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Posted: 4/9/2015 11:50:33 PM EDT
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I see a lot of Sami have taken it to find out where/kind they are.
They seem satisfied. |
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Posted: 4/9/2015 11:51:40 PM EDT
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I've been curious about that as well.
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Posted: 4/9/2015 11:54:01 PM EDT
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I've been curious about that as well. if the method they use is accurate I have to wonder how deep their well is..........how long has it been up and running. |
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Posted: 4/9/2015 11:55:42 PM EDT
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I'm related to FBHO's father.
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Posted: 4/9/2015 11:56:49 PM EDT
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I'm related to FBHO's father. not your fault. family legend and early research indications are that I am related to Light Horse Harry. Saving up money to do a proper research. |
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Posted: 4/9/2015 11:57:03 PM EDT
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I took it. I think it was worth it.
Paid $100, spit in a tube, mailed it off, 6 weeks later got an email that the results were in. Dad always said we were part Indian, guess he was wrong or one of our moms is a whore  
I was (roughly) 40% Western Europe, 30% Irish, around 10% Scandinavian, Italian, and Greek. So basically I'm white as fuck |
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Posted: 4/9/2015 11:57:37 PM EDT
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I've heard that the results are pretty general and more like a regional dot on a map than a definitive "who are your ancestors" result.
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Posted: 4/9/2015 11:59:59 PM EDT
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I took it. I think it was worth it. Paid $100, spit in a tube, mailed it off, 6 weeks later got an email that the results were in. Dad always said we were part Indian, guess he was wrong or one of our moms is a whore
I was (roughly) 40% Western Europe, 30% Irish, around 10% Scandinavian, Italian, and Greek. So basically I'm white as fuck White privilege maxed out son. |
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Posted: 4/10/2015 12:00:01 AM EDT
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I've heard that the results are pretty general and more like a regional dot on a map than a definitive "who are your ancestors" result. Well, every little bit helps. |
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Posted: 4/10/2015 12:00:47 AM EDT
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White privilege maxed out son. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I took it. I think it was worth it. Paid $100, spit in a tube, mailed it off, 6 weeks later got an email that the results were in. Dad always said we were part Indian, guess he was wrong or one of our moms is a whore
I was (roughly) 40% Western Europe, 30% Irish, around 10% Scandinavian, Italian, and Greek. So basically I'm white as fuck White privilege maxed out son. Never give up, never give in. |
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Posted: 4/10/2015 12:05:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/10/2015 12:06:26 AM EDT
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They are just building a DNA profile on everyone.
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Posted: 4/10/2015 12:06:43 AM EDT
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for some reason, I just don't trust sending my DNA off to some "business", not knowing full well what they do with that information, and is it even accurate..
do they cut a lot of corners to increase profit margin? Is there another location for '2nd opinion'? etc... |
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Posted: 4/10/2015 12:11:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: for some reason, I just don't trust sending my DNA off to some "business", not knowing full well what they do with that information, and is it even accurate.. do they cut a lot of corners to increase profit margin? Is there another location for '2nd opinion'? etc... use a fake name when you send it in |
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Posted: 4/10/2015 12:18:17 AM EDT
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Is this the same company that you pay money to so you can work for free and build their global family tree? But now you can pay them $100 and provide them with a smple of your DNA. Nice
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Posted: 4/10/2015 12:19:43 AM EDT
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use a fake name when you send it in Quote HistoryQuoted:
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for some reason, I just don't trust sending my DNA off to some "business", not knowing full well what they do with that information, and is it even accurate.. do they cut a lot of corners to increase profit margin? Is there another location for '2nd opinion'? etc... use a fake name when you send it in Rusty Shackleford? |
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Posted: 4/10/2015 12:21:45 AM EDT
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Well, every little bit helps. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I've heard that the results are pretty general and more like a regional dot on a map than a definitive "who are your ancestors" result. Well, every little bit helps. I did it and it was worth it. But he's right. For most of us vanilla white dudes it'll probably be anticlimactic. You'll get a map that's a simplified version of this: 
Your ancestors left Africa and went to Europe. Surprise 
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Posted: 4/10/2015 12:24:27 AM EDT
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Congratulations, you paid $100 for a piece of paper stating shit you already knew.
