#ancestry dna test

[kemetic-dreams]

My grandfather is Turkish but has blonde hair and ice blue eyes, which ethnicity do you think he is from/ descended from?

Blond hair, light skin and blue eyes ARE NOT EUROPEAN in origin. Light skin originated in West Asia 28 000 years ago, blue eyes in West Asia 42 000 years ago and blonde hair among the Ancient Northern Eurasians (ANE) 16 000 years ago who also carried West Asian genes.

Your father is likely West Asian in origin, but if you want to be certain, do an Ancestry DNA Test.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_skin#Evolution

Northern West Asians carry more DNA originating from the Mesolithic Eastern hunter gatherers who were the descendants of the ANE. Haplogroup R1B and R1A are associated with the Mesolithic Eastern hunter gatherers and their descendants, the Indo-Europeans:

[aranell18]

I've never been so nervous to spit into a tube.😅

[segretecose]

"i am 15% scandinavian 18% french 3% eastern europea-" okay well i will kill 100% of you

[prokopetz]

Getting a job at the shady discover-your-ancestry DNA testing outfit and doctoring everybody's results to tell them they're 50% pine tree.

[bucephaly]

It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.

People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.

And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.

If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.

[ride-thedragon]

In the spirit of being nice, the Velaryons and how they were casted were more akin to colour blind casting than anything else. This is different from Bridgerton. Bridgerton used colourblind casting and then created a colour conscious/ liberal alternate history for its world to exist. The casting in House of the Dragon is more similar to the casting of Hamilton, where they cast actors based on talent. The only purpose of the Velaryons being black was to show the stark difference between the Velaryon boys and other Velar/Targ children. A point I think that hollows out when they cast direct descendents (basically due to incest) of Alyssa Velaryon with white actors (Matt and Paddy). My biggest point to this is there being so much racist stereotype added to the narrative if the Velaryons are supposed to be perceived as black that I don't think could happen in the modern day in a world of sensitivity writers and the history of Game of Thrones where its most popular black character, who was liberated by a white woman, died in chains. The Velaryons are no different from the Targaryens, but there isn't a lot of context for black people in fantasy, I guess, because people keep calling them black. They are not. They're played by black actors but are not black characters. The same way Ned, Dany, Tyene, and Cersei are all played by white actors but are portraying the different ethnic groups of Westeros. The Velaryons are Valyrian, descended from Old Valyria. In this specific context, they are simply a default like white people typically are in all of the Westeros ethnic groups. They asked black actors but not to play black characters. Feel free to ask any questions or want any explanations.

[blue-deneb]

to quote beth from ep 2 of at the mountains of dadness:

i just took a dna test. turns out. i’m 100%. devastated

[nopointic]

i feel bad for mizu on another level because i took one of those dna ancestry tests and i guess i was expecting to be at least 95% african since i'm black? and then my pie chart had 15% scotland and wales and that's well... not black. and i learned that the slave trade went through those areas too and i guess along the way shit happened and well. i have white dna as a result.

so finding out your family history involves another race's dna due to slavery or colonization is not fun for sure. and it leaves you with a lot of questions.

you want to know what happened. was is love? most likely not. let's be honest it was most likely due to rape. but seeing the pie chart left me thinking about it a lot.

it made me sad.

my mom's dna is 24% european. she's super light skinned. i remember growing up and people questioning me if she was my real mom. because i'm darker.

i wish i never swabbed myself to find out that's for sure. i stopped digging into my family dna charts.

mizu has 4 possibilities of knowing which white man is their dna person. i have no fucking idea to even begin to look to why i have white people in my family line.

i get the well, duh, slavery. it's not a helpful answer that's for sure!

anyways don't get those ancestry tests if you don't wanna ask those questions! i fucked up. don't listen to the holiday commercials!!!

[lurafita]

Magnus discovers Jace's heritage

In today's episode of 'imaginary scenes that never canonically happened but still live in my head rent free':

Magnus: "So my dear shadowhunters, what's new? Catch me up."

Clary: "Valentine is Jace's father. We are siblings."

Jace: "And he injected me with demon blood while I was still in my mother’s womb."

Alec: "He disguised himself as Wayland for all those years he raised Jace in Exile."

Magnus, sighing: "... Where do I even begin... Okay. You two are aware that you look nothing alike, right?"

Clary: "Recessive genes can do that."

Magnus, sighing louder: "...Alright, Blondie. Strip."

