Posted on 12/10/2017 8:36:40 AM PST by Enlightened1
Who were your ancestors? What is your ethnic background composed of? Sites like Ancestry.com and 23andme have always been some go to sources in answering all of your toughest questions. But how accurate are they? In a recent interview with Cracked, one of the major ancestry testing companies, (which specific company is unknown) spilled the beans on what really happens when you purchase an ancestry kit. While I can’t say I’m surprised, you may be shocked to learn that these ancestry sites aren’t always as accurate as they claim to be. Beyond this, they’ve also admitted to tampering with the result to “screw with racists”.
When Inside Edition had a set of triplets send their spit in to Ancestry.com and 23andMe, they got wildly different results from both services. Neither gave each triplet the same ancestry results. “Tests can be a crapshoot. For DNA tests, they use genetic markers, which are little variations in the DNA one or several groups may have, but others do not. The more markers there are, the more accurate the test will be.”
Shocked yet? Yeah, I didn’t think so. A lot of my friends have taken these types of DNA Tests, and most of them come back saying, “I don’t think this is entirely accurate…”
Remember when white supremacist Craig Cobb found out that he was 14% black? Well as it turns out, there’s a possibility that those numbers could have been fudged with.
(Excerpt) Read more at squawker.org ...
How is it a lie to say that a person that is 100% white is less than 1% African?
Thomas Jefferson and his descendants hardest hit.
Yea, I like that better as well.
I did 23andMe and got the >1 African and >1 middle eastern (probably due to Sicilian heritage) but what was the most disappointing is their broad categorization as “broadly northern European” and “broadly southern European” while “identifying” something like 70% of my family oral history of origins... but in my circumstance they tossed in “20% Ashkenazi Jew” at the grandparent level when we can directly account for 100% of our heritage going back to the early 1800s on both sides of the family via all members of the tree.... All married in churches and documented appropriately... Our first reaction was “this sample must have been tainted or confused” but now I’m starting to think these science wizards are just purposely misrepresenting their results to “make people challenge their beliefs”. If there is a class action lawsuit I’ll GLADLY jump on that bandwagon and provide as many spit samples as necessary to the case for a 3rd party audit against the results from 23andMe. Further, following several similar disclosures in the past about contamination and other issues with these companies, I have SEVERE DOUBTS regarding the veracity of their medical information derived via DNA.
I think these are snake-oil salesmen. Maybe they’ll tell us we can each own a segment of a bridge over the San Francisco Bay as a “crowdsourced” effort?
EVERYONE gets the 1% Africa bit. This is why Gates can say everything started with a “brother”.
My g.g.grandfather was from Poland. My g.g.grandmother was from Bavaria. Ancestry.com says there I’m only 2% Eastern European. Those English sure watered it down over a few generations.
I purchased that kit for my mom, who has a Native American great great grandmother. That didn’t show at all. the >1% African did.
I’m curious. What do they call a white person in Africa? Are they not an African as well?
Problem is that you need to know the exact parish where your ancestors lived...and the pages are not always easy to read.
I have an Irish ancestor whose date of birth I know, but I don't know where she was born and her surname is a very common one, so I have not managed to locate her yet. Maybe if I spend enough time on it I will find her.
Well for me, it was one of the few around testing ten years ago. Here’s a recent comparison chart:
https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_chart
Fauxahontas should be careful with her claim to Native American ancestry, the Aché tribe, in the Paraguay area of South America are cannibals, and generally rather small in stature.
Yeah. So are Egyptians, but I bet a snowflake would deny that, saying only blacks are real Africans...
The SJW types are pretty stupid about this, actually. The most militant ones are always those with something to prove. It’s true of prominent black activists who are almost invariably far more white than black, and it’s true of so-called white racists as well. There are several old tri-racial isolate groups in this region and they’re a prime example. Part white, part black and part Indian. They’re sort of suspicious and resentful of actual white people despite insisting that they are, but man do they ever dislike black people. Kind of like Hispanics in that regard come to think of it. They’ve been mixed race for so long that they actually look middle eastern or Mexican, a distinct people.
Fauxcohontas just needs to find the friendly compliant DNA testing company which will give her the results she wants.... or she can just forge her preferred response from Ancestry.com because we know how much the ‘Rats love forgeries.
For white Americans with ancestors in the 13 colonies, to have an ancestor with African origins in the 1600s or 1700s is unlikely since that ancestor would probably have to be one-eighth black or one-sixteenth black to "pass" as white in order to marry a white person...so several generations removed from the person brought to America from Africa. No doubt there are cases like that but not to the extent 23andMe is implying.
Damn, I have to call one of these companies up, piss them off, and have them give me a golden ticket to join the free shit army. And to think I was going to try to sneak back into my own country with a fake Mexican matriculate ID so I could be an unconvictable, untaxable illegal alien.
My forebears were Swiss, German and Irish. My wife’s are German and Scotch. Every time we see that commercial for DNA Testing, and the speaker expresses amasement upon learning of a bunch of unimagined DNA in their profile, we ROFLOAO, “knowing” that the Testing company probably sold them a crock in regards to their history. Flush $99 down the tubes!
Note that the price quoted on that link for 23andMe ($199) is for the combined ancestry + health package. If you just want the ancestry information, it is currently on sale for $79.
Yup, either it’s a fraud, or sloppy technicians don’t want to bother doing the actual testing and fudge the tests. I have a nephew who has two grandparents who are French/Indian, and two who are Syrian...and he showed up as l/2 Syrian and l/2 Scandinavian. Gave us all a good laugh.
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