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   MB to real_grizz_adams@yahoo.co.uk   
   Re: DNA   
   19 Jun 20 16:18:14   
   
   From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   On 19/06/2020 11:31, real_grizz_adams@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
   > If they are related yes, but as many if not all these "Send us your DNA"   
   sites   
   > only want to sale data to researchers (or worse insurance companies) or just   
   > make money, the reports they send back are works of fiction (in most cases)   
   >   
   > I did see a post (not sure where now so make your own mind up) of a pair of   
   > twins (maybe identical can't remember) who sent seperate samples to one of   
   > these sites and got totally different reports back (One was said to be   
   Northern   
   > European / Native American the other Mediterranean / Oriental)   
      
   They sell the tests initially on the ethnicity but most people seriously   
   interested in family history do not pay much attention to it.  It   
   usually tells you what you already know and often misses or does not   
   recognise major parts of your ethnicity.   
      
   You can get that you have a small percentage of something obscure but   
   there is usually no way of know where it came from.   
      
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