Has anyone done an Ancestry DNA test?

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I used https://www.ancestry.co.uk/ here in the UK, but I believe there is a global ancestry.com site too.

I did a DNA test, really simple, spit into a small tube, and post it off.
My DNA origins are:
Wales 50%
England (Somerset/Dorset) 38%
and interestingly…
Sweden and Denmark 5%
Scotland 4%
Ireland 3%

There is a big fuss about illegal immigrants here in the UK at the moment, and I’m not getting into that debate. But surely we are all immigrants, as I certainly appear to be.
I loving that I have some Scottish and Irish ancestry, and some marauding Vikings somewhere back in time!

Hope this is of interest.

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Some results can bring surprising news; but isn’t that the point of taking the test, to try and discover new information?
I believe this forum is inclusive and accepting we all have ‘a past’, be that alcohol, drugs, or family issues.

I hope you have some contact with your child now. It must have come as a shock after 18 years.

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Did mine years ago got back to 1605 , 46% Irish 50% Scottish , 4% Norway a bit of viking there lol

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Given the value of your DNA to private companies, they would have to pay me (a lot) to get my DNA willingly.

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I wouldn’t give mine even if they paid me LOL

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This is something I’ve always wanted to do. I know for sure I have some German and Dutch ancestry. There’s even some Native American, too. It would be interesting to know the percentages exactly, though.

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I wouldn’t want my DNA analyzed and stored in some company.
It’s enough that Google already knows everything about me lol.

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The companies effectively own your DNA, and have a right to sell it on to other third party businesses. Your DNA is their product. The ancestry profile they sell you is simply the mechanism by which they gather large DNA data sets which they sell on. The companies sold to could be research, medical, insurance etc.
Your DNA is valuable and these tests are a mechanism by which they get you to pay to give it to a company that sells it on. You are now only part-owner to your own unique deeply personal identifier.

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I’m more against how DNA can be used to build risk profiles which could deny people a right to access insurance or healthcare - especially in for-profit systems such as America.
DNA used as a lever to reduce risk as close to zero as possible for a business, while increasing risk to the individual is a shitty way to use it. DNA testing is hugely beneficial and an incredible tool - using it to discriminate or deny service is what really irks me. I can’t do much about it really, but I can choose to not feed the machine until we have better laws protecting us at the individual level.

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