Any ODT Members Using 23andMe?

[HERMET]

So you're related to Popcorn Sutton? Can I get a quart for strictly medicinal purposes?"

I wish, that would be cool...my family is more along the consumer end of the whiskey business.

 

[Psilloh1]

Well, you THINK you are.

Chances are you're more than part-Tsarist infantryman

Explains my affinity to Com Bloc ****........

 

[cskiles]

I already know what my lineage is - 100% mutt! The only thing pure about me is my innocence!

 

[Please Delete]

As a friend from up yonder way (Rome, Dalton) used to say "I never was to do no dumbass **** like that."
Sending your DNA to any of them companies MIGHT be even worse than handing it over to the gubment.

I am of 2 or 3 minds about this.

Firstly and most important: **** the police and the govt.

Second: My fam is notorious for **** shiiiit. I kinda wanna know how much fams I got that I don't know about. My dad's parents divorced when he was like 4 or 5...at a time when people just didn't. There was a lot of abuse. I KNOW I have several aunts/uncles I haven't seen in 30+ years...and a lot of cousins I have no clue exist. I have cousins on my mom's side that were put up for adoption before I was born. I don't know them or their names.

Thirdlys: I don't have kids and never will...so **** it. BUT I am worried my DNA will lead to the pigs busting some miscreant relation of mine in a police database. I ain't no snitch.

 

[Please Delete]

I might get my dog's DNA profile done. she is WAYYYYYYY too much of a straight bitch to be full Beagle...Prolly got some Jack Russel in her.

OR she just inbred and not weened proper.

 

[RSB]

Unfortunately the goobermint already has mine. I think they collected blood and hair samples in 1985 for ID purposes (we were told). I don't think anyone saw DNA testing coming back then if you weren't a researcher.

Yes, US military was part of the International Genome Project. 1986 for me. They told us why they were taking it and none of it was a secret. I'm sure no one knew what a genome project was back then. I've done 23&me and Ancestry as did my mother. What I have learned from both is priceless. I could literally write a book.

 

[The Old Jaybird]

as the oldest male heir in our family, my sister suggested I get tested, so I did, probably 20 years ago. Test proved what we already knew....father was English, Scotch, Irish, mother pure German. Dad's side came to the colonies in the mid 1600s, some of the earliest settlers, Mom's side came with a lot of Germans in the 1850s.

 

[The Old Jaybird]

as the oldest male heir in our family, my sister suggested I get tested, so I did, probably 20 years ago. Test proved what we already knew....father was English, Scotch, Irish, mother pure German. Dad's side came to the colonies in the mid 1600s, some of the earliest settlers, Mom's side came with a lot of Germans in the 1850s.

the main thing they might glean from my DNA is that we live a long time. My dad made it to 95, my 3 half sisters, one lived to 80, the other 2 made it to 100. I am 77 and still going, my sister is 17 years alder than me, 94, and I speak with her by phone 2-3 times a month. My father's father, was born in 1864, he lived to 1954, 90 years. His father made it to the mid-80s.
I have a distant grandfather, Abednego Hodges, Revolutionary War veteran, lived until his 80s and didn't claim his war pension until his 70s, because he was still able to support himself and family and didn't need it.

 

[roundhouse]

One of my cousins did it and found a half brother he didn’t know about
So he deleted his info quick .


I’d be interested in doing it but ain’t no way I’m giving them my real
Name

 

[TresMonos]

I’d be interested in doing it but ain’t no way I’m giving them my real
Name