Since women are only carrying one chromosome, your daughter will not have a complete data set until she gets either your test results or those of a brother.
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What do you think about DNA/ancestry test kits?
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My wife and her brother did 23&me, and discovered that she has a different father than the rest of her siblings.
After switching to Ancestry, she tracked down her biological father and has met a half-sister she never knew she had.
No interest at all. I know that my grandparents one one side and great grandparents on the other immigrated from Germany and Ireland in the 19th century. How their families intermingled with others in Europe before that might be of passing interest, but not enough to give my DNA sample to a faceless business.
That, and that unfortunate situation in Albuquerque that I won't talk about.
That, and that unfortunate situation in Albuquerque that I won't talk about.
I have been very interested in my ancestry, genealogy and my heritage for a very long time, specifically my Scottish ancestry as that is primarily my love (my last name is decidedly Scottish.
I know I have a lot of German in me as well, and even have that genealogy traced all the way back to Germany. I know there is English as well.
One way of doing it is to spend the time to actually do all the genealogical tracings. The quicker way to get an idea of where I come from is to see what the DNA markers say.
My wife had done the Ancestry DNA a couple of years ago, and I thought it was interesting how they would update her stuff quarterly to better reflect the research they are doing and what they have found on where the markers tie into places of the world and the people that came from those places.
I broke down about 6 months ago and got the kit myself and sent it in. I was rather shocked at my results. I did see the Scottish and German, but also England and France (which was not unexpected. There was also Denmark, Sweden and a small amount of Norway. The most surprising one, though, was the appearance of 1% North Africa. THAT had me digging to understand it and found that a major study had been done into it and found that 1% of the Scottish population has that same marker and it ties to the nomadic Berber and Taureg groups. I thought that was pretty freaking cool!
Then came the first quarterly update. The Sweden, Denmark and Norway got lumped into a group called Germanic Europe...and into the Scottish due to the Viking invasions. Spain made an appearance at 2% (WTH?)....and the 1% North Africa stayed.
Even though the DNA test says I am only 11% Scottish, due to my last name, I claim it a lot more than any of the rest (even though my wife says I need to get some Lederhosen) and I own all the items for full Scottish dress, from casual to full formal.
Overall, I think it is neat, and my wife and I have a lot of fun with it. It is interesting to me to see where I come from...the good and the bad. (My surname has a pretty nasty reputation in Scotland...so much so that there are places where we still aren't really welcome to this day.)
I know I have a lot of German in me as well, and even have that genealogy traced all the way back to Germany. I know there is English as well.
One way of doing it is to spend the time to actually do all the genealogical tracings. The quicker way to get an idea of where I come from is to see what the DNA markers say.
My wife had done the Ancestry DNA a couple of years ago, and I thought it was interesting how they would update her stuff quarterly to better reflect the research they are doing and what they have found on where the markers tie into places of the world and the people that came from those places.
I broke down about 6 months ago and got the kit myself and sent it in. I was rather shocked at my results. I did see the Scottish and German, but also England and France (which was not unexpected. There was also Denmark, Sweden and a small amount of Norway. The most surprising one, though, was the appearance of 1% North Africa. THAT had me digging to understand it and found that a major study had been done into it and found that 1% of the Scottish population has that same marker and it ties to the nomadic Berber and Taureg groups. I thought that was pretty freaking cool!
Then came the first quarterly update. The Sweden, Denmark and Norway got lumped into a group called Germanic Europe...and into the Scottish due to the Viking invasions. Spain made an appearance at 2% (WTH?)....and the 1% North Africa stayed.
Even though the DNA test says I am only 11% Scottish, due to my last name, I claim it a lot more than any of the rest (even though my wife says I need to get some Lederhosen) and I own all the items for full Scottish dress, from casual to full formal.
