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Irishlass
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Member since 5/05 2961 total posts
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Lisa
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Ancestry/DNA kits?
My DH is adopted but has no interest in finding his birth family but he would like to know a little about his background. We do have basic info from NY state. I guess he is concerned more about his health. There seems to be a lot of them out there. If you have used one would you recommend it? thanks.
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Posted 6/9/13 11:12 AM  |
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Leb
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Re: Ancestry/DNA kits?
We had my dad do it. It only does your dads dads dads dad.....so it won't show anything on his maternal side. It was cool. My dads family is from Germany however this went back farrrrr skipped well over Germany and went back hundreds of years ago.
So it won't give you health information and wouldn't give you ethnicity really either. It breaks it down to 5 basic groups. Not by country bc back then most modern day "countries" didn't even exist!
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| Posted 6/9/13 8:11 PM |
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CouponKT
Our family is complete
Member since 6/06 16494 total posts
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K
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Re: Ancestry/DNA kits?
My brother did one through National Geographic and it was half way interesting
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| Posted 6/9/13 9:33 PM |
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AdoptedCalm
LIF Infant
Member since 6/11 152 total posts
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Re: Ancestry/DNA kits?
Posted by Leb
We had my dad do it. It only does your dads dads dads dad.....so it won't show anything on his maternal side. It was cool. My dads family is from Germany however this went back farrrrr skipped well over Germany and went back hundreds of years ago.
So it won't give you health information and wouldn't give you ethnicity really either. It breaks it down to 5 basic groups. Not by country bc back then most modern day "countries" didn't even exist!
Was the one you did through National Geographic too?
I'm adopted as well, and would love to learn about my background.
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| Posted 6/9/13 10:55 PM |
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Ma-n-Pa2008
Mommy's Big Boy
Member since 3/09 2584 total posts
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Melissa
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Ancestry/DNA kits?
I just saw a living social deal for a DNA kit! i was thinking about getting it.
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| Posted 6/10/13 8:10 AM |
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Leb
LIF Adult
Member since 12/09 4166 total posts
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Re: Ancestry/DNA kits?
Posted by AdoptedCalm
Posted by Leb
We had my dad do it. It only does your dads dads dads dad.....so it won't show anything on his maternal side. It was cool. My dads family is from Germany however this went back farrrrr skipped well over Germany and went back hundreds of years ago.
So it won't give you health information and wouldn't give you ethnicity really either. It breaks it down to 5 basic groups. Not by country bc back then most modern day "countries" didn't even exist!
Was the one you did through National Geographic too?
I'm adopted as well, and would love to learn about my background.
No we did it through ancestry.com. We didn't know much abt my dads dads side of the family bc he died when my dad was little. It didn't provide us with much. It was interesting but I don't think it would help much of you're adopted. It'll narrow down your mothers mothers mothers ancestors into one of five groups. If you go on ancestry it'll show you a sample report. However it'll show matches in the USA of ppl who have done the test too.
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| Posted 6/10/13 10:08 AM |
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MrsG823
Just call me Mommy.
Member since 1/11 5570 total posts
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Ancestry/DNA kits?
The kit from National Geographic gives males information on y chromosome markers inherited from paternal line and on mitochondrial DNA from the maternal line. https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/
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| Posted 6/10/13 2:55 PM |
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Zippy12
LIF Infant
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Ancestry/DNA kits?
I just posted a very similar question and someone recommended 23andme. I only glanced at it but it looks promising.
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| Posted 6/11/13 7:45 PM |
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