DNA Test - Why We Shouldn't Judge

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Oh my stars, I am bawling. This makes me want to take this kind of DNA testing and find out! I know I am Russian, German, and British, but I am sure there is a lot in there I don't know of. My maiden name is actually derived from a Jewish tribe in the Bible, but none of my family can trace a Jewish heritage!

There's a woman who says this testing should be compulsory, and how could we ever think we (any "we") are of a "pure race"?

"I am Russian, German, and British"

....................yikes Britt, i love you at this point i night need to bring you to a Dominican botanica so we can cleanse you of generational evil...

just kidding bae

Hahahahaha! Everyone looks at me weird when I explain my mothers side - great grandma was Russian, Great Grandpa was German. Dads side - great grandma German, great grandpa Russian. And then who knows from there on out, lots of mixed 'breed' in my line! And now if Jason and I ever have kids it'll be a really crazy mix, because he is Norwegian, Scottish and Irish.. lol

Its always interesting to know ancestry...

My grandma on my mother's side was the whitest thing on earth, my grandmother's parents apparently immigrated from Spain but I am unsure on whether they have slave master past because they were also extremely poor.
My grandfather on my mother's side is a lightskin black men, so there's where the black entered the family.

My dad told me his father was a French Guard, but race wise he's black. and so is my father's mom. Except that my Grandfather probably has African descent while my grandmother is descendant of the native Taino tribes of the D.R

Also, race and ethnicity get so confused nowadays, people can't even tell the difference...

lmao, i def have a lot of white ancestry but no one goes like
"hey, how's your 29% white doing"... lmao, I always been and identify as just Dominican.

That's pretty cool.

I know I have British and Irish in me but not much else.

Britt, don't be surprised if you do take it and you don't find a trace of what you think you are. There have been siblings with different readings because we only get 50% from each parent, they get 50% from theirs, and so on.

So, say my mom has ancestors in Russia and Germany- if me and my sister do the test, she may be 60% Russian and 1% German, and I'd be the opposite. If that makes sense.

My brother did his through ancestry.com. We kind of knew the basics of our ancestry- European, African, and the original natives of the island of Puerto Rico. He was 46% European (Iberian peninsula which I think is mostly divided between Spain and Portugal), 32% African (Benin/Togo , which is between Nigeria and Ghana, I THINK. Lol) and 17% Native American. Which technically, that part of our ancestry wasn't from America, but I'd imagine it close to impossible to have many traces to anything from today because I don't think there are any pure Taino people or even tribes in Puerto Rico anymore. He had a small percentage in West Asia and Great Britain, too.

I've been wanting to test my DNA ever since he got his done, just to see how different we are. I know mine will probably be a lot different because my parents and siblings all have either the native or African look, dark skin, thick hair, curves etc. And I'm just the opposite. Maybe I'm adopted or everyone has been right all these years by telling me I'm the milk man's daughter. Haha

Http://genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/same-parents-different-ancestry

This explains better than I could

I had one full Irish grandfather, one full German grandmother (I feel the need to honor her here because she was an extremely tolerant person for her time and was thrilled when two of her grandsons married black women), and one Scottish and English grandfather. My last living grandparent (mom's mom) is German and Dutch. All 4 grandparents were/are tall and blue eyed.

I'd love to take a DNA test. It would be awesome to discover different ancestry in my blood.

Ya'll more Europeans than these Dutchies over here, son...

he he he <3

Lol I know. Wish I had something more interesting going on! I feel some pride (maybe that's silly) in my Irish and Scottish ancestry. Beautiful countries.

I think those are interesting, Jane! Anything you can trace back is interesting. I knew this lady that was a genealogist and she traced her ancestors back to the 1700s? I can't exactly remember, but she always found out cool stuff about different families.

My mom came over from Ireland when she was a young woman.

We used to call my dad's ancestry Heinz57 until I did the research & found British as far back as I could go at the time.

