Has anyone had their DNA traced?

[id10t]

Originally Posted by Dpmulvan

I totally get it if you’re adopted or don’t know who your parents are. Just wanted to let people know there are evil people with bad intentions collecting and cataloging DNA for nefarious reasons.

Adopted, dont care one way or another about birth family, but dont want to be out there as a match to be found since im 75 miles from birth place

[LWJ]

1. I really don't want to volunteer my DNA to "the Man"
2. My cousin did. She found a FULL BLOOD sister! Yikes. I have a new cousin.
3. I am 100% human. Good enough for me. And, if you go back, we are all related. (just hopefully not super related to my spouse!)

[pwd72s]

I'm adopted. No desire to know. I know who my parents are...the couple who loved & raised me.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Dpmulvan

I totally get it if you’re adopted or don’t know who your parents are. Just wanted to let people know there are evil people with bad intentions collecting and cataloging DNA for nefarious reasons.

There are evil people with bad intentions telling me what I should or should not do with my own DNA. Piss off.

[Tobra]

Do you really think he is evil?

Seems more like background noise

My brother did it, no surprises. My sister wants me to do it in one of my stray dogs. That seems a little strange to me, he is a dog. He is a good dog, and freakishly athletic, but still, dog.

[jyl]

For Chinese descent people like me, the common tests like 23 And Me are unlikely to tell us anything much. I’m 99% Chinese? How uninteresting. There are Chinese DNA tests, but they sound unreliable, and I wouldn’t have any faith in the results. Plus I don’t care what Chinese province my ancestors came from etc. I have my family history back to my great grandparents, so that’s back to the late 1800s, I know where they lived (I mean I could look it up in the history), and that’s more than I am interested in actually.

https://www.goldthread2.com/identity/chinese-dna-ancestry-test/article/3064650

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by jyl

I’m 99% Chinese? How uninteresting.

You should. Chinese people are interesting. Most of the ones here in NZ are Canton Chinese, but I used to go out with a chick called Yvonne Yang who was from the north. Tall, all arms and legs, and smart.

[sc_rufctr]

Chinese Ladies are smart and impervious to trolling... And that's what I like about them.

[WPOZZZ]

I dated a bunch of Chinese from China and Hong Kong. Don't want someone tracking me down and call me daddy!

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by LWJ

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2. My cousin did. She found a FULL BLOOD sister! Yikes. I have a new cousin.
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This happened to me, although it's just a Sister who was a product of a liaison when my Dad was in the Marines before my Mom came along. He was stationed in Florida and was being transferred to Hawaii.

She was able to find me after submitting my DNA to Ancestry. It's the greatest thing, having grown up with all Brothers and she fits into the family as if we all grew up together.

Except the fact that she has 13 children, 47 Grandchildren and 17 Great Grandchildren! I told her she's getting one Christmas card for everyone and that's it. No presents for each one, I ain't no Rock-a-fellah!

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

What DNA company did you guys use and are you happy with how it was done. You feel it was correct?

I'm thinking of getting it done. Which company did you use Leroy, I mean Don?

Try sending in multiple samples and see how many times your ancestry changes...

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Much the same here but I'm also Southern Euro Trash.

Picturing the True Romance scene in the mobile home. Both of them are such good actors.

My daughter had it done last year. Very western European with a sliver of Jewish and Neandertal.

On the upside she is getting a bone marrow transplant this December and because of the Western European genetics she has a squillion 100% matching doners.

[GH85Carrera]

I am not sending my DNA to anyone. I have traced my family tree and I know my roots back 10 generations on my family name back to when the name changes. Lots of German and British ancestors. No wonder I like beer, it is in my genetics!

Once you go back more than 10 generations it gets pretty pointless. You can have a 1024 ancestors, assuming no cousins are having kids in your tree.

[Tim Hancock]

Never did the DNA thing but while searching my ancestry I happened upon a relative on-line in Germany that had done extensive research into our ancestry. He had data on my mom's side back to the 1100's in Germany (old church records). My mom's side came to the states from Germany in the 1830's.

I traced my dad's side back to Dorchester, England but went no further. They came over to Windsor, CT on the ship Recovery sailing out of Weymouth in 1633.

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by Dpmulvan

Dumbest thing you can do is give up your DNA especially to companies like 23 and me.
Why has China has been collecting Americans DNA?

I'd think a more likely scenario would be insurance companies mining the data so they can tailor policy exemption. "I'm sorry you have cystic fibrosis Mr. Jones, but your policy doesn't cover treatment. Your DNA markers made it an exclusion."

Then again, I doubt 23andMe is analyzing everyone's entire genome. They probably only look at a few markers.

[cockerpunk]

my dad did it, hes a big genealogy/ancestry buff. it wasnt surprising.

what was more surprising is having my cousin, on my mom's side contact me via social networking. see, my mom's biological mother was only in the picture until she was about 3, and then my grandfather divorced her, and fairly unique for the time, got full custody of my mom and aunt. and that side of the family has always been a bit of dead end.

but out of the blue, someone contacted me claiming to be my cousin. and i was cautious at first, but it turns out, its probably true. and she had a full back to germany geneology and family tree, including notes on personalities, funny stories, etc. which was a very cool connection.

turns out all over the family tree there are these disconnections, and the notion that before modern divorce, everyone was raised in a mom + dad nuclear family is largely a lie. there are at least 3 of these disconnections in the last 100 years in my family tree.

the saddest one is a letter we have from my great aunt. she ran away with a boot legger, to chicago, and a year later sent a letter to the family that said "hey, this was a mistake, and i want to go home. but i also understand that what i did wasn't socially acceptable, and if you dont want me back because of it, i understand" .... and the letter didnt come with a return address. so somewhere, there is a whole branch of my family that thinks, wrongly, they were kicked out of the family. be real interesting to see what happened there.

tragic what puritanical rules have done to people throughout the past.

[GH85Carrera]

My grandparents all came from large families, and many some of them were prolific at making children. My mom's grandfather had 6 kids before his first wife died in childbirth. He remarried and had 8 more.

One of ladies that my wife went to grade school with in Enid, is into genealogy. They have remaind friends since 4th grade and we recently went to their 50th wedding anniversary. Anyway, she stays up late at night working on her family tree, and has every branch back the 1700s. I was showing her my family tree and she saw my mom's grandfather's name and said she has some relatives with the same name. It made us some very crazy distant cousins many times removed, but we share some distant great great great great grandfather.

[jcommin]

I have: 95% Greek from the Peloponnese area in Greece, 3% Southern Italy, 2% from the Balkans.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Don't want someone tracking me down and call me daddy!

It would be a dream come true if that happened to me.

My father was a **** and a **** also a **** and was paid off hugely and disowned by his family. I can't imagine WHY my very nice Mom hooked up with him at Uni. He never spoke of his family and said we have no relatives. He used to make fun of religious people and also Irish people. I found out a year ago through some recently discovered family history that my grandmother on that side was an Irish Catholic. So I'm an Irish catholic without even knowing it. So I wouldn't mind found out knowing more.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Geronimo '74

Try sending in multiple samples and see how many times you ancestry changes...

Hmm. That would be an interesting experiment.