Genetic Genealogy

IRiSHMaFIA · Post by **IRiSHMaFIA** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:07 am

I heard about this on the news today and thought it was a brilliant idea. I'm almost tempted to try it out.

[web]https://www.dnaancestryproject.com/ydna_intro_about.php[/web]

Post by **eefanincan** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:29 pm

Sounds interesting

Post by **faceless** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:40 pm

It is pretty cool, but $120 to find out where I'm from? No thanks - I'd spend a fiver if someone could tell me where I'm going though!

girldorksrule · Post by **girldorksrule** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:01 pm

Sounds neat, but how do they do it without the DNA of everyone in the world? I mean to find out if I'm related to you, they would need both of our info...???

IRiSHMaFIA · Post by **IRiSHMaFIA** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:49 pm

faceless wrote:It is pretty cool, but $120 to find out where I'm from? No thanks - I'd spend a fiver if someone could tell me where I'm going though!

good response

Twirley · Post by **Twirley** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:51 pm

It sounds interesting, but I'm with Face - $120 is too steep.

IRiSHMaFIA · Post by **IRiSHMaFIA** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:51 pm

girldorksrule wrote:Sounds neat, but how do they do it without the DNA of everyone in the world? I mean to find out if I'm related to you, they would need both of our info...???

Apparently they've a large database of DNA and that's what they go by. I'm not too sure how it all works but it got pretty positive responses on the radio show, and it's one of those shows where the people are usually quite critical of anything so that's why it stuck in my mind.