Saw this coming years ago. 23andme is next.
... and from what I can tell, most people just wanted to know their nationality.
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... and from what I can tell, most people just wanted to know their nationality.
With ancestry and similar sites you can probably learn your origin down to the street address of your great great great grandparents.
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With ancestry and similar sites you can probably learn your origin down to the street address of your great great great grandparents.
My ex has a doctorate in genetics (specifically studying evolution through genetic data) and described such tests as "genetic astrology" because of limitations in the data.
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... and from what I can tell, most people just wanted to know their nationality.
With ancestry and similar sites you can probably learn your origin down to the street address of your great great great grandparents.
But those services can still be useful to find an unknown branch of relatives when the ancestor who had emigrated in a different country didn't let any info regarding their previous life.
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... and from what I can tell, most people just wanted to know their nationality.
yep. I found this by simply visiting my local municipalities and easily dug up 3 generations of ancestors and immigration records. It was fun, I learned far more, and cost me $0.