I’m sure there is more to it than what I think.
My wife spent the $25 or whatever it was on one of those tests.
“Gee - it came back that you have a 80% match with Northern Europe and 20% in Scandinavia. But you knew that already!”
Like I said - there must be more to it than the results we see. I’ve seen articles where they end up solving some long-ago murder through these sites and matching the DNA from some distant cousin to the killer.
My son and daughter used Ancestry.com. In fact, we are waiting for my son’s results to come back. Just wanted to see what others think about this.
Most in the family have had it done now. My side had been pretty well researched prior so the results were mostly not a surprise.
Wife’s side was a surprise. Not much prior research, lots of stories - and about 50/50 on the results.
Some of us didn’t know that already. Some of us spent $100, the cost of the test, and were able to find our sperm dono,...........uh, I mean my father.
Oh, the secrets my parents, birth and adopted both, thought they took to the grave.
“I’ve seen articles where they end up solving some long-ago murder through these sites and matching the DNA from some distant cousin to the killer.”
Investigation Discovery has a show, “Genetic Detective”, where the genealogist has found several murderers and rapist this way.