Anybody ever do the ancestry.com DNA test ?

[Rallygirl]

My cousin and I have documented that side of the family back to 1498 and found nothing but Netherlands-born Dutch. I understand and expect a little of this and a little of that, but for it to say we are of more than 1/3 Chinese heritage is complete and utter crap.

I add spouses' parents to our genealogy; even if by some amazing coincidence, twelve generations Dutchmans' spouses all had Chinese grandparents, it still wouldn't add up to 35%. 35% would require direct Chinese relatives in the last couple of generations. So unless someone recent was switched at birth, or the milkman came into the picture, it is nonsense. I know DNA tests are accurate. However, I think many of these genealogy DNA companies prey on eager armchair genealogists, just taking their money and giving back completely fictional results.

Asian blood can easily be diluted if a lot of other mixing happens. Look at Keanu Reeves, Tom Hanks, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Phoebe Cates, Dean Cain, Meg and Jennifer Tilly...etc...you wouldn't think they had Asian blood, but they do...and theirs is recent...now imagine if some of your Chinese ancestors was like 200 years ago...the Asian appereance would be practically untraceable.

The other way happens too...Bruce Lee was part German...but I don't see any German in him.

I do believe those DNA tests are indeed accurate.

Dutch/Chinese trading has been going on for a while...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Netherlands_relations

I'd say embrace your Asian side...nothing wrong with that, I think it's pretty cool if you ask me.

[Mikey]

IMO having Chinese ancestry is something to be proud of.

These dudes were making calendars and plotting nebula when we (Europeans) were sacrificing babies and worshipping the Sun.

[Hector]

I have been doing genealogy since my great grandma got me into it back in the 1980s. All that letter writing, and paper back then was a pain in the butt. All the online archives and records nowadays are awesome! So far, all we have ever found though is Dutch, Dutch, Dutch, and more Dutch people. A family member plunked down her money to do one of these DNA tests and it came back that one side of our family was of 35% Chinese ancestry. Now, I could understand a little bit of something other than northern European being in there, but 35% Chinese? My trust of those tests went right out the window.

Asian blood can easily be diluted if a lot of other mixing happens. Look at Keanu Reeves, Tom Hanks, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Phoebe Cates, Dean Cain, Meg and Jennifer Tilly...etc...you wouldn't think they had Asian blood, but they do...and theirs is recent...now imagine if some of your Chinese ancestors was like 200 years ago...the Asian appereance would be practically untraceable.

The other way happens too...Bruce Lee was part German...but I don't see any German in him.

I do believe those DNA tests are indeed accurate.

Dutch/Chinese trading has been going on for a while...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Netherlands_relations

I'd say embrace your Asian side...nothing wrong with that, I think it's pretty cool if you ask me.

[Hector]

I have been meaning to do one of those DNA tests myself. I'm a mutt...I bet I have just about every ethnicity in the book, Native American, European, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, etc..

[Mawni]

Finally got our results.

Not really surprising ... mostly Eastern European with some Western European and Scandinavian sprinkled in.

That's exactly what mine would probably look like.

[Mikey]

Finally got our results.

Not really surprising ... mostly Eastern European with some Western European and Scandinavian sprinkled in.

[SentientApe]

I have not yet taken the DNA test, but it remains the sole method to unlock the greatest remaining mystery remaining in my family's history.

As far as going back "too far," I have actually traced my family lineage back beyond recorded factual history into the prehistory of legend... I can present a legitimate unbroken pedigree that traces my roots back to Bellenos the Sun God (of the Druids) and, through the mother of his children, all the way back to (and beyond) Aphrodite.

So, clearly, I need to do the DNA test to solve more recent mysteries of, oh, only 300 years ago and stop messing around with documented yet unprovable events of over 2500 years ago.

[Mikey]

Well you never know if you can go back far enough.

Eventually everybody will end up in Africa - between then and now who knows

[Rallygirl]

I have been doing genealogy since my great grandma got me into it back in the 1980s. All that letter writing, and paper back then was a pain in the butt. All the online archives and records nowadays are awesome! So far, all we have ever found though is Dutch, Dutch, Dutch, and more Dutch people. A family member plunked down her money to do one of these DNA tests and it came back that one side of our family was of 35% Chinese ancestry. Now, I could understand a little bit of something other than northern European being in there, but 35% Chinese? My trust of those tests went right out the window.

[Mikey]

My bro-in-law prided himself on his Italian heritage.

It was fun to find out he also had North African and Arabian roots.

Hope mine turns out to have plenty of fun diversecity as well.

Being Polish i'm guessing I have some Mongolian blood --- GO Genghis Khan !!!

[El Hombre Nuclear]

Like any good starchy old WASP family, my mother's side had our entire family tree worked out in minute detail back to the Norman invasions decades before I was even born, and my father is a Basque whose family had lived in the same small village in the Pyrenees since the dawn of the Neolithic, so I've never figured there was much point in doing a DNA test.

On thing that's interesting about genealogy is that you'll notice how everyone starts being related to everyone else once you get farther back than around 500 years or so. The whole "most recent common ancestor" factor really becomes noticeable, at least if you're of Western European stock. That's why it's funny when you occasionally see people who delve too deeply into this subject too fast getting all excited about being a "direct descendant of Charlemagne!!!". Yeah, and so is everyone else in the western world...

[Mikey]

Man, that's a sad story, how old was he at the time?


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One year old, born 1917

His adopted father was a family friend so he was able to tell him some things about his family when he grew up

[boss]

My mom and brother did it, so I figure I'm covered.

[cjefferys]

My father was adopted so that's what throws a monkey wrench in my ancestry.

My father's side of the family was wiped out during the 1918 flu pandemic.

He was the only one left.

They were all buried in mass graves at my local cemetery along with hundreds of other townspeople

Wish someday they'd put up a monument

Man, that's a sad story, how old was he at the time?

As far as ancestry goes, wouldn't it be the same? While what you're saying may be valid, the ancestry would remain the same, I would think. I cannot see how it wouldn't be.

- Ian

True, they would have the exact same ancestry, but their DNA wouldn't be exactly the same, I was just answering that part.

[EmergencyIan]

No, not unless you are clones. You get 50% of your DNA from each parent, but your sister did not necessarily get the same 50% from each as you did. There would be many genetic differences between the two of you.

As far as ancestry goes, wouldn't it be the same? While what you're saying may be valid, the ancestry would remain the same, I would think. I cannot see how it wouldn't be.

- Ian