Posted on 01/05/2019 5:26:20 PM PST by bboop
Gathering info here on DNA tests. Good ones/ those to avoid? Feedback? thanks. I've been doing genealogy for some time; cousin got the test and I am curious.
Thanks for all the great info. My father was born in Holland, and my mother in Canada, but her family is originally from England, and settled in the U.S., and there’s supposed to be Mohawk blood on her great-grandmother’s line. It will be interesting to see if any of that shows up on a DNA test, and where the European roots connect to.
“Ancestry is preferred to 23 and Me. Why? Ancestry does not have any plans to do monkey business with anyone’s DNA. They are a genealogical company whose main goal is to connect people to their roots. They are owned by Utah Mormons, who began by measuring their own roots. They have learned a lot in the process, and they have found a business model to make their knowledge available to others.”
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Not so fast...
“In October 2012, Ancestry.com agreed to be acquired by a private equity group consisting of Permira Advisers LLP, members of Ancestry.com’s management team, including CEO Tim Sullivan and CFO Howard Hochhauser, and Spectrum Equity, for $32 per share or around $1.6 billion.[30] At the same time, Ancestry.com purchased a photo digitization and sharing service called 1000Memories.[31]
“On July 16, 2015, Ancestry launched AncestryHealth, and announced the appointment of Cathy A. Petti as its Chief Health Officer.[32]
“In April 2016 GIC Private Limited (a sovereign wealth fund owned by the Government of Singapore) and Silver Lake (a private equity fund manager) bought equity stakes in Ancestry.com.[33] The estimated market value of Ancestry.com in 2017 was more than $3 billion.[34]
About page indicates possibly female.
The government has a sample of DNA of everyone in the military.
I'm not too worried about it.
The 'expert' she used was a friend and I think a former partner of her ex- husband. Yes, he was a DNA expert but he was a family friend.
It’s not really anonymous though. The neighbors name is attached to it.
It would be nice if they let you do it anonymously but I think they all require you to give your name. Not sure if it’s legal not to. I suppose they want to make sure that you’re not snooping on someone else’s dna.
My grandmother was born in 1889 and adopted later that same year. We never had any idea who her biological parents were, and neither did she. I had my 96-year-old mother take the ancestry DNA test in August. Within 3 weeks of receiving her results, I had identified both of my grandmother’s biological parents, thanks to several 2nd and 3rd cousin matches.
So, if you have a similar family mystery, DNA testing is the way to go. It is also good for verifying your paper genealogical research.
You can take your ancestrydna raw results, and upload them to myheritage, familytreedna, and gedmatch, and get more matches. Gedmatch is the database that the cops have been using to help crack cold cases. They can’t access ancestry without a warrant, I’m not sure about myheritage and familytreedna.
Yes, mine was a medically-oriented DNA test performed by Assurex Health and is covered by HIPPA. Did not have any copay. However, in regards to confidentiality and privacy, medical records are being made available to LE when applying for a carry permit. This is disturbing.
I looked up the “rack rate” cost of my DNA test in the previous comment and it is between $1500 and $3500 . Although this test concerns only about 45 disorder-related genes, I’m positive the full DNA complement was elucidated and stored somewhere.
Also I would add that it would be foolish for me to refuse the DNA test. Depending on your genetic makeup, various medications will be more or less effective. In some cases the enzyme metabolism is such that a given medication might be totally ineffective. This is something that could only be determined through trial and error in the past.
My daughter had their DNA tested, but it was done through medical doctor lab.
One was having issues, and we needed to find out if they were identical twins. They are identical.
I agree and told my mother that is what she did to us.
I did it about a year ago, and it came back with a couple of results that I expected and maybe two results which weren’t. My family does trace itself mostly back to England, and part of this did agree with that.
For decades, one element of the family had talked of native American Indian ancestors (a legend in the family). Well...NO, there was zero evidence of that. So that legend was finally put to sleep.
But there was a fair amount of suggestion in the tests to lead back to France (actually finding later that two ‘strings’ of the family tree came from France). One element of the family lived in a remote valley in the south of France for a long, long time. And a second element had come out of Normandy, but was only there for two generations...having come from Denmark originally.
I will caution anyone taking the test, it opens some doors you might not like (you might find that of the four sons in the family...you don’t line up with your dad, and there’s some story that is best not to be told). The data with the DNA? Most companies say it’ll be held in a private way, but their intent is some massive database which they can eventually sell in some way.
I found out I was 2% Congolese. I think that should qualify for reparations.
“Plus I fund relatives who are all over the world”
I’m pretty sure I’m one of your relatives.
I’m a mongrel and damn proud of it. I don’t need no stinking DNA test!
You might learn your father is not really your father,
I am my daughter’s mommy even if we don’t share any genes. That isn’t the important part. I’m just lucky I got to carry and give birth to her, adopted from an embryo.
Why give the government your DNA?
If your son one day does something the regime frowns upon, and escapes by the skin of his teeth, you will have led them right to him.
Don’t think those results are not being centrally tabulated, and made available to the government.
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