Has anyone taken one of those Ancestry DNA ethnicity tests?

[santeesioux]

I got one of those for Christmas and finally got the results back, it's pretty interesting. I surprisingly have a lot of Spanish/Portuguese ancestry, unknown to anyone in the family, explains where my adopted great grandfather came from. No Jewish blood though, also to great surprise

Anyone else do something like this?

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

What's the process?

 

[santeesioux]

What's the process?

They send you a kit after you buy it online, you spit in a tube and send it back, then like a month or more later you get your results on their site.

This lady shows it pretty well

 

[magnifier661]

I got one of those for Christmas and finally got the results back, it's pretty interesting. I surprisingly have a lot of Spanish/Portuguese ancestry, unknown to anyone in the family, explains where my adopted great grandfather came from. No Jewish blood though, also to great surprise

Anyone else do something like this?

Sounds cool! I wanna try this

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

No.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I have, so did my parents. Very interesting.

 

[barfo]

I have, so did my parents. Very interesting.

Do you feel like there is any distance from them now that you know that they aren't your biological parents?

barfo

 

[tlongII]

Apparently I'm a new species.

 

[MARIS61]

You know that's an NSA front and you've been cataloged for "national security reasons", right?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Do you feel like there is any distance from them now that you know that they aren't your biological parents?

barfo

As long as I'm still in the will I'm cool with it.

 

[santeesioux]

You know that's an NSA front and you've been cataloged for "national security reasons", right?

According to the test I'm under one percent Persian, I'll probably be in Guantanamo by the weekend.

 

[santeesioux]

I have, so did my parents. Very interesting.

Did you have any secret Indian princesses in your ancestry?

 

[santeesioux]

Apparently I'm a new species.

The DNA test from another company DOES tell you how much Neanderthal DNA you have in you.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Did you have any secret Indian princesses in your ancestry?

We found some Native American ancestry on my mom's side we didn't know we had.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Johnny Knoxville did one of these that convinced him to hire a genealogist - she discovered that he is "incredibly inbred" - generations of his family are from a small mountain town

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

I have, so did my parents. Very interesting.

Irish, Cuban, and German Shepherd right?

 

[santeesioux]

Irish, Cuban, and German Shepherd right?

He's totally a Havanese, bro.

 

[santeesioux]

I took a 23andme test recently and it said I was only 6 percent Iberian, much less than Ancestry, wha happen?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I took a 23andme test recently and it said I was only 6 percent Iberian, much less than Ancestry, wha happen?

There is nothing wrong with being Liberian.

 

[crandc]

Go back far enough and I know my ancestry is Middle Eastern - which realistically could mean anything! The Middle East was the major trade route where merchants from Asia, Africa and Europe met to exchange goods, and humans being what they are, no doubt exchanged bodily fluids as well.

Mildly curious, but not much more. Fact is, there are no "pure" "races", no actual "races" (biologically, socially there are, sadly) and what happened 10 generations ago is less interesting to me than the future.

 

[santeesioux]

There is nothing wrong with being Liberian.

I was all ready to get a lowrider and go all la raza too.