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For my family, the heritage was a bit educational, though it often felt a bit like wrong guesses (if you're 25% English, 25% Scottish, 25% Welsh, 25% Irish, you
by mchannon 9y ago
For my family, the heritage was a bit educational, though it often felt a bit like wrong guesses (if you're 25% English, 25% Scottish, 25% Welsh, 25% Irish, you'll come back 100% "British Isles"). My spouse's 25% Native American data was even worse, about 1/8 of it coming in as "East Asian".
Finding specific gene data was also cool, but disappointing. If you know that a certain gene is defective, there's no way of knowing if your C should be a G, and a lot of gene markers aren't even findable. It's like a mostly-complete index for a book that's 25% written, and 5% of that is flat out wrong. So the health stuff was disappointing. I do feel, though, that obtaining the service was a step in the right direction for the industry someday getting this right.
As it gains critical mass, it's a great resource for connecting with second cousins as, if your family is like mine, older generations grew apart and want to reconnect.
- DKnoll 9y ago> For my family, the heritage was a bit educational, though it often felt a bit like wrong guesses (if you're 25% English, 25% Scottish, 25% Welsh, 25% Irish, you'll come back 100% "British Isles"). My spouse's 25% Native American data was even worse, about 1/8 of it coming in as "East Asian". For me it groups British & Irish together, which makes sense if we're considering genetic ancestry, not geographic/societal. For example German and French are also grouped together for the same reason.