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I don't get it. I see the ads. Some guy discovers that his background isn't German but Irish, and then gives his old Lederhosen to Goodwill. Some woman finds out she has some Native American ancestry, and starts collecting Native American pottery. Who cares, really?
I know my parents. I knew my grandparents. Frankly, I don't care about my "heritage." I'm supposed to be Scottish/Irish in genetic background. But, what on earth is significant about that? My brother had a red beard. Was there a stray Viking in the family genes? Probably, but, again, who cares?
My wife's great-grandfather came to the US from Norway. He spoke Norwegian, as did my wife's grandmother, his daughter. Ever since then, everyone spoke English. I'm the only one in the extended family who can say the traditional Norwegian table grace and pronounce it correctly. Nobody else cares about any of that, except peripherally.
We are who we are. We are what we have become. We are not what our ancestors were.
Save your money. Skip it. It doesn't matter, anyhow, really.