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Bretrick

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Ancestry.com is valued at $4.7 billion.
It seems that a whole lot of people want to know where they come from.
25 million subscribers.
My upbringing left me with no familial feelings and as such I have no interest in my long ago past.
 

I took an interest sometime back. Then I found out what the ancestry search sites charge .... and i became no longer interested.
 

Yes I'm very interested. However it's difficult for people who were born in Scotland to get details of their ancestry because it's not available online. I have to go to view the records in Glasgow in person... if I want to know anything of worth...

Some years ago, there was a woman in Scotland on a forum, who actually went to the records office for me and got some info that I couldn't get .. and that was of value to me.

My parents and grandparents rarely ever spoke of anything in the past.. so it was all news to me who my ancestors were... I even learned that my grandparents had siblings... something I hadn't known all my life, until then. That's how secretive my parents and grandparents were...
 
I've got a great pedigree, descended from royalty, on both sides well known all over Europe. I knew nothing about anyone until I began exploring and the past opened up like the petals on a flower. Attitudes, actions, mannerisms, and choices all became clear.

The trouble is the choice bits all went to the first son of the first son and my line diverged down into the middle children in America, there isn't royalty and my line slipped further, so here I am descended from great historically well-known people into near obscurity.

That's okay I've got a great verifiable pedigree.
 
I subscribed to Ancestry a few years back because I was adopted when I was 3 years old and never knew anything about my bio parents. My adopted parents wouldn't tell me anything. As I got older, I wanted to see if I could find out ethnicity and maybe some medical background. I eventually found out who my bio mother was (she passed away before I did this research) but never my father. I did find out nationality but no medical information. I don't really care any more.
 
How come we are all related to Noblemen, wealthy Merchants or Princes from long ago. How come none of us are related to that guy who shoveled the elephant poop at the Circus?
 
No. My ancestry starts in England and Iā€™m not interested enough to find out. Iā€™m curious more than interested but not curious enough to fork out that type of money.
 
Sciguy said:
Iā€™m curious, but not enough to send my DNA to some corporation...
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I have never sent DNA to anywhere for ancestor info...I don't believe that nonsense..

Some researcher friends of mine working on a consumer show, exposed a company for sending out nonsense in reply to money sent for Info on ancestors via DNA
 
hollydolly said:
I have never sent DNA to anywhere for ancestor info...I don't believe that nonsense..

Some researcher friends of mine working on a consumer show, exposed a company for sending out nonsense in reply to money sent for Info on ancestors via DNA
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I agree with Hols. I would never send my DNA to anyone, ever. What I know about my ancestors, I will be satisfied with. :)
 
I'm of French Canadian heritage, so I assumed all my ancestors lived for thousands of years in some little French village. But according to my DNA, you name it and one of my ancestors slept with it- everything from Southeastern Asians, Africans to Mexicans only 15 years after Columbus found the place. For me, Ancestry is rather expensive, considering it's mostly consumer supplied info. And I question it's accuracy. Three users told me they were proudly related to Charlemagne. My dad was in an orphanage, but I have no idea why. I could kick myself for not asking. One of the things I do know is that researching ancestors can become a full time job, or obsession.
I used to have reservations about sending my DNA off to some computer. But, today, the question is moot. There's enough DNA results in the system from relatives, etc., that they can come up with a likely match to your actual DNA.
 
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A cousin did some pretty deep investigation into our family

Turns out, I'm related to Tennessee Williams

The Irish side of my tree was pretty much renegades that changed their name after landing in the US
Helped build the railroads
Makes sense

Beezer said:
How come none of us are related to that guy who shoveled the elephant poop at the Circus?
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Pretty sure most my rels fall into that genre
 
I did send it out years ago, and discovered some pretty interesting things about my heritage. I also sent the results to a program that looks at the SNPs in your DNA. This helped me figure out a lot of things about my health. Nothing is written in stone, but I found it fascinating.
 
These online genealogy companies using DNA are relatively new. When I got interested in my background, I just did the legwork and searched through records... family records, church/baptism records, birth certificates, death records, wills, did interviews with older family members, etc. It never cost a dime because I wanted the research, not DNA results that wouldn't give me names and stories. I've loved every minute of it.
 
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