Ancestry DNA

[Yohimbe]

TweetI keep seeing commercials for this. Call me paranoid, but I just don't trust that. I can see where it would be good and beneficial for someone who needs to know their ancestry, but there's just something about that DNA part that I don't trust. I can only imagine the kind of database they are accumulating with all of that DNA info.

[Dzone]

TweetYou could be right. The government could just demand they hand it all over in the name of public safety, to protect us from terrrorists.

[guns01]

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I keep seeing commercials for this. Call me paranoid, but I just don't trust that. I can see where it would be good and beneficial for someone who needs to know their ancestry, but there's just something about that DNA part that I don't trust. I can only imagine the kind of database they are accumulating with all of that DNA info.

i saw a special on hbo or something like that about this very topic. i cant remember if it was the mormon church or the scientologists that were running these companies but they have and are creating a database with all this stuff. i cant remember which church it was though but i would imagine it isnt for a good purpose in the long run. word of mouth from your family and a bit of research goes a long way to me. no one needs my dna and i damn sure am not giving it up of my own free will

[Yohimbe]

TweetYeah, definitely not something I'd ever do. Especially in the times we live in today.

[cybrsage]

TweetI had my ancestry traced via DNA on Family Tree DNA (which is the largest DNA testing company in the world). I did it because my family has a story that we are Jewish, but when we came to the US from Germany no one would hire Jews - but EVERYONE wanted to hire the hard working Germans, so they hid their Jewish ancestry to be able to work and eat. DNA testing showed this to be a lie - no Jewish blood in me at all. While I was at it, I had several other tests done, such as male pattern baldness (only slight balding is expected) and how well I respond to exercise (I have both genes that show I respond instantly and very well to exercise - yes, you can be jealous now).

I find it fascinating. I have Pict blood in me too.The Picts were a tribal confederation of peoples who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late Iron Age and Early Medieval periods. They are thought to have been ethnolinguistically Celtic. Where they lived and what their culture was like can be inferred from the geographical distribution of brochs, Brittonic place name elements, and Pictish stones. Picts are attested to in written records from before the Roman conquest of Britain to the 10th century, when they are thought to have merged with the Gaels. They lived to the north of the rivers Forth and Clyde, and spoke the now-extinct Pictish language, which is thought to have been related to the Brittonic language spoken by the Britons who lived to the south of them.

Picts are assumed to have been the descendants of the Caledonii and other tribes that were mentioned by Roman historians or on the world map of Ptolemy. Pictland, also called Pictavia by some sources, gradually merged with the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata to form the Kingdom of Alba (Scotland). Alba then expanded, absorbing the Brittonic kingdom of Strathclyde and Bernician Lothian, and by the 11th century the Pictish identity had been subsumed into the "Scots" amalgamation of peoples.

[Dzone]

TweetIt might be interesting to know. Who knows, I could be a minority and not know it. Then I might be able to get some free entitlements based on my race
H itler would have loved something like this. He could have everyone tested and enslave or exterminate everyone who wasnt pure blooded Aryan.