Ancestry dna test
 

My wife got me one of these for Christmas. Still havnt opened it up and not sure I want to send it in. I don’t mind knowing my heritage, but not sure I want to know about some 2nd or 3rd cousins I didn’t know about.

Also not liking my dna being out there for who knows what.

Anyone done one of these things?

I considered doing it when I first got into genealogy, but now have got my ancestry figured out to the 1100's in Germany and the 1600's in England. No real reason for me to now.... Also don't like the idea of my DNA being on record... kind of creepy for some reason.

I don't want some distant cousin indicted for a 40 year old unsolved murder based upon a DNA "match" to our family through a sample that I provided. I'd never live it down.

I did a DNA test through National Geographic many years ago but I think it was anonymous with a numerical identifier only. I never attached the results to my family tree and as a result it gave broad indications of my regions of origin but did not connect me directly to others. I think they discontinued this database 5 years ago or so.

I don't want to find out that Jeffry Dahmer is my long lost cousin either.

I did it a few years back. The big mysteries of my family were solved 30 years ago when I met my birth mother and aunts from my fathers family. That was after searching for a few years using basically volunteer PI's. DNA testing and the opening up of birth records in some states have changed the landscape for adoptees like myself. I only did it because my wife bought it as a gift. The DNA test just confirmed my scandinavian and british/irish ancestry.

On my mom's side, a big thick book was printed mebbe 50 years ago tracing it back to the 1600s around Stuttgart, including the name change (Americanized spelling) and the first one here back in the early 1700s .... I know where his grave is.

Dad's side, also going back to the 1600s near Stuttgart, including an Americanized name change was done mebbe 30-40 years ago including DNA stuff, but way before the internet and these web sites.

Coincidental that both branches ended up here locally in the early 1700s by totally different paths.

I'm expecting a knock on my door any day now fwiw....

signed,

J Higgins :D

I did my family name history back 10 generations. Past that is pointless to me. I followed a few of the trees back 6 generations. Both sides of the family had German immigrants, that came from different parts of Germany.

If I could get my DNA tested with a totally anonymous number so they can't tie it directly to me, I might try it. I just don't trust "THEM" with my DNA and whatever they might be able to use it for in the future or even now.

I'm adopted. Don't want to know. After all, I know who my "real" parents are...those who raised me.

My wife is adopted and so is her sister.
My wife's second cousins denied any possibility of them being related despite the DNA science said so.
We visited the town my wifes Bio mom came from in Northern Germany. They had the original data we saw on Ancestry.
Got Ancestry for her sister for a past Xmas.
My wife's sister found her bio half sister and they have developed a relationship.

PWD72

That says it all -- past ain't necessarily prolog.

I did it. Interesting to know where I came from. Not too worried about someone having my dna but maybe I'm naive. If I have a relative caught for murder or rape, I'm glad I could help catch them.

I did have a cousin contact me who was put up for adoption by my first cousin. That was a feel good story. Not as much for the new cousin meeting her mom (our family's black sheep) but more for her to meet her half sister.

I did the 23&me some years ago to find out if my origins were actually what my mother said it was. Sure enough, she was as off base as she could be - not that it wasn't expected. She was wrong about most things.

I did one of the two and there were no skeletons in the closet or murders resolved.

Years ago my dad worked on the genealogy of our family back to the 1700s. I helped him restore my great great great great grandfather‘s tombstone in Cumming Georgia.

I would like to.

But I need to talk to a lawyer first (statue of limitations stuff) Not a biggie. but 20 years ago I was leaving a party and someone threw a rock at the car. I got out and threw a bottle back at the crowd. Unfortunately it was a really good shot and downed someone. I don't want the police to get me on DNA and say some tosser has been gurgling down the front on his shirt in a wheel chair for the last 20 years and you owe this much $$$

But I'd love to be told "Remember that chick you met..."

There has been a lot of time and money spent on bio weapons that would kill only people with a specific DNA...
Any DNA test you do (whether anonymous or not) is going to be used in that research. Tin foil hat? Maybe but remember the US Govt gave all kinds of nasty drugs and diseases to people to test them as a warfare tool.

I don't have any reason to submit DNA to trace my ancestry,. Its been traced far enough back by family members on my dad's side to the 1800's, and on my mother's side we have a paper manifest for the Mayflower. I have no desire to go further back

I am related to some real Bible thumpers, one, who arrived a little after the first, got his arse kicked out of Massachusetts!

My family tree goes back many hundreds of years.

But this branch of it called me has died. So if some "one night stand" girl came forward I'd be delighted.

Heh heh... I've got pictures of my German Opa packing mules to hump supplies over the Balkan Mountains during WWI. That's as far back as we go on mom's side, the Backensfelds.

On my dad's side, the Irish side, we learned our family name is actually an Anglicization of the old Gaelic name Ó hUiginn, which means 'descendant of Uiginn', or "of Uiginn". Uiginn is the Gaelic version of the Old Norse víkingr or Viking.

Lots of old family photos of the Ò hUiginns climbing out of their long boats onto the Irish shores back in the late 900's. They're getting kinda yellowed, and starting to curl up a bit, though. :D

We have a sword from a relative who was one of George Washington's bodyguards. But the other side of the family is from a part of modern day France that has been a part of Germany a few times. I've looked into getting German citizenship, but it'd be next to impossible to track down a relative who came here from what was then part of Germany. It's all a matter of dates.