Ancestry DNA gift for Christmas.

[SingleAF]

This would be perfect for someone I know. Have any of you bought this for someone? Not getting very far with Google, more bamboozled than anything.

But upon further reading, these DNA tests need to be done in conjunction with tracing family tree and comparing..to be accurate. So both used together is the way to go

Linking your results to family trees has implications for your entire family and I don't think the consequences of this have been thought through nearly enough.

My mother's obstetrician was involved in early infertility research work; my late father was a sperm donor for some of this, on the understanding that there would be no records and no information passed on. Luckily I knew about it - because a while back I had half siblings get in touch - they had been matched via DNA info from my father's aunt - with whom we had no contact. I haven't followed through with them as yet for a lot of reasons though I may at some point. My mother, for various reasons, would be very cross that this has happened (I know this because she has spontaneously worried about the possibility in response to some news items).

That is a long winded way to say, be careful what you do with this stuff because you take choices out of other people's hands.

@FilledSoda I can definitely relate. I'm an avid watcher of who do you think you are or anything like it. We went to the ulster American folk park to do a bit of tracing on the family tree, they where amazing and I'd recommend a wee trip if you haven't already been.
It would be an odd way of making links with bf but still great technology.

Attention anyone thinking of buying an Ancestry DNA kit as a gift for someone in your household- it is delivered in a box that has Ancestry DNA written all over it, as I discovered when dh answered the door to the postman today and had his surprise ruined 😡

I am going to complain. £20 p&p and they can't stretch to some brown paper packaging!

Hmm i'm kind of in the camp that I don't want to know if my Dad's had other children I don't already know about.