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

[brianmanahan]

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]

Whoopee doo. Everyone's lineage goes back as far as yours! 😛

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

no buddy, i can trace it.

that's my family emblem.

 

[brianmanahan]

no buddy, i can trace it.

that's my family emblem.

my family emblem can beat up your family emblem!

(ok maybe not, even with full plate i still wouldn't want to fight a couple lions)

 

[DigDog]

those are Leopards Regardant

in heraldry things that look like a lion are generally leopards.

 

[preCRT]

Only had BRCA genetic testing 5 years ago, to assess cancer risk.

 

[lxskllr]

 

[Humpy]

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.

 

[paperfist]

i can already trace my lineage to the middle ages.

Seriously? That seems incredible unless you're royalty.

 

[TennesseeTony]

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]

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.

 

[Paladin3]

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...

 

[MrSquished]

I'm the Zodiac killer. So no.

 

[OverVolt]

People are getting different results with different DNA testing companies. So its mostly BS.

 

[DigDog]

Seriously? That seems incredible unless you're royalty.

if by royalty you mean son of a king, no. if you otherwise mean aristocracy (descendant of titled nobles) then yes.
my family is directly related to these guys: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrero_della_Marmora

 

[highland145]

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.

I'll just leave this here:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ry-dna-test-fertility-sperm-father/485240002/

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.

 

[highland145]

I'm the Zodiac killer. So no.

The golden state killer was caught by familial DNA, supposedly.

 

[Thebobo]

Ok just got my results back and they traced it back to this guy uncle ugh

 

[MrSquished]

Yup. As they stated they hope to catch the zodiac killer the same way

 

[FerrelGeek]

Found out I'm 2% Nigerian. So I'm gonna a an Elizabeth Warren and check the African American box on all future applications.

 

[Kaido]

Ok just got my results back and they traced it back to this guy uncle ugh

But shoot, it was only 99 cents!

 

[DietDrThunder]

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.

 

[Thebobo]

Found out I'm 2% Nigerian. So I'm gonna a an Elizabeth Warren and check the African American box on all future applications.

Politics this way please https://forums.anandtech.com/forums/politics-and-news.24/

 

[Exterous]

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]

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]

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.