Hello everyone, I've always wanted to take a DNA test to confirm my ethnicity, but I've always refused because I don't want to give my DNA to private companies. DNA is the most intimate genetic code; it's what makes us who we are, and I don't want to give it away. Are there any alternatives, or should I just give up? Thank you very much for your answers.
Pretty much exactly what I had expected.
My 2x-great grandmother from my italian side apparently came from an "arabian" country, which explains the egyptian and levant. No idea where cyprus came from haha
Hello,
I’m a Mexican-American man who recently took an ancestry DNA test and needs some insights from others who may have encountered a similar situation.
My family is mostly Mexican and lives culturally as chicanos. I’m about 4th generation American (depending on the side of my family I look at) as my great great grandparents immigrated from mexico.
Up until my late 20s I wasn’t too concerned about what culture I identified with or what I considered myself. But as I’ve gotten older I see that it’s important to be connected to something and I have a lot of love for my Mexican roots.
My question is: Those who have Indigenous American DNA, how do you identify? What percentage of DNA is needed to consider yourself of Indigenous heritage?
Thanks for the help!
Fun fact; I have fair skin, blue eyes, and red hair.
Three of my grandparents immigrated from Italy and one grandparent immigrated from England (all came to Canada in the 1960s).
I'm not able to test my paternal grandfather, but after doing my family tree, I found out he and my paternal grandmother are about 5th cousins (✿◡‿◡). I also did the family tree of my maternal grandfather... his village was very tiny and his ancestry is riddled with incest! At one point the closest it got was first cousins.
I do not turn a blind eye to the actions of my ancestors but this whole journey has led me to realize we're ALL COUSINS BABEY!
Canadian, with ancestral ties to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade...
My grandfather on my dad’s side and my dad’s half sister share what looks to me, like a very similar amount of dna with me. In my head I should share a significant amount more with my grandfather. But is that wrong? Is this totally normal?
My grandma and grandpa had my dad, my grandma went on to have my aunt with her second husband. Does this just mean I share on the lower end of normal with my grandfather and on the higher end of normal with my half aunt?
Not very surprising though I wonder where the danish part came from
People used to tell me I look Russian and I disagree
Half of family is from Almeria, other half from Castilla La Mancha
I did expect some French and drops of indigenous American based on things my family would say growing up
I'm from south Louisiana so it's all pretty much as I expected, but it also closely aligned with generational family lore and stories, which I didn't actually expect to be the case.
I generally understand how clusters work (or I think I do). I can see clusters for my Smith line, the Jones line, the Thompson line, etc. This all matches what I already know.
But then I see there are multiple separate clusters for the Smith line. What is the significance of this? I can see from their trees that they are all part of the Smith family, but I do not know why some of them break down into separate clusters.
I’m white British with an Irish dad. My results are what I expected. The only spice I know is flour. 😂 I’m guessing the German/ Swedish is due to the Saxons and vikings? So interesting to see that far back still exists in our dna. 🧬 I am secretly disappointed not to find any surprises but 🤷♀️ Bring half Irish and half British has always been awkward. Proud of both sides but 800 years of bad history!
The population from Alsace severely suffered from the 30 years war (1618-1648) and once the region taken by the French, it had been offered that catholic Swiss people could populate the empty spaces. I know all my Alsacian branches of the genealogy tree and nearly all point to Switzerland.
So from a genetic mix, it’s logical that the genes are the South German/Swiss ones.
Added some Polish (Prussia) and West Ukrainian (Galicia) that I already knew in my tree, and a complete surprise with some Scottish/Irish genes.
Finally I’m a French guy with no “French genes”
For my dad and i, our Norwegian percentage changes between 1% and 2% with every update, but it has never completely disappeared. My mom and I both have 1% Finnish and that has never gone away either. The cool thing about that is that I’ve been able to find DNA matches on our match list who are 100% Finnish or at least 90% Finnish.