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You Baws ever find family from 23andMe?

Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:18 pm
Posted by Dudley Humptyfrats
'Murica
Member since Oct 2010
2137 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:18 pm
I think I just did. Found some cousins that think they know my biological father.
Posted by Manzielathon
Death Valley
Member since Sep 2013
8951 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:21 pm to
The government is going to create clones of you now
Posted by Dudley Humptyfrats
'Murica
Member since Oct 2010
2137 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:24 pm to
Gonna be some slack-jawed clones
Posted by Ancient Astronaut
Member since May 2015
33115 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:29 pm to
Why would I pay someone to steal my genetic data?
Posted by Manzielathon
Death Valley
Member since Sep 2013
8951 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:38 pm to
So you can find out if you’re .01% or more Black and / or Jewish?
Posted by DiamondDog
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2019
10577 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:38 pm to
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This post was edited on 12/17/21 at 9:42 pm
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
35500 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:40 pm to
Yep. My dad and never knew his biological family. Got linked up with them.
Posted by LSUA 75
Colfax,La.
Member since Jan 2019
3705 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:43 pm to
Family Tree dna sent me a list of about 2,000 people I shared dna with.Mostly 3’rd,4’th and 5’th cousins with Email addresses if I want to contact them.All kinds of names I never heard of.As if I want to start Emailing couple thousand people.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
12905 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:45 pm to
My dad is the only family member I know on 23andme. He was serving in Korea when I was born.

So I'm thinking about signing up for 23andme, change my visible name to a Korean name, and then activating the family&friends feature. Just wondering if I should time it for Father's Day or April Fools.
This post was edited on 2/1/20 at 11:46 pm
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:45 pm to
No, i dont want anyone finding me and asking for money.

Apparently have some family in the Ukraine. My dad's dad banged a woman when he was stationed there, knocked her up, deployed elsewhere and never saw her again.

He then got back to america after his service and started a family and had my Dad. So, I may have relatives there, or I may have none.
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
35500 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:46 pm to
quote:

My dad is the only family member I know on 23andme. He was serving in Korea when I was born.

So I'm thinking about signing up for 23andme, change my visible name to a Korean name, and then activating the family&friends feature. Just wondering if I should time it for Father's Day or April Fools.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124319 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:49 pm to
Only to date
This post was edited on 2/1/20 at 11:51 pm
Posted by List Eater
Htown
Member since Apr 2005
23578 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:55 pm to
I know someone who found a sister born 2 years after him. Apparently there was an affair and the parents gave her up and nobody told him. 59 and 57 years old now. His family keeping that secret from him his whole life until he got a match one day from someone in California. Old people kept tight lips, damn. Grandma's, aunt's, nobody ever said a word to him.
Posted by scrooster
Resident Ethicist
Member since Jul 2012
37655 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:56 pm to
Yes, we have.

I paid for my entire family to do both 23andme and Ancestry dna tests .... including my very elderly mother and father.

We spread it out over time skipping generations and alternating tests to make sure everything was on the up and up.

The way I paid for them was I gave all of them cash for the tests so that there would be no way for the companies to cross credit cards or addresses.

It's pretty interesting. We found some missing relatives that my mom had been searching for for awhile. Found them not far from where she thought they were in Texas where she was born and grew up.

Found out my sister's husband had an illegitimate child out there he didn't know he had through a connection with my nieces and nephews .... that's caused some issues and I'm on my BiL's shite list which I kinda feel bad about.

My daughters from my first wife discovered some cousins on her side they didn't know they had.

It's all been pretty interesting.

Most interesting was my Dad and my oldest granddaughter were the first two to send their spit in .... absolutely no way 23andme could have made the connection by any means other than DNA because my Dad is in Tennessee and my oldest granddaughter is in Jupiter Florida .... but within two weeks they were both getting notifications of their relationship to one another which thrilled my daughter and me.

It's all been pretty cool actually because it confirmed the accuracy of the technology.
Posted by OldHickory
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2012
10602 posts
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:57 pm to
I’d never send my info, but every thing the government wants, they already have. We’ve submitted every thing. Our phones record it all.

frick the Patriot Act. frick the FBI. frick the deep state.
Posted by hobotiger
Asbury Park, NJ
Member since Nov 2007
5197 posts
Posted on 2/2/20 at 4:20 am to
Not me, but a friend found out he had a half sister from Europe from when his dad was stationed there.
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
15106 posts
Posted on 2/2/20 at 4:39 am to
Ancestry. 1/2 half sister. And she wasn’t a half sister cause my dad had an affair. 1 year younger than my oldest full sister. We knew she could be out there but never thought we would find her.
Posted by Jp1LSU
Fiji
Member since Oct 2005
2542 posts
Posted on 2/2/20 at 5:14 am to
One of my baws found 9 siblings this past thanksgiving.
Posted by Capital Cajun
Over Yonder
Member since Aug 2007
5525 posts
Posted on 2/2/20 at 5:53 am to
No way, the Mormons are going to use that shite against all you suckers. Or sell the info to the government.
Posted by jscrims
Lost
Member since May 2008
3554 posts
Posted on 2/2/20 at 6:03 am to
quote:

And she wasn’t a half sister cause my dad had an affair.


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