Thread: Ancestry DNA Test and Family Trees

Originally Posted by sharptonn

UBock.org, Mark. Takes 30 seconds to install. It is certainly still there, but you cannot see it!

What a distraction that crap is!

Apple's co-founder, Woz*, tapes his front-facing laptop camera and calls out the thing that frightens him the most -- smartphones -- 24/7/365 mobile surveillance devices that practically no sane owner would consider ever turning off even for a few minutes. Checked hundreds upon hundreds times a day.

Oh, so back to web browser extensions (I'm using these on Mozilla.org Firefox). uBlock and...

uMatrix
CanvasBlocker
Decentraleyes
Disconnect
HTTPS Everywhere
Privacy Badger
Smart Referer

Plus I have some DuckDuckGo and Bitdefender privacy tools. We passed the entry point for Orwell's 1984 many years ago. At least as far back as the major telecoms helping the NSA spy freely on any and all citizens in this country. But, heck, the internet, and now especially smartphones....the tracking possibilities are endless.

Future dystopian world, here we come!

** Edit -- Noticed via the daily b-day post that Steve Wozniak's birthday is 8/11. How funny!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Cangooner, sounds like you are your own Grandpa?

Oh man, I haven't heard that song for a long, long time!

Originally Posted by RezDog

I had mine tested. As I suspected I am eleven shades of beige. A true blue, total and complete mutt. So the screen name rings true all the way through my DNA test.

This is EXACTLY what I am expecting.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

Oh man, I haven't heard that song for a long, long time!

OH! How about the hillbillies in a haunted house?

Originally Posted by ScottGoodman

This is EXACTLY what I am expecting.

Mutts are the best!

Here in the U.S., after 9/11/01...so many laws were written just for iformation gathering. While I believe it was intended for Government Sectors...but all the users Agreements give them rights ro everything you do with their programs. I do know how to "go dark" if need be...but right now I want to see if King Tut is kin to me

My stepdaughter used 23 and Me. She was trying to find her biological father..... and she did!

It is a longer story than I care to type just now but I was elated that she found him. It meant a lot to her.
They have now visited each other a number of times and he keeps in touch with her on a regular basis.
She knew of her Vietnamese ancestry of course but now knows she is also English and Irish!
She was shown a photo of her great grandmother on her fathers side and she bears an uncanny resemblance.
She now has a much larger family!
Some good things do happen .......

I had 2 great-aunts...one on my mother's side, one on my father's...
who got into a geneolgy competition many years ago. My great-aunt
on my mother's side traced her lineage all the way back to some
original colonists, one of whom was an actual Minuteman at Lexington.
She ended up qualifying to join the Daughters of the American Revolution.
This made my great-aunt on my father's side jealous.

So she began to investigate her lineage as well. But we never heard
anything about the result of her research. So, after she died, I asked
my father what she had uncovered.

He just laughed. It turns out that, on my father's side, our first American
ancestors were convicts, deported from England to the Georgia Penal Colony,
for stealing sheep.

Old Aunt Elsie was so mortified that she gave up on the project and never
mentioned it again.

I guess that makes me a WASP with a warrant.

Thsts still some cool history!

Sent it off Monday!