I got a DNA ancestry test

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I'm a bit surprised with the results, although I've read this website tends to overestimate Scandinavian and Jewish ancestry. I uploaded it to other servers and they break this Scandinavian into a Baltic part too. I heard 23andme is better but it isn't possible to use it on Brazil. Did anyone ever take those kind of test?

I've been tempted to try something like 23 and Me, because I don't really know the ancestry of my dad's side of the family...but I don't know what good that information would really do me =)

I've done some of the more narrow ones, but not a general one like this. I think they're all interesting. I don't think the notion of exact percentages from different "groups" is necessarily accurate, but the picture they gave you is probably about what one would expect for someone or European ancestry from Brazil.

Does the part from the Americas represent native populations as far as you know, or is that also a European portion?

They have a classification for "pure" Native American as well Amazonian Indigenous people, which I didn't scored. This category of Central America is described as mixed of Spanish and Indigenous people.

I got surprised I didn't scored anything for Italian – my grandmother was born in Trieste, so maybe she had Slovenian origin instead of italian? I wanted to be italian

Also, almost 9% of Ashkenazi jew sounds a lot to be just a mistake of the site (was I believe the nigerian % is), and the result was consistent when I tried on another website.

I really wanted to know more about my ancestors but nobody from my family seems very interested and there isn't much data.

I basically already know mine - half Norwegian & probably a bit of Swede also, 1/4 mostly German & 1/4 Anglo-American something-rather.

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The data can be used to track you down. Remember that wild party when you woke up the next morning in bed with a strange woman? Well, surprise, daddy! A child was born about 9 months later, and he or she looks exactly like you!

It can also be used to track down a relative through you -- a relative who may have committed a heinous crime 20 years ago, and who has kept it hidden from everyone until now.

I know for sure that I am of German and Italian descent. My aunt did a DNA study and uncovered some Greek ancestry. That could explain my strong interest in that part of the world.

I bought a test set as well, because there are certain "things" I can´t find through normal registres (church protocols). I grew up with the story, that part of my fathers family were ashkenazi. It was a big thing round the family table.... but I can´t find anything registered. A small portion of ashkenazi dna will convince me. Otherwise, I have cracked yet another family myth

I always wanted to do this but don't like the idea of some random company having my DNA. Or worse, the government.
Do you need to provide them your personal information?