Has anybody here had a DNA test done?

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and not for criminal activity or because I've got somebody pregnant or I've had a 50 year old turn up at my door saying I'm their Dad..

It's something I've always wanted doing, even though my 4 grandparents were Irish and my 8 Great Grandparents were Irish I'd love to see how much % Irish DNA I have
The other week on DNA Journey Englishman Neil Morrisey was tested and he turned out to be very rare - 99% Irish DNA compared to the Irish bloke he was with who was only about 63%.

Last night Oti & Motzi Mabuse had theirs done and their DNA goes back 200,000 years to the very early days of humankind.

So anybody here had it done and were you shocked at the result?
 
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Jokester said:
My dad had it done, they then offered him an improved version a few years later. Came back with completely different results :cry:
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This is my worry, a bit like when these people have Coats of Arms done.
My mate collected five different ones for his surname :)

Mind you I've been watching a series called Cold Cases dealing with cases from 60 years ago and on at least a couple they have put a note to come back in five years when DNA testing has improved.
 
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Mr Jack said:
but I think he's talking about L0?
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Yes

platinum87 said:
He says everyones DNA goes back 200k years to mitochondrial eve.
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I'm no expert but the expert said the DNA is special and it's the first time he's met someone.
He is a Professor of Human Genetics at Edinburgh University so I'm pretty sure he knows what he's talking about.
Mr Jack above gives a better explanation.

I've now put the full video from start to finish of the Professor to explain more.

https://www.dmpoole.co.uk/dna.mp4
 
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Well this is where people can tell "I told you so" but I decided not to do one but my daughters bought it for my 65th birthday as a surprise..

I filled in some details but didn't mention that both my parents can trace their lineage back through Irish parents, grandparents and great grandparents.
I put my address down as Stoke, Midlands and that I had been born in Stoke.

Surprise surprise my test results say I'm 76% English from the Midlands, 13% Scandinavian and 4% Irish + other bits.
Trust Pilot shows many disgruntled people who think they have been scammed and I think my daughters have been to.
 
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I've had a reply from my Trust Pilot review


Reply from Ancestry.com
2 hours ago
Hi David and thank you very much for taking the time to share this review of our DNA service. We are eager to address this with you.

Even with a perfect knowledge of the history of your ancestors, DNA can still show some unexpected results. Remember AncestryDNA ethnicity estimates are based on available data. Ancestry uses established baseline ethnicities taken from living people with verified roots in a particular area. This is otherwise known as our reference panel. We calculate your ethnicity estimate by comparing your DNA to this reference panel made up of DNA samples from over 68,000 people, representing 84 different global regions and over 1,800 communities.

It is important to note that DNA does not respect borders and modern political boundaries do not always accurately represent relationships between different regions. Heavy migration over the last few hundred years and subsequent inter- marrying means that DNA for some regions can be particularly admixed, especially with closely related regions.

Remember our test does not test for nationality and so while your father and mother may be Irish, this is not to say that their ancestors actually originated from Ireland. If their ancestors before them had migrated to Ireland from somewhere else, they would have brought their DNA with them and this in turn would be passed down to you.

Genetic inheritance is completely random and so while we each inherit 50% of our fathers DNA and 50% of our mothers DNA, we do not get an equal split of their DNA. We've linked an article below which discusses inheritance.

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Remember that your DNA is only one element of a much larger picture, and your family history and relatives will play an important role in your genetic make-up, even if they are not specifically reflected in your ethnicity results. Check out the linked below for more information on the factors that can caused unexpected results. We hope this article helps better explain your results.

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We'd recommend reaching out to your DNA matches to try and figure out how you might be related. Check out the article we've linked below for more information.

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Hades said:
Or you dad or grandad isn't who you thought he was.
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That would mean both my parents and all 4 grandparents aren't who I thought they were.
My surname used to be McGuinness for starters but it was changed to Poole by my Grandad back in the 40s.
My Mum's side are a big Irish family called Allen.
I could be adopted.

The only problem there is I was identical to my Mum growing up and now at 65 I'm identical to my Dad.
 
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Hades said:
Do you know the reason for the name change? Perhaps he was adopted and changed it to his real family name. That may explain some of it (assuming the test is accurate).
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My Uncle who has done our family history says it was PROBABLY because he was a criminal.
He had been to prison twice and we were connected to a local well known family with the same name who may have wanted him to change his name.
All our holidays were paid for by this family and we never went short.
As a young boy I always thought he was a war hero/pilot but it turns out part of his sentence was working as a Gofor on an RAF base in Wales.
 
413x said:
Maybe doing a DNA test is worth it.
Maybe ill have a rich daddy I can cash in on?
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My best mate has just left my house and he was adopted as a baby.
About 5 years ago he found out his real Mum and decided to go and knock on the door about 4 miles away.
He approached the door and the elderly neighbour looked at him and said "OMG, you are the exact double of Harold who lived there, are you related to him?".
Anyway he knocked on the door, asked questions, they invited him, made phone calls and another two siblings arrived.
Obviously his blood parents were now RIP and he said they were one of the biggest horrible chav families he's ever come across and he couldn't wait to get out of there :)
His adopted parents were quite well off and lived next door to us from 1968 so he a great upbringing where his siblings looked like they were dragged up.
 
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I'll be honest, I'm still pee'd off by all this.
I 100% know my 4 grand parents were Irish and my 8 great grand parents are Irish but it came back with 4% Irish.
AncestryDNA say that just because they are all Irish it doesn't mean they have Irish DNA :)
My results are because of my non Irish surname and where I told them I lived,
Even on these Police programs they can't tell if a suspect comes from a certain area but AncestryDNA said I come from the Midlands :)
Scam artists.
 
wonko said:
I think maybe you're expecting too much accuracy from the Origins results. AIUI, all it can say is that you statistically share DNA with people from particular regions - perhaps some of your Irish great grandparents' ancestors were from the Midlands
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I watch every TV series documentaries on Police/Cold Cases etc and it is not possible to analyse DNA and say "The person we're after comes from the Midlands".
They can't be that accurate.
 
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I agree, but that's not what ancestry origins is claiming to do. It tells you where your (distant) ancestors are likely to have come from.
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Yes because I gave them my address and gave them my new surname.
Like Feek says, if I gave them my original surnames of McGuinness (Dad) or Allen (Mum) that report would be different.

I thought they would just be testing my spit and not looking at my details.
There are other people on Review sites saying exactly the same thing that depending what details they wrote down is what they got back.

I even had a bloke trace me on Messenger and he had exactly the same issue.
He'd put down his new surname of a new English Dad, address where he lived in England and there was nothing from Scandinavia where he was born and bred by two Scandinavians.
Sorry not 'nothing' but very little.
 
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Does anybody want to start a GoFund Me page so I can get another test :)
I will need an Irish participant with an Irish name who lives in Ireland to order the test, send it to me and they get my results back.
If the report shows exactly the same that my family comes from the Midlands and I'm 4% Irish then I'll have to admit defeat :)
 
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