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Post by Kpatch on Feb 25, 2017 20:52:06 GMT -5
Have you done one of those DNA or genetic tests that tells you your background? Did you find anything that surprised you like in those commercials?
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Post by wendylou on Feb 25, 2017 21:17:32 GMT -5
Well, my sister did one, which is almost the same as me since we have the same parents. She's really into genealogy (sp?). Anyway, we were kind of surprised b/c we always said we were half German and didn't really know what else, maybe a little Swedish and English. When it came back the highest percentage was actually Scandinavian and THEN German. They were close but it was still kind of different b/c we've always identified as German (our last name is German) but we're more Scandinavian. Other than that, nothing too surprising. It was pretty interesting though.
I'm trying to get my mom to do one so that we can see how much hers differs from ours.
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Post by lostinsalem on Feb 25, 2017 22:14:31 GMT -5
Have you done one of those DNA or genetic tests that tells you your background? Did you find anything that surprised you like in those commercials? I've wondered about those tests myself, Kpatch. |
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Post by lostinsalem on Feb 25, 2017 22:15:11 GMT -5
Well, my sister did one, which is almost the same as me since we have the same parents. She's really into genealogy (sp?). Anyway, we were kind of surprised b/c we always said we were half German and didn't really know what else, maybe a little Swedish and English. When it came back the highest percentage was actually Scandinavian and THEN German. They were close but it was still kind of different b/c we've always identified as German (our last name is German) but we're more Scandinavian. Other than that, nothing too surprising. It was pretty interesting though. I'm trying to get my mom to do one so that we can see how much hers differs from ours. Interesting! Thanks for sharing, wendylou. |
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Post by kathyj on Feb 25, 2017 22:36:52 GMT -5
I did the test a few years ago. No surprises - 50% Welsh, 48% Irish and traces of Scandinavian. The Ancestry site gave me a list of possible family matches. I connected with the son of my grandmother's sister. He and his wife met me for lunch and we visited another cousin. I never contacted any of the other possibilities because I couldn't trace the relationship.
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Post by myst85 on Feb 26, 2017 1:04:46 GMT -5
I would do it.. but I don't have a visa or mastercard.. lol
I would like to know my background.. lol
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Post by kathyj on Feb 26, 2017 13:08:51 GMT -5
My sister-in-law had her family take the 23andMe DNA test. Her husband(my brother) and her daughter's results came back in a timely manner but her results did not. She contacted the company and they sent her another kit. Before she could submit, she got the results of her original test. It told her that she was a carrier of a genetic disease. She thinks they were double checking the result. She is not going to have more children and her daughter is not a carrier so she was not too worried. This test sounds like it gives too much information. At least, I wouldn't do it.
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Post by fluffysmom on Feb 26, 2017 15:58:12 GMT -5
I never considered that you could receive that kind of genetic info kathyj. |
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Post by Minako98 on Mar 1, 2017 13:16:34 GMT -5
I did it. I found out that the man I thought was my father my whole life is not my father and the man who adopted me when I was 12 (my Mom's second husband) IS my father. Trippy.
50% Irish
24% Europe West - Belgium, France, Germany, etc
12% Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal
5% Great Britain - England, Scotland, Wales
3% Scandinavia - Sweden Norway, Denmark
3% Europe East - Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, etc.
2% Finland/Northwest Russia
1% Italy/Greece
AKA 100% European.
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Post by sportsgirl on Mar 1, 2017 14:59:19 GMT -5
Wow Minako98... I work with a gal who is in her upper 60's suddenly received a phone call asking about her father. Long story short, the gal and her share the same father. Seems that back during the war, her Mom & dad weren't getting along, then apparently one time her Dad did get along with another woman on the base. This was all because of Ancestry.com |
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Post by Kpatch on Mar 1, 2017 20:47:39 GMT -5
Wow Minako98, that is an unexpected revelation. I think I would be okay not knowing that. |
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Post by Minako98 on Mar 7, 2017 18:02:17 GMT -5
Wow Minako98 , that is an unexpected revelation. I think I would be okay not knowing that. I'm actually very okay with it. He raised me and I couldn't have loved him any more knowing then what I know now. Sadly, I found out in the past 4 months and he's been gone since January 1, 1988. I wanted to talk to my mother about it, but she'd been in and out of the hospital so much before she passed and I didn't want to upset her about it. For those that didn't know, my Mom passed on Dec.4th 2016. That's one of the reasons I hadn't been on lately, amongst many others that I don't have time to go into right now, but will soon-ish.
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Post by sportsgirl on Mar 7, 2017 18:40:46 GMT -5
Minako98, I am so sorry about your Mom, but always remember you have friends here.
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Post by fluffysmom on Mar 7, 2017 21:49:20 GMT -5
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