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Any ODT Members Using 23andMe?
- Thread starter TresMonos
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A little off topic here, but my son has been looking into our heritage for awhile now. On his last trip to Europe he found out he can apply for Polish citizenship and become a dual citizen, apparently it's easier to get around customs and visa requirements if you have a passport from a Schengen Area of Europe. I know very little of my parents backgrounds, my father didn't actually talk about anything of his prior life very much, he lived and fought through 2 wars, but what I do remember was enough for a Polish genealogist to find enough information to confirm what I already knew, and not very much more. (He did find an old grainy pic of my father in a POW camp where he was a prisoner, which looked, to me anyway, not to be him, but I did know he was a POW) In fact, I still know nothing of my Mother's ancestry, except for her maiden name, and that's suspect, as she didn't read or write, and when I was just a kid, and the phonetic way she said it to me that I remember, couldn't help find anything on her. I remember when we moved here going into a new Dr.'s office and filling out health histories, I had to leave everything blank, because I knew nothing at all, being a kid it wasn't my business to know. The look the Dr. gave me was one of those "are you outta your mind?" looks, but it was for real. I'm sure some of the younger guys reading this are probably saying the same thing, everybody knows everything about their parents, and you can find anything now, it's 2025, but it was a different time and a different way of life when I grew up, or maybe they just wanted to forget the old days, but still lead the same old life they had before coming here after the war. So, my opinion on these DNA places is they were just a money grab, the work that the genealogist did for my son was pretty impressive, but he had the little info that I gave him to start with, and a little spitball ain't going to find you're related to Genghis Khan or King Louis, and they certainly ain't going to do hard research for the 20 bucks you paid them, and anyone that did pay them deserves what's coming.
Even if I did, wouldn't matter. The alphabet people have my prints and photo from my carry permit... they have that info again with NFA items. Might as well give them some blood, semen, and spit to complete their collection.
My wife is in the process of obtaining dual citizenship with Italy based on her father's heritage.
We've made several trips to the small Italian town where her father's grandparents immigrated to the US from.
Guess they don't publish the error rate on those tests?
My daughters were in the process of doing this, but based on their great grandparents, not grandparents. Both sides of my grandparents are from Italy. Not too long the Italian government changed the rules and it has to be grandparents, great grandparents lineage is no longer allowed.
She may want to check on this before she does too much more work.
Or I may have completely misunderstood what you said.
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