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Ancestry.com dna testing

Discussion in 'Tilted Life and Sexuality' started by Lindy, Jan 5, 2017.

  1. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    Has anyone used the Ancestry.com DNA testing kit? I was sent the kit as a Christmas present, and am just now sending it in. The instructions call for spitting into a tube up to a line. about 1/4tsp, (not including bubbles - do NOT overfill, it says) and I had no idea how long to took for the bubbles to come out of a spit sample.:rolleyes: It takes forever!

    Unlike semen, which turns watery almost immediately, but, I digress.

    And, you're not supposed to eat or even drink anything for 30 minutes before giving the sample.:rolleyes: Well, it's 2° and windy outside, the furnace is going like crazy, the house is dry, and my mouth is dry!

    My mom is all Swede and Norwegian (not much if any difference there) even though she grew up in rural New Mexico, so by nurture, there's a lot of Hispanic culture rubbed into her Nordic genes. My dad is a little more obscure and unknown, still mostly Swede, but maybe some Lapp and/or Russian.

    So, I guess I'll find out; if the bubbles ever leave my spit sample.
     
    Lindy, Jan 5, 2017
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  2. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    My wife and her siblings got something like this (maybe it was a 23andme kit?) for their grandfather. The results came back mostly as expected, with a few interesting details. One reason they wanted to do it was because there were some pictures from the late 1800s/early 1900s that made it look like his grandmother might've had some strong non-European genetics. The pictures were not clear enough, but they wondered if she was a descendant of a slave, maybe had some Native American blood, or possibly something from somewhere else. There had been curiosity for many years, and none of the genealogy research was able to turn up anything about her background. The results indicated otherwise, but at the very least it was interesting for everyone to review the results.
     
    Borla, Jan 5, 2017
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  3. Snoogans

    Snoogans Getting Tilted

    Location:
    Uppsala, Sweden
    Not really super-interested in my heritage really, I barely even know my grandparents's story.
    I could do it for fun, if offered for free. 99 Euros is pretty nuts, to me.
     
    Snoogans, Jan 12, 2017
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  4. Fremen

    Fremen Allright, who stole my mustache?

    Location:
    E. Texas
    Fremen, Jan 12, 2017
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  5. POPEYE

    POPEYE Very Tilted

    Location:
    Tulsa
    My cousin did the test, hoping to prove our Cherokee blood line. All our lives up to last year we thought we were Indian. Turns out we are just plain ol black Dutch and such n such.
     
    POPEYE, Jan 13, 2017
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  6. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    A WORTHLESS POST.

    I seriously dislike the commercial with the woman who has had a facelift and dresses like a teenager. Having grown-up in a neighborhood with a very large Slavic population, I also understand the underlying meaning of "Eastern European."
     
    Chris Noyb, Jan 24, 2017
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  7. warrrreagl

    warrrreagl Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Land of cotton.
    Grancey and I both got Ancestry kits in December and we spit into the tubes. While we were waiting for the results, I fell headlong into family tree stuff, and I mapped out over 3000 relatives before we got the results. She wasn't really into the whole family tree thing, however, and I think she probably mapped out about 20 people.

    When we got our results earlier this month, we were both pretty surprised at the heritage report. I am Southern and redheaded, so I've spent my whole life thinking I was Irish. You have no idea how much Irish gear I've collected over the years, from hats to shirts to flags to calendars to books. And yes, even Gaelic lessons. However, according to Ancestry, I'm only 5% Irish. The rest is mostly British - 80% British to be exact. The results included charts for comparison, so that I could see how well I stacked up against the DNA of people from Britain, France, Italy, Germany, etc. According to their charts, people who are actually British and live in Britain contain 60% British blood. I'm more British than the damn British.

    Grancey, who maps out at 46% Irish, has not stopped laughing since. We were eating supper recently and she said, "Eat this salsa." I told her I didn't want to eat it.

    She said, "You used to eat the salsa," and I countered that she used to eat the sour cream, but now she does not.

    She said, "Yeah, and you used to be Irish, but now you're not."

    And on and on. If you only knew how much I have paraded around my assumed Irish ancestry, you'd probably think it's as funny as she does.

    I have heard that one of the main complaints against Ancestry is that everybody's results seem to be skewed towards Scandinavian ancestry, but my results indicated less than 1% Scandinavian, so I don't know about that.

    Does anybody have a cool ancestor in your family tree? Mine connects to three people of note - on my father's side I am related to one of the little sisters of Pocahontas as well as to FDR, and on my mother's side I am related to Edward the Bruce, King of Ireland.

    At 85 years old, my mother is the oldest living relative any of us have on either side of the family, and I've been talking to her like crazy the past few months trying to absorb as much family information as I can while I can.
     
    warrrreagl, Mar 16, 2018
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  8. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    Sit down and do it with a video camera of some sort. Please do it so that you can remember the nuances and details better than your transcription.

    I have interviewed many family members this way.

    These were the questions I asked.

    50 Questions to Ask Relatives About Your Family History
     
    cynthetiq, Mar 16, 2018
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  9. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    I forgot to mention it is also for the survivors.

    The children (my cousins we are close in age) of my aunt who died of cancer a few years ago were given the full interview that I did of their mother. The daughter of one of them approached me last year and thanked me profusely because she was too young (<7) to remember her grandmother with any great detail. She cherished getting to see the video one time and asked me for a copy. I gladly gave it to her.
     
    cynthetiq, Mar 17, 2018
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