Ever do a DNA test?

[KQ]

https://gizmodo.com/how-dna-testing-...bab-1820932637

^^Long read but summed up in the final paragraph:

How DNA Testing Botched My Family's Heritage, and Probably Yours, Too

In the end, I finally found the same wisdom my grandfather never seemed to question. Sometimes your heritage doesn’t have anything at all to do with your genetics—and I didn’t even have to spit in a test tube to figure it out.


My father's side of the family has kept their history for 3 centuries. We have family books, trees, letters and photos. Up until the 1930s the family had been a closed Irish clan (living in Ireland marrying Irish). I suppose there could have been people added to the mix from different races but no DNA test was going to tell these people they weren't Irish.

[KQ]

DNA Testing? You Might Want to Wait for More Legal Protection


Meanwhile, genetic testing companies have been marketing access to the aggregated pooled, de-identified genetic information, which is being mined by multiple users including biopharmaceutical companies seeking disease cures. For example, drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc paid 23andMe $300 million for access to the anonymized patient data for research purposes.

[old goat]

^^Long read but summed up in the final paragraph:

How DNA Testing Botched My Family's Heritage, and Probably Yours, Too

In the end, I finally found the same wisdom my grandfather never seemed to question. Sometimes your heritage doesn’t have anything at all to do with your genetics—and I didn’t even have to spit in a test tube to figure it out.


My father's side of the family has kept their history for 3 centuries. We have family books, trees, letters and photos. Up until the 1930s the family had been a closed Irish clan (living in Ireland marrying Irish). I suppose there could have been people added to the mix from different races but no DNA test was going to tell these people they weren't Irish.

Q = Quinlan ?

[iceman]

Quinn, Quirk, Quigley, there's a few.

[KQ]

Q = Quinlan ?

Quinn, Quirk, Quigley, there's a few.

Hysterical. No but I did love that PBS show Quirk.

Name is more common to England than Ireland. It is Anglo-Norman French an Anglicised form of an Irish surname.

[abraham]

Quisling???

[Meadow Skipper]

Quat? Like KumQuat...bitter little fruit? That’s what I thought anyway.

[KQ]

Quisling???

Isn't that Norwegian?

Quat? Like KumQuat...bitter little fruit? That’s what I thought anyway.

No...no... no... you guys are totally off base. Feeling a bit like Rumpelstiltskin here. LOL!!!

[iceman]

Name is more common to England than Ireland. It is Anglo-Norman French an Anglicised form of an Irish surname.

I'd guess Burke then. There's a lot of you carpetbaggers, with a bunch of diffeerent names.

[beasttowest]

But seriously, are there any DNA tests where your DNA doesn’t become the company’s property?

Or does anyone have experience getting a doctor to order one due to family history? Did you have to pay out of pocket?

Trying to avoid becoming the next Henrietta Lacks


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[KQ]

I'd guess Burke then. There's a lot of you carpetbaggers, with a bunch of diffeerent names.

Oh to be of the house of de Burgh! You know they are related to the House of Plantagenet and Windsor through marriage. I could have been a royal! Princess Di was a de Burgh.

[abraham]

Isn't that Norwegian?

It's an insult mostly, but yeah Norwegian last name.

[iceman]

Quat? Like KumQuat...bitter little fruit? That’s what I thought anyway.

That's what I always thought until Doc came up with this "last initial Q" theory.

[KQ]

It's an insult mostly, but yeah Norwegian last name.

I am no traitor!



Norway in 1941. Seated (from left to right) are Quisling, Himmler, Terboven, and General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, the commander of the German forces

[muted]

My adopted sister is gonna do an ancestory.com DNA test to find her parents after trying the old-fashioned way with no results. I'm kinda excited. Her relatives have to share their info on the site for her to know who she is related to though. Might be the shock of their lives.

So my sister did the ancestory.com test and immediately got contacted by her birth mother a week ago. Her birth mom has been looking for my sister for almost 30 years. Her mom and half-sis look exactly like my sister, it's crazy. No word on the dad yet, no one knows who he is. Anyways, these tests may be a bad idea for a lot of reasons, sure, but I think they can be fucking awesome!

[booner]

My adopted buddy just met his birth mother and a sister recently. Both found thru 23andme

[DaveTV]

Interesting piece on CBS Sunday Morning this week. Whole lotta families being shaken up by DNA tests

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dna-tes...amily-matters/

[DBdude]

i've never understood the idea that you share a sperm donor that means you are family

[DaveTV]

i've never understood the idea that you share a sperm donor that means you are family

Where did you get that "idea"?

[DBdude]

Why would you meet someone because your mother had an affair and you are the result?


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[DBdude]

It seems to be a topic in this thread


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[DaveTV]

It seems to be a topic in this thread

[DBdude]

instead of rolling your eyes - you can roll your tongue on my dick

[irul&ublo]

instead of rolling your eyes - you can roll your tongue on my dick

PM Rontele

[DBdude]

lol