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Grasswire2

(13,693 posts)
Tue Dec 14, 2021, 12:30 AM Dec 2021

evidently I made a big mistake on ordering DNA ancestry test kit

I thought I was simply buying the kit for a Christmas present because a family member wants to do it. But when it came to me in the postal mail, a notice also came to my ancestry account and the kit is meant to be used by me. Not given to someone else.

Ick!

How do I fix this?

Thanks in advance for advice!

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evidently I made a big mistake on ordering DNA ancestry test kit (Original Post) Grasswire2 Dec 2021 OP
I don't know but I wouldn't give samples of my DNA to one of these companies. CentralMass Dec 2021 #1
Yes, because out of the planet of 7 billion, they're just waiting for OnDoutside Dec 2021 #4
Yeah I find the "THEY are coming after little ole me" take amusing Doc Sportello Dec 2021 #5
Yeah I know people like this too. The thought of someone OnDoutside Dec 2021 #6
I get that, probably wouldn't do it if I weren't adopted. carpetbagger Jan 2022 #7
Try this link Historic NY Dec 2021 #2
Call them... ekelly Dec 2021 #3

Doc Sportello

(7,962 posts)
5. Yeah I find the "THEY are coming after little ole me" take amusing
Tue Dec 14, 2021, 09:38 AM
Dec 2021

I know someone who shreds everything because she thinks the powers-that-be are interested in her. We on the rabble side are just numbers to those with economic power. They don't care about specifics, unless something can benefit them.

carpetbagger

(4,705 posts)
7. I get that, probably wouldn't do it if I weren't adopted.
Sun Jan 9, 2022, 03:13 PM
Jan 2022

But it is tempting, there's always a scandal. My birth mother was told her father was a different person. My sister (also adopted) had this really bad father (rest of the bio family on both sides are wonderful), my ex-wife had a half brother after her parents divorced who was adopted out, DNA shows the ex husband was the father. My current wife's grandfather was a foundling. My adopted mother has a normal and boring family tree that is exactly what I expected, so there are exceptions.

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