Lots of ads on TV these days for DNA test kits. You send a sample off to the company and they tell you … what? What are they actually telling you? Is this real scientific exploration or just intrusive data mining?
They are useful when you want to establish the paternity of a child before talking it to court for child support or custody. In the State of Georgia, the judge wont award child support without a paternity test.
Those are not home tests. The home tests tell people their bloodline.....in percentages. It started with one of those genealogy websites. Court ordered tests are a different monster.
Yes, they are real tests that tell you your heredity as to ethnicity. They are only about $75 dollars. I thought about doing it just for fun. I hate to be disappointed though. I'm told I am 3/4 German mixed with a bit of Chocktaw , English, and Scot. That's easy to remember. ;)
I have a written history of my heritage on my mother's side. I would be 50% Easter European, The Ukraine in particular. I know nothing of my father's heritage...He was adopted and he disappeared when I was 6. So I don't care about his side. I have no need for a test.
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