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Ancestry/Genealogy

grasswire

(50,130 posts) Sat Feb 28, 2015, 06:24 PM Feb 2015

anyone familiar with this Dr. Spence who claims that DNA analysis is a HOAX? [View all]

http://www.spenceforensics.com/dnaancestry.html

Egad. My cousin is all wrought up over this. His sisters were entreating him to get swabbed. Some sort of paranoia has set in; he cites this Dr. Spence.

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anyone familiar with this Dr. Spence who claims that DNA analysis is a HOAX? [View all] grasswire Feb 2015 OP

My Grandmother was Dutch. Turbineguy Feb 2015 #1

Uh oh...sounds like somebody is afraid... ret5hd Feb 2015 #2

well I never thought of that possibility grasswire Feb 2015 #3

anti-vaxxer and... ret5hd Feb 2015 #4

ha! grasswire Feb 2015 #5

I read the link & the Telegraph article. Hmm, just about to send in my kit too. I wonder if there appalachiablue Feb 2015 #6

Well the test I did pipi_k Feb 2015 #8

Thanks for the info., good to know. 46 pages of relations interesting. Looking forward to our appalachiablue Mar 2015 #11

Found some interesting info myself. PyaarRevolution Jan 2016 #14

You could ask the people at this blog llink: http://www.uncommondescent.com/off-topic/ba77s-off-topi Joe Chi Minh Apr 2015 #13

Forgot to mention, some companies permit you to match/find relatives with same DNA appalachiablue Feb 2015 #7

Something about that webpage made me feel like I need to run Norton. DebJ Mar 2015 #9

yeah, weird grasswire Mar 2015 #10

I don't know anything about this Dr. Spence, Matilda Mar 2015 #12