Wife got me a 23 and Me test kit for Fathers Day. Got the results back a week or so ago. Amazing what they can determine from spit. I had to do some research because some of the reports are over my head but I have 989 relatives (People who have submitted and consented to sharing results). Pretty cool information, most are 2nd and 3rd cousins whom I have never heard of or met. No surprise that 43% British and Irish with the rest coming from different European countries. They traced my maternal haplogroup back to a woman 11,000 years ago.
Overall, it is pretty interesting. Sounds like law enforcement is using these sites to get compare DNA from cold cases so I hope that I don't have any 3rd cousins that are serial killers but if I do, I will gladly share my profile. I think that's how they got the Golden State killer a few months ago.
For me it was worth the $65 fee if you don't mind Big Brother having access to your gene pool
Overall, it is pretty interesting. Sounds like law enforcement is using these sites to get compare DNA from cold cases so I hope that I don't have any 3rd cousins that are serial killers but if I do, I will gladly share my profile. I think that's how they got the Golden State killer a few months ago.
For me it was worth the $65 fee if you don't mind Big Brother having access to your gene pool
Seems to be a trend, lots of people doing it. Funny how siblings can have different genetics but it's just a matter of which parent dominates their gene pool
One of my old school Italian family friends, a Sicilian, was surprised to learn he had a lot of African / Middle Eastern genes in him. We always joked about how Sicily was a skipping stone from Africa, and that's why he became so dark in the summer. Turns out to have some truth to it.
I haven't done it yet, but I'm going to. Be interesting to learn something about my father's family (an orphan that joined the Navy at age 17 in 1942)
What's the best one? One that traces both your gene pool and your ancestry
One of my old school Italian family friends, a Sicilian, was surprised to learn he had a lot of African / Middle Eastern genes in him. We always joked about how Sicily was a skipping stone from Africa, and that's why he became so dark in the summer. Turns out to have some truth to it.
I haven't done it yet, but I'm going to. Be interesting to learn something about my father's family (an orphan that joined the Navy at age 17 in 1942)
What's the best one? One that traces both your gene pool and your ancestry
I read this article [h=1]The Best DNA Ancestry Test[/h]
because different people are looking for different results/reasons to do the test.
I will tell you that Usually Amazon Prime day has a Great discounts, they were selling the $99 one for $50 or $60 last year, so going to check that out
haha, I thought you were going to say "a family of sheep"
