Are ancestry DNA testing fake?

@TexChik I am open to any outcomes. I just don't want it to be fake

@JBird there is a huge data base . If you are a criminal I wouldn’t submit a sample ... but other than that , go for it . I am descended from murderous River pirates that ranged from Paris, TX to Hugo, OK. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@TexChik I am sure I am not criminal. Lol

@saragoodtimes [quote]
how can they trace your ancestry back generations before there was DNA testing.
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They used to do it by tracing up your family. It's not reliable though.

@Powderflask I don't know what American government do with a 27 year old Indian woman's DNA? 😆

@JBird I didn't say American government. Do you think the American government is the only one with DNA cataloging?

@JBird No no... Ancestry.com is a well-establish website/company (I've been a member since 1997), it's not some obscure, shady company... I have to say, though, that it greatly upsets me that Ancestry.com essentially bought dozens of formerly-free, volunteer-maintained databases so now they have a virtual monopoly of genealogical data and people have to pay for access to information that was formerly free. I'm lucky I did most of my research around 2000 - 2010 and didn't have to spend much money, if at all... So in summary, I think Ancestry.com is trustworthy but I loath them for making people pay for data that was formerly available for free (I'm a "free" member, I've never paid the monthly membership... in the old days they had lots of records available for free, too... but not anymore...)

@drymer I didn't chose ancestry.com because they don't have much database for south Asians. My Indian friends recommended me myheritage.com which has wider data compared to ancestry.com.

@JBird Oh you said "ancestry DNA" and I misunderstood "ancestry.com DNA", sorry... So I would not know, although I believe myheritage.com has been around for a bit too... It's much harder tracking ancestry from outside Europe as these sort of records were seldom kept (people would just throw away records they considered "too old" and thus "pointless" to keep...)

@Zaphod42 I didn't even provide the samples. 😂

@JBird Well for what it’s worth, my dad did the 23 and me test and it more or less lined up with the ancestry research he had done on his own 🤷‍♂️