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To: bboop
I had mine done years ago through National Geographic. Nobody's come to arrest me for any crimes yet, so I guess I'm safe. I'm going to have another done at some point, if I live long enough, as the old one didn't provide the more extensive info that newer tests do today.

Found this for top DNA sites:

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15 posted on 01/05/2019 5:44:38 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th
Four companies give you matches--AncestryDNA has the largest pool, then MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, and 23andMe.

Living DNA and GPS Origins do not give you lists of matches. Living DNA does provide your "motherline" haplogroup (that is, your mitochondrial DNA) but only a very broad label (such as H), and for men the "fatherline" or Y-DNA haplogroup. They gave me a percentage of how much "European" ancestry I have (but not further subdivided).

GPS Origins gave me 14 regions where I supposedly have ancestry from--some very unbelievable and not at all consistent with what I know from genealogical research.

23andMe gives mitochondrial and Y-DNA haplogroups (but rather broad categories). MyHeritage and Ancestry don't give you those. FamilyTreeDNA does if you pay extra for those tests (and their categories are more precise).

Having done all those tests, I have tons of matches who are somehow distantly related but often I don't know how. Usually I can tell if it is on my father's side or my mother's side. Sometimes I can figure out from seeing what other matches that person has--but in many cases that doesn't help because none of the other matches have surnames I have seen before.

I have had some interesting exchanges with distant relatives whom I would not know of if we had not both taken the test and have been able to help others with information they did not have.

I'm not worried that any close relative might commit a crime and get caught because I've taken a DNA test.

49 posted on 01/05/2019 7:05:47 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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