how would it even work?
@WassimBerbar said in #19:
> So it can be more expensive?!? Just to have the useless information of who your ancestors are?
> It's a swindle, too expensive for whaat it's worth.
They actually give you other genetic information based on what they can glean from your genetics.
It's primarily targeted at American's because people in our country are the least likely to know exactly what kind of genetics they have... It's hard to access records from the country your ancestors immigrated from - last names are often changed when immigrating here especially early in the 1900s, and often people forget - that combined with there being people from literally everywhere, who are also crossbred with other nationalities, people have a lot more mixed genetics than anywhere on the planet.
I imagine you can just safely guess you have some kind of arab genes that like 95% of people in your region have lol (though perhaps your family comes more from a berber ancestry?)
> So it can be more expensive?!? Just to have the useless information of who your ancestors are?
> It's a swindle, too expensive for whaat it's worth.
They actually give you other genetic information based on what they can glean from your genetics.
It's primarily targeted at American's because people in our country are the least likely to know exactly what kind of genetics they have... It's hard to access records from the country your ancestors immigrated from - last names are often changed when immigrating here especially early in the 1900s, and often people forget - that combined with there being people from literally everywhere, who are also crossbred with other nationalities, people have a lot more mixed genetics than anywhere on the planet.
I imagine you can just safely guess you have some kind of arab genes that like 95% of people in your region have lol (though perhaps your family comes more from a berber ancestry?)
@Dukedog
> Have you ever checked out your genetic ancestry?
Nah, I only check out girls, that are unrelated to me ;-)
> Have you ever checked out your genetic ancestry?
Nah, I only check out girls, that are unrelated to me ;-)
@salmon_rushdie said in #22:
> I imagine you can just safely guess you have some kind of arab genes that like 95% of people in your region have lol (though perhaps your family comes more from a berber ancestry?)
Let's say my parents are from Algeria and Morocco.
The issue I blame that website for, is that, what are you going to do with this information? You will be like "Oh look, my ancestors are them!" and other will be like "What am I doing with this?", and all of this for 60$, maybe higher. The most important is the present, it's literally a gift (present = gift, they're synonyms).
> I imagine you can just safely guess you have some kind of arab genes that like 95% of people in your region have lol (though perhaps your family comes more from a berber ancestry?)
Let's say my parents are from Algeria and Morocco.
The issue I blame that website for, is that, what are you going to do with this information? You will be like "Oh look, my ancestors are them!" and other will be like "What am I doing with this?", and all of this for 60$, maybe higher. The most important is the present, it's literally a gift (present = gift, they're synonyms).
@WassimBerbar said in #24:
> Let's say my parents are from Algeria and Morocco.
>
> The issue I blame that website for, is that, what are you going to do with this information? You will be like "Oh look, my ancestors are them!" and other will be like "What am I doing with this?", and all of this for 60$, maybe higher. The most important is the present, it's literally a gift (present = gift, they're synonyms).
Well with some of the sites - they help you track down data from records that can allow you to know the names of ancestors lost, and also help you find living family that has been separated from contact.
In my case that would be interesting and handy - because my Dad's Dad left when he was 6 months old so we know nothing about that side of family.
And on my Mom's side the last names changed when they emigrated - so no one knows the spelling of the original family name anymore - my grandma told me my great great great grandpa was a renowned poet in Russia/Ukraine in the late 1800s but all I know is his name was Saul lol - but it would be cool to find him and maybe read some of his poetry.
> Let's say my parents are from Algeria and Morocco.
>
> The issue I blame that website for, is that, what are you going to do with this information? You will be like "Oh look, my ancestors are them!" and other will be like "What am I doing with this?", and all of this for 60$, maybe higher. The most important is the present, it's literally a gift (present = gift, they're synonyms).
Well with some of the sites - they help you track down data from records that can allow you to know the names of ancestors lost, and also help you find living family that has been separated from contact.
In my case that would be interesting and handy - because my Dad's Dad left when he was 6 months old so we know nothing about that side of family.
And on my Mom's side the last names changed when they emigrated - so no one knows the spelling of the original family name anymore - my grandma told me my great great great grandpa was a renowned poet in Russia/Ukraine in the late 1800s but all I know is his name was Saul lol - but it would be cool to find him and maybe read some of his poetry.
I think the primary motivation of every company of this type, from day 1, is data collection and how they can monetise it. One day they will sell it to insurance companies and other ' trusted partners' (to improve the service, of course - your privacy is very important to us). And people are willing to pay a lot of money to feed their data into such database to get useless information.
@kajalmaya said in #26:
> I think the primary motivation of every company of this type, from day 1, is data collection and how they can monetise it. One day they will sell it to insurance companies and other ' trusted partners' (to improve the service, of course - your privacy is very important to us). And people are willing to pay a lot of money to feed their data into such database to get useless information.
There are some whose entire premise is that they keep your data safe and don't sell it :p
> I think the primary motivation of every company of this type, from day 1, is data collection and how they can monetise it. One day they will sell it to insurance companies and other ' trusted partners' (to improve the service, of course - your privacy is very important to us). And people are willing to pay a lot of money to feed their data into such database to get useless information.
There are some whose entire premise is that they keep your data safe and don't sell it :p
@salmon_rushdie said in #22:
> combined with there being people from literally everywhere, who are also crossbred with other nationalities, people have a lot more mixed genetics than anywhere on the planet.
I think this is most likely not true. From what I have read, maximum genetic diversity is still to be found in Africa.
> combined with there being people from literally everywhere, who are also crossbred with other nationalities, people have a lot more mixed genetics than anywhere on the planet.
I think this is most likely not true. From what I have read, maximum genetic diversity is still to be found in Africa.
@kajalmaya said in #28:
> I think this is most likely not true. From what I have read, maximum genetic diversity is still to be found in Africa.
True,
I don't know how to exactly term it - there is more genetic diversity in Africa cause the tribes bred outside eachothers populations for a very long time, but outside Africa - populations hit a bottleneck and so have self-similar decedents
Maybe what I mean, is diversity of origins and culture - as no other country to my knowledge is so totally composed of global immigrants, cities like NYC represent 800 different spoken languages from all over.
> I think this is most likely not true. From what I have read, maximum genetic diversity is still to be found in Africa.
True,
I don't know how to exactly term it - there is more genetic diversity in Africa cause the tribes bred outside eachothers populations for a very long time, but outside Africa - populations hit a bottleneck and so have self-similar decedents
Maybe what I mean, is diversity of origins and culture - as no other country to my knowledge is so totally composed of global immigrants, cities like NYC represent 800 different spoken languages from all over.
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