So you’re buying a DNA kit as a Christmas gift… Before you make grandma spit in the tube and send it off to Ancestry, MyHeritage, or wherever, some things to consider: 🧵

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2024-12-17 16:39

So you’re buying a DNA kit as a Christmas gift… Before you make grandma spit in the tube and send it off to Ancestry, MyHeritage, or wherever, some things to consider: 🧵

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幾秒內	Graveyard Snoop graveyardsnoop	1) Before you do this “for fun,” realize that these tests uncover real facts. Sometimes, facts no one wanted uncovered. Life-changing stuff. Every spring, the Reddit #genealogy board sees myriad people asking why they didn’t match their dad, or why their sister wasn’t listed as a full sibling. You may learn more than you bargained for.
一小時內	Liz Perry mslizperry	I believe the DNA becomes property of the company to do with as they wish.
一小時內	𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐳 theprofschwartz	Your comments should be shared in every kit
一小時內	bee.witched	Just because your results have Ashkenazi Jewish in them does not make you in any way part Jewish. You may have had Jewish ancestors or you may have had ancestors who lived in the Pale of Settlement. It still does not make you partially Jewish. That's not a thing. Jewish Threads
2 小時內	Heather Mitchell Braatz nodgarden	Every time a DNA kit is sold in Milwaukee, my spouse gains a new sibling. (His father was a bartender.)
2 小時內	The Mighty M pumpkinslashanddash	Additionally: DNA inheritance is random. So yes, your gggrandmother might've been Polish, but what "looks Polish" to the DNA companies' test populations, might end up not being inherited by the time it reaches you, because you randomly didn't inherit it. The further back the ancestor, the less likely you'll inherit their DNA. It doesn't mean you're not "Polish" or that's not your ancestor, but you'll need to follow the paper trail.
2 小時內	Inger Faherty inger70	Great reminders! I am am moderator for a FB group of a couple thousand folks who found out their "dad wasn't their dad." I am one of those except I figured it out and tested to confirm. Not only was my dad not a Norwegian North Dakota farm boy, he was from what was then called Bombay, India! Mom had chutzpah passing my dark hair and dark eyes off as Norwegian 😂
2 小時內	Bart Styes bartstyes	If you’re white Southerner but tan easily…that prolly ain’t Cherokee 😉
2 小時內	Stephenie Willis-Koontz swkoontz	And, your DNA may be used to find a relative who committed a heinous crime. You may unwittingly send someone you love to the backside of the penitentiary forever. Or even worse, give them the death penalty. And, remember, there have been mistakes…
2 小時內	impactplayrv	You forgot they can, and often do use the dna results from these tests to look into cold cases. So you just might put great uncle Ed in jail for a crime he committed 60 years ago.