You are absolutely correct. Ask any geneticist! It is incredibly complicated. If you research your family, research DNA testing!
The whole premise is flawed, to say nothing of the total lack of privacy concerning your results. Those may well affect your ability to obtain medical insurance and even employment. There is NO privacy. The results are a joke, as well documented, both here and elsewhere, BUT they may impact your whole life and those of your descendants because the false results are available the highest bidder. By the way, I have a bridge to sell you..... CE ________________________________ From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> on behalf of Edward Fenn <edwardf...@xtra.co.nz> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2018 3:09 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MyHeritage DNA test This little flurry of erroneous DNA results reinforces my view that the current obsession with DNA as a genealogy tool serves more the commercial profiting from a quite recent and important scientific discovery, than adding any certainty to our family tree. Edward From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Ward Walker Sent: Monday, 22 January 2018 10:19 a.m. To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MyHeritage DNA test Agree, and you can create events or notes to document specific matches or triangulations that you might find (as you could with Y-DNA matches). I think that the broad ethnic background tests are still a bit of a black art. Different companies produce different results. And how far back do you go? If a British ancestor has ancestors that originally came from Normandy in the 11th century, is that British or NW Europe? My Italian ancestry is partly shown as Iberian and Greek, even though those people came to Italy several hundred years ago. Ward From: Jerry Case Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2018 3:46 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MyHeritage DNA test Kevin - This has been discussed before and, as I remember, the answer is that the autosomal results are too massive to include in Legacy. Plus, they would be difficult to interpret in Legacy. Putting the lengthy raw results into Legacy would swell the files unacceptably. Jerry Case On 1/21/2018 11:31 AM, Kevin Ferguson wrote: Hello, I have the results from a Myhertiage DNA test. I have one for myself and my wife. How do I go about adding this to my Legacy family tree? The DNA test was an autosumal test but I don't see that listed on the add DNA screen. The results are rather intriguing and I have no idea how far back the tests would go back to but as far as I can see the test results don't match the research I have (I am back to 1780). I find no North African, Nigerian nor Finnish connection in my direct line ancestors. I agree with the English portion though :). It is a little bit surprising not to find any Celtic markers given that my name is Ferguson, my paternal grandmother was MacDonald and I have documented proof of Scottish kin on my mother's side. It is all rather perplexing and I have no idea why it should be so puzzling. My father's ancestors didn't even leave the county of their births for 300 years! Any assistance would be greatfullly received. Best regards Kevin Ferguson www.abbydalesystems.com<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abbydalesystems.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7C46c64c62b82e49775d6e08d5612489ee%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636521731910265867&sdata=bzcY4xN%2B4sRxXIN8vxvdH4%2BiBaIJqOQy14YepYIM%2BYk%3D&reserved=0> Numbers 6:24-26 -- Visit the Genealogical Society of South Whidbey Island www.gsswi.org<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gsswi.org&data=02%7C01%7C%7C46c64c62b82e49775d6e08d5612489ee%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636521731910265867&sdata=6DM6FshK0DCzTadAUDQabsbvEahJpdT9eD4mDM33r%2Fg%3D&reserved=0> ________________________________ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flegacyusers.com%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Flegacyusergroup_legacyusers.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7C46c64c62b82e49775d6e08d5612489ee%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636521731910265867&sdata=bQW5en9ZEjrYmLpHrDxBLKzn%2Fc6ESIrxYBsssFMs4XQ%3D&reserved=0> Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Flegacyusergroup%40legacyusers.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C46c64c62b82e49775d6e08d5612489ee%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636521731910265867&sdata=8U2rVTcf5pOBpQ5QrYMc06Wz6XnZr2yvldr7xLBqtIM%3D&reserved=0>
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