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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: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

How long before the government usurps the databases? They have tried, indirectly, already by searching for relatives of criminals.

Only one or two more steps are needed before the fascists want it all.


61 posted on 10/16/2019 9:19:34 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Wasn’t there a book or movie about high level government people who used bio weapons to kill certain people because the government forced all people to get dna tested? They could kill selected people.


62 posted on 10/16/2019 9:19:51 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: cuban leaf

My brother and sister had their’s done on Ancestry. Turns out my sister is our half sister (I had mine done when my sister found out). She discovered her new family and has been in touch with them. She now knows who her bio father is. I was just contacted by a person who was identified as my first cousin (less than an hour ago). Trying to figure out the link. His paternal link is from West Virginia, and my paternal link is from eastern Ky.


63 posted on 10/16/2019 9:20:48 AM PDT by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
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To: flamberge; Chauncey Gardiner

I read a similar article sometime earlier this year. IIRC, is had to do with the “swimmers”. Whether they hit the objective or not, they’re gonna want to drill into something. So the male DNA does (or can) get embedded into the woman’s tissues.


64 posted on 10/16/2019 9:25:27 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: setter

Agreed. I did Ancestry.com.

I think it is cool.


65 posted on 10/16/2019 9:28:40 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: cuban leaf

Nice story, FRiend!


66 posted on 10/16/2019 9:30:39 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
it allows you to jump over the brick wall and pick up the thread on the other side

DNA allowed me to just that. I jumped over a brick wall which I hadn't been able to break in 40 years of research.

67 posted on 10/16/2019 9:33:31 AM PDT by ASA Vet (My post is pure BS, don't believe anything I post, including this tagline.)
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To: Don Corleone

Fun fact:

2 to the 10th power is almost exactly 1000 (it’s 1024)
2 to the 20th is almost exactly a million (it’s 1,048,576)
2 to the 30th is almost exactly a billion (1,073,741,824)
etc.

20 generations is about 500 years. Population 500 years ago was around 550 million (Source:https://www.ecology.com/population-estimates-year-2050/)

Therefore a randomly selected person will have a 1 in 500 chance of having a common ancestor from 20 generations ago or less with another randomly selected person worldwide.

If you are of European descent you are almost certainly descended from Charlemagne (742 - 815). That’s 40 generations ago. The likelihood of a Pacific Islander or Aboriginal Australian or African or rural Chinese native or any of the indigenous peoples of the Americas being descended from Charlemagne is practically nil.

If you want a guaranteed common ancestor, you would probably need to go back 120,000 years (Source: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/12/07/human-migration-rewrite/#.XadDfehKjIU).

That’s probably 6,000 generations or more.

2 to the 6,000th power is 1.5 x 10^1086 which is 15 followed by 1085 zeros!


68 posted on 10/16/2019 9:34:38 AM PDT by Go_Raiders (The fact is, we really don't know anything. It's all guesswork and rationalization.)
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To: cuban leaf
Apparently he really liked girls when he was younger.

If DNA tests become common in Thailand, I'll possibly have some surprises.

69 posted on 10/16/2019 9:38:46 AM PDT by ASA Vet (My post is pure BS, don't believe anything I post, including this tagline.)
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To: Labyrinthos
and other testing companies is secure and not used to solve crimes.

Ancestry DNA just recently asked if you do or do not want your DNA to be available to LEO.

Gedcom has those options right on your profile page.

I clicked "yes" on both. Any Felons caught due being related to me get no tears from me.

70 posted on 10/16/2019 9:45:27 AM PDT by ASA Vet (My post is pure BS, don't believe anything I post, including this tagline.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

My health screen results came back showing I was “normal” without any markers for any bad diseases. I was a bit surprised.

So far no black helicopters have been hovering over my house and I have had 3 DNA tests so far.


71 posted on 10/16/2019 9:45:38 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: I want the USA back

As Pres. Ronald Reagan used to say, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Pres. Jefferson said, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.


