Most of the women on my matrilineal side share the hobby of doing extensive research in family history. Like tracing the family tree back to the 1500s level. It’s kinda cool being able to have a cohesive story of where my family has been and what they’ve done or been through. It still seems kinda….feudal adjacent in a sense.

Idk my lefty self-crit sense is tingling. What’s the line on this? Obviously there is a great deal of white privilege in even being able to, but often enough privilege seems to be something everyone should have rather than nobody having it. Thoughts?

    • GriddlePill [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah I’m still mad my sibling did that 23 and me shit. The history stuff was like going through birth records and marriage certificates among other things.

    • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Genealogy isn't the same as those DNA tests. They can be used to aid genealogy, but they're definitely not necessary for it.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      If you’re white you probably don’t even need to do one yourself. Ask around in your family an chances are someone already did one

      is this a subtle jab at white people for being quick to hand over their genetic info to multinational companies?