Who has had their DNA checked for ancestry? Or will you?

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Have your or would you check your DNA ancestry?

  • Sure thing

    Votes: 23 48.9%
  • Hell No - explain

    Votes: 17 36.2%
  • Where is Mongrel

    Votes: 7 14.9%

  • Total voters
    47

brianmanahan

Lifer
Sep 2, 2006
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You're not Irish because a bunch of people you never met lived in a country you've never been to but you happen to be descended from came from.

culturally you're not, but genetically you are. this is about genetics, not culture.
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
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Whoopee doo. Everyone's lineage goes back as far as yours! :p

The impressive thing would be the people who didn't have that!

no buddy, i can trace it.
7cf245f92aad8dd6a18195a60cc74973.jpg

that's my family emblem.
 

Humpy

Diamond Member
Mar 3, 2011
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I did 23 and Me a few years back. My wife found her birth family through one of the other ones.

It was kinda neat I guess. Nothing surprising, I haven't looked at it since. Apparently I'm mostly human.

I'd like to say I'm worried about my DNA getting into the hands of law enforcement or the insurance companies. I'm not though.
 
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TennesseeTony

Elite Member
Aug 2, 2003
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www.google.com
I can speak (well, repeat) fluent Russian when 1.) in Russia hanging out in a bar with locals and 2.) while totally inebriated. Am I Russian? I'd love to know roughly from whence I originate.
 

Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
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I did one, mostly because I don't know anything about my father's side. Turns out I'm of mostly Scottish/Irish background with some French. Standard European mutt. I don't feel any special connection with those folks, I'm very much American and I'm not going to start wearing kilts or visiting Scotland because "it's my heritage", but it is interesting.
 
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Paladin3

Diamond Member
Mar 5, 2004
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Scotsmen.
...clad in kilt left the bar one evening fair
One could tell by how he walked that he'd drunk more than his share
He stumbled 'round until he could no longer keep his feet
and tumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street...
 

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
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Wife wanted to so we did. Family rumor was that there was some Portuguese in the woodpile. Nope, I'm 96% white bread. The 11% Swedish was unexpected.
The results about ancestry, how specific are they? Or are they just some vague general mumbo jumbo?
Ancestry linked my 1st cousins and 2/3rd cousins from the upstate so it can't all be a gimmick.

Oops.
My paternal grandfather was adopted, we don't even know his birth name. He had a large family and all of us have the adopted last name. So getting him tested is just one more tool I am using to try to track down where we all came from.
My maternal Grand mother and her mother were adopted so we don't have any family history there. We think the Great grand was on one of the orphan trains.
 

FerrelGeek

Diamond Member
Jan 22, 2009
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Found out I'm 2% Nigerian. So I'm gonna a an Elizabeth Warren and check the African American box on all future applications.
 
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DietDrThunder

Platinum Member
Apr 6, 2001
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Found out through Ancestry.com that my wife's family were Blucher's.
She hates it, but now I go around introducing her Frau Blucher.

 
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Exterous

Super Moderator
Jun 20, 2006
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Nope. I already know of a company doing DNA tests that will sell data to basically anyone who will give them money. And my desire to know about my family history is outweighed by my feeling that we'll see Genetic Risk Factors factored into health care premiums in the future. Although if anyone in your immediately family does it you might be hosed anyway
 

Thebobo

Lifer
Jun 19, 2006
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Nope. I already know of a company doing DNA tests that will sell data to basically anyone who will give them money. And my desire to know about my family history is outweighed by my feeling that we'll see Genetic Risk Factors factored into health care premiums in the future. Although if anyone in your immediately family does it you might be hosed anyway

Which company is that?
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
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Ok I'm going to prove to my employer that I am not African American! (In case you missed it my personal file labels me as a African American.) Actually I was just curious and its cheap now.

You're going to be disappointed.