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:11:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:18:00 PM EDT
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My brother and cousin took it. The results showed 0% Native American which upset our older relatives since it was held as fact that my great grandma was full blood Cherokee.
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:29:53 PM EDT
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My brother and cousin took it. The results showed 0% Native American which upset our older relatives since it was held as fact that my great grandma was full blood Cherokee. My family's oral history has always asserted that my great grandmother was listed in the family bible by her first name only because she was Cherokee. She was struck by lightning and died at an early age and there are no photos. I've always assumed she was probably black and everyone was too embarrassed to admit it. I'm also not sure there were a lot of Cherokee squaws named Matilda in the late 1800's either. 
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:32:08 PM EDT
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use a fake name when you send it in Quote HistoryQuoted:
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for some reason, I just don't trust sending my DNA off to some "business", not knowing full well what they do with that information, and is it even accurate.. do they cut a lot of corners to increase profit margin? Is there another location for '2nd opinion'? etc... use a fake name when you send it in Buck Naked |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:33:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My family's oral history has always asserted that my great grandmother was listed in the family bible by her first name only because she was Cherokee. She was struck by lightning and died at an early age and there are no photos. I've always assumed she was probably black and everyone was too embarrassed to admit it. I'm also not sure there were a lot of Cherokee squaws named Matilda in the late 1800's either. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: My brother and cousin took it. The results showed 0% Native American which upset our older relatives since it was held as fact that my great grandma was full blood Cherokee. My family's oral history has always asserted that my great grandmother was listed in the family bible by her first name only because she was Cherokee. She was struck by lightning and died at an early age and there are no photos. I've always assumed she was probably black and everyone was too embarrassed to admit it. I'm also not sure there were a lot of Cherokee squaws named Matilda in the late 1800's either. I guess my great grandma had black hair and a dark complexion and looked Indian. However all the old census records on Ancestry show her listed as white. The family story was great grandpa would not let her sign up for Indian benefits because he didn't want Gov't charity. Now it looks like it was because she wasn't Indian... |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:34:35 PM EDT
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for some reason, I just don't trust sending my DNA off to some "business", not knowing full well what they do with that information, and is it even accurate.. do they cut a lot of corners to increase profit margin? Is there another location for '2nd opinion'? etc... http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1745901_How_Private_DNA_Data_Led_Idaho_Cops_on_a_Wild_Goose_Chase_and_Linked_an_Innocent_Man_to_a___.html |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:37:55 PM EDT
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Familytreedna.com offers the most tools, and has a chromosome browser to let you review matching tests. If you participate in a Surname project, the price of tests is often reduced.
23andme.com is more medically oriented. Not so many tools, rather restrictive in revealing connections. Ancestry is more profit motivated, and not so long ago dumped their YDNA and mtDNA databases. They offer very few tools, and their brand new "New Ancestry Discovery" is a great way to go wrong. (It will connect up people based on user-submitted trees, not the DNA test. Uggh.) All three US companies often offer reduced prices on kits, depending on what you want tested. Y-DNA for men. mt-DNA for women. Autosomal DNA for everyone. Do your research. If you're searching for relatives - get both. (All 3, actually). You don't know where your relatives might have tested. Newspaper articles rarely point out all the details, especially in the case above. The police had to get court orders to reveal who was in the Sorenson database. Then, they had to get a court order to get the sample from the filmmaker. But if they hadn't got the court order, they'd have got his DNA somehow. Used coffee cup, used tissue, discarded cigarette, half-eaten pizza - all kinds of ways. {snark} If you're worried about (whisper it) The Government getting your DNA & using it for nefarious purposes, relax. They've already sold your sample to the Greys and your clone-children are currently working in a methane mine on Titan. Deal with it. {/snark} |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:38:02 PM EDT
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I'm part Neanderthal, but my wife had already identified this.