However, research into their surnames leads back to Normandy on both sides - meaning they both came from Northman Vikings. I descend from pirates!

I would love to take the test, As far as I know my grandfather has Romany gypsy blood in him. (mums side) my Dads side descend from north London, their grandparents moved from Ireland (I think)

My Stepfather's father (are you still following) traced his bloodline back to William Wallace. (something to do with the name Nisbet/bailey.)

I once had a dream where I found out I was a direct descendant of Mary Boleyns son Henry Carey.
Thus making me the great, great ..........grandson of Henry 8th, I then challenged the Queen for the throne.

Haha, Larry, the Irish pirate, and our very own King Darren!

Someone in my family has our ancestry tracked back to the Stewart family and Mary, queen of Scots. I tried tracking back on my own once and only made it to the early 1800s in Germany.

Also, William Wallace. Awesome. I've got a little statue of him somewhere...

I was thinking, it is difficult to trace our ancestors.
But in 200 years time my offspring will be able to look me up on facebook.

'Fancied himself as a poet and painter, sometimes a bit of a helmet.....'

Our cyberspace activities will stay around for many years.

Do you want your Facebook to stay active post mortem? It's in my will that I'd like it deactivated.

I plan to haunt PnQ long after I'm dead.
Bet I can keep posting, too.

Funny, I too wouldn't mind if my pnq account stayed active :)

Jane, out of curiosity, why do you want your FB deleted?

Couple reasons. First, I've had an account for a long time and I'm sure I've said things over the course of that time I'm not proud of or wouldn't want representing me after death. Second, I don't want my Facebook littered with 'I miss yous' and personal messages for all to read. I don't want that to be the place people convene to speak to me or about me in the afterlife (if there is one). My Facebook is not me. To me, it is a shallow/vague representation of who I am.

I have a couple friends whose Facebooks are still active although they've left this world. I have seen what it looks like and it makes me a bit unhappy. In the very least, I would like my parents to set my Facebook to private so only they (and my sister) can view it. If it brings them some small amount of peace or minimizes the pain, that's good. They should keep it for themselves.

How do you feel?

That's actually completely understandable. I've said the same thing about not wanting people to write on there afterwards and just dwelling on everything. When my brother had his motorcycle accident and was literally on the brink of dying, sooo many people were writing to his FB and sending friend requests. I ended up logging into it and making everything private and turning off the ability for anyone to send him requests because I was just angry. I told him afterwards what I'd done and he thanked me and actually ended up deactivating his facebook anyway. Lol.

I hate that it takes something like near death or dying for people to express themselves and write nice things. I don't have close friends, really, just my siblings. I told my sister and husband to do the same for me. Just don't add anyone and make everything private. Like you said, facebook is not us.

But then I think about my friend that committed suicide in June and a month before that he had deactivated his account. When I noticed that he did, I tried texting him more often just to remind him that he still had friends that cared. Now I wish I could look at his page every now and then, but maybe it's better that I can't.

Just yesterday another friend of ours did the same. And it's really heartbreaking to see the comments and pictures and all that, I've just been off facebook since then.

P.S. sorry for going totally off topic from the DNA thing. Lol

DNA...fascinating topic. Just wondering how things would match up with people doing the ancestor study. You know..."I can trance my ancestors back to...King Henry" as an example but...DNA could prove that you are no relation to him at all and...whoever was his wife at the time was having an affair with the butler :) I have to wonder if Prince Harry ever got a DNA test???

Slightly off topic I know but...does anyone know how blood groups work? I always thought that a child would take the father's group...ie if he was positive...the child would also be positive although, not necessarily taking the A, B O etc but could have a combination of the mother's.

Someone has now informed me (don't know if it's true so..I'm asking) that father's with negative blood pass this to their daughters and negative mother's pass it to their sons...

We're all mongrels and that is a good thing. Genetically pure families tend to have...mutations issues. Just look at the Royal Family in the uk!

