how close we came to extermination
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I've always been interested in my ancestry & wanted to get the dna test. Now, I'm glad I didn't.
I had it done (ancestry.com) to verify what I already knew :) It turns out that they don't really use DNA to determine your roots; they take the known information associated with people, look for what they think are the markers for that, and then "poof", they tell you your roots. What is funny is the first report for me totally got one of my two ancestry lines wrong, but a few months later, after I guess more people submitted their samples (and real data by association), the ancestry I knew to be true was verified.
I did it because we found out after my grandparents passed, my grandfather wasn't my dad's biological father. It messed with my head because you have an identity predicated on what you have been told your whole life and 'poof' - gone.
The suspicion is that the man that was my dad's biological father was killed in WWII There was a family story that my grandmother has been involved with a pilot before meeting my grandfather. There are a couple of pictures if her with a military pilot. It did not change the fact that the man that was Grandpa to me was a wonderful man - the fact he stepped up to raise a child that was not his own spoke volumes about his character. (At the time, I remember reading that there was something like 25% of the children born during the war years were not raised by the biological father.) But he stressed family ties very heavily and that was a source of confusion. I don't know if that was because they kept up the 'secret ' for so long that it became too hard to reveal the truth or whatever. We will never know. And in the end,, you are correct in that it doesn't change anything but it takes time to process.
My wife had the test because there were some rumors in her family that one of the distant relatives was a Native American. She has some features that some people think she is part Asian. The test revealed no hint of being part Asian or part Native American. Apparently, some people with German ancestry, which applies to her, can show features that have some Native American qualities; perhaps Liawatha is part German :) I later read that the genetic sites don't even have Native American DNA for reference; they use Central American DNA as a surrogate, assuming it has some of the same DNA as Native Americans.
You have a point. I see that now. At the time, when I was thinking about doing it, I didn't know how corrupt these people are.
I've been working my genealogy for 20 years. The ignorance in this thread is reaching super cringe levels.
I've been working on mine for over 50 years. The testing has helped me in my work to find further ancestors for a client. Thru-Lines in Ancestry give you some great clues. I'm working on a line right now that I discovered through DNA matches.
No one should really worry about the DNA, because the government already had it, if you've been to any medical provider in the past 10 or 15 years.
I’ve been working at on mine several years. My uncle also did a lot of work before he passed. The family accused him of living in the past. Now when my dad tells them about a grave I’ve found everyone wants to know, including my dad who thought my uncle was crazy. I enjoy learning about the people that came before me.
Do you know anything about the 13 families or any of their branch families? Maybe the Italian families that go back over 1000 years?