I’ve never understood the attraction of this stuff.
A lot of people I know - mostly Black Americans - have bought into it; but the results seem to be very nebulous. What do they really tell anyone that’s useful?
My nephew took it.
And I found out I have another daughter...
I’ve made a new friend with a distant relative in England. We are chatting regularly. It’s pretty cool!
There have been many examples of identical twins sending in their samples and getting remarkably different results. I know of a national network and one local occurrence in the last two years, and I don’t doubt there are others.
These things are just another way to part the gullible from their money, IMHO.
I am adopted, so it was a big deal to me. I was able to trace family to a certain location in Scotland and the other side in Germany, where they came to the US, and how they migrated to little old South Carolina to make me. A wonderful journey.
I found who my father’s father was, and that my dad had another (half) sibling.
I was on the ‘GO’ side of a BOGO promo about 3 years ago.
My sister, who knows genetics like Newton knew classical physics, needed a male DNA sample point to cast a wider net - don’t ask me to explain that!
The price was right, and I needed another hobby anyway...to keep me out of faceplant and tweeter jail. (It didn’t work for tweeter, but I’m in GREAT company being an outcast from that platform!)
I have enjoyed making new ‘friends’ out of 2nd and 3rd cousins who were totally unknown to me before. I’ve learned a lot of ancient family history through the perspectives they bring to the table.