Genetic Testing

[ELIAKIM]

Genetic testing can be fascinating.

This is an interesting story of how genetic testing of Jewish people came to be.

[ELIAKIM]

They didn't tell me that I had to put in the verification code before I get my results. Some put the code in this week when I went to check when I would get my results.  I did it back in October and I now find out that they don't process your DNA until you register the code. They say I should get the results at the end of December. 

I did some family tree building this evening, it is quite good fun. I found that the great-grandmother (there is a photograph of her too) on dad's side had her dad's first name as a middle name and her maiden name was spelt slightly different to how I thought it was spelt following a discussion with my aunt years ago. I now know her dad's first name, Solomon. I made a good connection with that side of the family ancestry and have sent a message relating to it. His second name can be found in Dutch and it means "Worker", "Labour". 

Also discovered that a name of a member of the family that I thought was on my mother's side of the family, is actually the maiden name of my grandmother on dad's side of the family. 

Other than that haven't found much on mum's side of the family yet. 

Anyone else getting into their DNA testing? I think @Gallowglassie1 is into it. 

[Oldcynic]

They didn't tell me that I had to put in the verification code before I get my results. Some put the code in this week when I went to check when I would get my results.  I did it back in October and I now find out that they don't process your DNA until you register the code. They say I should get the results at the end of December. 

I did some family tree building this evening, it is quite good fun. I found that the great-grandmother (there is a photograph of her too) on dad's side had her dad's first name as a middle name and her maiden name was spelt slightly different to how I thought it was spelt following a discussion with my aunt years ago. I now know her dad's first name, Solomon. I made a good connection with that side of the family ancestry and have sent a message relating to it. His second name can be found in Dutch and it means "Worker", "Labour". 

Also discovered that a name of a member of the family that I thought was on my mother's side of the family, is actually the maiden name of my grandmother on dad's side of the family. 

Other than that haven't found much on mum's side of the family yet. 

Anyone else getting into their DNA testing? I think @Gallowglassie1 is into it. 

Me?  Absolutely NOT!

[ELIAKIM]

They didn't tell me that I had to put in the verification code before I get my results. Some put the code in this week when I went to check when I would get my results.  I did it back in October and I now find out that they don't process your DNA until you register the code. They say I should get the results at the end of December. 

I did some family tree building this evening, it is quite good fun. I found that the great-grandmother (there is a photograph of her too) on dad's side had her dad's first name as a middle name and her maiden name was spelt slightly different to how I thought it was spelt following a discussion with my aunt years ago. I now know her dad's first name, Solomon. I made a good connection with that side of the family ancestry and have sent a message relating to it. His second name can be found in Dutch and it means "Worker", "Labour". 

Also discovered that a name of a member of the family that I thought was on my mother's side of the family, is actually the maiden name of my grandmother on dad's side of the family. 

Other than that haven't found much on mum's side of the family yet. 

Anyone else getting into their DNA testing? I think @Gallowglassie1 is into it. 

Me?  Absolutely NOT!

I used to feel like you about it. But as the police took my DNA in 2011 for speaking, I decided in 2025, why not, might as well.

[Hot Nickles]

They didn't tell me that I had to put in the verification code before I get my results. Some put the code in this week when I went to check when I would get my results.  I did it back in October and I now find out that they don't process your DNA until you register the code. They say I should get the results at the end of December. 

I did some family tree building this evening, it is quite good fun. I found that the great-grandmother (there is a photograph of her too) on dad's side had her dad's first name as a middle name and her maiden name was spelt slightly different to how I thought it was spelt following a discussion with my aunt years ago. I now know her dad's first name, Solomon. I made a good connection with that side of the family ancestry and have sent a message relating to it. His second name can be found in Dutch and it means "Worker", "Labour". 

Also discovered that a name of a member of the family that I thought was on my mother's side of the family, is actually the maiden name of my grandmother on dad's side of the family. 

Other than that haven't found much on mum's side of the family yet. 

Anyone else getting into their DNA testing? I think @Gallowglassie1 is into it. 

Me?  Absolutely NOT!

Hell No

[Hot Nickles]

They didn't tell me that I had to put in the verification code before I get my results. Some put the code in this week when I went to check when I would get my results.  I did it back in October and I now find out that they don't process your DNA until you register the code. They say I should get the results at the end of December. 

I did some family tree building this evening, it is quite good fun. I found that the great-grandmother (there is a photograph of her too) on dad's side had her dad's first name as a middle name and her maiden name was spelt slightly different to how I thought it was spelt following a discussion with my aunt years ago. I now know her dad's first name, Solomon. I made a good connection with that side of the family ancestry and have sent a message relating to it. His second name can be found in Dutch and it means "Worker", "Labour". 

Also discovered that a name of a member of the family that I thought was on my mother's side of the family, is actually the maiden name of my grandmother on dad's side of the family. 

Other than that haven't found much on mum's side of the family yet. 

Anyone else getting into their DNA testing? I think @Gallowglassie1 is into it. 

Me?  Absolutely NOT!

I used to feel like you about it. But as the police took my DNA in 2011 for speaking, I decided in 2025, why not, might as well.

PoleIce took your dna for speaking? Huh?

[ELIAKIM]

Me?  Absolutely NOT!

I used to feel like you about it. But as the police took my DNA in 2011 for speaking, I decided in 2025, why not, might as well.

PoleIce took your dna for speaking? Huh?

Yes, I was arrested for saying "I do wish you would speak English", at around 6pm in the evening in January, 2011. I was kept in a cell all night, not allowed to sleep, bullied all night. I was so traumatised by the experience that I could hardly get any words out of my mouth when I was released the next day. They took my DNA and fingerprints etc. An MP offered to help me to take the police to court for an "unlawful arrest" etc but I couldn't find a Human Rights lawyer to represent me. 

The ENT department at the hospital said that the police had damaged my hearing.

[ELIAKIM]

Tonight I was able to look at birth and marriage records.

My great-grandfather on dad's side was a carpenter and the website has a photo of him and his wife.

Even able to access birth records of my great-great grandfather that was born in Amsterdam. 

It's fun.

[Hot Nickles]

I used to feel like you about it. But as the police took my DNA in 2011 for speaking, I decided in 2025, why not, might as well.

PoleIce took your dna for speaking? Huh?

Yes, I was arrested for saying "I do wish you would speak English", at around 6pm in the evening in January, 2011. I was kept in a cell all night, not allowed to sleep, bullied all night. I was so traumatised by the experience that I could hardly get any words out of my mouth when I was released the next day. They took my DNA and fingerprints etc. An MP offered to help me to take the police to court for an "unlawful arrest" etc but I couldn't find a Human Rights lawyer to represent me. 

The ENT department at the hospital said that the police had damaged my hearing.

That is some next level bull$hit 

[SlowLoris]

I haven't done a DNA test. Two of my cousins have. No surprises there.
My father and his cousin did a thorough search of his linage using Ancestry.com. My mother's cousin had a small room devoted to binders of family records.

It's interesting to look back, far back, into the past to see where you came from. I am related to James King of Scots, which is a fun fact. I am related to Theil Rockefeller an immigrant from Prussia to New York, not so fun fact. I am related to Benjamin Franklin, another fun fact.

None of it changes who I am.