Have you had your DNA tested?

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.No but I have a small stricture in the palm of the left hand below the ring finger, and incidentally asked my doctor what it might be. She immediately said, ‘you have a Viking ancestor’
 
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I did. We are trying to find my mother’s biological family.

The down side was we found my mother’s family are all Mormon pioneers. Unless Spartacus is a cousin of mine, we are the only Catholics in the bunch. That’s a heck of a lot of (dead) family members to remember at Mass! Do you have any idea how many kids Mormons have? More than Catholics these days!

On the flip side, I did find one Christian (Protestant) cousin so we have become friends. There is good and bad in everything. DNA is a wonderful gift but it can be overwhelming to get information you did not expect (like a sibling you never knew you had, or bad news about your health risks.) Prepare for it all before you do it.

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Maria
 
No, but I would be interested in considering it.

Both of my parents are from Poland, and I have reason to believe I have Jewish ancestry on my father’s side of the family. It would be nice to know if certain family speculations are true.
 
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No because I have my father’s eyes and I am so much like mom with looks and mannerisms. My grandparents on both sides are from Italy and I talked to my grandmother and learned so much about my ancestors,which by the way I encourage young people to do talk to your grandparents they have so much information to give you. God Bless
 
Yes, I think I even posted the results on the old forum. I agree they are a little curious though - it is junk DNA and I have my doubts as to accuracy. However I recommend it myself. Absolutely fascinating. Genealogy and DNA testing are windows into the past in such a unique way for each of us. You have a family going quite far back - that is true even in the eyes of God. It is your flesh and blood, bone, your kin be it the 10th century or now. That is just my opinion. Most of my results made sense, but I had 14% Scandinavian and not a single known family name of that origin in my chart back to the 17th century in many cases - it is Viking I think (translation: British). Also 4% Eastern European I can’t identify. The Scottish/Irish/English stuff no surprise. Western Europe was high for me, and vague - they don’t break up Holland from France from Germany which was no help at all. I should have some of all of those, but who knows how much of each; all lumped together. I might do it again in another 10 years or so. Give the testing some time to develop further.
 
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I have considered doing it, but wonder as to the accuracy. Which company might be the
most trustworthy? I wish I could afford to test with 3 different places and compare results.
 
Yes i have. I have some disturbing news…i’m a hybrid. My mum and dad are not really my parents. I am the result of a genetic experiment involving the egg of a hippopotamus and a human sperm donor. I always wondered why i’m overweight and like to spend my time muddy ponds.
 
One of my professors said that Italians have curly hair and that if you are Italian and have straight hair then it means that one of Genghis Khan’s boys got one of your ancestors.

So, am I part Mongolian?
 
How does the DNA testing result give you access to such detailed information. ie. info on your cousin?. I thought DNA results were more based on percentages??
 
Yes, we have had several people in our family tree do it, and my eldest sister was a docent at the National Spanish Heritage Center in Albuquerque for a time, and she also had access to all the documents on the Conquistadors and Explorers, which added in some great details.

We also just confirmation from other a bit farther removed but the same aunts and uncles and the trees line up.

Really interesting.
 
Yes I have. Has been helpful, my ancesters were rather nomadic and difficult to track the conventional way.
 
Yes, and it came back as human. Fun fact about DNA, it can’t map all of your DNA. I had to do it for bone marrow donations (which I still have yet to do), only things that really surprised me were Asian Indian ancestry and Central American Indian ancestry. The Asian Indian makes a bit of sense though, because of my grandpa’s background. I knew about American Indian (since my great grandmother’s maiden name was a stereotypically Indian name, dad’s side of the family, they had more “American” names), but Central American Indian, has me puzzled.
 
No. I’m not sure what it would accomplish. I know enough family to make guess about future health concerns. As for ancestry, I’m not that interested.

On a side note, I DNA tested my dog to figure out her breed. Said she was 50% mutt.
 
Yes, and had my daughter’s done too. I am Phd in cell and molecular biology and so familiar with technology and limitations. Had our testing done at 23and me before the FDA shut them down temporarily, so have an amazing amount of information on both of us. No surprises…I’m going to die of psoriasis,according to genome. Oddly I’ve recently had trouble with autoimmune disease, but psoriasis.
 
I’ve had my DNA tested with 23&Me along with Ancestry. The results were interesting in some respects. I didn’t learn a whole lot from the testing, other then a mention that I was 16% French/ German. I knew that I had some French German ancestry but did believe it would be that high of an amount! Further digging into genealogy research I found out it was likely true. In particular a great grandfather was proud to discuss his Welch ancestry, had a mother that was a Swiss immigrant. No one knew that. It made me wonder if she hid her origins due to anti German feelings in America. Hard to say.
 
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