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Are ancestry DNA testing fake?

I ordered one and I am beginning to think what if it's a waste of money. 😖

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drymer · 56-60, M

Why do you think it's a waste of money? I did mine years ago (when technology wasn't as good) and it confirmed the geographical ancestry that had been passed "word-of-mouth" on over generations (that the family was originally from Scotland) and it narrowed down the area to southern Scotland (the Borders region)

JBird · F

@drymer maybe because there is a lot of scams going on or my mother's constant torment that I am wasting my money 😆

drymer · 56-60, M

@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...)

JBird · F

@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.

drymer · 56-60, M

@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...)