D TOTAL Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Anyone done it before or offer any advice before I spend anywhere from £77 to £100 smackeroonies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Yer Da' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Pish imo. Thread about it here. https://www.pieandbovril.com/forum/index.php?/topic/257059-ancestry-dna/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Pish. My auld da does some history club research thing in his retirement. I’ve a great admiration for my great uncle Cornelius. One for having that name. Secondly because his naval health records show he was a utter mad shagger and caught more than a few doses in his time. Top job uncle top job. He died of dysentery. Possibly rimming related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 16 minutes ago, D TOTAL said: Anyone done it before or offer any advice before I spend anywhere from £77 to £100 smackeroonies Wait until your parents pass away and an auld auntie is bound to tell you who your real dad was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 I have absolutely no desire to find out the history of my family. It'll only end in disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Your distant relatives were called Adam and Eve. All you need to know and saves you £100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D TOTAL Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 Your distant relatives were called Adam and Eve. All you need to know and saves you £100.If you believe in that crap, talking snake and a lady that just got miraculously pregnant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 59 minutes ago, D TOTAL said: Anyone done it before or offer any advice before I spend anywhere from £77 to £100 smackeroonies I have it on good advice that clan Total are originally from France. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
statts1976uk Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 One thing that’s always concerned me about these companies is who owns the results and what they can do with them. I googled it and found this. It may be for scientific purposes but how far would they go? http://time.com/5349896/23andme-glaxo-smith-kline/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 They caught the Golden State Killer in the USA by identifying several distant relatives of his from a DNA site and working through a large family tree until he was confirmed. So if you are a mass murdering rapist who hasn't been caught, don't put your DNA into these sites, not worth it IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 39 minutes ago, Fullerene said: I have it on good advice that clan Total are originally from France. HTH According to QI, everyone can trace their lineage back to Charlemagne, so your advice would be correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 4 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: According to QI, everyone can trace their lineage back to Charlemagne, so your advice would be correct. This c**t did on WDYTYA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieStevenson Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 My aunt traced back the family 450-500 years. Absolutely nothing noteworthy, complete waste of years of research imo. Only thing that really caught attention was that several of the women in the family made it past 100 years old which is ridiculous for back then so fair play to them. This was all through records though. Don't think I'd want to be using any of those DNA kits though. Dodgy stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Wouldn't go near it. It's a scam racquet for the pharma companies imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milton75 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Why would you actually want to know what some distant ancestors did anyway? I'm barely interested in what my current lot do, and taking it further is the behaviour of a Women's Magazine reader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 My Dad started doing it when he retired a few years ago, gave him something to occupy his time with. He found a few interesting characters in the family tree, believe he got over 300 years back. He gave me print outs of the stuff he found, but it's never really interested me, couldn't really care less tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 My sister got into this stuff a few years back, she managed to trace our family back 5 or 6 generations. From what I could tell the whole lot were a bunch of complete no-marks, just like us, making it a complete waste of time. My dad was utterly fascinated by her findings for some reason. The only vaguely interesting things were that a great-great-grandpa of ours was a spirit salesman (I don't think he left me a distillery, unfortunately) and our family name changed its spelling for unclear reasons three or four generations back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 There were a few articles kicking about in people who did these and fond out that their dad wasn’t their real father. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-46600325Awkward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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