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According to Family Tree DNA my genetic lineage is mostly(55%) from England-Wales-Scotland-Ireland, 24% Central Europe(France-Germany-Austria), and Southern Europe / Middle East /North Africa for the remaining
 

Lawrence said:
I had my DNA ancestry done many years ago and every few years I get an update where they change the percentages of my different heritages. Sometimes a nationality is added or is dropped. The more data they get they change the nationalities and percentages. I am disappointed in the results I have received because they keep changing.
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The technology improves and the data base keeps growing (for comparisons). That's how the results get more accurate.
 

oldaunt said:
I really don't want to be included in anyone's DNA base. The way people are these days, too many chances for it to come back and bite me.
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Precisely. For the same reason I don't use credit cards, debit cards nor any store loyalty card. Go profile someone else.
 
Murrmurr said:
100% result is extremely rare. I used to watch YouTube videos of people getting their 23-and-me results, and saw only 1 out of dozens whose results were 100%. His ancestors must have been some extremely pious Norsemen. ;)
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I'm just glad that no wandering hoards raped any of my feminine ancestors! Tight knit, that's what my families were. Stuck together; inseparable. Or else. Was scary out there for a Jew.
 
I literally came up 3% south Asian (India).

That was a shock, until I realized the Romany descend from India.


So, one of the relatives probably married someone from the Romany (gypsy) culture...
 
Pepper said:
I'm just glad that no wandering hoards raped any of my feminine ancestors! Tight knit, that's what my families were. Stuck together; inseparable. Or else. Was scary out there for a Jew.
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Yeah, apparently everybody had a go at my Jewish ancestors. But I wonder if my Jewish ancestry actually started with a conversion somewhere along the line. My first DNA chart said 2% Hebrew, but a more in-depth analysis is forthcoming. Those take several months.
 
I really wouldn't worry about being tracked. I mean if you are involved in some kind of highly controversial project where people really hate you...that is one thing.

But outside of that, so many millions are being tracked, that no one really has the time to seek out individuals and mess with their lives.

The only thing it is going to do is send circulars to your house with sales for various things. Or online, seeing ads for things that the tracking thinks you might want.

Not that I think tracking is appropriate. I am just saying, if a computer system is tracking thousands of phone calls and texts and emails from millions of people...that is so much data.....no one is going to have the time to go through it.

AI algorithms can do some work to limit what is gone through, but the tech is still really decades away from some kind of dystopian horror show.

Oh, I do worry about the world little kids will find themselves in, in 50 years. But for all of us...I think we will all be long gone by then.
 
Murrmurr said:
Yeah, apparently everybody had a go at my Jewish ancestors. But I wonder if my Jewish ancestry actually started with a conversion somewhere along the line. My first DNA chart said 2% Hebrew, but a more in-depth analysis is forthcoming. Those take several months.
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What did your mom tell you?
 
Lawrence said:
I had my DNA ancestry done many years ago and every few years I get an update where they change the percentages of my different heritages. Sometimes a nationality is added or is dropped. The more data they get they change the nationalities and percentages. I am disappointed in the results I have received because they keep changing.
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To me that is a good thing, they are keeping the results up to date
 
@Murrmurr
Doesn't mom represent herself as Jewish? Surely she can clear up the last century for you?
 

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