I'm a mix of all the celtic hit parade. English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh...going way back it's more German.

As far as I know, I'm mestizo...

But to save me the hassle of trying to figure out what mixture I am, I just say I am from the human race.

^ great answer, lol.

I'm interested in getting one done too, my parent's are from Sri Lanka, so there's a possibility that there might be british/dutch/Portuguese in me, since they all had claim to the island at one point or another.

Regarding the bloodtype questions, O is the only one that passes on, so O parents give birth to O kids, and the rest can be any combination of the parents. I'm pretty sure on that, but someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes..but it's the positive/negative thing I was asking about?? If the father has positive (whatever) will the child be positive...something??? What if the mother is negative something...what would the child be???

Oh right, still reading things wrong lol.

If both parents are positive, child must be positive, if both parents are negative, child must be negative. otherwise its 50/50 chance. I think that's how it works, if I remember correctly.

Sorry...I'm just so fascinated by this now and..I'm sorry for dragging you in Mark...you have shown so much tolerance with me ...thank you :)

A mother with A negative blood gives birth to a child who's father's blood group is A positive..
what would the results be...I'm only interested in positive or negative here..as in my previous post I always though the child would take the positive from the father but I was told that negative mothers will pass this on to their sons and negative fathers to their daughters...

Okay so I looked it up, because like you, I'm also intrigued. :)

So the bloodtypes A&B are codominant, so child could be either A or B, or even O if both parents caries the o gene.

The positive rh factor is dominant, so to answer your question, the child would be born with A+ blood, as long as one of the parents is positive, the child will be positive regardless of the sex of the child.

Also from googling around, a mother with a negative bloodtype pregnant with a positive bloodtype child leads to problems, since the mother's immune system will produce antibodies to attack the foreign tissue/blood.

I'm a purebreed, even my blood type is A+

My daughter is the first in my family that's been mongrolised for as far back as either of my sets of grandparents can remember. It would seem perfection is not sustainable.

The positive rh factor is dominant, so to answer your question, the child would be born with A+ blood, as long as one of the parents is positive, the child will be positive regardless of the sex of the child

^^^

That's what I always believed Mark...well, just if the father was positive...wasn't sure about the mother.

My blood group is negative...can't remember the letter that comes after it so...where did that come from? Does it mean that both my parents would have to have been negative blood types?

Not necessarily.

If both your parents are negative, all their kids are as well.

One or both positive parents CAN have negative babies if both of them carry a negative copy of the rhesus gene.
I can explain better later.

The sex of the parent/child has nothing to do with the inheritance. But women with negative blood need to be aware of the risks of having a baby with someone's positive blood.
I can explain better later if interested. Google is good I'm sure.

What blood do your siblings have? That's a good clue.

Senryu, child could still be A- in Hellons example.
Most genes have two copies (alleles), one dominant (here, it's the positive), one recessive (the negative). The father's positive blood could be dominating over a possible recessive, which has an equal chance of being passed down to his child.

I tried googling it but my tiny brain could not absorb the different possibilities haha!!!

I only had the one brother and he died many years ago. Both my parents are also dead so I'm not sure what their blood types where.

I did have injections after each of my own children. Wouldn't it be so much easier if your blood group was on your birth certificate or something?

Thank you for clearing that up Abby :)

I have no clue what my blood-type is, I've heard if you donate your blood, you can request them to test it and inform you.

They would have to test your blood anyway if you donate...to make sure there's no nasties there so I guess it would be easy enough to tell you your blood type then. I know (well think I do) that I cannot receive any form of positive blood but my type is compatible with any positive/negative person.

Apart from the fact that I was never heavy enough to donate I believe anyone who has visited the UK in the past 10 years cannot give blood here in Australia because of the MCD epidemic...I could be wrong about that though.

I'm adopted. My birth mother is dead, most of my birth family is also dead or in jail, and my birth father is in unknown.

I've never particularly cared what I am.

I'm human, and that's enough for me.