Mo not at all, nut partial blame because people don't have the full story. Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 23, 2018, at 7:09 PM, "johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au<mailto:johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au>" <johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au<mailto:johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au>> wrote: There is a webinar that explains why different DNA businesses provide different ethnic results for the same person but I do not remember which one. Basically they all use different pools of people/databases of DNA which they compare your results with. Each database varies in size and which part of the world or country that most of the people in it are from. The next major problem is that each company has their own way of defining what constitutes each ethnicity/reference group and their geographical origins and borders etc. Also, some like Ancestry only use autosomal DNA, while others may also use mtDNA and Y-DNA to determine ethnicity. Finally, I think there is the possibility of contamination of DNA. I suspect most businesses do not employ scientists, and their procedures may be sloppy. Ancestry is pretty sloppy with their indexing of traditional genealogy sources so maybe this business culture extends to DNA processing. These companies omit in their marketing all the reasons why the results they give you can be extremely misleading or misunderstood. Websites like Ancestry do not explain things until you purchase the test, enter a password to get the results with more information about how to interpret them. Even then, the information is buried and not spelled out. I know about Ancestry because a cousin used them and gave me the password to access to his DNA results. Basically, the genealogy DNA industry preys on people’s ignorance. Caveat emptor. John From: Bunny Nelson<mailto:bunnynel...@msn.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 10:07 AM To: Legacy User Group<mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> ; Eliz Hanebury<mailto:elizhg...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] [Legacy] MyHeritage DNA test Thanks, Lynn but this makes no sense to me. Are you saying it’s all because of Heritage DNA?? -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Lynn Bernhard via LegacyUserGroup Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 4:57 PM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>>; Eliz Hanebury <elizhg...@gmail.com<mailto:elizhg...@gmail.com>> Cc: Lynn Bernhard <bernhardengin...@yahoo.com<mailto:bernhardengin...@yahoo.com>> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MyHeritage DNA test The original message to the list is in the attachment. This action is required because of the DMARC Reject/Quarantine Policy imposed by some email providers. Users who want to send messages without conversion to attachments should use a different email address for their subscription. Known providers for free email accounts whose emails do not require this conversion include gmail.com<http://gmail.com> and hotmail.com<http://hotmail.com>. Many other email providers will also work but you will have to give them a try. ________________________________ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
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