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DNA Spit Kit Genealogy Databases: Boy, Will You Regret This!
Youtube ^ | 10/15/2019 | Lionel Nation

Posted on 10/16/2019 7:09:14 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

They might find a particular marker or something that indicates you may have a predisposition or high likelihood of breast cancer or Alzheimer's.... What could go wrong?

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: dna; genetics; privacy
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To: Balding_Eagle

> Just throw thousands of years old ‘institution’ over the side?

Humans apparently were reproducing and more or less thriving successefully for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the ‘institution’ ... just saying...


101 posted on 10/17/2019 7:26:26 AM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: Elsie
The cost wasn't a factor with MENSA. It was the smug level.

I did enjoy my membership in INTERTEL, those members while smarter than Mensans didn't seem to have that smugness. After a couple decades I decided I could not longer justify spending the $ for renewal so dropped out. The monthly INTERTEL journal was good reading. I even contributed a monthly Cryptogram challenge back in the 80's. They knew how to enjoy each other.

The MENSA magazine had far too many personal advertisements. One of them I actually responded to.

There was very nice looking blond member seeking a sperm donor. I fit her listed requirements, so send in my "resume?" She wanted a "natural" insemination, which I was willing to force myself to perform until successful. (As I said, she was a pretty blond. My preference is petite beautiful Asian spinners.)

Bottom line. She never wrote back. Maybe in the medical information portion of her application I should have left off my Vasectomy.

102 posted on 10/17/2019 7:34:43 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: SteveH

Huh.

I see that you carefully avoided thinking before you posted your reply.

I was speaking specifically about the ‘ tution’ of a man raising all his children as his own, even if there was some question.


103 posted on 10/17/2019 7:35:59 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

haha woops probably and imho that may have been happening a lot longer than just thousands of years


104 posted on 10/17/2019 9:24:48 AM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: SteveH

That was my point,.


105 posted on 10/17/2019 10:22:35 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Don Corleone
If you go back far enough, say about 20 generations, everyone is related. My brother has found the ships manifest from our family members that came from England in 1624, it has the names of all immigrant members and their childrens names. Saw the list for the first time a few months ago. The first page had the parents names and how many children, the second page had the childrens names and ages.

It listed the childrens name as John Lewis, my brothers name, next on the list John Woodward my sons name! I looked at my brother and said, The Lewis' and Woodwards came over on the same ship?

106 posted on 10/17/2019 10:55:53 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: ASA Vet

And when something innocuous that you do becomes illegal, you just put yourself in prison.

CSM on the X-Files was absolutely correct: “Trust No-One.”


107 posted on 10/17/2019 3:15:57 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Don W
I'll worry about that when it happens. I'm an old man, if the government wants to house me, feed me, and give me free medical I can handle it.

Hopefully they'll also provide me with enough aluminum foil for fresh hats frequently.

108 posted on 10/17/2019 3:50:59 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: ASA Vet

I worked with a fellow that had a sister.

They both married into the same family that had a sister and brother; making his sister also his sister-in-law!

The kids of each set of parents; though cousins; were genetically like siblings to one another??


109 posted on 10/18/2019 3:54:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ASA Vet
I even contributed a monthly Cryptogram challenge back in the 80's.

That's the last puzzle in the paper I do every day!

Most of the time I do not use the clue.

110 posted on 10/18/2019 3:56:42 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ASA Vet

You dog!


111 posted on 10/18/2019 3:57:32 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ASA Vet

I was young when I got my vasectomy.

And, apparently, a doofus.

I started dating this lady after my divorce and told her of the operation.

She asked, “Can I see where?”

I said, Yes”, and we drove past the doctors office.


112 posted on 10/18/2019 4:00:28 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Thank you, thank you very much.


113 posted on 10/18/2019 6:48:08 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: Elsie
My third ex-wife asked if it could be reversed. She now wanted kids. I'd told her right up front that I'd had a vas over 31 years earlier. I was way to old by then to start another family.
114 posted on 10/18/2019 6:55:54 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: gracie1; ASA Vet

I am not sure that you can call 2 brothers marrying 2 sisters an anomaly, although I thought the same thing first time I ran into it. I am trying to untangle our family tree for a 3rd cousin who doesn’t know the identity of his birth father and I keep running into “sibling of one marrying sibling of the other” and lord does it skew the DNA. I knew he belonged on the maternal side of my Mother’s family, but got thrown when I realized that he was also pulling from a cousin’s paternal side and that brothers had married into two generations of my maternal side. These people were prolific too, so I am wading through couples having twelve children and the children turning around having twelve children also.

DNA has been an absolute game changer for adopted children and those who don’t know their birth fathers. I did find my cousin’s daughter that no one knew about and they are now happily forging a relationship. The daughter was looking and I was nosy enough to inquire when she came up as a match. Didn’t even cross my mind that she was my cousin’s child.


115 posted on 10/18/2019 8:29:47 PM PDT by mom aka the evil dictator
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To: cuban leaf

I got my DNA tested this year. I soon found cousins (dozens) and seven half-sisters from my two sides of my birth parents.

A cousin on my mother’s side organized a reunion in California, which my wife and I attended. Very striking to find out my daughter looks like my mother. My mother was a big science fiction fan, as I am. My father was a statistician like me and wrote a book of philosophy.

I’ve written six books and two are being edited now.


116 posted on 10/19/2019 1:42:24 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (Seek you first the kingdom of God, and all things will be given to you.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Yeah, and avoid doctors and dentists, you'll just get bad news.

117 posted on 10/20/2019 10:35:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Don Corleone; goldstategop; Red Badger; xsmommy
If you’re lucky, you can find that long-lost relative you never knew about.

Heck, you might even find out your are your own grandpa!

118 posted on 10/21/2019 7:00:42 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE
That's what I'm afraid of!..................😏
119 posted on 10/21/2019 7:02:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Pollard
I’ve got 5 older sisters, all red heads and no brothers

And that's a good thing, since your dad and mom are both the very dark hair-very light skinned Welsh genotypes aren't they? 8<)

120 posted on 10/21/2019 7:08:40 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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