Curious as to what they will find. Know about 3/4 of my genetic background. The other 1/4 has at least one ancestor that came over on the Mayflower and two or three that married woman that nobody really has any idea about the backgrounds of. Could have a little bit of just about anywhere in my genes.

Mutt of the planet myself.
AKA: American......

Haha

You gonna find out you got 12% Nubian negro in there.

Hope you don't have any outstanding warrants, past crimes, or illegitimate children.

You'll find out if you do.

Turns out your second cousin is going to jail

I wonder how many people do those tests and find out that the mailman or the preacher is actually their Daddy?

Now the .gov knows where to find you.

I resemble that remark.

I thought I was about half German and half British Isles. 38% Scandinavian, 28% Scot/Irish/Welsch plus a little German, Iberian Peninsula, and a touch First Nation.

One of thoes is possible I guess...and in that case, I would want to know anyway.

After the back child support issue comes up thru the court
You might regret wanting to know.
Lol!!!

I might bribe the Mormons to make me 1/2 Cherokee so I can get a Gubmint check.

You’re just mad because yours came back “78% Ugly”.....

They will send you a full refund if they decide to use your DNA in their cloning project. It's a one in a million shot though.

On ancestry.com mine came back 80% Irish. On the Irish ones they could nail it down to a surprisingly small area, mine came down to the very southwest corner of the coast of Ireland.

Later the news got out that they could get so specific in Ireland because of the degree of inbreeding during the 60 years prior to the famine when a person might have fifty to one hundred first cousins living in the immediate area.

So now when I check they took that narrow specification away. I’m glad I saw it before they did.

I was happy to get it done, it was a gift for my whole family and dinged known relatives with the correct degree of relatedness.

Funniest was my mom, raised inEngland, who always disparaged the Irish. For me to be 80%, she hadda be at least 60%

This is more true than people realize.

LOL.

They like to add a little Ashkenazi and Sub Saharan African in there just to mess with you. I think someone there even admitted it, at one point.

I know a guy that this happened to just a few months ago.

An orphan saw what he believed could be his cousin. He reached out to her and after a bit of research discovered a 99% possibility that they were half-siblings.

Yada, yada, yada. The father's high school sweetheart was pregnant when he left for bootcamp. This was in the sixties. They sent her away to have the kid and give it up for adoption and the family never told him. The orphan located the mother as well.

Pretty wild stuff.

I won't be participating.

Schit like this is made up to make people like JamesJr feel better after he discovers that he's part eggplant.

I don't know what's going to turn up. I can trace the lines of 3 of my Grandparents since they got off the boat, AND my 1st cousin on Mom's side has had this done(90+% Irish ia what he got). My Grandfather on Dad's side can trace EVERYONE in his lineage back to Bohemia(now Czech Republic), doesn't necessarily mean there isn't some other DNA, but should be mostly central Europe. My Grandmother on Dad's side...hard to say. I've heard that that branch originally came over on the Mayflower, but an ancestor lied about his age and changed his name to enlist in the Civil War where he fought in the "Iron Brigade" at 14. Dad told me once that there was good possibility of a very small percentage of either Native or African in there, I believe from sometime in the Colonial times, but no one is really sure.

I'm just curious myself.

Did mine last year. First came back with a touch of North African/Middle East and a smaller touch of Manchuria/Mongol. The rest was all European with most from British Isles, France, and Germany. The backed off the Manchurian/Mongol and now that part is 'Unassigned'.

No close relatives other than my mom.

I did mine and they told me there was no way to distinguish between French and German. Same genes.

When you only get charged for 22 you know it's not going to turn out well...

I did FamilySearch and I'm a descendant of the Howlands/Tilleys off the Mayflower. Turns out there are about 30M people descendants of the Mayflower with most from Elizabeth Tilley.

At one time it show that I was also a descendant of Powatan, Pocahontas' either father or grandfather. But they since limited relatives searches to 15 generations.

Here I thought I was just pure trailer trash...

You may be kin to Elizabeth Warren.

I'm told that's what Jello said.

Uugg!

I got interested in genealogy a little before the DNA testing was in vogue. Problem with that is it just assumes that the man who married your mother is your father.
I can trace one line of my family back to Richard Warren on the Mayflower—however I knew from the conventional records that since my great-great grandfather was adopted that I shared no DNA directly with Richard Warren.
I would have guessed my nationality prior to DNA testing would be 1/2 Norwegian-1/4 German and 1/4 Irish & English admixture.
DNA says 1/2 Scandinavian—3/8 Irish and 1/8 German—I’m good with that.
I’m also glad that Great-Uncle George has passed on—I suspect he is responsible for that revanoor agent that went missing down in Henry County in 1936.

