Has anybody here had a DNA test done?

SexyGreyFox said:
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.
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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, and/or there were emigration events from Ireland to the Midlands (such that the 'Midlands DNA' has a significant dose of Irish DNA in it).
In my case it was pretty much bob-on, and included some West African origins which Ancestry could not have 'cheated' over as it's not in my family tree.

How do we come up with your estimate?​

To figure out your ethnicity regions, we compare your DNA to a reference panel made up of DNA from groups of people who have deep roots in one region. We look at 1,001 sections of your DNA and assign each section to the ethnicity region it looks most like. Then we turn those results into the percentages you see in your estimate. Your genetic link to these ethnicities can go back hundreds of years or even more.
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SexyGreyFox said:
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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"Irish DNA" ? This is a joke, isn't it?
As far I understand Ireland - although being an island - never has been separated from the rest of the
world. Over the centuries migrants from all over Europe and other parts of the globe have settled in Ireland.
The Irish population is not a large, isolated family in which everyone is a blood relative of everyone.
 
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.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
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.
 
DiWa57 said:
"Irish DNA" ? This is a joke, isn't it?
As far I understand Ireland - although being an island - never has been separated from the rest of the
world. Over the centuries migrants from all over Europe and other parts of the globe have settled in Ireland.
The Irish population is not a large, isolated family in which everyone is a blood relative of everyone.
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It's quite possible to trace ancestry across geography like this across long periods of time. People in different regions of the world are genetical distinct, and this manifests itself in DNA at smaller scales even if physiologically there's not the obvious differences you get between say an average Caucasian Brit and someone from Japan.
 
wonko said:
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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I did a ancestry dna test a 4 years ago.
I was adopted when I was a few weeks old. I wanted to see if I had any relatives. I found my birth mother, though she had died before i found her. I also found 2 half brothers. I spoke to one of my half brothers but we never actually met.
I was very happy with my life and with my adoptive mum and dad and I have not felt I missed out on anything.
 
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SexyGreyFox said:
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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Well all I can say is we have had different experiences, and we're not going to be able to prove anything one way or the other with our sample sizes of 1.
If someone gets odd-looking results and then looks for others with similar 'oddities' then they are bound to find them.
I found one article where multiple tests were done under fake names and they all basically agreed (albeit with some differences in the detail) - https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-explained.html
 
I have a fair mix of ethnicities in my family ( French mum, English dad, French/Scottish grandads, Italian/Irish grandmothers).
It surprises me how over the past 3 years my Scottish dna percentage keeps increasing... (from 23% to 45%).
 
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 :)
 
Took one of these years ago and told them I have zero interest in learning about relatives. I don't care where I am from. I don't care where my great great great great grandad was from and I don't care if I have a mystery half brother. I have enough family events to go to as it is!
 
fez said:
Took one of these years ago and told them I have zero interest in learning about relatives. I don't care where I am from. I don't care where my great great great great grandad was from and I don't care if I have a mystery half brother. I have enough family events to go to as it is!
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I think you have the right mindset fez... :D "Who cares" is a term I often use at work with my colleagues and humans...:)
I mean how far back should we go to truly know where we all came from? Homo habilis? The First cells on earth billions of years ago?
Then what? We die...
 
I am 100% certain I am not from around here lol I also don't care and I also don't want them to have my DNA...who can then sell it to health insurance companies. Should I get private insurance, then they could deny me base on my DNA.

I know the other side of the coin is that the DNA can flag up potential illness, but these places are not hospitals and I am happy not knowing.
 
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