QUESTION: Have you ever taken a DNA test through Ancestry, 23andMe, or a similar service? If so, what did you find out? Anything surprising?
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The Water Cooler – Testing Your DNA – What Were The Results? Anything Surprising?
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I’ve used both Ancestry and 23AndMe, and 23AndMe was more accurate.
It placed my Italian ancestor within 20 miles, while Ancestry was just vaguely “North-Central Italy”.
Yes, crazy enough I found out I’m part cat!
Meow! LMAO!!!
Do you identify as a cat though?
It came back, European Mutt.
🤣 😂 Arf!!!
I have a family member that did the ancestry thing and shared it with me.
Most of what I found out I already knew. My mother was from Sicily and
told me quite a bit about life in Sicily and her side of the family. When I was
a little kid, I had grandparents on both sides that had all kinds of interesting
stories, and on my fathers side, my great-grandmother was still alive, and
she also had a lot of interesting facts about my family.
NOPE, not least bit interested in DNA results
…. no real surprises… little bit of this, little bit of that… nothing of any significant percentage
Nope. Never. Ever. And that’s that.
I urge extreme caution. I discovered the father who raised me was not my biological father. I found this out at age 34. Shortly after my only sibling passed away. It was earth shattering and life changing (I got to meet my biological father’s family). Just a can of worms ……… oh yeah and I learned I’m white. (94% Irish and 6% German )
I did my “Ancestry” test about 6 years ago. Have become close friends with all 3 of my half-brothers! My unmarried birth mother put me up for adoption after my birth in 1946. She married and had 2 sons with her husband 6 years after my birth. My adopted parents had been married 15 years with no luck getting pregnant. I was a big deal. Turns out that my birth parents were both of Italian decent as were my adopted mom and dad. It has been a great experience getting to know my 1/2 brothers who all live withing 75 miles of me. 1 in Modesto (same birth father) and 2 in the San Jose area(same birth mother.
Ancestry.com shows that my ancestors came mainly from England, Scotland, Ireland and Northwest Europe. I used Ancestry to build my family tree and learned that most of my ancestors had arrived in the original 13 colonies by the end of the 1600s. The rest had arrived by the early 1700s.
Found out my maternal grand father was adopted. That was not shown in any genealogy records we had and threw off everything on that side. My paternal grand mother was heavy into genealogy but never came across that. Most of her work was done on my father’s side of the family though. She was doing this in the 70s/80s so it was all phone calls and letter writing. My wife also tried to get into contact with some family of mine I didn’t know about to clear things up. Apparently there are some members of the family that they won’t talk about. My wife passed years ago and I have little interest in trying to contact anyone I may be related to.