According to my DNA, I'm a mutt.

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Got back my DNA analysis for the last 500 years. I'm of French-Canadian descent, so there are a lot of Brits and French in me. And my DNA confirms that. But according to my DNA, my ancestors were very familiar with the phrase, " Hey, sailor". You name it and it's in me. With my last name, I had to come from France, so how did that French guy meet somebody from South Asia? And how did that French guy meet a Mexican in 1530? I think there's a 1% chance I'm part Martian. I never expected the diversity in my ancestors. That was a shock. I figured I would come from one tiny French village for generation after generation- apparently it was who was ever walking down the road. Looking at my DNA, it makes concepts like race kind of laughable. I'm a mutt. Anybody else get your DNA?
 

fuzzybuddy said:
Got back my DNA analysis for the last 500 years. I'm of French-Canadian descent, so there are a lot of Brits and French in me. And my DNA confirms that. But according to my DNA, my ancestors were very familiar with the phrase, " Hey, sailor". You name it and it's in me. With my last name, I had to come from France, so how did that French guy meet somebody from South Asia? And how did that French guy meet a Mexican in 1530? I think there's a 1% chance I'm part Martian. I never expected the diversity in my ancestors. That was a shock. I figured I would come from one tiny French village for generation after generation- apparently it was who was ever walking down the road. Looking at my DNA, it makes concepts like race kind of laughable. I'm a mutt. Anybody else get your DNA?
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Yes, and I am also a mutt.
 
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fuzzybuddy said:
Looking at my DNA, it makes concepts like race kind of laughable. I'm a mutt. Anybody else get your DNA?
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The concept of race that DNA has shown to be true, is that there is only one race of humans, with variations. Congratulations on being a mutt! ;)
I had FamilyTreeDNA do my DNA, which shows that my genealogical paper search was pretty thorough, as I am a German-Swiss-Irish-German-English-Welsh...and a little bit of:

Code: 
Greece & Balkans
11%
Sardinia
5%
Malta
3%
Middle East & North Africa  <2%

I'm OK with being a mutt. ;)
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Got back my DNA analysis for the last 500 years. I'm of French-Canadian descent, so there are a lot of Brits and French in me. And my DNA confirms that. But according to my DNA, my ancestors were very familiar with the phrase, " Hey, sailor". You name it and it's in me. With my last name, I had to come from France, so how did that French guy meet somebody from South Asia? And how did that French guy meet a Mexican in 1530? I think there's a 1% chance I'm part Martian. I never expected the diversity in my ancestors. That was a shock. I figured I would come from one tiny French village for generation after generation- apparently it was who was ever walking down the road. Looking at my DNA, it makes concepts like race kind of laughable. I'm a mutt. Anybody else get your DNA?
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How? Travel, probably attached to a navy in some way would be my first guess. :unsure:
 
A friend told me an interesting DNA story over the weekend.

To keep it short she found a half Vietnamese cousin. The cousin and his mother were living in California.

She and her sister went to meet them and found out that her uncle, who is still living, raped the mother during the war. The mother surprised her by saying that many awful things happen in war, not worth stressing over now. The uncle has not been tested, but it doesn't matter, the truth has come out.

The cousin and his mother were quite open to developing relationships with the family, all but the uncle anyway.

I guess the moral to the story is beware what your DNA testing might tell you, but it could happen even if you don't get tested yourself.
 
Alligatorob said:
I guess the moral to the story is beware what your DNA testing might tell you, but it could happen even if you don't get tested yourself.
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Being engulfed in some paternity thing was a reason I was reluctant to have my DNA tested. I knew I didn't have anything to worry about, but the possibility that I could have a bunch of unknown brothers, sisters, etc. I get enough grief from the family I know, so a whole new crew isn't something I was looking forward to.
The other thing that amazed me was this was in the days you either had to walk or ride a horse to go front point A to B, and even by boat, once you left port. Yet my ancestors met with people from all over the globe- 18 years after Columbus found the New World-there was Mexican DNA in me.
 
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Got back my DNA analysis
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Does your analysis come with health reports?
I'm not sure which DNA company my brother used but he emailed me last week that his DNA analysis said he had gene variants that would hold iron in his body (hereditary hemochromatosis) and he'd gone to a doctor and he did really have a problem and will have to have blood removed regularly for a half a year or something like that.
He recommended I check my DNA analysis. I'd had 23andMe DNA analysis done quite a number of years ago, but I logged in and they seem to regularly add new health reports and I looked at mine for that gene, and I do not have the variant genes so I am okay.
Then I logged into my mom's old account and she had one copy of the gene variant (so my brother must have gotten one from my mom and one from my dad, but I got lucky!).
 
HoneyNut said:
Does your analysis come with health reports?

Yes, the company can do health DNA, but it costs extra. I'm 76, disabled, in a wheelchair, a diabetic, on cardiac meds, kidney deterioration, spinal problems, neurological loss in my right leg, also a vitamin D deficiency.... Let's face it, what's DNA going to tell me that I don't already know.
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Others pointed out their DNA tests went back 500 years and 59 generations, but we carry DNA that goes back thousands of years. Actually, we carry DNA from our early hominid beginnings. People are often surprised by their DNA tests to find they have all kinds of ancestry because we usually think of our heritage only as far back as our last remembered grandparents who came from Country X, but their grandparents came from Country Y, whose grandparents came from a time when there were no countries, but just across that river, mountain range, or desert. The first humans spread out from Africa, and for a hundred thousand years they walked all over the place, mixing with other early humans who were also walking about and having sex wherever the opportunity came about.
 
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Being engulfed in some paternity thing was a reason I was reluctant to have my DNA tested. I knew I didn't have anything to worry about, but the possibility that I could have a bunch of unknown brothers, sisters, etc. I get enough grief from the family I know, so a whole new crew isn't something I was looking forward to.
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When a new phone book came out (40 years ago), I got a phone call from 2 people who seemed excited that we had the same (rather unusual) last name. They assumed I'd want to meet them. I said no, I didn't want to meet more people with that name. They seemed shocked.

I happen to like most of my family, but not all. Blood ties per se mean nothing to me.
 

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