I have been trying to do my family tree which is not easy when you don't know that much beyond your great grandfather.
So I did the ancestry DNA this sounds great and hopefully show a lot more of my family tree.
Has anyone here done this?
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I know people who have. I haven't.
The research I've done has been based on records I have, plus very careful sifting through public records that I can find. It does mean some frustrating dead ends at times, due to pay walls I'm not willing to pass or things like common names. |
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"And of course the information is entirely protected and won't be shared with crime agencies to see off they can close out some cold cases   "
Extreme situation I know ... I'm just sceptical that your personal information is safe on their databases |
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"And of course the information is entirely protected and won't be shared with crime agencies to see off they can close out some cold cases "
Use of data (although that particular instance hadn't occurred to me) is why I won't participate myself. |
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"And of course the information is entirely protected and won't be shared with crime agencies to see off they can close out some cold cases "
Well to my knowledge I have not killer anyone..and I don't sleepwalk or at least I don't think I do well never woke up with blood on my hands lol
But could be related to Jack the ripper now they know who he is.
Or could be related to my girlfriend, my dad was adopted and knew he had brother and sister but never tracked them down. She could be my cousin |
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A shady government backed company disguised as a legitimate business. All designed to tempt everyone to voluntarily send DNA samples to them for databases.
Call me a cynic.  |
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"A shady government backed company disguised as a legitimate business. All designed to tempt everyone to voluntarily send DNA samples to them for databases.
Call me a cynic. "
Or for profit medical research, or more. |
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"Government agencies go through the data on a regular basis.
They caught a serial killer in america who stopped killing 20 years ago on it, their cousin submitted dna. "
I'm definitely not doing it then, I'll be sleeping with the fishes if I dob my cousin for any of his misdemeanors. |
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"How do they match DNA with your own ancestors? "
They search for markers unique to an area, or a name. If you show the marker then you are related to people in that area or the person. It's more accurate for some things than others.
For example one genetic find changed Irish people having viking dna, to vikings having Irish dna. Meaning one day you could be related to vikings, the next Irish people. |
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All of the ones you can pay to do have a small print statement that you are giving them your DNA and it becomes their property to use. The charge is for you to get some of the information they mine from it.
My family history is complicated and it would be meaningless. If yours isn't complicated you might find out who your distant cousins are and different lines to your family tree. You'd still need to track that down.
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"All of the ones you can pay to do have a small print statement that you are giving them your DNA and it becomes their property to use. The charge is for you to get some of the information they mine from it.
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This is it. I don't want anyone profiting from my genetic information. |
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"All of the ones you can pay to do have a small print statement that you are giving them your DNA and it becomes their property to use. The charge is for you to get some of the information they mine from it.
This is it. I don't want anyone profiting from my genetic information. "
They are getting people to pay for their research it seems. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
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There's a new play The Phlebotomist, at the Hampstead Theatre, that looks at a dystopian future when your DNA determines your social rating. I might try and see it.
The film Gattaca looks at your social determination being decided by your genes.
We're not that far away from these worlds.
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"There's a new play The Phlebotomist, at the Hampstead Theatre, that looks at a dystopian future when your DNA determines your social rating. I might try and see it.
The film Gattaca looks at your social determination being decided by your genes.
We're not that far away from these worlds.
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Not that far away at all, we have already started to remove Down Sydndrome by aborting. They are spending billions on all sorts of new tests for babies in the womb.
People are only having one child so will want all problems detected as early as possible. Soon being gay, trans, dyslexic, etc etc will get you aborted, just like DS people are now. |
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I believe also in the near future they will be able to spot any of those (defects) but i think it will always be a choice what the parents want so if the child is going to be gay or ds or anything that is labelled in society they will able to say yes or no.
Also ain't this along the same lines has minority report where they can tell if the person is going to be violent or not? Been a while since I watched that film. |
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"How do they match DNA with your own ancestors? "
To find your 'ancestors' they will look for certain markers in the DNA or RNA of cells and organelles and check these against available databases (of which there are quite a few). If you add in family surnames you have a good chance of finding out about your heritage and family history. There's whole databases on family surnames, origins of them, and they have data on types of peoples and how they have travelled across the world (due to tracing DNA back to only certain types of peoples originally and finding samples in different areas and dating those also).
They don't find your ancestors exactly though. What they do is use all the info they have and find out what common ancestors you have with others and then if they have any history of certain peoples and your DNA matches with those then they can presume your history that way.
They can accurately find more recent relatives who are on the databases themselves, my best friend (who was adopted) found her birth family this way. Ubfortunaely her parents are dead but she has found other relatives who are still living. |
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Yer it is interesting, not only would I like to learn more from my mums side..my great grandfather was in ww1 and died in France his name is on a plaque in our town, little is known of him and his wife but I did find a guy who shared on the family tree..his grandfather was my grandfathers brother and got some photos that my family has never seen like a photo of my great grandmother and my grandfather when he was 10 years old.
But would like to learn more on my dads side, he was adopted but all we know is he was born in liverpool and may have had brothers and sisters and that's about it.
Someone I knew with a lot of Irish back ground saw photos of my dad when he was a kid and said he looked Irish. So his father could have been a Irish worker on the docks. |
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"I have been trying to do my family tree which is not easy when you don't know that much beyond your great grandfather.
So I did the ancestry DNA this sounds great and hopefully show a lot more of my family tree.
Has anyone here done this?
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Unfortunately it won't show anything about your family tree.
What it'll do is show a statistical likelihood as to where your ancestors might have come from.
The only way to research your tree is using the census, and birth, death and marriage records  |
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"A shady government backed company disguised as a legitimate business. All designed to tempt everyone to voluntarily send DNA samples to them for databases.
Call me a cynic. "
Not to mention the highly questionable interpretation of the test results and what they say about the subject’s origins. |
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"A shady government backed company disguised as a legitimate business. All designed to tempt everyone to voluntarily send DNA samples to them for databases.
Call me a cynic. "
You're a cynic |
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