@BlackAzizAnansi One of my great great great uncles was a drunken murderer - "desperado" in the old West and was rounded up and killed by a town posse in a somewhat fiery shootout. It was dramatic enough an ending for my Uncle that it made the papers in New York which my family genology work later discovered.
@BlackAzizAnansi My father's older sister, Aunt Jo, who lived with us all thru my childhood was actually my grandmother and his mother, as well as being his sister.
@BlackAzizAnansi my mother had a sister, older than her, who ran away from home at age 18. Nobody had seen or heard from her since. My generation often wondered about her, but then we found out that she was extremely abusive towards her siblings, a bit of a sadist, and the reason nobody talked about her was that she was so reviled everyone was relieved when she finally ran away.
@BlackAzizAnansi Not really a secret just sad and nobody talks about it. My aunt kidnapped my grandma who was in late stage dementia, to manipulate her into leaving her inheritance to my aunt. Nobody knew where they were hiding until someone in the family hired a PI. When they were tracked down, the PI was met at the edge of the property by someone brandishing a gun, and the investigation ended there. My mom didn't know her mom had passed away until years after it happened
Commercial DNA tests are a textbook example of data value disparities. For the purchaser (subject) they solve - at best - curiosity. For the owners of the data, they provide a non-fungible, exploitable, profitable data source - for generations of your family. Your progeny don't ever get to consent to have their DNA used against them.
@BlackAzizAnansi My great grandmother wouldn't tell her son, my grandfather, who his dad was. He asked her on her deathbed, and she wouldn't tell him. She then died. So, I don't know what my real last name is.🤷🏾♀️
@StillIRise1963@FitsofPique@Peternimmo@katmckatniss@BlackAzizAnansi@paul_ipv6 Absolutely not. And it’s worth pointing out that race is a cultural invention, and doesn’t even exist in genetics — but I have zero confidence that there isn’t somebody stupid and/or monstrous enough to try it anyway if given the chance.
@BlackAzizAnansi my uncle got friend of his pregnant. Didn't want a child, so he just told her it was her problem. She had the baby, *stayed friends with my uncle* and everyone just decided to not say anything. This girl grew up knowing *nothing* about her dad... Even though she knew him very well as a friend of her mother's.
Obviously she found out, but not until she was a whole ass adult. And, in a completely unsurprising turn of events, she was righteously and royally fucking pissed off.