72 posted on 10/16/2019 9:46:15 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: olepap

CORRUPT THE ANCESTRY

Quite the opposite. Have you ever been the victim of a Corporate corrupt database?

Bad credit data?
Bad health date?
Bad employment data?
Bad identity?
Bad Social Security?

Corporate managers of corrupt databases are rarely held accountable. The law does NOT protect the consumer or the individual.

Database corruption would create POSITIVE ANONYMITY!!!

Yes!


73 posted on 10/16/2019 9:52:05 AM PDT by TheNext (Leader of the Happy People of the World)
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To: Vermont Lt
I found that crap to be insufferable.

I understand what you mean.

While I would be eligible to join the Mayflower Society, SAR, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, etc. I have no interest in hobnobbing with those snooty fools.

74 posted on 10/16/2019 10:04:03 AM PDT by ASA Vet (My post is pure BS, don't believe anything I post, including this tagline.)
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To: plain talk
My health screen results came back showing I was “normal”

I felt the same way every time a psychiatrist declared me sane and normal. He obviously was missing something.

75 posted on 10/16/2019 10:08:54 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: grey_whiskers
We ought to mandate DNA testing at birth, at least, and allow the father the right for a no-fault divorce with no financial obligations, if the kid is not his.

"Feminists" will never allow that because it would break a long standing gravy train.

76 posted on 10/16/2019 10:10:17 AM PDT by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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To: cuban leaf
I’ve been very supportive of my wife from the beginning. We got married 21 years ago after meeting at our 25 year high school reunion. We had never dated in high school.

That happened to me too. Married a girl I knew way back in high school after we reconnected at a reunion. We would never have dated back then. She passed 3 years ago this past month from cancer, but we enjoyed 10 years together. It was a gift from God.

77 posted on 10/16/2019 10:13:45 AM PDT by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I’m 54 and met my father for the first time a year ago. I had known his name since I was about five, and it just stuck in the back of my mind.

Doing my own online research, I found out that I have three sisters. I knew I had one, but three was pretty cool. Instead of going directly to him on FaceBook, I sent each of the sisters a private message. It took about a week before I heard anything, but I finally had the oldest one send me a private message, and I called her.

I was born before he met/married their mother. Two of the three sisters are very open to me, and the third has still not made any effort to get with me. In my opinion, it’s just a matter of time.

A few things stick out to me. I look just like him, which is kind of neat, we have very similar personality traits and we have the same sense of humor. I fel like I’m watching an older me.

My dad turns out to be a great guy, and we’ve become regular fishing buddies. He’s very very good at it, and is teaching me how to bring my game up, as well. It’s regular for him and his two regular fishing buddies to catch 50-200 bass (and other fish) in four to ten hours of fishing. I’ve seen the videos and pics, so I know they are truthful about that.

I have both a 23andme and an ancestry.com account. None of them are on either one of those systems, but I’ve met a few cousins I didn’t know I had.

As far as privacy goes, that’s just the risk we all have to consider. I’ve not committed any kind of crime that’s going to get me locked up, so I feel OK with my decision.

In my opinion, finding them was one of the best things I’ve ever done. If there’s anyone looking for lost family, I suggest that you try the DNA testing avenues if it’s all you have. When you know someone is missing in your life, it just weighs you down. Even if the other person turns out to be a loser, it’s worth knowing and getting over.


78 posted on 10/16/2019 10:32:20 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: cuban leaf

A Friend was connected to the Child she gave up for Adoption when she was a Teenager. She “went away” to “School” and the only two People who knew about it were her Parents. None of her three Siblings ever knew.

Her Brother did a DNA Test and decided to do a little Detective Work when a name came up that he never heard of before. He calls his Sister (my Friend) and asks her straight out about it.

Next thing you know, the entire Family was informed and they all had a Reunion with her long lost first Son and his Family including two Grandchildren. His Adoptive Parents were thrilled.

No embarrassment, no shame, just happiness and Love. What a difference forty years makes...


79 posted on 10/16/2019 10:44:09 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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80 posted on 10/16/2019 10:46:31 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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