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⌈ Secret Post #6305 ⌋

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DNA Services

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone done one of those at home DNA tests (Ancestry, 23 and Me, etc.)?
Did you ever regret it? Did you learn anything about your ancestry or find distant relatives?

Re: DNA Services

[(Anonymous)]

Hell yeah, I regret it. They share information with law enforcement without warrant. They also share with health insurance companies without notifying you, plus they will knowingly out trans people to their employers. Although some here probably see the latter as a plus and not a negative, looking at you Rowling defender anons.

Re: DNA Services

[(Anonymous)]

My mom had it done (ancestry) and it just confirmed that we're the whitest people to ever white. We have found a few relatives, but we knew vaguely that they existed. My great-grandfather abandoned his farm, family, and 14 kids to go have a new one of each in California (dust bowl). So we find people in Cali every once and a while.

Our family lore was that we came to the US from Ireland during the famine, and we've always had a healthy hatred of the oppressor, England. Turns out we're French by way of the 1066 invasion when our family was granted land in England for helping William, only to come over to the New World in the 1600s. Mom was inconsolable. It's one thing to actually be English, but FRENCH???

Re: DNA Services

[kaijinscendre]

My sister did one and was happy about it. I want to do one eventually. See if we get different results or not.

Re: DNA Services

[(Anonymous)]

My friends husband did one and found out his dad is not his bio dad. Opened a whole big can of worms in the family.

My cousin did one and found out his bio family (he was adopted as a newborn) lived in the town over and he got to meet all sorts of new cousins and aunts and uncles, which was cool. They all came to the next big family party.

My dad did one and found out his very detailed family tree/history was spot on. Nothing new. He was kind of disappointed, I think he was hoping for a little drama lol

Re: DNA Services

[(Anonymous)]

I can't speak from personal experience, but if you do this, please research and make sure you're aware of all the pros and cons. Aside from the DNA results shared with law enforcement issue that another nonny raised, DNA testing can open up a big ol' can of worms for you and your relatives. The number of people who've done it for fun or ancestry research and accidentally dug up uncomfortable family secrets is TOO DAMN HIGH.

Just know what you're getting into.

Re: DNA Services

[(Anonymous)]

I did Ancestry DNA and also uploaded my DNA to Gedmatch because they have a lot of fun, free tools.

I found out my grandma on my dad's side was an immigrant from a country I was unaware I was linked to, so that was neat. (I'm not close to anybody on that side and the aunts and uncles and my dad are gone, so there was no one to share this info.) No major surprises or anything, but I did discover that the people on my tree on thrulines (which is now pay only, I think) are really long-lived! So that was good news.

Re: DNA Services

[(Anonymous)]

My mom made everyone in the house do 23andMe years ago because she's always been a genealogy nerd, and I had to add it to my email blocklist because even if you unsubscribe from everything they still throw weekly emails at you and as someone who wanted nothing to do with it to begin with it was INFURIATING.

We didn't even learn anything fun from it, except that they think there's a margin of error's worth of Korean in mom's otherwise-99+% Ashkenazi Jewish results.

Re: DNA Services

[(Anonymous)]

No, but there was a data breach and 50% of the data stolen was related to Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. So I would not be surprised if a bunch of murderous goons are going to hunt down Jewish people and kill them in their homes.

Re: DNA Services

[(Anonymous)]

Ancestral DNA was used to solve a cold case where I live, so I'm in favor of it, but only for murder and rape.

Re: DNA Services

[(Anonymous)]

My cousin did, and found out that there is Chinese ancestry in the family, which was a big surprise because the whole family is Scots/Irish and only started emigrating in the 20th century. My brother and some other cousins have done tests to try to find out more, and we've been able to confirm this and narrow it down to one particular branch, but as far as we knew that branch was fairly well documented and lived pretty much all around one town in Scotland, so ???

Re: DNA Services

[(Anonymous)]

I've done both Ancestry and MyHeritage. I found Ancestry was more accurate than MH, as MH somehow saw 0.2% Native American in my genealogy when I'm actually of English, Scottish and Irish decent (Australian born). None of my ancestors were anywhere near North America afawk.

AO3 History

[(Anonymous)]

Do you clear out your ao3 history?

This came up in a discussion and people thought it was really weird to clear History, and others though it was really weird to have 500 pages of History. Which type of ao3 reader are you?

Re: AO3 History

[kaijinscendre]

I do not clear my history. I've got 2436 pages of it. I only rarely have to go back to find something I read.

Team Clean House

[(Anonymous)]

I clear it out. Sometimes I'll have leave a fic as a "I want to find this later" shorthand when I don't want to Bookmark it. But once I've read it it gets cleared. I usually go in at the end of each session amd clear the ones I've read.

Re: AO3 History

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think I've ever engaged with it in any way.

Re: AO3 History

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I go in and take out a few things if I didn't like them and don't want to finish or re-read them, or if I clicked on something that turned out to very much not be one of my fandoms (as I sometimes do if someone I follow says 'hey I wrote this fic' but doesn't say what for when they link it). Because I do sometimes go to my history to find the most recent fic I didn't finish in one sitting, it helps to take out ones I DON'T want to go back to.

But most of the time I just ignore it and let it pile up.

Re: AO3 History

[philstar22]

Nope. Mostly because sometimes I like to go back and find old fics I've read.

Re: AO3 History

[(Anonymous)]

I clear when I think about it (so, since you asked, just cleared it), but I don't think about it often (it had some 230 pages).

If you could bring back one site

[(Anonymous)]

or internet trend back to ideal popularity, what would it be?

What fanfics have you loved recently?

[(Anonymous)]

Or what fics are you looking for?

What books have you loved recently?

[(Anonymous)]

Or what are you looking for recs for?

When you come to FS a little later than usual

[(Anonymous)]

And see a thread that has exploded and think "nope. Not touching that with a 10ft pole. Not tonight!"

Looking at you, Goodreads Secret.

(I will admit, there are days where I see explosions like that and rub my hands together gleefully like a cartoon villain before I dive in for the drama. Rarely, but it happens.)

Smile

[philstar22]

What last made you smile?

My cat is asleep on my legs, and all is right in the world. I just feel content.