Posted on 08/08/2020 4:16:13 AM PDT by gattaca
Not only did I find out what I was looking for, (he was a high school classmate of my bio mother), but I also discovered a half-sister I never knew existed, who was adopted by another family three years after me. We have since spoken on the phone and hope to meet someday.
I dont want a hedge fund having access to my DNA.
Now that hedge fund will control whether you can replenish your own cells!!! Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
We discovered my sisters are half-sisters to my older brother and I. Mom started cheating after I was born. A real eye-opener. But I am glad we found out. She has been dead for many years now. Before you do this, ask yourself if you want to know.
Your family sound like the family a new professional in our life has.
They had a new union a couple of Christmas’s ago. With all their known half brothers/sisters and cousins.
One woman in her 40’s was very quiet while everyone was introducing themselves and their relationship.
Someone asked her how she was related?
She took a moment and said, “I’m related by intercourse like everyone else here!”
There was apparently a stunned silence and a couple started laughing and clapping.
It was a great ice breaker, and now most of them enjoy getting together with their relations due to intercourse!
Many Dutch people have German ancestry because centuries ago the Dutch army was filled with German mercenaries.
I have a friend who thought he was 100% Dutch, he's even a member of the Holland Society. It turns out his DNA test showed a lot of German.
Texas driver’s licenses have required you to submit fingerprints since the 1990s but you cannot get a replacement ID by using your fingerprints (must show other paperwork) so what are they REALLY collecting it for and why must you submit prints from BOTH hands?
sounds innocent enough...check your dna,etc....but it becomes part of a massive data collection that our govt and every govt and every industry has and can use...
luckily, we're not exceptional in any way...lol
You may remove your information but it doesn’t mean there isn’t a copy
Indian Princess somewhere in the family history of my wife’s father’s side of the tree. At least that was the story.
DNA check had nada, zip, nothing.
She was almost all from the Ireland, England Islands with a touch of Germanic.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
Great question.
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Thanks
The same here on both sides of my family.
My maternal side has well over a 100+ Genealogy documents/records of Cherokee and other American Indians cited and showing birth records, marriages, service in the military, deaths and other standard genealogy docs. We never heard a thing about Cherokee/Indian blood or relatives from our parents, aunts/parents and grandparents about any Indian blood.
Yet, I have 4th generation grandparents with documented records as noted above.
Supposedly, my dad’s ancestors had Cherokee and American Indian blood. There is zero DNA and zero paper documents showing, any Cherokee or American Indian blood.
There are some interesting theories of how DNA games have been played here.
Some of us didn’t know that already. Some of us spent $100, the cost of the test, and were able to find our sperm dono,...........uh, I mean my father.
Oh, the secrets my parents, birth and adopted both, thought they took to the grave.
Very interesting... Thanks.
Cyber and personal security alert, if you haven’t seen it.
We don’t inherit all of our ancestors’ DNA in tact, just parts of it. One great great grandchild may show French heritage and another great great grandchild may show none because that child didn’t inherit that particular DNA. It also depends on the testing company. I don’t put a lot of faith in their ethnic testing, but they all test different areas. I show fairly strong Scandinavian with one company and not at all with the other company I tested with. Just depends on the company’s testing criteria.
“My great great grandmother was 100% North Carolina Cherokee. My cousin for whom she was her great-grandmother had the DNA test and it said she had zero Cherokee blood.”
There was a thread here a while back that asserted the impossibility of determining American Indian ancestry from DNA.
Thanks to MikelTackNailer for the ping!
“Ive seen articles where they end up solving some long-ago murder through these sites and matching the DNA from some distant cousin to the killer.”
Investigation Discovery has a show, “Genetic Detective”, where the genealogist has found several murderers and rapist this way.
The question is which hat do you wear white or black? ;-)
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