https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ine-dna-tests/

Sure when you start breaking it down into your 10% this/4% that etc. sure there is room for error. In my case, I have a very specific gene that makes the red hair/blue eyes combination. They have found and dug up my ancestor clan members. Same gene as me. But....... because its so specific, I know. Most don't get that clear of a trace back to when Neanderthals and Human beings started ****ing each other.

I did mine through AncestryDNA for fun. It turned up pretty much half parts of northwest Europe and the other half western and central Africa. It even correctly guessed my 'family history' with the European side having settled in America in the Ohio river valley and the African side in Virginia and the Carolinas.

A good friend of mine found three siblings on Ancestry as well, so there's clearly some use for the information they glean from your DNA.. but, yeah, the whole 'I'm __% Swedish and __% Southeast Asian' is probably largely bullshit.

Years from now a mysterious fine shows up addressed for you

When you begin to look into the issue you will find out that ancestry.com has shared your dna profile with the authorities who used it to match you to a disposable cup they found on the highway. This cup had been blown out the window when speeding down the highway in the hellcat but the authorities could never know it was an accident. They picked up the litter and extracted trace dna which was then used to match your ancestry.com dns profile

The future is gonna suck, thanks dna testing

Tom Cruise already kicked in my front door two weeks prior because the Precogs saw me littering before I even bought the coffee.

You get an autograph?

Why would you send your saliva in to the internet?

I pretty much knew my family history as there were family Bibles and DAR/SAR memberships. Most were Norman French Huguenots that had to hide out in Belgium and Germanic states until the late 1600s and early 1700s and landed around Philadelphia and a small group in North Carolina. We did pick up some Scots and Irish along the way moving west with land bounties. I even found a couple books that documented some of the family exploits over the years, including a many times grandfather of my grandmother that spent a few months with Andrew Jackson as a guest of the *#&^@ Brits in Charleston. Another family all got kicked out of the Quaker Church, so they just said screw it, we'll just be Methodists. The newcomers were my great-grandmother's family that came from Alsace in the mid 1860s. She lived to be 107 and we lived in the same small town for many years, so she had some great stories about Kansas City. She was the first of her family to be born in the US. So far I've found I'm descended from 11 Revolutionary War soldiers, including one with my surname.

I got an Ancestry kit from my mom for my birthday. Will be interesting what it comes back compared to what my family has always said that we are.

That's me. I'm in the Edwards family tree that traces back to the first illegitimate son of King Henry VIII.

I also found my Mom's half sister and her family in Seattle. I reached out, but no response. Their loss. :D

My paternal line is almost all Swedish/Viking, so that's been fun to play around with. I mostly started this because I really had no idea how my family (both sides) ended up in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Lots of incorrect information along the way, but I also found a ton of information that hadn't been captured previously. I'm the only one in my family that even gives a shit about their heritage, but the information is there in case someone wants it.

That's really cool. Yeah, I have some similarities there too. My 13th GG was a co-founder of Stonington, CT and his family/descendents fought in the Revolutionary War. A 4th cousin was killed at the Battle of Big Horn, stuff like that.

Yeah, it's pretty cool, but always verify the information independently if you can. When I started out doing this pre-internet, it was tough to verify facts.

I'm related to Thomas "Mother****ing" Jefferson

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That’s sort of what I was interested in seeing.

My mom’s mom always said she was a mix of German and Irish, while my mom’s dad was supposedly Italian. He used to claim his family invented the pizza lol

My results showed practically nothing as far as Italy is concerned, which is weird as shit because during the summer my mom, one of her sisters, and my grandfather would turn a pretty solid brown. In fact, I’m solid brown-skinned and people used to rant about how much I looked like my grandfather when I was growing up.

Just take it for what it is- a little bit of fun- and I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.