mead107 Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 My sister had it done. Lot of English and Scandinavian I want to get it done. Have you had it done? I thought we may have talked about this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 (edited) 6 minutes ago, mead107 said: My sister had it done. Lot of English and Scandinavian I want to get it done. Have you had it done? I thought we may have talked about this before. Ummm. Unless you are adopted... Do you expect different results? All 4 of my grandparents came from Sicily and my wife is Scottish born. No mysteries here. Edited May 15, 2018 by ShadyBillsFan 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowgirlsFan Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Not yet. Which system are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 Ancestry 8 minutes ago, CowgirlsFan said: Not yet. Which system are you using? 38 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said: Ummm. Unless you are adopted... Do you expect different results? All 4 of my grandparents came from Sicily and my wife is Scottish born. No mysteries here. Could be the milk man was my dad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 My brother did it. Apparently he and our maternal uncle may potentially be cousins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 5 minutes ago, mead107 said: Ancestry Could be the milk man was my dad In that case there’s lots of splainin to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 I am the baby of the family. 7 years younger than my sister. She was the number 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 57 minutes ago, mead107 said: My sister had it done. Lot of English and Scandinavian I want to get it done. Have you had it done? I thought we may have talked about this before. Good luck. They're not easy...don't just cram the night before, start studying now. Hope you pass. (On a more serious note: the commercial versions are notoriously unreliable. Don't take it too seriously.) 53 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said: All 4 of my grandparents came from Sicily and my wife is Scottish born. No mysteries here. Yeah, because in the history of the world races and cultures never intermixed on the biggest island located smack-dab in the middle of the Mediterranean. You're probably got Berber and Iranian ancestors and don't even know it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 1 minute ago, DC Tom said: Good luck. They're not easy...don't just cram the night before, start studying now. Hope you pass. (On a more serious note: the commercial versions are notoriously unreliable. Don't take it too seriously.) Who did you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Sorry, not interested in voluntarily entering my DNA into massive database There's a few gaps in my "ancestry". Mom wasn't close to her side of the family, but I know the basics. Not much is known about my Dad's mother's part of the family. But I don't really care Kinda reminds me of a cousin that tries to get me to join some group of descendants of Mayflower survivors. But meh, I wasn't on the boat so I don't care 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 you could be related to trump or kim? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon in Pasadena Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Just FYI: https://gizmodo.com/what-dna-testing-companies-terrifying-privacy-policies-1819158337 Plenty more articles on this out there. I was thinking about doing it, but now I'm pretty sure I will not unless it can be done somehow with a blind escrow or something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 4 minutes ago, Jon in Pasadena said: Just FYI: https://gizmodo.com/what-dna-testing-companies-terrifying-privacy-policies-1819158337 Plenty more articles on this out there. I was thinking about doing it, but now I'm pretty sure I will not unless it can be done somehow with a blind escrow or something. I was told that the best way to get tested is to have a friend with very different background (very hard to be related) to submit for you. One friend had it done that way and was surprised with results for it appears that some of the returned data appeared to be influenced by submitter not donor so it is possible that all of the results are not "genetic" but research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon in Pasadena Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 1 minute ago, Limeaid said: I was told that the best way to get tested is to have a friend with very different background (very hard to be related) to submit for you. One friend had it done that way and was surprised with results for it appears that some of the returned data appeared to be influenced by submitter not donor so it is possible that all of the results are not "genetic" but research. Well, that would be disappointing. But not too surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, Limeaid said: I was told that the best way to get tested is to have a friend with very different background (very hard to be related) to submit for you. One friend had it done that way and was surprised with results for it appears that some of the returned data appeared to be influenced by submitter not donor so it is possible that all of the results are not "genetic" but research. That would make an interesting research project. Get a white guy from the north east, a black guy from the south, an Hispanic from Texas, a Puerto Rican, and a white guy from California. Mix up the samples and see if the results line up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 3 minutes ago, Jon in Pasadena said: Well, that would be disappointing. But not too surprising. In this case the submitter was black and the donor was Korean but test stated ancestry from several places in sub saharan Africa and Central/South America. There were several other ancestry bits but NONE from East Asia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkyMannn Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 So my cousins daughter did this and got a hit they traced back to a baby given up for adoption in 1968.......... Ended up as my sisters no one knew about. I didn't believe it. Googled the guys picture. Holy Cow like looking in a mirror. Still haven't got in touch with the guy. I should. Haven't sees sis in 12 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowgirlsFan Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 47 minutes ago, mead107 said: Ancestry Could be the milk man was my dad Ok.... but where is he from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, CowgirlsFan said: Ok.... but where is he from? Derry 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 9 minutes ago, CowgirlsFan said: Ok.... but where is he from? Meadtopia of course!!! 8 minutes ago, /dev/null said: Derry New Meadshire From the Shire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 13 minutes ago, CowgirlsFan said: Ok.... but where is he from? Obviously cows. