I received my kit within a week and quickly registered it by adding its barcode to my account. Kits are tracked by number, not name, so you need to do this to get your results. Once I registered my kit online, a screen popped up with instructions that matched the packaging. Unfortunately I have had no matches at all, i’m sure that this can’t be correct. Mght it be something to do with us both having the same email address?

Race may also be identified as something you inherit while ethnicity is something you learn. Racial and ethnic minorities in the United States have historically studied abroad at lower rates than their counterparts. However, there have been small but consistent increases in study abroad participation rates among students of color. The students from underrepresented groups who do participate in study abroad programs are motivated by a variety of factors including cultural heritage.

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• The information on a lot of people isn’t clear with women listed only by their married names and some linked to incorrect people.
• Current laws like the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act prohibit employers or health insurance companies from discriminating against a person based on their genes, though that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen.
• It’s important to identify as many triangulated segments as possible, which means it‘s crucial to be in all the databases that support triangulation and provide tools.
• You are only playing into the hands of money-hungry and less than moral agents and jeopardizing a lot of peoples’ « personal » space in its broadest sense.

To be curious about where we come from is a common human instinct. It may even be particularly American, since almost all of us who were born here know that our people began somewhere else in the world. Some people comment that “ethnicity estimates are not an exact science”. I would only consider the Ashkenazi, East European and Balkan to be correct.

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2020 has seen more people delving into genealogy + DNA testing which means they need to understand both the results and the concepts underlying their results. While Genetic Groups isn’t actually ethnicity, per se, it’s a layer on top of ethnicity that provides you with locations where your ancestors might have been from and migrated to, based on genetic clusters. Clusters are defined by the locations of ancestors of other people within that genetic cluster. Each triangulated segment has an individual history that will lead not just to known ancestors, but to their unknown ancestors as well.