DNA ancestry tests tested

How does that test accuracy. They most likely all source information from the same database. If there's going to be an accuracy issue it will be on the data they compare your dna too.

Not that it even matters
 
LOL well good for you, have fun with your DNA being shared with just about everyone.


How DNA Companies Like Ancestry And 23andMe Are Using Your Genetic Data​

www.forbes.com

How DNA Companies Like Ancestry And 23andMe Are Using Your Genetic Data

In the past couple of years, genetic-testing companies like Ancestry and 23andMe have become popular for finding out family history and DNA information. However, do you know where that information is being used and stored?
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com

More than 12 million Americans have sent in their DNA to be analyzed to companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA. The spit-in-tube DNA you send in is anonymized and used for genetic drug research and both sites have been selling the data to third-party companies, like P&G Beauty and Pepto-Bismol, and universities, like The University of Chicago, for some time. In fact, just last week major pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline, announced a $300 million deal with 23andMe. The deal entails that they can use the data to analyze the stored sample, investigate new drugs to develop and genetic data for how patients are selected for clinical trials. Both companies say this is not without consent.
 
My UK cousin and I did the ancestry.co.uk test in 2009. The results were very similar, the dates suggested varied by about 5% which is a reasonable degree of error

The results were fascinating and not at all what we expected.

About 1000 years ago we lived in Scandanavia and long before that it was an area around Turkey

Apparently less than 5% of the people living in the UK have been there more than 10 000 years
 
I've always wanted to do one of these tests but I just cannot justify the price for something that will not change my life. I think the results would end up being quite interesting.
 
No sh-t Sherlock. I couldve easily told you where you come from without you even asking, depending what your surname is, it takes minutes to trace it through.

If you came from Europe you were even Dutch (traders/sailors) or German (Soldiers). You see the Germans were great soldier but poor, the Dutch good traders and great at building boats, but they needed soldiers to they used the Germans up to the Polish. If your family were persecuted for being non-Catholic there is a chance you may have come from the Hugenot's. Not many French came here. After that it was all British when they invaded and took over from the Dutch, which lead to them chucking Dutch out of all language books, schools etc and switching it to English only, thus causing the Great Trek. To which they happily attacked the Free State and Transvaal for the Gold and Diamonds to pay for their wars in the East (Opium War - when they took land from China - Now Hong Kong).

Portuguese and Spanish if you were from one of their colonies ie Mozambique, Brazil and Angola but eventually fled here.

If you were Chinese your family probably fled their Civil War, which led to a huge influx of Taiwanese here.

Its really not complicated.

You can claim Citizenship based on your grandparents in most countries, with Russian going back even more to the Imperial Era (Tzar). However the Dutch is the only one that doesnt allow it. Your parents needed to have stayed in the Netherlands in the past 15 years or you dont qualify, they are trying to make it 10.

But then the Dutch has done it on purpose to get rid of a lot of their citizens. My one great-grandparents came here in the 1900s on holiday, and they died leaving 6 kids orphans in SA. When they asked to return to the Netherlands the Dutch Government immediately removed their citizenship and left them here and took all the property in the Netherlands (all the art when to the Rijksmuseum). A bunch of thieves they were.

So nope, wont ever go back to the Netherlands, but Russia has offered us citizenship straight as we were there during the imperial era, before the founding of the V.O.C
 
GoofySmurf said:
LOL well good for you, have fun with your DNA being shared with just about everyone.


How DNA Companies Like Ancestry And 23andMe Are Using Your Genetic Data​

www.forbes.com

How DNA Companies Like Ancestry And 23andMe Are Using Your Genetic Data

In the past couple of years, genetic-testing companies like Ancestry and 23andMe have become popular for finding out family history and DNA information. However, do you know where that information is being used and stored?
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com

More than 12 million Americans have sent in their DNA to be analyzed to companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA. The spit-in-tube DNA you send in is anonymized and used for genetic drug research and both sites have been selling the data to third-party companies, like P&G Beauty and Pepto-Bismol, and universities, like The University of Chicago, for some time. In fact, just last week major pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline, announced a $300 million deal with 23andMe. The deal entails that they can use the data to analyze the stored sample, investigate new drugs to develop and genetic data for how patients are selected for clinical trials. Both companies say this is not without consent.
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And...?
 
Corelli said:
No sh-t Sherlock. I couldve easily told you where you come from without you even asking, depending what your surname is, it takes minutes to trace it through.

If you came from Europe you were even Dutch (traders/sailors) or German (Soldiers). You see the Germans were great soldier but poor, the Dutch good traders and great at building boats, but they needed soldiers to they used the Germans up to the Polish. If your family were persecuted for being non-Catholic there is a chance you may have come from the Hugenot's. Not many French came here. After that it was all British when they invaded and took over from the Dutch, which lead to them chucking Dutch out of all language books, schools etc and switching it to English only, thus causing the Great Trek. To which they happily attacked the Free State and Transvaal for the Gold and Diamonds to pay for their wars in the East (Opium War - when they took land from China - Now Hong Kong).

Portuguese and Spanish if you were from one of their colonies ie Mozambique, Brazil and Angola but eventually fled here.

If you were Chinese your family probably fled their Civil War, which led to a huge influx of Taiwanese here.

Its really not complicated.

You can claim Citizenship based on your grandparents in most countries, with Russian going back even more to the Imperial Era (Tzar). However the Dutch is the only one that doesnt allow it. Your parents needed to have stayed in the Netherlands in the past 15 years or you dont qualify, they are trying to make it 10.

But then the Dutch has done it on purpose to get rid of a lot of their citizens. My one great-grandparents came here in the 1900s on holiday, and they died leaving 6 kids orphans in SA. When they asked to return to the Netherlands the Dutch Government immediately removed their citizenship and left them here and took all the property in the Netherlands (all the art when to the Rijksmuseum). A bunch of thieves they were.

So nope, wont ever go back to the Netherlands, but Russia has offered us citizenship straight as we were there during the imperial era, before the founding of the V.O.C
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And before "Europe"? As in - how did your ancestors arrive in what is now called Europe? And from where? You see, that is only revealed (to a fair degree) by DNA.
With DNA pattern known, there are a number of websites you can then use to further back in time
 
This should settle the land debate once and for all. I joke, I joke! Easy now. As you were
 
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