Ancestry DNA testing. Anybody done this?

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PSqueak said:
As a Mexican i'd be surprised to find out there is NOT at least a little bit of at least the following in my DNA:

-Native [central] American
-African
-Spaniard
-Jewish

The thing about Mexico as a country is, basically our independence boiled down to "everyone who is not a pure blooded spaniard born in spain and all the mixes from those groups vs the pure blooded spaniards from spain" (because even pure blooded spaniards born in america were considered inferior to the ones born in the mother land), so it would actually be shocking to find out im less mixed than that.
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Yeah I already know what to expect, but it would be nice to see the percentages. Probably not $149 USD nice though. 23andme is not even available in the country.
 
That video was one of the most cringe worthy things I've seen this year. Just left a really bad taste in my mouth and made me never want to use their service. So much forced fake emotion.
 
Switch Back 9 said:
So I recently watched a pretty powerful little video where people took a test to show how varied their genetic line was and where all their little bits and pieces come from.

I've always wondered about that, and after watching this I decided to investigate for myself.

Ancestry.ca seems to have garnered some pretty terrible reviews so I might avoid that site, but what others are there? Have you guys tried any, and if so, which would you recommend?
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Chinese Canadian here.

Tried it and found out I'm Irish.

Not really.
 
Yeah I did it. I'm culturally half puerto rican but obviously light skinned in that branch. Im not close with anyone on that side so I wanted to try to figure out what the makeup was. According to that site its pretty much a mix of spanish, greek/italian, northern african and native american (ancestry.com does a blanket genetic group for all of the americas, wish they broke it down a bit further).

Now I'm trying to use the site to piece together documents to figure out the path my ancestor took.

The other side is much more boring, pretty much all just eastern european immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania.
 
I was really interested in 23andme for health purposes until US law enforcement agencies subpoenad them for genetic data of clients.
 
Lebron said:
I got the DNA kit on Ancestry.com and got it for my family. Pretty nice.

My uncle discovered his real father and lost siblings after using the kit and program. My mom has found some new relatives too through the site. It flags you every time it thinks it's found a genetic match and it was also nice getting the ethnicity breakdown since we are African American (I'm damn near 30% European).
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That's pretty much me. I am 69% of African descent, 29% of European descent, and 2% of "other". My great grandfather was white, so I'm not totally surprised by the results.
 
I did it about half a year ago using 23andme. I also wanted go in depth in my genes, so I went to Dr. Ronda Patrick website to get more depth if I have some gene prone to cancer...
 
I did it and learned what I pretty much knew. I'm fairly mixed:

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Both sets of my grandparents consisted of mixed race "black" people.
 
Lebron said:
I got the DNA kit on Ancestry.com and got it for my family. Pretty nice.

My uncle discovered his real father and lost siblings after using the kit and program. My mom has found some new relatives too through the site. It flags you every time it thinks it's found a genetic match and it was also nice getting the ethnicity breakdown since we are African American (I'm damn near 30% European).
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I might be wrong, but I think the average African American has about 20% European blood, likely from the Irish, but I wonder about the amount of Native blood, which is usually common from my experience with other black families. I really wonder what my background might be since there's a decent amount of light-skin and caramel blacks within my family, which some were born from two dark brown parents. Genetics can be crazy sometimes :)
 
I've done 23andme, you can search through your genes if you want to. Someone in my family was concerned with a specific gene possibly running in our family (it didn't). I was interested in depression/bipolar related genes, and was interested to find out I had quite a few of those, but most of them only express in females. So I guess I dodged a bullet on that count? It is a pain in the arse to search through the genes, some FDA ruling or some such. They used to give you that info straight up, now you have to go looking for it yourself. Which takes a lot of time.

I think they recently changed how you can view this stuff. Anyways, here's a few screenshots of what the ancestry stuff gave me.

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http://i.imgur.com/bTCbKR4.png

I don't really have any complaints about it, and found the whole thing quite informative. I didn't pay for my test though, so keep in mind my lens is that of someone who didn't shell out the money for the test itself, so I didn't have any expectations.
 
xxracerxx said:
Is it a myth that most of these ancestry sites are owned by the Mormon church, or is it true?
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Ancestry.com isn't owned directly by the Mormon Church but they're walking down the street holding hands type of relationship. It was started by two Mormons that graduated from BYU selling LDS material out of their car..
 
I had it done. After a few years, I now have a fairly large family tree built on Ancestry, but still had nagging questions. My grandmother, who grew up in Vincennes Indiana and came from a line from some of the first settlers from France to Canada, always said we had Native American blood. I also wondered if my surname was from Germany or Switzerland based on the research I had done. I knew almost nothing from my Dad's Dad's side of the family, and have learned a lot. I hoped the DNA test would answer some questions.

The results confirmed much of what I had suspected.

