Quote Originally Posted by TheMcManus View Post
It is my understanding that the Ancestry.com DNA testing is not all together very good.
For example they use only a sample of 100 people from the West coast of Ireland as the "Irish" baseline.
Lack of samples is a problem with a great number of these services. I think I posted it before, but I saw a TV story several years ago about three services that targeted black families and promised to find their tribal roots. The reported submitted to all three and got three different tribes back. As he questioned the companies they revealed that they all used different samples and some had exclusive agreements with tribes so the others could never have those samples. When asked why they would not combine databases for the good of the community, they all said because they were in this as a business to make profit, not to provide community service.

I can not imagine that Ancestry.com is any different.

Besides, don't you have to start wearing your kilt backwards if they say you are Scottish?