AncestryDNA -- Has Anyone Tried This?

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I did it and it seemed plausible and really accurate. It tells you the approximate origin of the DNA you inherited. So, your sibling may have a different result than you because they inherited different DNA. I know that at least one of my great great grandparents was Native American but I didn't show any Native DNA. So, it is not a complete picture, but nonetheless interesting.

Go for it!
 
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I know that at least one of my great great grandparents was Native American but I didn't show any Native DNA. So, it is not a complete picture, but nonetheless interesting.

Did you show any Asian DNA ? Native American looks Asian genetically, ... as they emigrated from Asia (across the land bridge) ...
 
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Did you show any Asian DNA ? Native American looks Asian genetically, ... as they emigrated from Asia (across the land bridge) ...

I'm pretty much just Western European, Irish. You can tell by looking at me.

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I am 75% English, 10% Irish and the rest from Europe.

You will also get information about people around the world who may be related to you as 1st, 2nd, 3rd cousin etc., where 1st is an almost identical DNA. I had two contacts - one didn't respond, the other had no connection to my family tree that goes back to the 12th century in the UK. :)

Obviously your siblings would / should be the same as you - your offspring will have both your and your partner's DNA and so will be different.

It is not cheap for what you get.
 
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I am 75% English, 10% Irish and the rest from Europe.

You will also get information about people around the world who may be related to you as 1st, 2nd, 3rd cousin etc., where 1st is an almost identical DNA. I had two contacts - one didn't respond, the other had no connection to my family tree that goes back to the 12th century in the UK. :)

Obviously your siblings would / should be the same as you - your offspring will have both your and your partner's DNA and so will be different.

It is not cheap for what you get.

They are all getting cheaper though. I paid $59 for the Ancestry.com test.
 
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Yes, it's very accurate. Mine came back saying I was 100% Neanderthal, which is what my girlfriend has always said.

Must be hard on the knuckles. ^_^
 
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Most of you people are so paranoid that you don't even post the state you live in...... yet you freely give your DNA to what amounts to a Government database?! Don't you know that the USA sends spies to other countries to subversively collect the very thing you just handed them?
 
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Yes. I think so.

I think i will too. I just spoke with Trevor at Ancestry and he was exemplary. I especially appreciated that they don't require "blood" for the testing. LOL!
 
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You've probably noticed an ad for AncestryDNA. Has anyone tried this? And if so, would you recommend it?
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/
I ran it for my son and it came out accurate. Although I was expecting more middle east and less Mongolian on his moms side. It is what it is. Turns out he only has 3% middle east. I thought it was a little slow to get the results but I guess that does not much matter.
 
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