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You won’t necessarily get useful answers
Really disappointed with the results. The DNA results revealed much less than I already knew about my family tree. If I had been starting my ancestral research from these DNA results I’d have got nowhere and, with one bizarre outlier geographical result, lead up a garden path. On reading the small print the margins of error are relatively large. So a 1% reading for a very specific geographical source area is caveated in the small print as actually “between 0-4%” which in my case is certainly 0% as the result is such an enormous outlier. I’m sure for others, especially those living where mass immigration has occurred in the past (think eg USA, Australia) the DNA testing might produce useful and interesting information. But remember, DNA gets, roughly, randomly split 50-50 from your parents and so on back up the line and there’s no way of knowing what DNA has not been passed to you. So if you have ancestors you know are from a far away land a long time ago but aren’t sure where, there is a chance that none of their DNA reaches you and then the DNA results won’t help your search.