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

I read that an African-American employee at one of the DNA companies was purposely reporting that white customers had African DNA when it wasn't true.

Was always told I was German with some Irish.

I'm not German at all. Predominantly Scandinavian, with Irish/Scottish as the second most prominent.

No American Indian either, as I was also told.

Big shocker for me.

Anyone else do this?

I'm seeing a common trend here.
Many of us who know we have Native American ancestors are coming back with none in DNA.

Which means that the Native Americans were fooled out of their land and then killed in the 1622 Indian Massacre before they could claim DNA ties to the King of England.

I've done ancestry and 23, the results are the same basically, one more specific in one area the other more specific in the other. I did my family tree many years ago, so I knew who I was and the tests confirmed that. The very first rule of genealogy is don't believe what grandma and dad said about your ancestors, they are NEVER right. I also put my raw results on gedmatch, which give you your admixture (which is your ancient strands of DNA) that is really cool because you get to see where you match with the ancient bones (clovis, denisova and many others) they have discovered and what percentage you share with that person (and of course even us northern Europeans begin in Africa) My tests have allowed me to trace my Scandinavian (Swedish) through the kings of Sweden to the king of Turkey to Seleucus I Nictor 300bc...my admixture shows all of this but I had no idea, this is just one line of the tree and there are many lines, kings, chaucer, Charlemagne, Monet . Genealogy is fun and exciting the dna test is just the beginning. We are all royal, we are all the same

Was always told I was German with some Irish.

I'm not German at all. Predominantly Scandinavian, with Irish/Scottish as the second most prominent.

No American Indian either, as I was also told.

Big shocker for me.

Anyone else do this?

Hey just like Pocohontas Warren!

I'm blonde, blue eyed. Zero African in mine.

You sound like the guy in the commercial who traded in his lederhosen for a kilt. :)

I was sure I was 99% British Isles and figured if there was anything else it would be Jewish. But nope.

I'm only about 60% British Isles and the rest southern and northern european. There's 0.1% North African and an Iraqi fellow contacted me to say we're distant cousins. Wild. And zero Jewish.

Send your genome text file to www.gedmatch.com and they will predict your eye color (they nailed mine which are really complex), tell you if you're more hunter-gatherer or farmer, and other fun things. You can also contact relatives there like on 23andme and ancestry.

Send it to www.promethease.com for much more detailed health info than you can get at 23andme.

Also learned there's a lot more philandery back in the old days than previously supposed. Lots of relatives are adopted or their parents or grandparents were adopted from homes for unwed mothers back in the day. Also a lot of NPE's (non-parental events) making it very hard to nail relationships. My theory is the Civil War tore apart southern society and ... well basically if you had goodbye sex with little Johnny and he never came home, you married whomever you could find when it was all over and your child got that guy's name.

Plus Northern soldiers raping and pillaging. Plus dislocation and population movement with men traveling through a town then moving on. It's a mess, genealogically speaking.

Was always told I was German with some Irish.

I'm not German at all. Predominantly Scandinavian, with Irish/Scottish as the second most prominent.

No American Indian either, as I was also told.

Big shocker for me.

Anyone else do this?

Seriously.. not only are you volunteering your dna for their database, but you are paying for it

you think this will stay private?

do you not understand the implications of this?

so madman takes over the world .. gotta reduce the population .. says that all people with ? gene cause problems, have bad health, etc., etc. ... boom, all people with that gene will be targeted AND THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE NOW

you have a gene that might develop into a disease .. boom, your dna records are available for purchase .. think employers, health care providers

what are you thinking? did you not watch Gattaca?


.. this is a conspiracy website after all..

Mine came in just as expected-Scandinavian..

The freaky part is I'm not related to anybody.

I even had a genealogist go through my results, trying to find any matches. Zero!

Figures, my Norwegian and Swedish relatives are to lazy to do a DNA test, I guess?.

I've done ancestry and 23, the results are the same basically, one more specific in one area the other more specific in the other. I did my family tree many years ago, so I knew who I was and the tests confirmed that. The very first rule of genealogy is don't believe what grandma and dad said about your ancestors, they are NEVER right. I also put my raw results on gedmatch, which give you your admixture (which is your ancient strands of DNA) that is really cool because you get to see where you match with the ancient bones (clovis, denisova and many others) they have discovered and what percentage you share with that person (and of course even us northern Europeans begin in Africa) My tests have allowed me to trace my Scandinavian (Swedish) through the kings of Sweden to the king of Turkey to Seleucus I Nictor 300bc...my admixture shows all of this but I had no idea, this is just one line of the tree and there are many lines, kings, chaucer, Charlemagne, Monet . Genealogy is fun and exciting the dna test is just the beginning. We are all royal, we are all the same

Sounds familiar. I wonder if they give the same results to every white American.

DNA test said I was a Clinton.

Still waiting in the welfare line, and my dad wont answer the phone.

What I've read, is all children do not acquire DNA equally. Some could get 20% percent from particular ancestors, some zero from those particular ancestors.

You're not supposed to do shit like this. Tptb are looking for indigo children and certain blood types like RH- negatives! They hunt them down and kill them.

You honestly think that stays secret? No!

Like I suspected:

"Usually the results at the continental level are accurate, but more specific assertions of the test may turn out to be incorrect.

For example, Europeans often receive an exaggerated proportion of Scandinavian."

[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

and the govt got you fools to pay for it too

I'm a direct decendent of the chosen elite and of the earth bound Gods.

Seeing as the first human lived in Africa.......

I got 50% mailman and the rest was milkman and pool boy.