Anyone else done this DNA test?
I'm 100% European, 95% British and Irish and 5% Ashkenazi Jewish specifically Ukraine or Poland. So someone in my family has cheated on someone else with a Ukranian or Polish Jew. :cool:
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Anyone else done this DNA test?
I'm 100% European, 95% British and Irish and 5% Ashkenazi Jewish specifically Ukraine or Poland. So someone in my family has cheated on someone else with a Ukranian or Polish Jew. :cool:
How accurate are these things? I don't care anywhere near enough to do one, but (admittedly from a knowing bugger all about them perspective) it's long struck me that it seems unlikely to be properly regulated and they could put any old shit on the report.
Also, given centuries of immigration, what does 95% British even mean?
I did mine ages ago on Ancestry:
https://i.imgur.com/1x7dDC8.png
It means he's a diverse melting pot Yev.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
I don't know about the people ones, but didn't some comedian, maybe Joe Lycett, send off his own DNA to one of the dog ones and it came back saying he was 93% Pomeranian or something as they ask 'additional information' and essentially base the results off this information and not a test which I'm sure they don't do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
23andme is apparently the most accurate one out there.
It means I have a great or great great grandparent that was Jewish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
And 2 parents that are disappointed. :henn0rz:
Probably not the best time to be telling people your Jewish.
Considering he's Jewish does that mean Spikey should be banned for saying shit about him?
Keep up mate. These days the Nazi's are pro-Jew.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Fuck them. Part of the reason I did this was to give me hope I was adopted or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Without meaning to sound like a knob, but why do people do these? Is there a point beyond morbid curiosity (aka a waste of time)?
It's just kind of interesting, right? Or, it would be if they were a bit more informative. I'd like to know the route my lineage took out of Africa. I suspect the majority will just be up through Europe (aside from my Grandads, that was SNATCHED from Africa by the white man). But I could be a secret Jew/Tibetan Monk, and that would be kind of cool (relation to Magic aside).Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
I'd be interested in that. But paying £75 for it to say, "errr 75% British m8"? Nah.
It shows you that via haplogroups.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
That's more interesting. How much was it? Might float it as a Father's Day gift seeing as I don't actually want anything else.
Just to see if there's anything interesting. It's all fine and well knowing your family tree but that doesn't show you who's been norty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
£179. I also got the health reports too which are pretty cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Maybe not then. I'm not that good a dad. :D
You realise they'll immediately handover your dna when you inevitably commit a crime? That's how they got the Golden State Killer.
A man finds out he's 5% Jew and within an hour he's deemed an "inevitable" serial killer. :(
That was pretty cool to be fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
It's why I haven't done it. No need to link me to the multiple canal killings in Manchester without making them work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
That and they'd have to flatten a rainforest to print your results.
"Greater Manchester Police are on the hunt for man described as wearing walking boots. He's believed to have fled to Frankfurt."Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
My dad got way into trying to trace the family tree. I don't think there's much in our lot to make that interesting, though.
That's the point though, DNA doesn't lie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
I did mine a few years ago. Apart from finding out my great-great-grandfather had a secret family, it was utterly boring. No Irish or anything, just Yorkshire farmers and Durham miners for generations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
If there's anyone you can trust to sell your genetic information to, it's American companies with abysmal financial records. I'm sure they wouldn't sell your data to insurance companies looking to exclude people for pre-existing conditions etc...
Aye, my dad's side probably barely got out of Cumbria. My mam's side at least had some DISOWNMENT in the mix. All the interesting ones are in living memory for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
I've just spotted that they do health reports in the more expensive tests. I'm tempted, although I could do the Numan one instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
That's always felt like a can of worms to me.
They also do a lifestyle questionnaire so you can see when you're likely to get the thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
I found mine really interesting, but my dad was adopted and he didn't know fuck all about his real dad, so there was some value to it
My family history is pretty well established on one side (the other side is just wurzels back to medieval times), but the more I've read about things, the more sceptical I am about a lot of it, particularly when it comes to one particular shagger in about 1910. I reckon when I'm bored in my 40s or 50s I'll do a deep dive and EXPOSE all the lies.