Published on 12, July, 2020
Has anyone ever taken a DNA test that gives info about your ancestry and if so, what company did they use and would they recommend them,
Lol, I can't even describe to you the mad crazy image I have in my head right now, but it's fun, my picture building mind has done you proud ️
That’s so cool that you’ve got bits of your parents and grandparents in you and that you really do represent the different countries in such a way.
People ask me where I'm from sometimes. I just say "from here" if I'm not out of town! That's how I feel!
I’ve heard other people say they don’t want some organisation holding their DNA but I don’t care about that. Maybe they’ll clone me and there’ll be another one like me :)
Go for it, I'm not telling you what to do! If they cloned me it would be useless. I would be too big for the armour and jet pack. (Useless Star Wars reference).
You'd remember a V2000 the recorder was about as big as a car engine! The cassettes weren't much smaller, awesome quality though.
No-one could maintain a V2000 they broke down real easy! Better to be good with plants than now defunct video formats!
I think I can remember that. Me and my sister used to do something, I can’t remember all the details, she can, but I can’t but that name, ‘V2000’ seems to ring a bell. Baring in mind I don’t have a tv or any of those kinds of things, I couldn’t maintain a V2000, but I’m good with plants :)
We might even be descended from the V2000. Superior technically to everything, but a little temperamental and hard to maintain!
Oh yeah, I remember those things. I can’t say I watched many but I can remember them, my family used to watch them.
Well, maybe norms are descended from the commercially successful but technically inferior VHS, whilst us muties are descended from Betamax?
I wouldn't take one myself. I'm not comfortable with private companies owning my DNA. That's just me though, I just thought I'd throw it out there.
I'm certain I'm not the milkmans though. I look just as Oriental as my dad, almost identical, but darker because my nan is ethnically North African Jew on my mom's side. I have ginger hair (in places) because both of my darker skinned grandparents married Glaswegian, and Irish spouses. I'm one odd looking ***.
I'd agree. Mass harvesting of DNA with an emotionally targeted premise. That's just my two cents.
Maybe Betamax?
I’ll let you know what comes back when I do it! I might find that I am from another planet afterall! Lol!
I find things like that fascinating too but I think my origin would be incredibly boring from what we do know about my family. I realise there might be something more interesting further back. But I'd hate to pay that much money and it come back with something boring or that I already knew.
Love it. Thanks.
It’s about £70 I think so I’ll need to wait a little while but it sounds fascinating to me, so I don’t mind the cost, it’s kind of like my pleasure thing.
Stage one of the fridge magnet is complete, by the way. Stage two will proceed tomorrow.
Someone I work with did this. It told her the percentages of countries her ancestors came from. I think it was through one of the sites like ancestry.co.uk that she got it from. She loved it and said it was very interesting. But not cheap I don't think.
Well, it’s intetesting, I’m just watching a YouTube video by a guy called gregg Bradon (something like that) and he’s talking about how I think! It’s fascinating. It turns out, most of the world don’t think like me but they can learn to, and when they do, that’s when they get happy. It’s all about how we think. I am a human afterall so I don’t think I come from dvd wherever or whatever that is.
I'd guess you're descended from DVD :-).
Hopefully I won't have to wait too long for my results to come through if it's only us from the west who are doing it :)
It's not true what you said about people in Africa though, it's not all third world, I have some very wealthy friends who live in Africa and other third world countries. And it's not an obsession for me, just an interest, not a special interest, more of a mild curiosity, and I wouldn't be upset if I didn't get round to doing it, but I reckon I will at some point.
But if you step back and use logic - it's only people in the West who are dumb enough to pay for this - no-one in Africa would even consider this - most of the 3rd world has much higher priorities than this navel-gazing obsession.
That's the thing that makes me curious, the dark eyes, skin and hair! Where the heck did we get them from? :)
I did start tracing my family tree, so I am somewhat interested in that as well but I was watching a YouTube video last night and the mother and daughter had taken one of these DNA tests and the results were very interesting, so it inspired me to do it and because there are about 5 companies doing it, I was just wondering if anyone here had any experience with them. There's a company called 123ancestry (or something like that) which I might go with. That or the ancestry one.