DNA testing and who you are.

[HisFirst]

OK, I didn't do biology at highschool but am interested in genetics, DNA etc....

So say a person does a DNA test and it shows they have percentages of German, French Spanish etc...this may sound childish but ...are these authentic links directly passed on by those people from the past in ones family tree? Does it actually match a particular person or is it more fuzzy than that?

I hope that made sense.

[Deborah_]

As I understand it, it's very fuzzy indeed. Certain DNA sequences are more common in certain parts of the world, but it's only a matter of degree. Especially when you remember that "Germans" and "Spanish" are themselves descended from several different races back in the distant past. 

 

To know if a particular gene came from a particular person in your family, you'd have to test their DNA as well.

[simplejeff]

Remember it is man's /mankind's / science bent on deceiving and oppressing ,  not freeing, not healing, not truth.

A few decades ago, or maybe not that long,  some well known doctor I think in his 80's ,  published something exposing the medical 'sickness' industry and their genetic lies - for a long time the genetic lies have been manufactured and twisted to blame some devastating sicknesses/illnesses on genetics ,  diseases that were known to be caused by immunizations.    In fact,  it has been shown by many that so-called 'genetic illness' is usually not 'genetic' at all,  but is long term or acute(rapid) effects of immunizations in babies and in children and in adults - from the known toxicity of immunizations (look in the PDR for the long, long list of known side effects of any manmade drug; much longer than the list of potential benefits).

As written in Revelation:  "pharmakeia will deceive the whole world"  .... proven incalculable times since 1902, and more every day,   getting worse exponentially world wide,  under law called 'codex'....

[Willa]

It reminds me of 30 years ago when they said you could send for your family tree.  All they did was take your last name and list everyone in the phone book with the same last name.  Then they created a family crest of some sort.  It was a money making scam.

Now the LDS is making a fortune when you send them some DNA and pay their price.   I wonder what kind of results you might get if you gave them an African last name instead of Swedish, for instance.

[Anonymous Aristotle]

9 hours ago, HisFirst said:

OK, I didn't do biology at highschool but am interested in genetics, DNA etc....

So say a person does a DNA test and it shows they have percentages of German, French Spanish etc...this may sound childish but ...are these authentic links directly passed on by those people from the past in ones family tree? Does it actually match a particular person or is it more fuzzy than that?

I hope that made sense.

I would not pay for such a thing myself. There are more and more commercials tempting people to send in their DNA sample to find their ancestry. But there's just too much fiction involved to cause me to go that route. I know my background. I don't require a DNA test. 

Also, I know someone now retired from the FBI. The DNA Database that is active in America would also preclude my interest in patronizing those commercial sites and paying to share my DNA sample.    Federal DNA Database 

I looked for information when those commercials started to expand with different companies marketing offers to trace family trees. 

  DNA Fact or Science Fiction? 6 Genetic Genealogy Myths

Myth 2: A DNA test can pinpoint precisely where your ancestors lived or which tribe they belonged to.

If your ancestors and their offspring had stayed in one geographic region and never allowed outsiders to enter, it would be relatively easy to distinguish their DNA (and yours) from the DNA of people living in other regions. Over time, all of the inhabitants of your region would come to share specific genetic mutations (usually harmless changes in DNA), which would identify them as a distinct population, the same way a surname identifies members of a family.

But our ancestors didn’t stay in one place. For thousands of years, humans have moved about, leaving their genetic imprints wherever they procreate and making it increasingly difficult for geneticists to distinguish one region’s population from another’s. 

Scientists can make inferences about your ancestry based on trends among populations, but they can’t say for sure that your ancestors lived in a specific country, much less a specific town.

[MorningGlory]

I wanted to do the Ancestry DNA testing but, being the skeptic I am who is not trusting at all, I won't because you don't know who will end up with your DNA in their database.

[Guest shiloh357]

5 minutes ago, MorningGlory said:

I wanted to do the Ancestry DNA testing but, being the skeptic I am who is not trusting at all, I won't because you don't know who will end up with your DNA in their database.

I am the same way.  I can envision some scalawag working for Ancestry.com,  committing a crime and leaving someone else's DNA at the crime scene.

And you know, it is possible that it is a just a backdoor way for the government to get our DNA in one or more of their databases.  And no, I am not wearing a tin hat!  LOL

[Guest bonnieschamberger]

I dont know but my grandmother paid for her  and my mother and I to have our DNA tested and it all came back mostly jewish some german and a tiny bit of native american which actually matches our familys history/ancestry book ..its kinda crazy but my mothers side managed to keep all kind of information from as far back as 1500s...my aunt keeps the book it is under glass and locked ...I used to seriously bug her to let me hold it but I understand her being so protective of it now

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[HisFirst]

7 hours ago, bonnieschamberger said:

I dont know but my grandmother paid for her  and my mother and I to have our DNA tested and it all came back mostly jewish some german and a tiny bit of native american which actually matches our familys history/ancestry book ..its kinda crazy but my mothers side managed to keep all kind of information from as far back as 1500s...my aunt keeps the book it is under glass and locked ...I used to seriously bug her to let me hold it but I understand her being so protective of it now

That's great that your mums family kept track of their/your hereditary.

It's good to know your "roots".

[HisFirst]

16 hours ago, Anonymous Aristotle said:

I would not pay for such a thing myself. There are more and more commercials tempting people to send in their DNA sample to find their ancestry. But there's just too much fiction involved to cause me to go that route. I know my background. I don't require a DNA test. 

Also, I know someone now retired from the FBI. The DNA Database that is active in America would also preclude my interest in patronizing those commercial sites and paying to share my DNA sample.    Federal DNA Database 

I looked for information when those commercials started to expand with different companies marketing offers to trace family trees. 

  DNA Fact or Science Fiction? 6 Genetic Genealogy Myths

Myth 2: A DNA test can pinpoint precisely where your ancestors lived or which tribe they belonged to.

If your ancestors and their offspring had stayed in one geographic region and never allowed outsiders to enter, it would be relatively easy to distinguish their DNA (and yours) from the DNA of people living in other regions. Over time, all of the inhabitants of your region would come to share specific genetic mutations (usually harmless changes in DNA), which would identify them as a distinct population, the same way a surname identifies members of a family.

But our ancestors didn’t stay in one place. For thousands of years, humans have moved about, leaving their genetic imprints wherever they procreate and making it increasingly difficult for geneticists to distinguish one region’s population from another’s. 

Scientists can make inferences about your ancestry based on trends among populations, but they can’t say for sure that your ancestors lived in a specific country, much less a specific town.

Interesting AA,

thanks.