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Dec 29, 2018
1:39:00pm

Carnac All-American

Ancestry doesn't show Danish as a grouping.

They used to just show Scandinavian. Now they've broken it out into Sweden and Norwegian. As the science gets better, they update your results. Your Danish is probably buried into other groups right now.

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Originally posted on Dec 29, 2018 at 1:39:00pm

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Carnac

Previous username: Carnac el Magnifico
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So I got a DNA test...

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 1:21pm

looks like they might have immigrated from denmark, but they weren't danish.

BlueFrog

12/29/18 1:23pm

Not likely....

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 2:02pm

and you are NOT the father?!? I'm hilarious, now gonna read post

hyperbully

12/29/18 1:24pm

that does seem odd ... couple possible thoughts

hyperbully

12/29/18 1:26pm

Do another one (23andme). They aren't 100% accurate, but BlueFrog could also be

BertoChavez

12/29/18 1:26pm

It sounds like you want it to reflect your genealogy.

mobomanjoe

12/29/18 1:31pm

Yes. Also know I’m about 25% Dane but it shows as Norwegian. Not super precise.

dtownCoug

12/29/18 1:26pm

Norwegian and Danes are both of Viking blood.

Blue Ghost

12/29/18 1:28pm

"viking blood" isn't a super precise description

hyperbully

12/29/18 1:30pm

Yes but the settlers of Denmark are form the same population that

Blue Ghost

12/29/18 1:39pm

which of my assumptions is off? I'm fairly well versed in this part of history

hyperbully

12/29/18 1:41pm

Are you saying that they aren’t genetically similar

Blue Ghost

12/29/18 1:43pm

NO! I didn't say anything even remotely like that!! Odd

hyperbully

12/29/18 1:46pm

I thought we were talking about DNA. Shared DNA from a population comes through

Blue Ghost

12/29/18 1:55pm

your original post about "viking blood" seemed to suggest that

hyperbully

12/29/18 2:02pm

And my results would back you up...

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 2:09pm

Everything is weighted to the test results they have.

Blue Ghost

12/29/18 2:30pm

Makes sense...

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 2:45pm

When you say you know the history, it seems you're not always actually serious

Goliath

12/29/18 1:44pm

linking to a post that somebody ELSE made a claim about me? Hahaha

hyperbully

12/29/18 1:47pm

btw, re: some other post you made somewhere, it's quite clear that you most

hyperbully

12/29/18 1:49pm

Good night, and good luck!

Goliath

12/29/18 1:52pm

It really isn’t that accurate. It shows general regions but mixes up

Blue Ghost

12/29/18 1:27pm

I was a majority British even though 2 great grandfathers & 1 Great

tjngirlz

12/29/18 1:27pm

Ancestry’s Germanic Europe includes Denmark

thejimmer

12/29/18 1:29pm

That’s what I was wondering...

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 2:13pm

Political borders are arbitrary

spinner

12/29/18 2:21pm

And I get that ...

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 3:13pm

So it sounds like they weren't wrong, they just don't expressly designate Danish ancestry

spinner

12/29/18 3:31pm

Maybe someone in the past was not really the father

Thrill

12/29/18 1:29pm

I suppose that is possible...

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 2:18pm

I recently found and got into contact with my MIL's Brother & Sister

tjngirlz

12/29/18 3:29pm

More likely the DNA test is accurate and there is something wrong in the family

chilango

12/29/18 1:29pm

I understand those things....

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 2:23pm

Well, combine that with the first point I made, about 10% of the dads not really

chilango

12/29/18 2:37pm

Those things are all possible...

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 2:52pm

Yeah, but what percentage of Native American are you? You could teach at Harvard

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

12/29/18 1:30pm

If I have any it didn’t show up in my test...

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 2:24pm

In addition to what others have said, you don't necessarily get 25% of your DNA

supertux

12/29/18 1:31pm

Guaranteed 50% from parents but it isn’t an even split for grandparents.

Blue Ghost

12/29/18 1:41pm

I am definitely NOT an expert in DNA, not even close, but

hyperbully

12/29/18 1:55pm

Unless you count mitochondrial DNA, or account for

Blue Ghost

12/29/18 2:37pm

My guess is you're not quite understanding either what I"m saying or

hyperbully

12/29/18 2:40pm

The differences arise because each sibling gets a different 50% from each parent

chilango

12/29/18 2:46pm

Well my dad would be 50% Danish...

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 2:28pm

It's not that neat & predictable.

bluebooks

12/29/18 2:35pm

First, they are far from an exact science. A few other things...

Zach Morris

12/29/18 1:32pm

Ancestry doesn't show Danish as a grouping.

Carnac

12/29/18 1:39pm

Mine was similar.

El Careeb

12/29/18 1:40pm

I think you misunderstand DNA.

bluebooks

12/29/18 1:40pm

This is an excellent scientific explanation to match with my geopolitical one.

Homercles

12/29/18 1:44pm

I don’t misunderstand it...

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 2:41pm

Genealogy =/= DNA

supertux

12/29/18 2:43pm

maybe you should be directing this comment at Ancestry.com then

hyperbully

12/29/18 2:44pm

RE: maybe you should be directing this comment at Ancestry.com then

supertux

12/29/18 2:54pm

well, they're definitely attempting to extrapolate genealogy from DNA

hyperbully

12/29/18 2:59pm

They are doing 2 different things with these DNA tests. Part of what they are

supertux

12/29/18 3:15pm

"has nothing to do with" is WAAYYY overstated, where you came from

hyperbully

12/29/18 3:21pm

This comment needs to be more widely understood.

TheBlueCougar

12/29/18 3:48pm

You may just not have inherited many DNA chunks from your Danish grandma.

bluebooks

12/29/18 2:43pm

I suppose but there is too much of a resemblance bewtween me...

CoachSpeak

12/29/18 2:47pm

RE: I suppose but there is too much of a resemblance bewtween me...

supertux

12/29/18 2:51pm

Her physical genes may just be more dominant.

bluebooks

12/29/18 2:51pm

Scandinavia is a wildly intermingled place.

Homercles

12/29/18 1:43pm

Danish and Norwegian are apparently pretty similar, especially vocabulary

hyperbully

12/29/18 3:00pm

Yup. All the Scandinavian languages (besides the 3 discussed here, also...

Homercles

12/29/18 3:15pm

oops, I think I misread or misunderstood, thought you said or meant "un-intel...

hyperbully

12/29/18 3:21pm

Ah yes. I've done that before. No worries.

Homercles

12/29/18 3:43pm

Maybe you were adopted.

Zaphod

12/29/18 1:47pm

My understanding is that the DNA tests show how your genes express.

Bovine University

12/29/18 2:03pm

What you are seeing is the process of genetic recombination which is the reason

vaquero

12/29/18 3:34pm

no, that doesn't explain what he's describing, it's bad data seems like

hyperbully

12/29/18 3:40pm

So when you get your results on the website...

CoachSpeak

12/30/18 12:49am

After the 96m hacked dna results, wouldn’t touch it. Ins co’s Would love summa

MatthiasG

12/29/18 4:18pm

Your mom has some splainin to do

WDaddy

12/29/18 5:28pm

Congratulations, you have now been logged in the Federal Governments database

Romex

12/29/18 6:09pm

who knew you could track people by their DNA? Where am I now?

hyperbully

12/29/18 6:18pm

I’d be surprised if I wasn’t already...

CoachSpeak

12/30/18 12:37am

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