the other hand had just about every anglo, Asian, middle eastern, Eurasian, northern African and Italian DNA.  So I guess my kids are all of the above. 

I also think they market this to try to sell you all kinds of other goodies, books mugs, tee shirts...and get your email addresss and continue to bug da poop ridden dna outta ya

[muwarrior69]

My parents did 23 and Me.

To quote my brother, "Spoiler Alert - we're white."

Except for finding out my dad is 4% Italian/Iberian Peninsula, we are German and Anglo Saxon all the way.

Oh, and my dad has something like 60% more Neanderthal DNA than the average person.

Your dad and I must be related.

[dgies9156]

Both of my children are adopted, so yes, we did Ancestry DNA and it was fascinating.

My son, who is Ukrainian by birth, was shown to be 5 percent Native American. All we could figure is that he has a bit of the Mongol Horde in him, since the Mongols got as far east as modern day Belarus and they may well have carried some Inuit DNA from the one-time land bridge between Russia and Alaska.

The rest of him was eastern European/Slavic.

My daughter found she was about 20 percent Jewish, which from Belarus is no surprise. She has an Asian appearance to her but showed no material DNA link to Asia. I think she was about 2 percent Central Asian. The rest was Slavic/Western European.

Mine showed I was 60 percent one grandmother and 40 percent the other. No surprise there either.

[4everwarriors]

Yes

First off, you have to spit into this vial first thing in the morning before you have anything to drink or eat.  Well, the best I could muster up was a bunch of foam and after the mrs and I got our results back, they didn't have enough "foam" to tell me what I was and when I re-spit and sent it back, they lost my sample.  My wife on the other hand had just about every anglo, Asian, middle eastern, Eurasian, northern African and Italian DNA.  So I guess my kids are all of the above. 

I also think they market this to try to sell you all kinds of other goodies, books mugs, tee shirts...and get your email addresss and continue to bug da poop ridden dna outta ya

Knot four sure yer allowed to say all dem ethic words heer, hey?

[warriorchick]

Ancestry.com advertising a $59 special on TV right now.

[4everwarriors]

Watta ya due, spit on da TV, hey?

[Jay Bee]

I did 23andme. Felt like I spat into the tube for noine hours (nh). They keep adding info and it was worth the $50 Black Friday deal. My DNA indicates that I'm an incredibly intelligent stud.

[Hards Alumni]

I did 23andme. Felt like I spat into the tube for noine hours (nh). They keep adding info and it was worth the $50 Black Friday deal. My DNA indicates that I'm an incredibly intelligent stud.

(nh)

[ZiggysFryBoy]

I did 23andme. Felt like I spat into the tube for noine hours (nh). They keep adding info and it was worth the $50 Black Friday deal. My DNA indicates that I'm an incredibly intelligent stud.

So....one of them Sheriff's stings actually worked, anal?

[real chili 83]

I hear all these companies are owned by the government. 😱

[warriorchick]

I hear all these companies are owned by the government. 😱

I bet most people don't know that Ancestry and Ancestry.com are owned by the Mormon church.  No kidding.

[Hards Alumni]

I bet most people don't know that Ancestry and Ancestry.com are owned by the Mormon church.  No kidding.

And that the Mormon church has a great website to do a lot of your own research for free.  Tons of census records searchable online.

[warriorchick]

And that the Mormon church has a great website to do a lot of your own research for free.  Tons of census records searchable online.

Yep.  The Mormon church is seriously into genealogy.  I know a number of folks who traveled to Salt Lake City before the digital age to do research in the LDS's massive store of records.

[Galway Eagle]

My mom's sister did it. It came back 97% irish and 3% Spain. I have since checked the box asking if Im Hispanic on all work documents.

[Dr. Blackheart]

We brought this up at a work lunch (I am 100% European), but a very (inconspicuous) guy brought up that he found out he has three kids he didn't know about. 60ish guy. He said he was glad he did it (testing) and he now has connections with his kids. Luckily, he isn't married today and he has no other (known) kids.  Whoa!

[jsglow]

We brought this up at a work lunch (I am 100% European), but a very (inconspicuous) guy brought up that he found out he has three kids he didn't know about. 60ish guy. He said he was glad he did it (testing) and he now has connections with his kids. Luckily, he isn't married today and he has no other (known) kids.  Whoa!

I'm confused.  So this gentleman got his results back and in the report it says something like 'We have evidence that you are the father of 3 individuals that we had tested at an earlier date.'     Wow. 

[Dr. Blackheart]

I'm confused.  So this gentleman got his results back and in the report it says something like 'We have evidence that you are the father of 3 individuals that we had tested at an earlier date.'     Wow. 

Not really sure how the process went as I was too shocked to ask details...I believe his children posted theirs, looking for their father...and his match came up and he had the option to pursue. He said he was totally unaware...he was at the other end of a long table, but I think it was three different moms, but his kids saw they had a common father through the site. When he got tested, he must have paid extra for lineage/family tree and got a surprise.

As I said, if you knew him today, he would be the last person you would think...but it was Berkeley in the 60's and 70's for him and he was/is a musician.

[jsglow]

As I said, if you knew him today, he would be the last person you would think...but it was Berkeley in the 60's and 70's for him and he was/is a musician.

In a related note, my long time doc brought up the Hep C question at my physical this year.  She said she had only one patient who tested positive but that she was offering it to all her patients that were from the 'free love 70s' era. I kinda blushed and said 'No thanks doc, I'm good'. 

Then we did the much easier final part of the exam and discussed the Cubs.

[WarriorDad]

The DNA testing can be a bit of a scam.

One reporter sent his dna to multiple services and they came back with something wildly different. 

23 and me says their confidence scale ranges from 50% to 90%.  That's a large range.


"Tests can be a crapshoot. For DNA tests, they use genetic markers, which are little variations in the DNA one or several groups may have, but others do not. The more markers there are, the more accurate the test will be."

Some companies may use 12, 37, or 67, while others claim to use more than 700,000 different markers. Any of those numbers can sound impressive with the right marketing spin behind them, but the simple fact of the matter is that nobody's method is perfect. "The best we can do is give a certain range based on those markers (or show who they are most similar to), and sometimes we'll move up a percentage point of an ethnic group if it doesn't add up to 100 percent."

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2522-inside-shady-world-dna-testing-companies.html