Ancestry.com

Gene L

It works.  I joined up about 5 years ago, sent in a sample of my DNA, and continue to get information regarding my ancestors.  Stuff I didn't feed them, like great grandfather/mother, cousins and possible cousins, someone in that organization actually does research.  A lot more than I expected.

GunNut

Yep, it works.  I’m 9% African.  Who knew 😁

Jayhawker

It's a good tool to use to set up a baseline for further study...With the basic stuff we got from Ancestry we have traced my Fathers side of the family back to my 6th Great-Grandparents, learning they came to America in 1723,when they changed the name from O'Sullivan to Sullivan. From there we have have traced the family our family in Ireland back to the 1500s.

Gila

I'm not voluntarily sending anyone my DNA... 

jbp-ohio

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/business/family-tree-dna-fbi.html

Gene L

Got nothing the FBI has against me, so I'm not worried.  In fact, I applaud DNA tests.  One show I saw on TN  (Forensics) was able to find a rapist/murderer through DNA on his mothers side.  I don't think they got the info from Family Tree, which I'm sure responded to a subpoena.

Diver43

Just wait until they share your DNA with your insurance company and they cancel you because your prone to get something expensive to treat

CHIRO1989

jbp-ohio said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/business/family-tree-dna-fbi.html

They started sharing the info with the FBI in 2018? With a "republican" in the Whitehouse? Fake news!  

CaliFFL

*refrains from commenting about feds and DNA evidence gathering*

I don't get the genealogy thing. I guess it is interesting to know about your ancestors, but it doesn't change anything about your life. IMO, it seems trivial. 

CHIRO1989

Some of my wifes side grew up on a Reservation in Oklahoma when they were younger, supposedly some Native American back 2 generations, my FIL, my oldest son, and one of my nephews did the test and came back as "european" for some of it, no "native american", I guess the landbridge from Asia to North America was legit, LOL. FWIW, my FIL and his brothers and cousins definitely have Native American features, maybe the tests need to be more refined or specific for a region. 

Gene L

Diver43 said:

Just wait until they share your DNA with your insurance company and they cancel you because your prone to get something expensive to treat

Long way from the FBI to Allstate, and it's not progressive.  If you got your insurance cancelled on such specious grounds, it's time to sue Family Tree.

jbp-ohio

Gene was a LEO..... Personal Liberty was the enemy of easy evidence gathering.

Linefinder

They can get my DNA when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
Mike

Gene L

jbp-ohio said:

Gene was a LEO..... Personal Liberty was the enemy of easy evidence gathering.

Who said getting DNA evidence is easy?

earlyagain

Was Charles J Colchester the founder???

Spk

Linefinder said:

They can get my DNA when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
Mike

Of course, if you were ever in the military, LE, arrested or hospitalized -- they probably already have it. 😡

All we need now is a personal information chip implanted under our skin which allows each individual to buy and sell goods. 😈

Spk

GunNut said:

Yep, it works.  I’m 9% African.  Who knew 😁

I knew it!

Gene L

Hospitals and the military don't keep DNA...and why should they?  It's expensive and there's no reason to file DNA criteria.. Same with LEOs....although they take your fingerprints.  Prisoners do have DNA on file in many, maybe most states, and it's resulted to people being arrested for rape years after it happened.

You can't beat DNA evidence...unless you're OJ and got a biased jury.

Spk

Gene L said:

You can't beat DNA evidence...unless you're OJ and got a biased jury.

So you're saying it's possible.

Diver43

Gene L said:

Hospitals and the military don't keep DNA...and why should they?  It's expensive and there's no reason to file DNA criteria.. Same with LEOs....although they take your fingerprints.  Prisoners do have DNA on file in many, maybe most states, and it's resulted to people being arrested for rape years after it happened.

You can't beat DNA evidence...unless you're OJ and got a biased jury.

Gene
The Military has been keeping DNA on file since 1992

Gene L

News to me  I guess they need it for cases of identity if someone is blown up.

JKP

Diver43 said:

Gene L said:

Hospitals and the military don't keep DNA...and why should they?  It's expensive and there's no reason to file DNA criteria.. Same with LEOs....although they take your fingerprints.  Prisoners do have DNA on file in many, maybe most states, and it's resulted to people being arrested for rape years after it happened.

You can't beat DNA evidence...unless you're OJ and got a biased jury.

Gene
The Military has been keeping DNA on file since 1992

How do they gather it? I was in the military 89-95 and don't recall any such action. 

Diver43

JKP said:

Diver43 said:

Gene L said:

Hospitals and the military don't keep DNA...and why should they?  It's expensive and there's no reason to file DNA criteria.. Same with LEOs....although they take your fingerprints.  Prisoners do have DNA on file in many, maybe most states, and it's resulted to people being arrested for rape years after it happened.

You can't beat DNA evidence...unless you're OJ and got a biased jury.

Gene
The Military has been keeping DNA on file since 1992

How do they gather it? I was in the military 89-95 and don't recall any such action. 

Never went on sick call? Had blood drawn for any reason? Deployed?
They didn't tell us they just did it.

Jayhawker

I have always believed that knowing where you come from is stuff worth knowing if only to tell your children where they came from.....and you don't need to submit a DNA sample to find out.....just commit to a lot of work and research

zorba

CaliFFL said:

*refrains from commenting about feds and DNA evidence gathering*

I don't get the genealogy thing. I guess it is interesting to know about your ancestors, but it doesn't change anything about your life. IMO, it seems trivial. 

I never much saw the point of it either. *shrug* - ancestry doesn't define who I am.

dld

Who Are You? DNA Registry Knows By Douglas J. Gillert American Forces Press Service ROCKVILLE, Md., July 13, 1998 – Ten minutes by car from this Washington suburb is a deep-freeze warehouse containing foolproof identifications of more than a million soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. In the freezer reside the DNA "fingerprints" of nearly two-thirds of all active duty and reserve component service members. By the turn of the century, everyone in uniform will have a DNA card on file. https://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=41418 FOURTH AMENDMENT & DOD DNA REPOSITORY file:///C:/Users/Dana/Documents/Downloads/451541.pdf As of December 2002, the Repository, now known as the “Armed Forces Repository of Specimen Samples for the Identification of Remains,”6 contained the DNA of approximately 3.2 million service members https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/07-08-2003.pdf

Accipiter

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JKP

After reading some of a above it appears they collect a sample but simply store it with the service members name on it. It isn't "processed" unless the service member is killed and requires ID. 

Unless you wear a tinfoil hat...

Gene L

Yeah, it's kinda expensive time-wise to process DNA.

Tugar

I did the 23 & me one. Got all the pasty countries plus a few very minor addtion. Spice to stew I guess. 

Gene L

CHIRO1989 said:

Some of my wifes side grew up on a Reservation in Oklahoma when they were younger, supposedly some Native American back 2 generations, my FIL, my oldest son, and one of my nephews did the test and came back as "european" for some of it, no "native american", I guess the landbridge from Asia to North America was legit, LOL. FWIW, my FIL and his brothers and cousins definitely have Native American features, maybe the tests need to be more refined or specific for a region. 

You and Elizabeth Warren, too?   I've got 1% NA.