Anyone Had One Of Those Dna Ancestry Things Done?

[mako shark]

I have many good reasons to do it, but don't have any plan to any time soon.

 

[meningreentights]

I was going to do it hoping I wasn't really related to my so-called dad. I guess I'd be extremely disappointed if I found he really was my dad.

 

[Mr Ed in Mass]

I've have 3 cousins who investigated the family ancestry and all three came to the same conclusion , We are related to Bridget Bishop who was the first " Witch " condemned to death during the Salem Witch Trials, and we're also related to Sheriff Henry Plumber who met his end at the end of a noose. Soooooo in my family we have witches and horse thieves in our past.

 

[AlteredEgo]

My family kept very detailed records that date back before the white side came here. One side of the family can be traced back over 1000 years. I don't need those dna tests.

No curiosity about the other side?

 

[palakaorion]

As an infant adoptee born in the early 1960s in a state with very tight laws concerning closed records, DNA was instrumental in confirming the identity of both sides of my birth lineage.

And has revealed that the men on my birth father's side have been, shall we say, generous with their DNA samples for generations. Lots of high confidence 2nd cousins (a great grandparent in common) whom the regular family didn't know we're related.

DNA testing can and does deliver surprises, not all of them positive. My mother-in-law discovered she has an ancestor from West Africa. I guarantee you 100 percent that story was never told by her pasty pale family who brag about their German heritage.