Overall, I think it is neat, and my wife and I have a lot of fun with it. It is interesting to me to see where I come from...the good and the bad. (My surname has a pretty nasty reputation in Scotland...so much so that there are places where we still aren't really welcome to this day.)
after the last ice age...There was a lot of migration from the Southern habitable regions to the Brit.Isles from Iberia and so, N. Africa. It's surprising how much mixed DNA is in Gr Briton-Ireland, it adopted Celtic in modern times but that's a tiny part, this far back they (Celts) were a tribe out of the Balkans, still in central europe.
(we did this about 10 years ago, they identified right away Mayflower ancestry which had been established previously)(from my mother's side, an indentured servant to start who survived the first winter and had 8 sons eventually...)
I was interested in DNA tracing because I'm 50-50 western europe vs eastern europe and that was interesting to see. What was more interesting is the Haplo Groups (long term genetic families) that trace your ancient ancestry over extended time over continents and the % of Neanderthal present.
But I'm not interested more than that, (like 3rd cousins out there) I'm more concerned about present day human survival than where we came from, but it's interesting.
I sent in a sample from a Sadowky and the results said it’s father was a Fender Jazz.
i have. i have thought nothing of it, except: interesting.
benefits: corroborates the family history as passed down. my kids thought it was cool and appreciated it --- so maybe they don't have to bother.
no harm of which i am aware, but i'm nearly 75, not paranoid, non-conspiratorial(istic), will die rich (my kids, loved ones, and friends are the best), and my ancestors should get as much info as i can provide (whether or not they'd do as i do, or as i have done).
i don't know about good/better/best versions: i did 23&me because my daughter gifted that one to me. later, my wife also did the 23&me deal and got the results that she expected, more or less.
my overall assessment? = cool stuff.
Frankly, as a person who's spent multi-decades traveling in the biz, I find it terrifying.
hadn't thought about that!
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I think they're awesome! A daughter I never knew about found me through 23AndMe after 33 years, and I couldn't be happier!
I prefer to let sleeping dogs lay.
I've seen situations ( like some of the above) where it really unsettles a lot of long standing relationships. I'm not willing to roll those dice especially as these supposedly-accurate tests only provide a list of your DNA markers completely separate of what your family history may be.
It's essentially like CSI telling you what gun was used but nothing about who did it.
No Thanks.
I've seen situations ( like some of the above) where it really unsettles a lot of long standing relationships. I'm not willing to roll those dice especially as these supposedly-accurate tests only provide a list of your DNA markers completely separate of what your family history may be.
It's essentially like CSI telling you what gun was used but nothing about who did it.
No Thanks.
No interest in this kind of thing. I've known my grand parents, i've even had the chance to meet my grand grand pa before he die when i was a teenager. No needs to know more. I'm me in this age and time, trying to be a better me every day and that's the only thing counting.
Given the way things are going, not only in this country, but others, this could be a real possiblity. Only 86 years ago it started.
Never forget. Never again.
I spent a winter in Nicosia, Cyprus a few decades ago and one of my best local friends there (Turkish), had red hair and freckles, courtesy of a few hundred to a couple of thousand year prior relative in the parent chain. What he knew of his family tree went far enough back that he had no clue as to when or where from.
How would you make a normative good vs bad conclusion, other than maybe in regards to certain health potentialities tied to genetics?
'Potentialities' also answers your "detrimental" question. It is a cost/benefit analysis, (potential), cost not referring to financial and synonymous with risk.
lots of rhythm section finding new kids...crazy, adds new meaning to in the pocket lol
That pretty much sums up my feelings as well.
fwiw my grandmother was a very serious amateur genealogist, long before computers and DNA testing were a thing. Somewhere in my family we have a copy of her published work that traces our family history back at least to the 1600s. Apparently Benedict Arnold was a distant relative of mine!
I find trivia like that far more interesting than knowing [sic] that I am 0.03% Neanderthal. :shrugs:
I discovered a daughter and grandson. Or they discovered me. Of course, that coukd have been a bad thing, depending on her approximate date of conception.
