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Self ^ | January 5, 2019 | self

Posted on 01/05/2019 5:26:20 PM PST by bboop

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To: bk1000

I had my big beautiful. Russian wolfhound tested and the laboratory said he’s a Mexican chiwahwah. I keep teyibg yo feed him some delicious burritos but he’s still refusing to eat them. Right now, he’s pouting behind the sofa


21 posted on 01/05/2019 5:56:25 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
there was one lab in the news not so long ago - some SJW techs changed the results to reflect minority traces - just to mess with people's heads. So avoid that one.

But first, you might want to go to ancestry dot com or gen web dot com who started the whole thing and see if any of your direct line relatives are on file in their database with setting set to public. You may have cousins you don't know about that are genealogists. They have ‘free’ days a couple times a year so you don't have to register. You may find out all you need to know without spending more money for a test.

22 posted on 01/05/2019 5:59:39 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: bboop

Why not just send a cotton swab to CODIS?


23 posted on 01/05/2019 6:00:39 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats decide only elections they win are valid.)
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To: bboop

The info I found in genealogical research was much more interesting to me than anything that could come out of a DNA test.

I had relatives that did the test and I thought of it as kind of cute, but sort of a dead end in that what information do you really have?

I went to the website of the test they used (I forget which one) and they had a white paper describing how their test works and how results are analyzed.

You should look for similar info for any tests you consider. For the one I saw they admitted that even though they gave results by country, that that info was not particularly reliable, but what was reliable was a more regional description, e.g., they could pin down northern vs southern europe pretty well, but to name a county was moving in the direction of dicey territory.

That makes sense as there is no such thing as a genetic marker for a particular country.

Also, they indicate that results with lower percentages (e.g., you’re 2% martian) are much more likely to actually be a false positive.

How it ultimately shakes out for me is this - with a DNA test, I could have a 15 second conversation at tops. I can say “Yeah, the test said this and that..”

But with my research, I can go on for hours about my relatives, even though I never met them.

Much more satisfying to me.

Finally - money - almost all of my overseas migrating relatives came in through NYC which is pretty johnny on the spot with providing records. $15 gets you a death certificate etc.. So when I see $60 for a DNA test, I think “That’s 4 death certs” from which I get much more interesting info and new leads for research or, even better, confirmation that I’ve got the right family.


24 posted on 01/05/2019 6:03:20 PM PST by fruser1
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To: Uncle Miltie

“In a SHTF scenario, they will hunt you down with it. Just sayn’.”

Lol...too true. Ancestry.com==NSA.com


25 posted on 01/05/2019 6:03:42 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: bboop

They will sellyour dna profiles. I would not do this for personal privacy reasons plus dna dayabase matching does produce false positives.


26 posted on 01/05/2019 6:08:20 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bboop

38 minutes and 26 replies later, you have not responded to anyone for your own vanity.


27 posted on 01/05/2019 6:13:27 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: bboop

Ancestry is a good one in that it has a huge user base. The biggest benefit of DNA testing is to find matches with distant cousins, network and share info.

I also used MyHeritage in order to get a 2nd test and compare. But I would start with Ancestry.

gedmatch is also a good site for analysis of your DNA and sort your distant cousin matches and identify those who you are closest to.

Good stuff. I just would not get too sidetracked by the so-called ethnicity analysis of these DNA sites as I don’t find them that accurate.


28 posted on 01/05/2019 6:17:00 PM PST by plain talk
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To: bboop

You couldn’t pay me to get one of those tests. With network security as bad as it is these days, I’d just assume that my genetic code would be in the public domain.


29 posted on 01/05/2019 6:18:22 PM PST by Alberta's Child (In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Well, I guess we were almost totally Spanish.

Did your ancestry.com result actually use the term Spanish? My result had some Spanish, but it was termed "Iberian Peninsula".

30 posted on 01/05/2019 6:19:19 PM PST by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: bboop

“You ARE the father.”


31 posted on 01/05/2019 6:26:03 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: servantboy777

You are all wrong!

One day you will disappear. No one will know - except your clone.


32 posted on 01/05/2019 6:27:14 PM PST by CTyank
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To: gundog

lolol...and we see from your DNA that you have too much ‘white privilege’, comrade


33 posted on 01/05/2019 6:31:19 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: CTyank

>>One day you will disappear. No one will know - except your clone.<
Good grief man. You’re posting this and you don’t think they know exactly who you are and where you live? You’ve just left a digital fingerprint and I suspect you post quite often your disdain.

Wake up bro. I will see you in the camp. hahahaha


34 posted on 01/05/2019 6:37:18 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: bboop

Islam is a war plan.


35 posted on 01/05/2019 6:38:07 PM PST by logitech
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To: bboop

Thank you all for the interesting feedback. I’ve read it all, but may not comment on each and every one. Nice to find some genealogists among us, too.

I suspect, too, that different tests might report differently, and how odd that would be. Had a friend who got 96% Askenazy Jew (which he knew about) and 4% Neanderthal, which is a hoot.

I think I’ll stick with research at this point, too. I have vats of papers I need to write up and then get rid of bc nobody else will be able to read them anyway.


36 posted on 01/05/2019 6:39:49 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: bboop

I use FTDNA.

Don’t believe they can tell you where you are from. Y chromosomes have a way of getting around (Any port in a storm).


37 posted on 01/05/2019 6:42:45 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: gundog

That is probably the biggest concern of all, huh?


38 posted on 01/05/2019 6:43:25 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Uncle Miltie
In a SHTF scenario, they will hunt you down with it. Just sayn’.

That's OK. I'll be hunting with slightly heavier projectiles than chromosomes. :)

39 posted on 01/05/2019 6:45:40 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Will88

It originally used the term “Iberian Peninsula” back when it still called me things it now says I am not. Now it says “Spain”, listed as an ethnicity.


40 posted on 01/05/2019 6:47:44 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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