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 2 hours ago, mead107 said: My sister had it done. Lot of English and Scandinavian I want to get it done. Have you had it done? I thought we may have talked about this before. I used ancestry. On my mother’s side her father was born in Germany, and her mother Croatian. My fathers side both Grandparents were Polish My dna results came back like 42% Scandinavian. 38% East European/ Slavic 12% Irish 8% Italian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Things Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 My brother had this done, and shared his results with me. Very interesting indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 1 hour ago, mead107 said: Who did you use? I didn't. Are you kidding? I wouldn't do that. That's how they caught the Golden State Killer. Not that I'm the Golden State Killer. Too young for that. Or any other killer. Like the Long Island Serial Killer, or West Mesa Bone Collector. Not them either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Just now, DC Tom said: I didn't. Are you kidding? I wouldn't do that. That's how they caught the Golden State Killer. Not that I'm the Golden State Killer. Too young for that. Or any other killer. Like the Long Island Serial Killer, or West Mesa Bone Collector. Not them either. I think I just caught the Zodiac himself ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 2 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said: I think I just caught the Zodiac himself ? Arthur Lee Allen. He's been dead a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Just now, DC Tom said: Arthur Lee Allen. He's been dead a while. He is compelling and I know people say the letters spell his name out but his DNA is not on the letters that they received though it could be a 2 man team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 1 minute ago, Buffalo716 said: He is compelling and I know people say the letters spell his name out but his DNA is not on the letters that they received though it could be a 2 man team He fits the psychological profile best. And those are rarely wrong...you can change just about anything else you might do, but you can't change your psychology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Just now, DC Tom said: He fits the psychological profile best. And those are rarely wrong...you can change just about anything else you might do, but you can't change your psychology. Definitely and I’ve read the books by Robert Graysmith and he has compelling arguments but none of the DNA matches and it does seem like he might of had some help to mask the DNA profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Just now, Buffalo716 said: Definitely and I’ve read the books by Robert Graysmith and he has compelling arguments but none of the DNA matches and it does seem like he might of had some help to mask the DNA profile Masking DNA is non-trivial...but you're also talking about DNA samples from the early 70s, at the latest, when DNA profiling was in its infancy. I'll trust the psych profiling before I'll trust the DNA in this case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 20 minutes ago, DC Tom said: Arthur Lee Allen. He's been dead a while. Lead singer of the 60s group Love? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 7 minutes ago, DC Tom said: Masking DNA is non-trivial...but you're also talking about DNA samples from the early 70s, at the latest, when DNA profiling was in its infancy. I'll trust the psych profiling before I'll trust the DNA in this case. While that is true Kathleen Johns was abducted by zodiac and he wrote about it. She drove in a car for 90 minutes with him and absolutely got a great look at him ... she did not pick out Allen in a photo lineup she definitely would have identified Allen if that was the man who tried abducting her. She saw his face for 90 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 42 minutes ago, DC Tom said: I didn't. Are you kidding? I wouldn't do that. That's how they caught the Golden State Killer. Not that I'm the Golden State Killer. Too young for that. Or any other killer. Like the Long Island Serial Killer, or West Mesa Bone Collector. Not them either. I am sure you are a Library Killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 3 hours ago, DC Tom said: I didn't. Are you kidding? I wouldn't do that. That's how they caught the Golden State Killer. Not that I'm the Golden State Killer. Too young for that. Or any other killer. Like the Long Island Serial Killer, or West Mesa Bone Collector. Not them either. But you might be both. What better cover for a serial killer than to move across country and kill a bunch of people in a completely new way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 (edited) 5 hours ago, DC Tom said: I didn't. Are you kidding? I wouldn't do that. That's how they caught the Golden State Killer. Not that I'm the Golden State Killer. Too young for that. Or any other killer. Like the Long Island Serial Killer, or West Mesa Bone Collector. Not them either. They already got his sister's DNA. All they have to do now is wait outside mead's garbage can and collect a partially eaten Stromboli and a wine bottle he drank directly from! ? Edited May 16, 2018 by ExiledInIllinois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 12 hours ago, mead107 said: you could be related to trump or kim? Even worse, Wrecks! I'm not doing it, lest I find out I'm some alien lizard / human hybrid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royale with Cheese Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 My Dad did this a few years ago. We used to think we were Polish....found out I'm 1/4 Jewish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 11 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said: My Dad did this a few years ago. We used to think we were Polish....found out I'm 1/4 Jewish. How'd they determine your religious affiliation by testing your DNA??? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 (edited) 10 hours ago, Limeaid said: I am sure you are a Library Killer. I was thinking 'cereal killer'. 4 minutes ago, The Poojer said: How'd they determine your religious affiliation by testing your DNA??? Matzoh? Eat enough, and it works its way into the DNA. Edited May 16, 2018 by Ridgewaycynic2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royale with Cheese Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 4 minutes ago, The Poojer said: How'd they determine your religious affiliation by testing your DNA??? Genealogy[edit] The modern genealogical DNA test of ethnicity is certainly a non-religious definition of 'who is a Jew?' as increasing numbers of persons discover their biological and cultural origins outside the traditional religious setting.[74] The top two Jewish haplogroups for the priestly families, Haplogroup J-M267 and Haplogroup E-M215 (Y-DNA) have genetic origins in the vast Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, the Horn of Africa, and the Levant, which indicates a more complex cultural genesis and potential identity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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