Ancestry DNA - . Com

[Bee1971]

Anyone use Ancestry . Com for family trees

DNA

Adopted back in 1966 as an infant

Will keep at that for now

Thanx Scott

 

[5.7 hemi]

My wife did, she found out why she wants to kill people just for breathing….she’s Viking! Needless to say, I try not to piss her off!

 

[Dennis H]

Parents are the people who raise you. Period. I think the whole ancestry thing is over rated.

 

[5.7 hemi]

I agree!

 

[Hikin Mike]

My mother-in-law is very big into genealogy. Last year we all got a DNA kit for Christmas. Since my dad is 100% Polish and my mom is 50% Hungarian and 50% Italian, so I wasn't expecting any more than those three nationalities. According to the DNA, I also have some Swedish/Demark/German as well.

 

[Bee1971]

Parents are the people who raise you. Period. I think the whole ancestry thing is over rated.

It’s not always necessarily about the Parents

How about Siblings

Brothers - Sisters - Neices - Nephew’s

 

[5.7 hemi]

You get DNA from parents, not a brother or sister or cousin. You share DNA with them.

 

[dadsbee]

You share DNA with them.

I think that was his point... finding siblings, etc...

 

[Bee1971]

Thank You

 

[Dennis H]

Sister is a Doctor. Brother incarcerated. Who knows. No significance IMO.

 

[moparedtn]

Parents are the people who raise you. Period. I think the whole ancestry thing is over rated.

I can agree with your first assessment, while offering a "not so much" on the 2nd part.
Allow me to try to explain:
(Ed Story Time!)
In my own corner of the world here, I'm pretty much down to a brother and sister left from
the entire immediate family - a rather sizeable one in its' time, I might add.
I am my fathers' namesake and no doubt was closest to him when he was alive.

My sister started up on ancestry.com several years ago - she being the self-appointed historian
of the bunch (she has spent her life removing herself as much as she could from our upbringing
and heritage - guess their humble roots are embarassing to her).
She's always liked to passively rub her success at both money and "status" in my face, since I
chose to return to "roots" about 25 years ago (she's failed at that every time - but she still tries,
all the while telling me how much she loves me).
She granted me access to this ancestry.com thing recently, so I figured I'd take a look...
and mostly, all I saw was her years of work on her husbands' family tree and not so much on our
own.
Always trying to impress others, that's her....

She thought my checking into the site would impress me no end at her work; well, not so much...
Instead, it has only amplified the desire in me to want to know more about where I came from than
I already know - especially documentation and such in support of what I can remember.

You see, as I get closer to my own accelerated demise and most who have known me that are
still above dirt continue to either consciously or naturally fade away from me and I find myself alone
more and more each day, it's become a bit of unfinished business to complete my moms' and dads'
"stories" - and thanks to my sister, there's enough motivation to get done what she should have
been doing all along.

Will the results matter to much of anyone in the future? For most, probably not - but my goal since
this whole rapid degradation process began with me has always been "not to leave a mess",
which includes "don't leave anything unfinished".
God willing, I'll have the time to see this one last task through...

It matters to me, if to no one else.

 

[Fran Blacker]

What if your not related to your father. not about op.

 

[chargervert]

It's great as long as you don't commit a crime! They will allow the Police access to their DNA database. Here in Rhode Island,a guy killed a guy with a hammer,they got his DNA off the handle,matched it to his cousin being a close relative from one of those sites where people willingly give their DNA to to get their family history from,and they were able to find him using the DNA his cousin submitted.

 

[chargervert]

What if your not related to your father. not about op.

They had a segment about that on the Dave and Chuck the Freak radio show. They called it 23 and me disasters,when people found out that their fathers were not their real biological fathers! A whole bunch of people called in saying that this happened to them or someone they knew!

 

[1STMP]

Parents are the people who raise you. Period. I think the whole ancestry thing is over rated.

Though those that cared enough to
raise, love, and educate an orphan
deserve all the credit they deserve,
it plays hard on the psychological
aspects of a child as to why your
paternal parents gave you up for
adoption in the first place. Knowing
the answers to the many questions
goes a long way to stabilize one's
well being.
If the adoptive parents are open and
honest, they should not fear an
adopted child's inquires to their past,
especially if the bond between them
is as strong as their love towards
one another. I've witnessed this
scenario first hand.

 

[Mopar Hunter]

I would like to know who’s DNA they compared it to.

We all came from a comet, mine happens to be Halley's Comet.

 

[1STMP]

I would like to know who’s DNA they compared it to.

We all came from a comet, mine happens to be Halley's Comet.

I don't think it was Halleys. It hasn't
crashed to earth yet.....

 

[Mopar Hunter]

I don't think it was Halleys. It hasn't
crashed to earth yet.....

I meant Halley's twin.

 

[1STMP]

I meant Halley's twin.

Well, I'm from Roswell, so.....

 

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