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In reply to the discussion: DNA Heritage Tests - Why Would E. Warren or Anybody Bother? [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)It turns out I'm just as boringly white-bread European as our family records suggested. But it's interesting anyhow because you also get information about how various groups moved about - which tends to explain, for example, why a smidgen of Italian showed up where I knew one branch of the family was Swiss. Or why I turned out to be a lot more Norwegian than expected, considering all the Scots on my dad's side (Vikings again). It didn't change anything for me, I yam who I yam - but that doesn't mean it was a worthless exercise. If you don't care, fine; but others might - maybe because they are just curious, like me, or maybe because they want to track down their origins or even missing or unknown relatives. I realize that the tests are not going to be 100% accurate because the testing companies arrive at their results by comparing samples to other samples in their databases. The more samples they have, the more accurate the results will be. In any event I think it's a useful way of learning about human genetics and migration over the centuries, if nothing else. Don't blow it off just because it has no value to you. Obviously many other people feel otherwise.