Community Chat

[SeaMaiden]

Several sites offer this testing for sale. Have you ever done it? Was it a good experience? 

What did it cost? 

[Annabellethecat66]

I guess because I'm old and my daughter who knows all about internet security, etc, keeps telling me, I would never let my DNA be 'done'.

I would worry how it could possibly be used.  My mind starts working and it goes into overload.

I did one time have my late husband's name researched (even though I knew a lot about it).  I wanted his 'coat of arms'.

It is beautiful (I gave it to my grandson who's named after him) when my husband died.

Other than that, I'm not doing my DNA like that.

[september]

I used ancestry.com, because there were a few gaps in our family history that I hoped could get the blanks filled in.  It did not tell us anything we didn't already know.

My son used 23 and me, which has since taken their customer's personal info and sold it to another company.

Buyer beware.

[bonnielu]

I am so glad you posted this.  I was starting to think my daughter and her husband were paranoid.  They told me the same thing about NOT doing it.  They seemed to think it would not be secure and would open us up to problems down the road that have to do with security.  

I would have loved to have ancestry information but I really don't want to be a target.. I have enough trouble with robo calls and people trying to scam me online and on the phone.  So I will regretfully pass on this one.  

[september]

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@bonnielu wrote:

I am so glad you posted this.  I was starting to think my daughter and her husband were paranoid.  They told me the same thing about NOT doing it.  They seemed to think it would not be secure and would open us up to problems down the road that have to do with security.  

I would have loved to have ancestry information but I really don't want to be a target.. I have enough trouble with robo calls and people trying to scam me online and on the phone.  So I will regretfully pass on this one.  

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Your dna info is not secure once you turn it over to a company like this.  There is a reason why complicated DNA testing is only $99.  They want to profit off the info you've given them.

[151949]

All the ancestry DNA tells you is what country your DNA is from. How on earth could that information be used against you on the internet? You people are seriously paranoid.I had my DNA tested years ago to see if I had the breast cancer gene,and I assume that information has been on a computer out there somewhere for about 20 years now.Some how no one used it for any nefarious purpose as yet.

[Sooner]

Don't you just KNOW somebody's gonna show up at the door and want a kidney?  

[september]

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@151949 wrote:

All the ancestry DNA tells you is what country your DNA is from. How on earth could that information be used against you on the internet? You people are seriously paranoid.

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No, but you are seriously naive.

Did you know that 23andme sold their customer's results to Genome for a study on Parkinson's disease?  And it was for a big profit on their part.  $60 million comes to mind, but I'll have to google that to know if my memory serves me right.

[Moonchilde]

I had mine done through ancestry dot com.  I would stick to ancestry or Nat Geo.  23 and me was stopped from advertising/soliciting customers several years ago for false advertising and got in trouble with the govt.  They have just started in again, with a different pitch to skirt the govt issues and more careful what they promise. Their ads have targeted wanting to know about potential diseases, while ancestry and nat geo are about your ancestors/ethnicity etc.

I would steer clear of any service that mentions anything medical - those would be the ones most likely to do something untoward with the results. 

You can get "deals" from time to time. I paid $99 for the ancestry testing. Nat Geo charges more.  My results matched 98% with what I already knew about my ancestry, so I'm pretty sure they are accurate.