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How Accurate Are Online DNA Tests?
Scientific America ^ | 10/15/18 | Adam Rutherford

Posted on 10/16/2018 6:27:59 AM PDT by Drango

Blah, blah, blah...DNA stuff...~snip

(This is in the conclusion)

But to say that you are 20 percent Irish, 4 percent Native American or 12 percent Scandinavian is fun, trivial and has very little scientific meaning.

(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...


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KEYWORDS: adamrutherford; dna; genealogy; genetics; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble
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To: carcraft

Just think how we’ve all been saying lately, ‘where is the evidence?’

Justice Kavanaugh could have been successfully framed given a well-planned scenario, as could any one of us.


61 posted on 10/16/2018 11:55:53 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Note: this topic is from 10/16/2018. Thanks Drango.

62 posted on 06/09/2019 3:15:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Drango

Good enough to get you or a relative thrown in prison. How much better does The Almighty State need them to be?


63 posted on 06/09/2019 3:19:11 PM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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To: Agatsu77
Yeh, I used to read SA when the science part was more important than the political.

Wow, you must be ooooollllllddddd!

64 posted on 06/09/2019 3:20:53 PM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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To: Heart of Georgia

I hope they use it for good.


65 posted on 06/09/2019 3:26:19 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: Wuli

I quit Scientific American way back when they fired Forrest Mimms for his Christian Beliefs.


66 posted on 06/09/2019 3:35:08 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: jiggyboy

Well, a few years ago I got one done and found out I was 2% Jewish. Ok but they updated it a few months ago and my Jewish heritage has been replaced with 1% sub-Saharan African

So I want my reparations.


67 posted on 06/09/2019 3:43:16 PM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: Heart of Georgia
Stolen white girl during an Indian raiding party?

My grandfather was olive skinned, brown eyes and jet black hair.

Norwegian.

My dad figured he was from some slave girl brought home on a raid. Until dad visited relatives up in northern Norway. Lapland - the Sami are very much like American Eskimos, and they all looked like his dad!

68 posted on 06/09/2019 4:06:19 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: treetopsandroofs
alleged right wingers think it’s just too cool

I am not an alleged right winger; I'm a die-hard conservative. What I think is cool is that, because I was adopted as a very small child, I have been able to find my biological father's side of the family and have had a lot of questions answered. I don't see how that affects you at all.

69 posted on 06/09/2019 4:12:45 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: 21twelve
Sami you say?


70 posted on 06/09/2019 4:16:24 PM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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To: Drango

“I Took 9 Different Commercial DNA Tests and Got 6 Different Results”

https://amp-livescience-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-explained.html?amp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGgAQE%3D

“What I actually learned about my family after trying 5 DNA ancestry tests”

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/family-dna-ancestry-tests-review-comparison


71 posted on 06/09/2019 4:55:06 PM PDT by ameribbean expat (Socialism is like a nude beach - - sounds great til you actually get there. -- David Burge.)
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To: Drango; All

2 years ago, a sibling and a daughter bribed me to get back into Genealogy to firm up our UK and Scottish research. They paid for a year’s membership in AC and a DNA test. They wanted me to see if we had native American ancestors and in particular Cherokee as per family legends.

The first DNA test came back with no Native American DNA, and some excellent UK/Scot/Iris DNA that fit with our family tree research. We discovered relatives in the Iberian peninsula, that we didn’t know about.

AC re jiggled their DNA, and we lost the Iberian relatives re DNA and reaffirmed our UK trees and found more. My total tree is over 27,000 documented ancestors. 97% are UK/Scot/Irish and some western Europe.

Again, there was zero native American data.

However, we now have a measurable West African % and zero names to back up that %.

Old fashioned Genealogy research has recently found, supposedly, about 300+ Cherokees and other Native Americans. Our DNA again shows nothing.

An unnamed expert a few years ago said there was no native Cherokees, they were mixture of humans from both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.

He felt that one of the biggest con jobs in history, science and genealogy was the creation of so called Native Americans.

Below are some DNA studies on these Native American questions:

Melungeon DNA Study – Genetic Evidence
Updated: December 19, 2016 | America, Native American

https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/melungeon-genetic-evidence.htms

The Appalachian Colonists » Cherokee DNA Cherokee DNA

https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/cherokee-dna.htm


72 posted on 06/09/2019 5:10:02 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Gutless, Stupid Party, GOPe never confronts the compulsive lying Anti America Democrats!)
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To: null and void

Hey - Grandpa John!!


73 posted on 06/09/2019 5:12:25 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m a DNA geek and use it for genealogy. Highly accurate.

It’s a joke for the ethnic part however.


74 posted on 06/09/2019 6:06:14 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

WTF and I don’t GAF.

The poster to whom I responded several months ago got it.


75 posted on 06/09/2019 6:10:52 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: treetopsandroofs
WTF and I don’t GAF

I'm amazed so many "alleged right wingers" are so foul mouthed and rude.

76 posted on 06/10/2019 1:25:06 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Nea Wood

marketing profile constructed about “you” from data used on whitepages.com etc?

Since the internet site know peoples’ families, addresses, phone numbers, and birth certificate data (just from public information), a corporation data punching it into the professional geneology sites doesn’t seem like such a stretch.


77 posted on 06/10/2019 3:12:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: All

Wow, who knew leftist freaks from months ago would suddenly find it attractive to attack me.

Guess things aren’t looking so well for their babe after all.

Have an amazing day!


78 posted on 06/10/2019 5:20:46 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Drango

The tests, in general, are quite good.

I have been unraveling some previously unknown/hidden family history by finding matches in large databases and comparing stories.

But, of course, the claim, pioneered by Ancestry and now taken up as a matter of survival by FTDNA and 23andMe that you have “Swedish DNA” or “Irish DNA” is foolishness.

After all, even in the old days, those pesky Y chromosomes did get around.


79 posted on 06/10/2019 5:27:20 AM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: Drango

Lot of the genealogy stuff is run by Mormons. They gather family data and then baptize their “customers” posthumously into their kingdom.


80 posted on 06/10/2019 5:29:29 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after rain had started falling.)
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