father and son dna result

My wife is From El Salvador Central America. I have 2 continent's covered Europe and Africa, my son has 4 continent's covered North America, South American, Europe and Africa. Hopefully my grandkids can get Asia and Australia. They are in order of percentages top is the largest percentage.

My brothers and I have taken the AncestryDNA test. I'm a Montgomery by blood and a Sampson by adoption. So, I gave my brothers a "heads up": if, when I'm gone, there's a knock at your door and a Vietnamese or Greek kid asks you if his or her grandpa is home, invite 'em in; they may be kin.

I won’t take the Ancestry DNA test, because it is handing your most personal data to ... some business.
People sell lists of your consumer habits so you can be more effectively plundered.
Why would you hand over data this significant - and pay them ?

As our understanding of the genome increases, that data will reveal more and more. And you may wish you hadn’t paid someone else to own it.

Far be it from me to try to argue you or anybody else, who holds your view or a similar view of the nature of a human being's DNA data file but, IMO, the possibility that troubles you has a probability of 0 ever happening in this world. Having an actual DNA sample to work with and having a computer file of numbers are two different animals. Marvelous things can be done with spit, but with a list of numbers? I'm skeptical, to say the least.

• #AncestryDNA raw data download
  #This file was generated by AncestryDNA at: 04/21/2020 11:34:10 UTC
  #Data was collected using AncestryDNA array version: V2.0
  #Data is formatted using AncestryDNA converter version: V1.0
  #Below is a text version of your DNA file from Ancestry.com DNA, LLC. THIS
  #INFORMATION IS FOR YOUR PERSONAL USE AND IS INTENDED FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
  #ONLY. IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR MEDICAL, DIAGNOSTIC, OR HEALTH PURPOSES. THE EXPORTED DATA IS
  #SUBJECT TO THE AncestryDNA TERMS AND CONDITIONS, BUT PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE
  #DOWNLOADED DATA WILL NO LONGER BE PROTECTED BY OUR SECURITY MEASURES.
  #WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD YOUR RAW DNA DATA, YOU ASSUME ALL RISK OF STORING,
  #SECURING AND PROTECTING YOUR DATA. FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE ANCESTRYDNA FAQS.
  #
  #Genetic data is provided below as five TAB delimited columns. Each line
  #corresponds to a SNP. Column one provides the SNP identifier (rsID where
  #possible). Columns two and three contain the chromosome and basepair position
  #of the SNP using human reference build 37.1 coordinates. Columns four and five
  #contain the two alleles observed at this SNP (genotype). The genotype is reported
  #on the forward (+) strand with respect to the human reference.
  rsid chromosome position allele1 allele2
  rs3131972 1 752721 G G
  
• There are a total of 677,883 similar rows of data in the zip file which I extracted in order to show an example of what an AncestryDNA dna-data file contains.
• I suppose that it's conceivable and possible that some clever folks are able to artificially clone the person to whom the full list of dna data belongs, but, personally, I speculate that that's a possibility well in the realm of science fiction.
• Moreover, if you knew the person to whom the dna data belongs, I think a clone of the person would be a tad bit disappointing.

i wonder what you would say about entire hand or legs transplants, but well there is nothing intelligent like your post. amazing.

Howard Is said:

I won’t take the Ancestry DNA test, because it is handing your most personal data to ... some business.
People sell lists of your consumer habits so you can be more effectively plundered.
Why would you hand over data this significant - and pay them ?

As our understanding of the genome increases, that data will reveal more and more. And you may wish you hadn’t paid someone else to own it.

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To each there own. I am hopeful that 1000's of year's in the future my relatives will still be able to link to me through this data. I have voice samples, letter's to the future, memo's on what I've accomplished and all of it is Public. You could even access it. I've gave a DNA sample probably 5 years ago and you are correct it keeps getting better with the data. I am not concerned at all with anyone using it against me. All you have to do is read through my threads on the RF and you could get the same data.

bobhikes said:

I have 2 continent's covered Europe

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Bob,
I am an avid, amateur genetic genealogist, bordering on being a GG addict.
Now that you have your AncestryDNA results, consider increasing your pool of matches by downloading your unzipped raw AncestryDNA to your computer, going to www.familytreeDNA.com, registering, and uploading your raw file into familytreeDNA's "Family Finder" database (for free). A day or two later, you'll have another batch of matches to explore. (FTDNA offers free uploads, although they also offer a DNA test (for a charge) that performs the same kind of analysis that AncestryDNA offers. (For a charge of about $20, they'll also give you their version of ethnic background estimates, which will vary a bit from AncestryDNA's estimates.)
If and when you're ready to swim in the deep end of the genetic genealogy pool, go to www.gedmatch.com and upload your AncestryDNA raw data file there and potentially increase your pool of matches significantly.
Your view of DNA will never be the same. And who knows, you may even pick up some kids you left behind somewhere.