AncestryDNA kits. WWYD?

[Ketomeato]

I bought a kit each for my parents for Christmas last year. Dad’s has come back fine, mum’s got lost and after some chasing, has been sent a replacement test, which she is about to do.

If you have both parent’s DNA tests, is it ever worth doing your own?

What would be the point ?

Well that’s what I’m asking!

I'm very uneasy with people doing this - this is speaking generally, of course, and not about your family, OP - because I've had to support others who did the DNA kits out of sheer curiosity about their genealogy and had their whole worlds blown apart because they discovered one of their parents was not actually their biological parent.

It's one of the reasons why census records were never published until they were a century old. Too many family secrets were revealed.

Well if you are sure your parents are your parents then surely their ancestry is exactly your ancestry plus them , so no point in you doing yours .

I am absolutely certain that my parents are my parents. They are of different heritage though and I suppose I’d wondered who I’d got the most genes from!

Perhaps your mum doesn't want to do it?

My concern would be that the company then 'owns' your DNA information and can do what they like with it Ie sell it to the highest bidder if they so wish.

I'd be worried that if mine showed a propensity to a particular disease or sociopathy or something, would that effect me (or possibly my children) re insurance or goodness knows what.

Not sure if I'm being very clear, but hopefully you get the gist!

"wineoclockthanks" I worry about the same thing as you: will they sell the data and then companies such as mortgage or insurance companies refuse to take you on, or charge you more, because your DNA suggests you have an increased risk of cancer, heart problems or other diseases? Personally I think people are giving away the very essence of who they are willy nilly without thinking of the possible consequences.