Posted on 01/05/2019 5:26:20 PM PST by bboop
Gathering info here on DNA tests. Good ones/ those to avoid? Feedback? thanks. I've been doing genealogy for some time; cousin got the test and I am curious.
If you’ve ever had blood drawn, odds are you already have your DNA on record...let ‘er rip.
So? If my son, cousin, uncle, aunt, 3C2R, is a criminal, I'd gladly volunteer my DNA to bring them to justice.
I used Ancestry DNA testing because both my grandmothers were adopted. There were some big surprises in the results, but the results made sense. Ancestry provided me with many unknown cousin matches, some of whom may be related to me through the grandmothers’ birth parents.
Maybe they say Spain because too many have no clue where the Iberian Peninsula is located.
“Why don’t they have a Hispanic category?”
Hispanic was never intended to be a race. It was a census category created during the Nixon era for identifying people of mixed Spanish and Indigenous ancestry.
It’s much like the Candadian Métis, which is a people of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry, and one of the three recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
The left has taken this census identity and made it racial. Anything the left can do to divide can and will be done, on earth as it is in Hell. They are so proud of their efforts they’ve gone full blown identity politics.
Lots of wisdom in your post, sir/ma’am.
Please tell my wife!
My SIL and my mom used my heritage.com.
LOL!
My SIL and my mom used my heritage.com.
I used my heritage for a while also. I had 88,000 in my family tree and got 150,000 matches and 1,500,000 hints. I discovered an error in the tree and eventually deleted about 50,000 people. Heritage has some good tools but it did not work out for me.
LOL...eventually we’re all related, right?
Yes, it is generic info and you give them your DNA. And I was advised a pharma company just bought DNA from a DNA-testing site to use for their research. hmm. thanks again to all.
Oh yes, blood drawn. hmm
The daughter is about 61 and a grandmother--for 40 years she had wondered who her birth mother was and was afraid she would never find her. Her mother not only got to meet the baby she had been pressured into giving up (the conception was because of a rape) but also grandchildren and great-grandchildren she had not known about.
Several things to consider. Forget the ethnicity estimates, it’s an emerging technology and sometimes can be confusing to people who don’t grasp it. Forget all of crazy stories like adding African ancestry to piss off racists. That came from an unsourced article in Cracked magazine.
Now you will get matched to other users. Some may be known to you. Some may not be known. You may find out some unsettling facts in your family. You may find persons who were adopted out as infants. You may find persons who were the result of an affair. It’s possible you could be of assistance in them finding their biological parents.
I have a friend who found out what happened to her ggrandfathers brother. They were separated as children during the Spanish Flu epidemic.
I found my biological father. My cousin found her biological father.
Some people find a half sibling they knew nothing about. Some people find that the man who raised them isn’t their father. Some people find out that they themselves are adopted.
So you need to weigh the pluses and minuses.
Yes, those things are true, but for many adoptees, donor conceived, and those with unknown father’s, no matter how wonderful your family, there is still a missing piece in your soul, a feeling of unrealness,a feeling of having no connection. Finding your biological family can be like putting on a pair of glasses for the first time, you see everything clearly about yourself for the first time.
Were you adopted, and did that happen to you? Maybe there is satisfaction in knowing of the genetic connection. My daughter is growing up with lots of online contact with her genetic siblings. The genetic tendencies are wild, some similarities blow us away. But her parents are clearly US and not anyone else. Parenting is a verb. Genetics is interesting but not of the heart per se. Love overrules genes any day.
Yes, I was adopted at birth. Closed adoption. I have been reunited with all of my biological family.
Yes, it is good that your daughter has connection to her bio siblings. I’m sure it helps her develop a sense of connectedness. People who are raised with biological family really have trouble comprehending it. Of course you are her parent, that is very important, and the fact that you are honest with her is crucial, but don’t understand estimate the role of genetics and biology.
Oh interesting, thanks.
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