Grandma was wrong, I have zero Native blood. I am mostly from Great Britain 38%, much more than I thought. then Irish - 22%, which I guessed before hand. My German and French background merges together to be 21% Western European.

What was surprising? 11% Italy/Greece, I had no knowledge of that. But after digging around on Ancestry, my great grandfather, who came over from Austria in the 1890s must be the source. I assumed he would be "germanic"/western European. But in the 1920 census after looking at it more closely it says his birthplace is "Tyrol _It", South Tyrol Italy, he has to be the source.

Just look at that mug, looks Greek to me....

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Other surprises were traces of Ashkenaz Jewish 3%, and 3% from the Caucasus region.

I am pretty much a totally European Mutt.....
 
I did FamilyTreeDNA a few years ago on my mothers line. I was a little surprised by the Middle East results, to be honest.

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Africa (West African) - Yoruba 80.50%

Middle East - Adygei, Bedouin, Druze, Iranian, Jewish, Palestinian 8.82%

Europe - Russian, Orcadian, Finnish, French 10.68%
 
I'm getting it done for a birthday gift. I really have no idea what my history is in terms of specifics. I have African origins but there were a few rapes involved since my ancestors were forced into the United States.
 
Big Green Anus said:
I might be wrong, but I think the average African American has about 20% European blood, likely from the Irish, but I wonder about the amount of Native blood, which is usually common from my experience with other black families. I really wonder what my background might be since there's a decent amount of light-skin and caramel blacks within my family, which some were born from two dark brown parents. Genetics can be crazy sometimes :)
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Ours was pretty spread out European wise. My dad was mostly focused in the UK it seemed, but mom was all over Europe. Neither of my parents have much Native American markers. My dad had zero, and he's been saying he had some since his mom told him so. My mom had a little, but something like 1-2%.
 
Wife wants this for her next present from me. I'll throw my DNA-hat in the mix too and we'll see where this takes us. Ancestry should start a DNA-matched dating website...just saying :)
 
I've started a free trial on ancestry.com a while ago and really want to do the DNA test since I'm so mixed and no one in my family really knows where everyone else is from past a few generations back.

What is the best site to do the test through? Ancestry, 23andMe, or any other sites you recommend?

I also would like the details of the info that I -do- have to lead me to other relatives.
 
Is it impossible to be 100% of something?

I would assume if a Chinese or Indian person did this, the results wouldn't be so wide, no? Their societies weren't even reached until after Alexander The Great.
 
Ancestry things are neat. I'm related to Glen Campbell....so....yeah.

I also found out about my family coat of arms. That was neat.
 
Don't think I'd mess with the DNA aspect, but I would like to uncover my family tree. I'll need inspiration for creating my family sigil/flag
 
Switch Back 9 said:
So I recently watched a pretty powerful little video where people took a test to show how varied their genetic line was and where all their little bits and pieces come from.

I've always wondered about that, and after watching this I decided to investigate for myself.

Ancestry.ca seems to have garnered some pretty terrible reviews so I might avoid that site, but what others are there? Have you guys tried any, and if so, which would you recommend?
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I checked out the website for this video. They have a contest until August to give you a trip to wherever country found in your DNA. I'm entering, we'll see how that goes.
 
I found out I'm 40% Irish... So kiss me I guess?

Also, because of this thread, I did the Promethease thing - I now know I'm at 1.3x risk for prostate cancer. That really sucks. Also 2.76x increased risk for Age Related Macular Degeneration.

But on the plus side, there's this: Alcohol Flush: Normal, doesn't flush. Normal hangovers. Normal risk of Alcoholism. Normal risk of Esophageal Cancer. Disulfiram is effective for alcoholism. So I guess if I ever start drinking, I'm set? I think? I have no idea what the hell this even means other than it's green, so it must be good LOL
 
Just got my Ancestry DNA results in and they were completely unsurprising:

Great Britain: 35%
Europe West: 32%
Ireland: 17 %
Scandinavia: 11%
Trace Regions: Iberian Peninsula 2% Finland/NW Russia 2% Caucasus 1%

So pretty much euro-mutt as expected. Not sure I'd recommend this to someone else, but it was a gift and only 100$, so ok for that price.
 
My parents both did it. I haven't, but I have had my whole genome/exome sequenced for research purposes. I don't know what the results are.
 
I did Ancestry DNA and it compelled my mother to reveal a family secret. She probably would've never told me otherwise.
 
On top of providing an ethnic breakdown of my DNA, how well can it actually find ancestors?

I wonder how detailed it can get with regards to countries outside of the US and the entirety of Europe.
 
I had it fone via 23andme. Worth it IMO. Especially for Americans (from the whole continent)

For Europeans it would be a bit more boring.
 
Pretty sure mine would come out 100% Indian. Would only be (somewhat) interesting if it can differentiate states because my mum's side look fairly unique for South Indians.

edit: actually, just remembered two of my grandparents have blue/grey eyes. Maybe I'll find some Portugese heritage.
 
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