These DNA tests are not known for their accuracy.
“These DNA tests are not known for their accuracy.”
We have a squaw in the family. Name, tribe, location. She’s in the tribal records and we -had- a photo of her. Family had all been fair prior to her, then checkboard fair and dark after her. The family geneologist went all lovey dovey with a ‘lost tribe of Israel’ cult, and deep sixed the record, and the photos. It doesn’t show up in the alleged DNA results at all, despite the RECORD we had. Instead, Russian. A whole LOT of Russian. We don’t have any Russians, or even Eastern Europeans in the family. I think these things are cooked.
You have made the main point here. These DNA tests are trash, money-makers. Their claims go way beyond what they actually do prove. Suckers are born every minute and charlatans feed on them.
As far as the ethnicity reports, the science is in it’s infancy. The real value of these tests is in matching family members. There have been untold numbers people who have been able to find missing family. I myself was able to find my biological father, and verified my biological mother. I have been able to track down my husband’s missing grandfather, and the tree of my husband’s family, along with his kit attached was instrumental in another adoptee finding her biological father.