Jace: "What, why?!"

Alec: "Uhm, yeah, what he said." (not that he is jealous that Magnus wants to see another man naked. No sir. He is very decidedly not jealous. ... he will find a reason to shuck his shirt in front of Magnus later.)

Magnus: "This institute is protected by my wards. As is Pandemonium, as well as my apartment, which is warded even heavier. All of which you have been present in. You have been to the Silent City and were in the presence of the silent brothers. There are exactly two ways to keep demonic blood from being discovered by either angelic runes like they are at the silent city, the silent brothers themselves, or my wards. One is regular contact with a very powerful warlock to cast a very complicated spell on you. As I doubt you have been seeing one for every month of your life, that leaves number 2. Which is a demonic mark, which can only be given by a greater demon, and can only be seen by those who know it and are actively looking for it. So, off with those drab clothes so I can take a look."

Jace: strips

Magnus: sees the Herondale birthmark, sighs and starts to write a fire message

Alec: "What are you doing?"

Magnus: "Informing the Inquisitor that she has a grandson. 'Congratulations, it's a boy!'"

[emadakn]

DNA testing is illegal in Israel but when they do, they are utterly confused. Indigenous my ass.

[nando161mando]

Blackstone can now begin the Gattaca program.

[kemetic-dreams]

American actor Samuel L. Jackson traces his origins back to the Bantu tribe of Gabon

The Bantu people are the speakers of Bantu languages, comprising several hundred indigenous ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.

He was welcomed as a lost son by the Benga people and was inducted into the Benga tribe, with rare and unprecedented access to secret ceremonies and local customs.

[swagging-back-to]

lying to a kid about if theyre adopted should be classified as abuse and no j am not joking

[thechanelmuse]

Hackers Selling Stolen Customer DNA Data From 23AndMe, Company Faces Class Action Lawsuit

Oct. 9, 2023

Biotech company 23andMe Inc. allegedly failed to protect the genetic information of thousands of people that was exposed in a data breach announced Oct. 6, a proposed federal class action said.

Monica Santana and Paula Kleynburd alleged that 23andMe, a provider of genetic testing services, maintained their personal information in a reckless manner and failed to use reasonable and adequate measures to keep their data safe.

Information exposed in the breach included names, sex, date of birth, genetic ancestry results, profile photos, and geographical location, according to a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

Some of the information has appeared for sale online, including that of prominent figures such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Sergey Brin, according to a press account cited in the lawsuit.

The company also failed to provide prompt and adequate notice of the incident, the complaint said. 23andMe didn’t respond immediately to a Bloomberg Law request for comment.

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See 🤷🏽‍♀️. Willingly giving up your DNA to a genetic testing company that's a test done for entertainment purposes for what? Didn't this happen before or was that GedMatch. It doesn't mention it in this article, but the one I read about a week ago stated that the 23andMe hackers were going after data for those showing results for Ashkenazi and Chinese descent. The timing is rather...interesting.

I was waiting for this shit to hit the fan. 23andMe was tryna be subtle about the whole thing. "When asked about the post, the company initially denied that the information was legitimate, calling it a 'misleading claim.'"

Whole time:

Now the shit going to the highest bidders. Chile.

[neige-de-mars]

Why the fuck do I love Norway so bad

[bucephaly]

Just curious, where would you recommend starting genealogy research? I’m mostly curious more than anything, thought I don’t think having Native American lineage is likely for me?

Start by talking to your family and writing down as much info as you can. Names of grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, whatever you can. Birth dates and places they lived as well.

I do genealogy thru ancestry.com and it's mostly great but I know some people have problems with it. You can get a 2 week free trial and you might be able to get plenty of your tree filled out in that time.

Then, just put in what info you got from your parents, and look for census records. US Census records from 1950 and earlier are public, so start there. I was able to go back to my gg grandfather just thru censuses, and then I was able to find his Dawes card. I have gone back further but the farther back it goes the less reliable anything is. Be wary of anything on ancestry or other sites where the only source is someone else's tree, because people can put whatever they want down and a lot of it is wrong. [For example, on other parts of my tree it's tried to connect me to pocahontas 3 times.]

Ofc this advice doesn't just apply for those looking for native ancestry, it's just general genealogy stuff and it's really interesting for anyone to learn about their ancestors (:

Sorry this might be specific to the US, I'm not familiar with how records work elsewhere.

Good luck!