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12 minutes ago, ramssuperbowl99 said:

You'd fail an ancestry test tbh.

You joke but honestly it might be true since I got a stem cell transplant lol. If I ever wanted one I’d just have to go through my siblings I think just to be sure.  

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So apparently I’m:

24% French and German (apparently almost impossible to tell the difference between the two, French/German DNA looks identical)

17% Scottish

16% Italian

5% Armenian 

4% Norwegian

3% Portuguese

1% Balkan 

0.1% Chinese (random)

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The thing that's always made me skeptical about these tests is that each company has its own parameters for the markings. I've read a few reports that had the same person send samples to 3 of the companies, and come back with 3 results. 

For example, say you could trace family history back hundreds of years to northern Italy. You could send the test off to 3 companies, and have them come back as French, German, and Swiss. Since there's no real standards, each company looks at the same thing differently, and comes up with different results. 

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47 minutes ago, BayRaider said:

So apparently I’m:

24% French and German (apparently almost impossible to tell the difference between the two, French/German DNA looks identical)

17% Scottish

16% Italian

5% Armenian 

4% Norwegian

3% Portuguese

1% Balkan 

0.1% Chinese (random)

The 0.1 percent is probably from Genghis Khan, lol.

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5 minutes ago, bigjohnson2009 said:

My girlfriend really wanted this so I picked it up for $50 as a xmas present. Not sure i'm a fan of the concept or it's accuracy, but happy wife happy life lol.

Pretty good tool for Caucasian Americans who are all mostly a European mix. Was always curious what I was.

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1 hour ago, MrDrew said:

The thing that's always made me skeptical about these tests is that each company has its own parameters for the markings. I've read a few reports that had the same person send samples to 3 of the companies, and come back with 3 results. 

I believe that's because they base results on their own databases. So there will be some variation between them, but I don't think it's as extreme as all that.

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