Have you traced your roots? Or maybe done the DNA test? I have family portraits that go back seven generations but not much history. My daughter did a DNA test and she is all kinds of European. What she questioned was a 3% eastern European. I told her there was a family story of a great great great great great grandmother that had a fling with Kublai Khan's grandson. Could be true!
What's in your Genes ?
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fuzzybuddy
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Has anyone used two different DNA companies to do genetic research? I've heard that some of the online ancestry companies are not that factual, and most things are suspect. I wonder how really effective their results are. So far I know of 4 people directly related to Charlemagne. Yeah, r-i-g-h-t.
Lewkat
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A few of us have had DNA testing, and by different companies. For anything that seems so different, some companies go deeper into the testing than others. Ancestry is just more peripheral while one of the others really deals with your chromosomes, etc. So, it will depend on who does the testing and how much you are will to pay for it. My great aunt actually hired someone to trace her mother's side of our family since it was an important one here in NJ. Went all the way back several centuries to where they began in Sweden. That was a surprise. We mainly have Irish and Scandinavian roots.
That sounds like the people who say in their past life they were Royalty. In a past life I was a pig farmer in Île-de-France, near Paris. I had a friend by the name of Eugene Delacroix that used to come out for a visit and paint in the orchard.
Don't you think all the DNA goes into the national security database?
If you think otherwise think again.
There have been several high profile cold cases solved with info from these tests.
They actually used ancestry and DNA from one of those companies.
There's no way I'm sending my DNA to anyone.
If you think otherwise think again.
There have been several high profile cold cases solved with info from these tests.
They actually used ancestry and DNA from one of those companies.
There's no way I'm sending my DNA to anyone.
Murrmurr
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Well if anyone on your family tree has done it, you're had anyway, JB. So make sure to cover your tracks as best you can!
LOL
That's not what I meant.
They can use your DNA for almost anything now.
In the future it will be used for life insurance, health insurance, hiring, etc.
debodun
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I tried many years ago before the Internet and DNA testing by using books in the State library. I was disappointed to find out that some of my ancestors were military deserters and Scottish highwaymen.
Congratulations for rising above your heritage. I strive to be someone my great grandchildren can look back on with pride. By then the dust should have settled about the other stuff.
fuzzybuddy
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I don't think we understand the fullest extent DNA may be used to predict future events, such as disease, but we don't know what else. What if my genes are 30% more likely to produce a thief. So, my off spring might be denied jobs, because of that. And the thing is we don't know what genetic research will come up with 200 years from now. If my genetic material is in the public domain, because I gave it away decades before, will that in some unforeseen way harm my future generations? You DON'T Know.
Plus, I'm not thrilled to find some guy, who claims to be my long lost cousin. And I'm not to thrilled to have police combing my DNA for crimes someone genetically near me has committed. Especially, when DNA is not as precise as most think it is.
Plus, I'm not thrilled to find some guy, who claims to be my long lost cousin. And I'm not to thrilled to have police combing my DNA for crimes someone genetically near me has committed. Especially, when DNA is not as precise as most think it is.
asp3
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I don't find it all that far fetched that you know 4 people directly related to Charlemagne. Charlemagne had 18 children. Think of how many people are directly related to those 18 people, the children of those 18 people, etc...
There was a story recently about a girl who was doing genealogy research of the presidents of the United States and discovered that all but one shared the same common ancestor.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...directly-descended-medieval-English-king.html
jujube
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Well, I did the DNA test and found out that I'm more Swedish than anything else, which is a huge surprise. But then, I have to factor in the "surprise" grandmother I didn't know I had until a few years ago.
mellowyellow
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I'm not either, I think some are hoping to find ancestors who belonged to a grand dynasty, and disappointed to find that they were not.
Remy
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I actually think that's a good thing. I'll bet some who got by with murder are hoping no one in their family ever does one of these.
I'll never do one because I don't care and I don't want to find family. What I got is bad enough. I'm already finger printed for my job so there goes my potential life of crime as a back up plan.