Anybody take a genetic DNA test and shocked by the results?

It depends on which test you took.

For females, the results will only show the maternal genetics. If a male takes the test, he will get more in-depth results.

I think there's three different tests a person can choose from, and each goes up in cost. But to get the most accurate results, you gotta have a male relative, like a brother will give greater results.

You are the one in the thread exhibiting histrionics.

I have a note of caution or maybe paranoia.

What if they hope people will give up genetic info under this seemingly innocuous premise of ancestry interest, but really you are going into a database for suitable organs for the elite. The list of missing people is quite long. Think about this!

You, yourself said its a relatively new science. Wtf do you want here? Seriously?

I am trying to keep this lady from relying on a bullshit test that could destroy her family relations.

Are you even keeping up.

It appears I am likely to only match up with an alien, so I feel pretty safe.

Omg........I'm pretty sure, we'll all be fine. Thanks for trying to save us though

They have been destroyed for 3 decades. No, I am not telling Dad anything, he has cancer -- a gene I do not have -- and I have zero intention of doing anything that could hurt or upset him. I haven't spoken to narcissist mom in 10 years.

She thinks her father isn't her father because her DNA test showed some nonsense.

That's not "fine".

I just had to jump on because people seem to be confused regarding the mixing and migrations of people all over the world. If you are German, Ancestry will only say it's "western European", which could be German or French. Spanish / Portuguese comes out as "Iberian Peninsula". Italian and Greek are bunched together as one. The British Isles are separated as Great Britain, Scotland, and Ireland. Scandinavian could be any place in the northernmost part of Europe, and Finland is mixed with Russian. Asian could be Chinese, Japanese, Korean.... Strangely enough, they are more able to say what part of Africa a person is from, and they nail the different types of Native American, from Alaska all the way down to the bottom of South America, and the Caribbean.

I found it to be right on, and they were also able to notify me that my two kids as well as my mother were first generation relatives, even though we all did them separately. Europeans migrated and mixed....a LOT....and let's not forget the Muslim invasion of Europe. The adopted kids who were never told they were adopted so they assumed they were something they weren't. The many Europeans from all countries who set up in Eastern Europe in German speaking communities in order to settle that area (donauschwaben). Nature favors diversity. If you think what your grandparents told you is correct, then go with that, if it makes you feel better.

DNA tests are very accurate...

Unless her father does a paternity test, she'll just have to keep wondering...

As for the genetic line, her DNA wouldn't even show the result of her dad's genetics...

It only works for women on the maternal side.

I concur

It's an entirely different test...

So tell her to relax, her dad is her dad unless her mom was a hoochie.

Told I was part German, Cherokee and Scott.
Nope - 80% Welsch.
Thanks to North Carolina Hills and Cousins. woot.

Our ancestors lied at Ellis island, and on the soil of the US out of shame, for various reasons.
This is a fact.

For Adopted people who are still mostly denied their real
History ...these tests can be most helpful indeed.

I know several
Adoptees who were able to find biological relatives.

My adopted sister found her biological mother after plus 40 years. Biological mother did not want to name father.

Adopted sister and her son had already done Ancestry DNA test and the biological father matched as a close relative to her son but did not match her.

If you are adopted female trying to find biological relatives if possible use your sons DNA / do two tests/ your and his as the male side of your DNA will only show up and match to another male.

Adopted ppl think these DNA tests are the best thing ever.

Gene sequences don't have flags.

I think it's a good tool, adopted or not

Let's not confuse mitochondrial DNA (from the mother) with this genetic testing. My father has been dead for over 22 years, and I had my mother do the test. I took out what she showed, and what was left, I figure came from my father, and it was right on. He was born in Serbia and had a lot of different Eastern and Northern European in him.

My roommate never knew who her father was because her mother had her at 15 and her mother was a lying whore. So I bought the test for her. Turns out her real father was mostly Italian / Greek, so the father she was told was hers, wasn't. It was probably some horny Guido who nailed that little tramp in the back of a 1949 sedan and then skipped town when she said she was knocked up.

A lot of people are going to figure out that they're not who they were told they were.

Yes, I am one of them.

Yes. Australian Aboriginal dna. It was a grandparent - who hid their origins. It is a mystery solved.

Agree to disagree.

Ha ha ha ha ha...who told you that your teachers? Archaeology is a damn joke these days. Afrocentrism is just stupid. We know nothing of our real human history, and no one in a position of power is going to tell you shit, and certainly not the truth.

Both my parents and I took this test. We are all white but me and my mom have some Arab in us, which shocked us.

Crazy, right?

Likely due to a rape as a consequence of the attempted Islamic conquest of Europe, or raids from the Barbary pirates who had a lot of Arab blood in them.

The only reason this was set was to collect your Dna and store all your details, for big brother,

And send you anything to keep you happy ,

Wake up ,

I'm Welsh and Hungarian... You can just consider me well hung.

Seriously, I have wanted to do this but never have. I have always been told I'm Italian and Irish. I know my family came from England and from the Czech Republic. I'm curious to see how the test would turn out.

The only reason this was set was to collect your Dna and store all your details, for big brother,

And send you anything to keep you happy ,

Wake up ,