{"id":7961,"date":"2018-11-16T18:55:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7961"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:55:15","slug":"my-dna-is-in-the-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7961","title":{"rendered":"My DNA Is In the Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I can’t decide if I like the\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/em> <\/a>ads for AncestryDNA\u00a0<\/a><\/em>with Kelly Ripa or not. My DNA results don’t pinpoint my origins with the precision that Ripa’s apparently did–that’s not a big surprise. That doesn’t really bother me either–advertising is what it is and there are ways to avoid Facebook and television advertisements. I didn’t take my DNA test for the ethnicity results–but that’s how Ancestry.com<\/em> <\/a>is marketing the test.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, the more people who test at\u00a0AncestryDNA<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>the higher the chance I get some match that’s a new revelation to me. That’s probably what excites me more about the advertisements than anything else: the hope that in a few months I may have some unexpected and closer matches.<\/p>\n

Of course, I’ll probably have to determine by myself who they are and how they connect.<\/p>\n

And in all the fun facts about DNA testing at Ancestry.com<\/em> <\/a>, it’s rare to see them warn people that they may find close kin they had no idea existed and that there may be a family squabble as a result.<\/p>\n

There’s always a chance that someone may use that boot to kick themselves in the rear when they see their test results <grin>.<\/p>\n

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I can’t decide if I like the\u00a0Ancestry.com ads for AncestryDNA\u00a0with Kelly Ripa or not. My DNA results don’t pinpoint my origins with the precision that Ripa’s apparently did–that’s not a big surprise. That doesn’t really bother me either–advertising is what it is and there are ways to avoid Facebook and television advertisements. I didn’t take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}