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:45:03 PM EDT
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If you do it, you have to create a thread like this: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1677459__ARCHIVED_THREAD____Demon_science_is_destroying_my_family.html&page=1
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:45:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you do it, you have to create a thread like this: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1677459__ARCHIVED_THREAD____Demon_science_is_destroying_my_family.html&page=1  |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:48:45 PM EDT
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It is a scam to sell the info to finance and insurance companies.
Also to add to info banks. |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:54:49 PM EDT
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I'm part Neanderthal, but my wife had already identified this. Considering Neandertals invented boats a dozen millennia before the sapien-sapiens did, and lived in lands incredibly difficult to inhabit requiring greater survival skill and daily gear, you should be proud of your ancestors. The notion that Neandertals were in any way primitive or inferior is a lie based on junk science propogated by Nazi Germany. |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:56:15 PM EDT
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Here's my DNA Ethnicity Estimate:
Europe West 71% Ireland 24% Great Britain 2% Scandinavia 1% Native American< 1% Caucasus< 1% Honky 100% |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 9:57:57 PM EDT
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I took it. I think it was worth it. Paid $100, spit in a tube, mailed it off, 6 weeks later got an email that the results were in. Dad always said we were part Indian, guess he was wrong or one of our moms is a whore
I was (roughly) 40% Western Europe, 30% Irish, around 10% Scandinavian, Italian, and Greek. So basically I'm white as fuck I was always told the same thing. Cousin did it, and grandad was right. We are part indian. Just red dot and not feather.
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Posted: 5/5/2015 10:00:35 PM EDT
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I know of a black co-worker who took one so that she could show her peeps at work proof that she was, indeed, of African descent even though she had light skin. I was like
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Posted: 5/5/2015 10:00:38 PM EDT
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I did the one with National Geographic.
No names were involved. The test had a number on it. After you send it in, you check a website for your number and the result . It was a waste of money. I knew the information already. We have and always have had very detailed and complete family records. I am a WASP |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 10:03:56 PM EDT
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My family's oral history has always asserted that my great grandmother was listed in the family bible by her first name only because she was Cherokee. She was struck by lightning and died at an early age and there are no photos. I've always assumed she was probably black and everyone was too embarrassed to admit it. I'm also not sure there were a lot of Cherokee squaws named Matilda in the late 1800's either. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My brother and cousin took it. The results showed 0% Native American which upset our older relatives since it was held as fact that my great grandma was full blood Cherokee. My family's oral history has always asserted that my great grandmother was listed in the family bible by her first name only because she was Cherokee. She was struck by lightning and died at an early age and there are no photos. I've always assumed she was probably black and everyone was too embarrassed to admit it. I'm also not sure there were a lot of Cherokee squaws named Matilda in the late 1800's either. DNA is proving a lot of passed down family history incorrect. My sister in law got her results back and her side of the family had been told for years that there was American Indian lineage, oops, turns out that they have 0 % Native American DNA. |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 10:21:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2015 10:25:09 PM EDT
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<a href="http://s902.photobucket.com/user/wayneswank/media/met-wife-on-ancestry_zps9djkrt0e.gif.html" target="_blank">http://i902.photobucket.com/albums/ac228/wayneswank/met-wife-on-ancestry_zps9djkrt0e.gif</a> first cousins?
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Posted: 5/5/2015 10:31:07 PM EDT
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Is this the same company that you pay money to so you can work for free and build their global family tree? But now you can pay them $100 and provide them with a smple of your DNA. Nice Yep. Pay for membership, upload your family history as you work on it, which they then turn around and sell to others who pay for the subscription. If your subscription runs out, you're cut off, so you can't even get access to the records that you'd created/worked on. |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 10:32:27 PM EDT
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They are just building a DNA profile on everyone. This. Call me paranoid, but I can't see anything good coming out of providing a DNA sample to anyone. ETA - Talk about coincidence... just a few threads down on Active Topics: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1745901_How_Private_DNA_Data_Led_Idaho_Cops_on_a_Wild_Goose_Chase_and_Linked_an_Innocent_Man_to_a___.html |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 10:33:18 PM EDT
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Experiences? good, bad? what did you find out? is it legit, accurate? Good...then take your results and upload them to ged match |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 10:34:52 PM EDT
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I did one a while back.
