Genealogy

[Mametchimama]

Is anyone else into genealogy? I’m bad at it but I did ancestrydna and got my results back. It’s exciting. I put my data into a site called codegen and also into a site called foundmyfitness

 

[Jhud]

These test kits are kind of dangerous since they are automatically put into a crime database... It's safer to go to the city hall of your birthplace and ask for a genealogy tree there honestly. Genealogy is indeed interesting but I'm not that interested in mine, even though my immediate family is very, very small, since I don't know my father or my father's family side. 

 

[kuchikid]

These test kits are kind of dangerous since they are automatically put into a crime database... It's safer to go to the city hall of your birthplace and ask for a genealogy tree there honestly. Genealogy is indeed interesting but I'm not that interested in mine, even though my immediate family is very, very small, since I don't know my father or my father's family side. 

Also, many of those DNA sequencing organizations claim ownership of your genetic data when you agree to their terms. That could be a security problem in the future when it comes to insurance. We're already facing personalized advertisement based on physical profiling - better safe than sorry.

 

[Jhud]

Also, I feel like I shouldn't speak about this issue since I'm white myself, but I've noticed that a lot of times it's just caucasian people who buy these kits to try to "prove that they're not 100% white"- they think that just because they're like, 1/36 African it suddenly means that they have authority to speak about what is and isn't racist or something. Of course that's not everybody but it is what I've seen. 

 

[SpiffyGotchi24]

I've been keeping track of my family's genealogy for a while. On my mom's side of the family especially, lots of my cousins [or their wives] are getting pregnant, there have been a few weddings in recent years on both sides of my family... so I'll need to update it!