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  • 12-06-2020 9:35pm
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    Seanachai
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    Are there any ancient ancestry tracing companies that don't sell your DNA results?


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    pinkypinky
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    What do you mean by "ancient ancestry"?

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    L1011
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    Any smaller firm is not going to have a comparison database of any size and would hence be useless.


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    Seanachai
    Registered Users Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Seanachai


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    What do you mean by "ancient ancestry"?

    Ancient ancestry as opposed to just tracing a parent


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    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Do you mean ethnicity? If so, it's not reliable for anything serious yet. We've a few other threads on this.

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    KildareFan
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    Seanachai wrote: »
    Ancient ancestry as opposed to just tracing a parent


    DNA tests are only helpful in tracing ancestors if you match with a living descendant of the same ancestor. That's why you need to go with a company which has millions of DNA samples as there's a better chance of finding someone who matches.



    That's only the beginning of the search. I have 100s of DNA matches on Ancestry but no way of finding out who the common ancestor is, because the other match hasn't put up a family tree or doesn't have any information beyond their parents.



    It's worth doing the work on constructing a family tree before doing a DNA test. The more information you have, the easier it will be to work out where the common ancestors are.


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