I can't remember the exact numbers. The Breakdown was something like Western Europe and Irish combined was well over 75% Scandinavian over 15% East African under 5% American Indian under 5% Mediterranean under 1% Eurasian under 1% North African under 1% |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 10:35:47 PM EDT
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They are just building a DNA profile on everyone. The Mormons? Why? |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 10:53:27 PM EDT
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By the way, Ancestry is running a $10 off special for Mother's Day. $98.95 out the door.
This will fill in the 3rd leg of the trifecta, for me.
No, I don't work for Ancestry, or FedGov. Since I don't plan on committing any crimes, I'm not worried about being in a database. Today. Much. 
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Posted: 5/5/2015 11:00:20 PM EDT
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I was always told the same thing. Cousin did it, and grandad was right. We are part indian. Just red dot and not feather. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I took it. I think it was worth it. Paid $100, spit in a tube, mailed it off, 6 weeks later got an email that the results were in. Dad always said we were part Indian, guess he was wrong or one of our moms is a whore
I was (roughly) 40% Western Europe, 30% Irish, around 10% Scandinavian, Italian, and Greek. So basically I'm white as fuck I was always told the same thing. Cousin did it, and grandad was right. We are part indian. Just red dot and not feather. I swear growing up in east tennessee, every kid claimed to have been from cherokee blood. I'm 100% chinese so I'm definitely not, but I always doubted all that shit about how everyone was a damn indian. What's the deal with everyone wanting to claim they have indian in them? Is it just a proud redneck thing that people can say their family has been here forever? |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 11:05:20 PM EDT
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Did it... Yup uber white...
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Posted: 5/5/2015 11:06:47 PM EDT
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I swear growing up in east tennessee, every kid claimed to have been from cherokee blood. I'm 100% chinese so I'm definitely not, but I always doubted all that shit about how everyone was a damn indian. What's the deal with everyone wanting to claim they have indian in them? Is it just a proud redneck thing that people can say their family has been here forever? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I took it. I think it was worth it. Paid $100, spit in a tube, mailed it off, 6 weeks later got an email that the results were in. Dad always said we were part Indian, guess he was wrong or one of our moms is a whore
I was (roughly) 40% Western Europe, 30% Irish, around 10% Scandinavian, Italian, and Greek. So basically I'm white as fuck I was always told the same thing. Cousin did it, and grandad was right. We are part indian. Just red dot and not feather. I swear growing up in east tennessee, every kid claimed to have been from cherokee blood. I'm 100% chinese so I'm definitely not, but I always doubted all that shit about how everyone was a damn indian. What's the deal with everyone wanting to claim they have indian in them? Is it just a proud redneck thing that people can say their family has been here forever? |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 11:18:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I swear growing up in east tennessee, every kid claimed to have been from cherokee blood. I'm 100% chinese so I'm definitely not, but I always doubted all that shit about how everyone was a damn indian. What's the deal with everyone wanting to claim they have indian in them? Is it just a proud redneck thing that people can say their family has been here forever? "She couldn't return to the tribe because their love was forbidden..." Bla bla Now I find out I'm 100% European and no one in my family believes it. Everybody's grandmother was an Indian Princess. |
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Posted: 5/5/2015 11:45:40 PM EDT
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It is a scam to sell the info to finance and insurance companies. Also to add to info banks. You people just don't understand! This car is property of the World Bank, that money goes to Italy! 
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Posted: 5/5/2015 11:47:16 PM EDT
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funny how it seems some threads seem to die and then start up again a month or two later..........
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Posted: 5/6/2015 6:48:22 AM EDT
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I did the one with National Geographic. No names were involved. The test had a number on it. After you send it in, you check a website for your number and the result . It was a waste of money. I knew the information already. We have and always have had very detailed and complete family records. I am a WASP I did the same procedure. Confirmed what we already knew via other genealogy methods, spooky really. Still, it was kind of neat seeing what they had to say. It was pretty anonymous. |
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