Let us know what percent Neanderthal you are. I am 3 percent, some of the highest Neanderthal dna ever tested for.

You could be a full blood, but if you don't have an proven ancestor on the government roll you aint no Indian.

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It's my understanding that those home DNA tests can only reveal probabilities of what racial group(s) your DNA matches closest to that of highest concentrations of others sampled in other areas of the world. They can not determine specific countries, nor tribes, and can vary in percentages between full siblings, parents and even identical twins, triplets, etc..

Our son's wife bought him a 23 and Me DNA test for this past Christmas. He said his results showed he is something like 98+ % Northern European .

My sister wanted to try one herself and offered to get me one too and pay for it but I thanked her and declined. I have no real interest in knowing just out of curiosity and at my age a genetic predisposition to possible health concerns is pointless.

Girls like that have always been around. A lot...

And teenage me thanks them!

First record I have been able to find of what is LIKELY an ancestor in the Colonies, was a William Wills, who bought what was later known as Wills Island in 1638...I'll have to wait for the report to go back any further than that.

That 25% of my gene pool has been here over 200 years longer than the other 75%...

Gaul and Germania were basically the same culture and people when Rome started their expansion into those regions.

Statistically, IIRC about one in six kids aren’t fathered by the legal father. Interestingly, that is about the same percentage as most monogamous songbird species. This is why in biology class they no longer have the kids construct blood type family trees 🙂

Races differ widely in this regard.

Back in the old days when a mother died it was a fairly common practice for her adolescent children and especially girls to be taken in and raised by other two parent families or older women who may or may not be blood kin. Sometimes when there were several siblings they would be split up and raised by different families and it wasn't uncommon either for the children to take the surname of the family that raised them.

I am who I am and need no DNA company to tell me that. Matters not who my ancestors are/were.

"I am he
As you are he
As you are me
And we are all together"

(J Lennon)

I understand the French/German thing though. Mom told me her grandma was from Alsace Lorraine. I asked "where is that?". She said "well it depends on who was winning whichever war they were fighting, it's either France or German".

Now, is it true that's where my great grandma was from? Matters not to me, I learned some political geography that day.

Geno

PS I love eclairs and pork with sauerkraut......................so maybe it is true.

I hope you weren’t a history teacher.

How does anyone know they don't just take your money and make up some fake BS?

There's no way to confirm the vague information they give you.

you’ll know when the cops come and arrest your uncle for some DNA thing...

Don’t you guys watch the news ?

I read somewhere that nationality on these tests is determined by statistical analysis.
Now we all know what some lies can be told by statistics.
But the point is the more people that get it done the more accurate the analysis becomes.
I don’t know if I believe that but it sure sounds important and educated.

Pardon my guessing, but I'm thinking 100% Canadian.

I'm sorry.
Enjoy your virtual barcode tattoo.

'Gruff had this done as well.

End result was the impregnation of every lab tech that came into contact with his sample. As well as every mail carrier involved in it's delivery.

Men included.

That's what the OJ jury decided.

Try and get with the times.

Must be why beards are so prevalent now.

I read a review some time back that a guy sent in a saliva sample from his pet dog to one of those places. If I remember right, Fido came back as being Irish.

Wolfhound, Terrier, Water Spaniel, or Setter?

Geno

Got my results back, no major surprises. 99% European with 57% Irish/English, 8% Czech and 16% French/German(predominantly from Saxony, just over the Czech border). I had heard a story that I had an ancestor on my paternal grandmothers line that was either a native woman or an escaped slave girl many generations back, nobody was sure which anymore...came back .02% Native American.

Sounds like you could get special admission to Harvard on the Warren plan.

Or related to Elizabeth Warren !!!

Brother had a run done. Seems we're Scotch and central European. Nailed us down to a region of several million square miles with no royal attachments.

Seems the outfits are quite willing to share what most thought would be personal data, so now the Feds will at least have some chance of running down the crooks in our extended family

Yes there is. Send in a duplicate sample and compare results.

Is this the one where ya crap in a box and send it back to em?

Sorry, no warrant, no DNA!

That's damn funny right there.