I recently had DNA testing done and I used to separate DNA testing companies. So basically I found out that I am of one lineage only 99.7% in fact. But what I realized is that I believe we all hope to find out some thing magical in our DNA testing. It’s as if we want to know that we are part something else. We want to find out that we are a mix of many different cultures and many different things that eventually make up the person we are today. So I guess in someways I was a bit disappointed because I was hoping to have this special connection to something else and in fact I didn’t. But then you wonder how positive it could be that your DNA line comes basically from the single stock of a tree. Usually something like this would have a lot of DNA issues where people have birth defects and things like that but in my case according to the markers for genetic illnesses I had no signs of any issues whatsoever.
It’s pretty easy to go and have your DNA tested these days and the prices pretty reasonable but I think that the majority of people will not find themselves to be extremely surprised and at this point with the limited numbers of people who have the testing done you probably will not find many close relatives if any at all through DNA testing. Secretly I was hoping to find out that I had a stepbrother or stepsister but that didn’t happen either. So maybe in time more people get tested and I’ll find out more to the mystery of who I am even though I can pretty much tell that there isn’t a mystery to it at all.