DNA TEST!

[Fishstone]

Hey there fellow citizens of the New World!

 

Has anyone ever done a dna test like the ones they offer on ancestry.com or 23&me?

 

I did one quite recently and I learnt that I'm 52% English, 32% Irish, 11% Welsh and 5% Scottish. 

 

If anyone has done a test, did you learn anything interesting.

[ElizaJane]

Hi brother Adam, congratulations on your discoveries. 👏🏽👏🏽

 

I did both Ancestry and 23andme about 3 years ago. I always knew that I had been adopted as an infant.

After taking the tests, I discovered quite a few of those family secrets  that no one had ever told me about. (None of my family were JWs.)

 

I'm glad I did the tests. And, after getting over some of the shock, all I could think about is that I am looking forward to the resurrection to be able to meet the ancestors that I had never had a chance to know. 🫶🏽🫶🏽

[Fishstone]

Hi sister ElizaJane, thank you for your comment, very interesting and encouraging. 🫂

[Dustparticle]

 
I did a couple DNA tests.  And we need to do our homework too. I’m Native American, Scottish, Irish, French Canadian, Jewish, and German. This should make a mutt. 
 

 At times DNA will say this about a person. You need to look deep into your family and their local histries.

[exactor]

I wanted to dig deeper than ancestry and DND. I was interested in DND markers and percentages. After much research, I located the company in the attachment. 

I was born and raised in the US. Of course, that makes me Black, according to the African makers. I am covered by The Ransome - it is not a big deal. 🤣

DNA Markers.pdf

DNA...that is.....

[Fishstone]

25 minutes ago, exactor said:

I wanted to dig deeper than ancestry and DND. I was interested in DND markers and percentages. After much research, I located the company in the attachment. 

I was born and raised in the US. Of course, that makes me Black, according to the African makers. I am covered by The Ransome - it is not a big deal. 🤣

DNA Markers.pdf 130.6 kB · 1 download

DNA...that is.....

Thanks for the download 👍🏻 

[Miss Bea]

I did. I have mostly indigenous markers from north and South America. A bit of European. But, my big surprise was I have relations in Africa! How cool is that! 

Edited January 24 by Miss Bea

[Dustparticle]

2 hours ago, exactor said:

I wanted to dig deeper than ancestry and DND. I was interested in DND markers and percentages. After much research, I located the company in the attachment. 

I was born and raised in the US. Of course, that makes me Black, according to the African makers. I am covered by The Ransome - it is not a big deal. 🤣

DNA Markers.pdf 130.6 kB · 8 downloads

DNA...that is.....

 

We need to be careful. Learning your family background and DNA tests from different sources can help.

 

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/11/ftc-california-allege-cri-genetics-made-deceptive-dna-accuracy-claims-falsified-reviews-used

[Cushi]

Hey, my brother. I share your excitement as I've also done an ancestry DNA test. However, you may want to be selective about who you mention this to. I say this because, based on my experience, you may hear dismissive comments like “What does it matter” or “We all come from Adam.” 
We may take these comments as insensitive because these things matter to us, but we don’t want to harp on them. Just giving you a heads-up.

[Mike047]

That is a good point, Cushi, and one to remember.

 

Also, taking any kind of profiling test, like DNA, is something you have done in private, but can it be guaranteed that the information 'harvested' is kept confidential. In the light of computerised versions of information and expert hackers, it is always good to be careful how we give out personal information. A lot of personal information goes missing every day.

 

Just like social media dangers, it is wise to be aware of how even 'private' information can be used.

 

 

[Fishstone]

Thank you for the advice brothers.

[exactor]

On the lighter side....my children's mother is German-Irish...so I call my children German Chocolate. 🤣

[exactor]

Yes, thank you for your advice, brothers! 😊

[Witness1970]

Racists say some weird things.  People say one drop of "black" makes you all black.  I have also heard that one drop of "Indian" blood makes you all "Indian."  (They of course were referring to the people who were on this continent before it was named "America," sometimes referred to as "Native American" or indigenous people.)

 

I did a DNA ancestry test over a decade ago.  I was at first told that I was mostly Scandanavian, but as more tests were done, that was changed to mostly English.

 

Edited January 26 by Witness1970
added "indigenous people"

[Gimestr]

DNA companies are doing very unethical things with peoples DNA.  Your insurance provider can deny you based on DNA markers that can be found when you do these DNA test.  I wanted to check my genealogy years ago, and I feel like I was protected from submitting to DNA test thanks to 1 Timothy 1:4. 
It's not that it is bad to know your genealogy but you can see how it can lead to assumptions about yourself.  I am interested in know more about myself, but I am thankful that I never did this as 23andme, and ancestry are doing alot of unethical things with your DNA.

I Timothy 1:4
nor to pay attention to false stories+ and to genealogies. Such things end up in nothing useful+ but merely give rise to speculations rather than providing anything from God in connection with faith