Eldorado Posted April 29, 2019 #1 Share Posted April 29, 2019 "Time to get that Viking tattoo removed? Ancestry updates DNA results" "DNA-profiling website Ancestry is rolling out a huge update to its ethnicity database - and changing the ethnic origin of many of its customers." Full rport at SMH Australia: https://www.smh.com.au/national/time-to-get-that-viking-tattoo-removed-ancestry-updates-dna-results-20190426-p51hmh.html? "Likewise, in a recent CNBC report, one writer saw a dramatic shift in her heritage, as it jumped from just 8 percent of her heritage originating from Great Britain to 71 percent.." At the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6972711/Ancestry-com-fire-update-database-drastically-changes-ethnicity-users.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted April 29, 2019 #2 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Mine came back 95% cabbage. Should I be concerned. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphalesion Posted April 29, 2019 #3 Share Posted April 29, 2019 I will never get some peoples' obsession with that stuff. Whatever someone's distant ancestry was has little to do with them. So your great-great-treat-etc grandpa was the first King of Sweden? Well congratulations, Does that in any way improve or change your life?. 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OverSword Posted April 29, 2019 #4 Share Posted April 29, 2019 I don't understand the obsession people have with their ancestry, I really don't. My last name is Irish but the side of the family that name is from was living here when the states were British colonies so who knows what was bred into the line. My maternal Grandfather was 100% Swedish so I've got some of that in me but what difference does it make? Zero. Your ethnicity should not be a matter of pride it is a circumstance of birth. If you want to be proud of something be proud of an accomplishment. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OverSword Posted April 29, 2019 #5 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Just now, Orphalesion said: I will never get some peoples' obsession with that stuff. Whatever someone's distant ancestry was has little to do with them. So your great-great-treat-etc grandpa was the first King of Sweden? Well congratulations, Does that in any way improve or change your life?. Right on that page with you. Who cares? My God some of the people crying on YouTube when they find out they have different DNA than they thought is so pathetic. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted April 29, 2019 #6 Share Posted April 29, 2019 I honestly would like to know, but I also don't care enough to try an find out. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted April 29, 2019 #7 Share Posted April 29, 2019 8 minutes ago, Orphalesion said: I will never get some peoples' obsession with that stuff. Whatever someone's distant ancestry was has little to do with them. So your great-great-treat-etc grandpa was the first King of Sweden? Well congratulations, Does that in any way improve or change your life?. When I was historian and librarian for the Salem Quarter which was the first English settlement in New Jersey, people drove me crazy looking for their original settler or Indian ancestors. Thank God for Ancestry! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphalesion Posted April 29, 2019 #8 Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Piney said: When I was historian and librarian for the Salem Quarter which was the first English settlement in New Jersey, people drove me crazy looking for their original settler or Indian ancestors. Thank God for Ancestry! I personally absolutely *love* it when people say they are Irish/Norwegian/Hungarian (as opposed to saying that they have ancestry from those places) when, in reality one of their ancestors from five generations ago was a member of those cultures. They have never lived in (or even been to) Ireland/Norway/Hungary, they don't know anything about the culture or customs of Ireland/Norway/Hungary, they don't speak a word of Gaelic/Norwegian/Hungarian, but somehow they magically "are" a member of those cultures because some distant relation was. Yeah no.... Edited April 29, 2019 by Orphalesion 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted April 29, 2019 #9 Share Posted April 29, 2019 I think i have 20% neanderthal DNA still in my system. The other 80% is a made up of where the neanderthals heading to throughout the centuries, who they bred with and how we evolved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted April 29, 2019 #10 Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, freetoroam said: I think i have 20% neanderthal DNA still in my system. The other 80% is a made up of where the neanderthals heading to throughout the centuries, who they bred with and how we evolved. I doubt it. I think yours is 20% Neanderthals and 80% alien. Like the rest of us. Edited April 29, 2019 by XenoFish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaturtlehorsesnake Posted April 30, 2019 #11 Share Posted April 30, 2019 i mean since one of my parent's is adopted i've occasionally wondered what their birth parents were like but this wouldn't really help with that also my grandparents were some of the best people i've ever known so dna and blood relation can take a hike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oniomancer Posted April 30, 2019 #12 Share Posted April 30, 2019 56 minutes ago, seaturtlehorsesnake said: i mean since one of my parent's is adopted i've occasionally wondered what their birth parents were like but this wouldn't really help with that also my grandparents were some of the best people i've ever known so dna and blood relation can take a hike You'd be surprised. It isn't just about ethnicity. Watch that Finding Your Roots on PBS some time. In several instances, samples compared with other submitted DNA allowed them to do an end run around sealed adoption records. The catch of course is someone related to you has to've already submitted theirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyaDream Posted April 30, 2019 #13 Share Posted April 30, 2019 I've taken 23&Me and AncestryDNA. 23&Me seems to be more accurate based on what I know about my lineage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexbodman2 Posted May 1, 2019 #14 Share Posted May 1, 2019 does it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Wellington Posted May 1, 2019 #15 Share Posted May 1, 2019 On 29/04/2019 at 11:28 PM, freetoroam said: I think i have 20% neanderthal DNA still in my system. The other 80% is a made up of where the neanderthals heading to throughout the centuries, who they bred with and how we evolved. I did mine expecting something like 74% English, 24% Irish, and 2% other European. I got back 40% German, 32% English, 26% Irish, and 2% other European. That was a surprise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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