@diehardbrownsfan said:

My family roots go back 5,000 years to Adam and Eve when the Universe was created.  

Mine go back 13.8 billion.

My ancestors could not use gold back then. It wasn't created in the neutron star collisions yet.

My great grandmother was Irish and she married my British great grandfather. The rest were all created in God's Country......................Texas.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

My family roots go back 5,000 years to Adam and Eve when the Universe was created.  

Yea...but mine go back further,  to the Seraphim and Cherubim

@diehardbrownsfan said:

My family roots go back 5,000 years to Adam and Eve when the Universe was created.  

Uh-oh before or after those really scary ferocious dinosaurs? 

@the-gipper said:

As for the DNA issue.  Just because they took one sample does not mean that they would have exclusive rights to anything other than that sample.

While my son is not exactly in the human genome field, he is in a related field.  If I chose to give Cornell Univ. say, where he is  as student, a DNA sample...23 and me would have no claim to my information over and above what Cornell would have.

I also suspect that if I wanted to also get a "second opinion" by doing the similar test by say ancestry.com....I could do so.

Not sure about 23 and me.  

I definitely read Ancestry's fine print.  Not for me.

Here is an article from last year about it.  Supposedly they have made some changes yet concerns remain.

I highly suggest reading the complete Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.

As for the DNA issue.  Just because they took one sample does not mean that they would have exclusive rights to anything other than that sample.

While my son is not exactly in the human genome field, he is in a related field.  If I chose to give Cornell Univ. say, where he is  as student, a DNA sample...23 and me would have no claim to my information over and above what Cornell would have.

I also suspect that if I wanted to also get a "second opinion" by doing the similar test by say ancestry.com....I could do so.

My folks both did that.  Their results mirrored the years of genealogy work that I had done tracing my lineage back to the fall of Rome. At least I was accurate, that was cool to know.  

Mom offered to pay for the test for me but I declined.  I read their fine print.  Basically, they own your DNA. Not only that.  Any potential cures or scientific breakthroughs that occur as a result of your DNA are theirs also.  In perpetuity. You forfeit all rights.

Now, does that actually even mean anything? I don't know.  I suppose I just felt like I would be giving away what makes me me. Not judging, that's just me.

I do know that it can't tell you things like, my 20th great-grandfather was Edward Bruce, former King of Ireland and brother of Robert the Bruce (the guy in Braveheart that wasn't Mel Gibson). I am also the direct descendant of Lord Baltimore, as in the city. That Maryland flag that has two family crests on it (the Calverts and Crosslands)?  I am the direct descendant of that married couple.  That's my flag.

0.2%  Southern European.  Basically, little or no Spanish/Italian/Greek. 

0.5% West African

0.4%  Middle Eastern

0.1% Cleveland Browns fan..... don't know how that happened 

Basically....just about everyone has some African/Middle Eastern blood.....a we ALL came out of Africa....and migration patterns took most Europeans through the Middle East as well.

Don't know if any of you have done a similar thing......I have one brother who has traced our roots back but have never tried 23, does sound interesting 

WSS

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