Did it
 

Came back 63% Scandinavian and 36% NW European.

Less than 1% of other stuff.

Our family tree is heavy Scandinavian but some German on my father's mother's side of the tree.

Guess that makes us cousins of sorts JJ ;)

If anyone wants to get more bang for the buck you can upload your RAW file to GEDmatch which will allow you to match with others who used different services, and if you would like to see how your DNA relates to your health you can upload to promethease.com.

We did the DNA

Southern European 45.8%
Italian 24.4%
Balkan 2.6%
Broadly Southern European 18.9%

Northwestern European 43.4%
British & Irish 13.2%
French & German 7.7%
Scandinavian 0.7%
Broadly Northwestern European 21.9

Eastern Europe 2.1%

A little bit of less that 1% of some other DNA too. (Sub Sarahan African, South Asian and Ashkenazi Jewish)

I didn't get that hit, but of the top 10 "near relatives", 3 did. Not sure how that works, but given that some DNA lineage can go back 1000+ yrs....

I have no knowledge of any Jewish relatives, like you said these tests can go back many many moons! One of my brothers is the genealogist in the family, but he's been busy of late. I'd love to see how far back we can trace.

For what it is worth.
Call me Paranoid...we all know how and what Google does-collect and hoard data. Well, duh..." Consider the case of Google...(One of the founders of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, is presently married to Sergei Brin, the founder of Google.)...as we now know, the fundamental purpose of the company wasn’t to help us search, but to hoard information."

No reason to think 23andme is any different. I'll pass.

Old but still valid

Noah W

Call me paranoid too. I'm not willingly submitting a DNA sample to be stored in a NSA fusion center database...oops, I mean Google's database...oops I mean 23&Me's database. Now that I've read the Scientific American article I'm sure I never will.

That was my line of thought as well - hence why I don't use social media. BUT...being in the military for 36 years, if you think you're data isn't all over the world in various repositories, you're mistaken. At this point, I figure the dems and their liberal ilk will be fighting over which re-education camp to put me in when they gain total power. So....screw it.

But then again, their propensity to be nancy-boys (hand-wringing, bed-wetting poodle-walkers) with no sperm production and the undeniable urge for hair products means they are going to need a few of us around for perpetuation of the species. So, in my best "Carl the groundskeeper voice": "I've got that going for me."

A little throw-back,, Uncle started collecting DNA from the troops in 1992....




It's to late to worry about IF they get your DNA..

I remember having to go into medical as a unit for them to do the DNA draw.

And IIRC the held military data has been used more than once in criminal cases.

Yeah, they got mine way back when also.

DNA testing is done on every newborn in the US, and this has been going on for sometime.

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/01/w...ks-261136.html

Sooner than later DNA testing will be a regular part of medical testing for 'everyone' because it will offer physicians and insurance companies a preview into your future health.

DNA testing is done on every newborn in the US, and this has been going on for sometime.

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/01/w...ks-261136.html

Sooner than later DNA testing will be a regular part of medical testing for 'everyone' because it will offer physicians and insurance companies a preview into your future health.

If you're referring to newborn screening then yes, genetic testing is being done on all hospital-born newborns. This is testing for specific genetic diseases for which treatment needs to begin in the newborn period (e.g. enzyme deficiencies, immune defects, etc.) To my knowledge, there are no state-sponsored whole genome sequencing programs for newborns.

The key phrase is 'to my knowledge'.

When you consider that we are spied on by our government 24/7/365 in all kinds of seemingly innocuous manners, it would be no surprise to find the Fed's have a massive DNA database they have obtained through visits to the doctors office.