[Otter74]

My mom got my sister and me one of these 23AndMe kits five or so years ago for Christmas. I’ve never sent it in, though I’m not sure why. Probably because I don’t want to be in another database. My family is American into the 19th century on my mom’s side; Colombian on my dad’s side into at least the early 19th century (though one of my dad’s grandmothers was from Curaçao). I’m from Venezuela and am also American. My family name is of Catalan origin but one for which the significant majority of people in the world who have it are in Colombia. That’s all I really need to know, so I suppose I’ve never found a genetic test that interesting. I find fixations on ancestry peculiarly American (“I’m 1/8 Swedish because my ancestors hundreds of years ago came from Sweden”, that kind of thing). It’s tiresome enough to deal with other people who insist on their own ideas of what I “really” am so the whole thing is just a big eye-roll for me.