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I've never been in the least bit tempted to send my DNA to a corporation.

How about you?




https://www.ft.com/content/b84613e4-8751-45e6-94ff-a014de6e4c0d

The government knows too much about me already. They don't need to know anything more.

Unca suga/ DOD already has a huge repository of DNA dog tag samples from service members since the early 90,s.

Think about how that could be used in the future.

Prescreened phys wise and intell wise already.

It's unreal the anal exam you are subjected to for a govt contract.

I made the mistake of getting goaded into it by KYHillChick for genealogy purposes. I made my deposit to ancestry.com.

Dad was "Sparky" in the real-life version of M.A.S.H. He was the guy at the switchboard in Seoul. One of his jobs was delivering nurses out to the units. His buddy would drive. Dad entertained in the back with screwdrivers made from frozen OJ concentrate and medicinal alcohol. He said he did his patriotic duty and made sure all his charges were delivered drunk and pregnant. The memory of that story came to me about 2 weeks after I'd submitted the sample.

Luckily, I haven't been deluged with emails from missing half-siblings. At least, not yet. However, Ancestry.com has found two distant half-cousins. One was probably a love child produced by a barmaid hooking up with my ne'er-do-well uncle and the other was probably produced by a distant cousin that was an FBI agent doing pre-employment security checks for Oak Ridge during WWII.

One thing was for sure about the findings of the test: There were no hidden secrets. It matched perfectly with known family history. Dad's side has been sitting in the same part of southern Germany since Roman times. Mom's side is a hodge-podge of early-Americans (English, Dutch) with a hefty dose of Welsh thrown in back before the Civil War. There was even the hint of Middle Eastern in the right proportion that points to the Shreve clan actually descending from a dark-skinned Syrian nicknamed "The Turk" in Elizabeth I's court. This fellow ended up becoming (drum roll) Sharif of Nottingham.

I recognized it was a DNA gathering scheme the very first time I heard about it.

Wifey and I did that. I’m 93% European and Scandinavian, 6% Italian and one percent Chinese.

Wifey is 94% European and 6% middle Eastern.

She gives me cshit about being Chinese. I give her hell about her kinfolk at the gas stations

DNA gathering by the government has been going on long before the internet.

Lol, I thought you was a Texan Hanco.........

Nope, even talked the wife out of it.

Five years ago I paid a hundred bucks for 23andme.com

Very interesting, it matched up with family lore that I am primarily Welsh, Irish, and Scottish. Also some German and Danish.
I wouldn't be surprised if some youngster emailed me out of the blue and said "Hello, Daddy!" But that hasn't happened.

I was also delighted to see that I am 3 percent Neanderthal. I am the living cave man.

I didn't realize I had sold out my identity to Big Government, gee if I had known how bad it is I never would have done it. [SARCASM]
So far, after five years, nothing bad has happened.

Problem being Simon, is that it doesn't only affect you. The next few generations of your bloodline will be under scrutiny of insurance agencies, as will anyone related to you...and God only knows what .gov will think up for those following us.



Added, kind of makes one wonder whether organ harvesters are plugged in as well.

Han-chink




Answer to ? No - i'm not getting involved .

I think DNA testing has some far reaching consequences, many of which have not been thought up yet. I was working in the seed industry when DNA testing was first developed. We used it to identify our germplasm and parents for hybrid seed production to see if someone was pirating our material.
I see no harm in it for recreational purposes but the results are retained and you have no control over how those results are used.

Given that all the DNA gathering places are owned and run by Jews, I have no doubt they are doing all kinds of devious schitt with it. They can't seem to help themselves.

On the contrary, it appears they can.

Didn't really seriously consider sending mine in but was somewhat curious.

Now, no way.

Why most people pay to give away their dna is beyond me. I can kinda see in cases of adoption or similar; but for the rest of us, it’s a gimmick. I already know my family tree from doing a little research. Welsh, French, German, Italian, Swiss, Dutch, and Irish; a heinz 57. I’m a direct descendent of Charlemagne, distantly related to 7 US Presidents, have an ancestor that came over on the Mayflower, etc. The info you get by doing your own family history is far superior to the dna analyst’s report. Besides, the idea that some company has my blueprint isn’t the least bit appealing; I trust them even less than the government.

I have to say that you moniker is amusing.

Cops have caught some real psychos due to DNA testing. The Golden State Killer committed at least 13 murders and 50 rapes. And, he was a cop!

He didn't have his DNA run, but he had left lots of DNA at crime scenes.
And they got several partial matches, a cousin here, a niece there got their DNA run at ancestry.com or 23andme.com, and they were able to find a link and track this POS down and put him in jail.