When they find out most are about 50% scotch irish, that would not play well.
Same with some of the Indian tribes that tried to use DNA testing for tribal membership.
Humans like to boink. It makes family trees messy.
One reason I do not want to do 23 and Me, is that while on my Dad’s side I am 100% who is who back to at least four generations, my maternal grandfather and his siblings do not look like their “father” on the birth certificate and do have resemblance to other families in the area.
Best to let some skeletons stay hidden while impacted folks are still alive.
“Best to let some skeletons stay hidden while impacted folks are still alive.”
Decades ago before DNA, my mother and her sisters had an older female cousin, who warned them not to research their past ancestors beyond 3rd to 4th cousins.
Up to this past year, no real criminals showed up going back to the early 1600’s.
Recently, our DNA shows that Angela Davis, and I have a common male ancestor, so we are distant cousins.
One reason I do not want to do 23 and Me,
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and like Ancestry the actual testing is done in China where it is added to the PLA’s worldwide DNA database which they are using to create a genetic virus targeting all races except Han Chinese.