DNA ancestry test

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I want to do one, I’m aware of the potential of finding hidden secrets. I’m pretty sure there are some… Husband and kids think I’m selling my soul to some company who will harvest my DNA. Are they dodgy? Love to hear from others who have done one.

It’s very easy to maintain your privacy on the site. No one can contact you, except through the site and there’s no obligation on you to reply if you don’t want to. Users don’t see your email address and your user name can be anything you want it to be. Lots of people only use initials.

That's helpful and what I wanted to know! Thanks

I was looking for a long lost relative of my mum's, she has been trying to trace them since the 50s with no success, i submitted her dna on ancestry and found them, she was thrilled. Well worth doing imo.

My Dad's mum was from an Irish Catholic family, 3 girls and a boy, I did an ancestry teat and found adopted children from 2 of her sisters, we knew 1 of the sisters had had a baby at a magdaline home, but the 2nd was a bit of a surprise

I used ancestry DNA for the ethnicity estimate out of curiosity! You can choose how the manage your data and I didn't give permission for them to hang on to it, so my sample was destroyed and my information is not shared with other users of the site, similarly I cannot use the site to find family members.

My fiancé did it and allowed all the permissions - he was automatically linked with family on there who had taken the test and allowed the same permissions!

I'd say if you are looking for bio family it's a good start.

My late Dm bought a test and never got to use it so I did. My Dd has done one now too and here is our ethnicity. I am on the left and her on the right. I find it really interesting and found out someone I worked with for 15 plus years I was distantly related and we would never had know without the test.

I did it with Ancestry and found my heritage really interesting, and matched with some distant cousins. My maternal grandparents are dead (before I was born) so I'm glad I have been able to fill in some gaps.

As an aside.. I read about a sperm donor who has fathered 1000 babies once. Imagine how those kids will feel on a website like this in 18 years time.

Well nobody’s going to force them to “be in a website like this”. It’s entirely voluntary.

Is that to me?

if so, it’s not a big stretch to think some of those thousand children might want to know their ancestry if they were conceived with a sperm donor and will go looking on Ancestry website.

You sound a bit paranoid 👻

Anyone know how good the health ones are?

I've got some genetic conditions, so intrigued if they will show up.

I'm not really convinced by "they'll have their reasons" argument. Who's to say they are good reason? Is it just deference to their age and family status? Often the kind of people who don't open up for "reasons" do it to be controlling. Not always

My brother used it and through a long process uncovered a family almost secret. Two generations later we are all very happy to have new cousins.

Some people may not enjoy this side of it.

You have to go in eyes wide open, knowing it might pop up and say "we've found your half brother".

It’s been great. But depending on what it turns up you might have to think about how much information or details about yourself you are willing to share

For me it has filled in some significant gaps and allowed some connections to be made.

I identified my father in law's American GI father after 70 years and he's now in touch with all his family (including a half sister) in the US.
I also figured out who my birth father was and have a nodding acquaintances relationship with him (but a full medical history) and a wonderful relationship with my half brother, auntie, cousins and other extended family. It was worth it for me.