Planning to give 23andMe or AncestryDNA kits this Christmas? Read this first.
HIGHWOOD, Ill. - This holiday season, Nicole Gemmato hopes to settle a long-running family feud, once and for all.
What is her family's heritage? Is her family Irish, Swedish, German, French, Italian, Dutch or all of the above? Her relatives have argued about it for years.
The Highwood woman plans to give genetic testing kits to her cousin and sister as gifts. They'll each spit in a tube, mail it off to be analyzed, and get some answers.
"I just think it will be interesting to see what we are for real," said Gemmato, 41. "We don't really know what we are."
In recent years, direct-to-consumer genetic tests have grown in popularity, including as holiday gifts. Companies that sell the tests tout them as ideal presents and offer seasonal discounts on their websites.
Some tests tell a
