Ancestory DNA

[vonn]

My family got a deal and five of us sent ours in at Christmas,no results yet. My sister and cousin have done the paper trail research back to I think 13 generations so we will see how it matches up with that and how close the results match to each other.

 

[Erich]

Isn't Jewish a religion as opposed to a race of people?

This article in a Jewish newspaper may be of interest:

Newer DNA Tests Uncover Hidden Jewish Bloodlines – Forward.com

and so might this PBS page:

Ashkenazi Jewish DNA and the Potential to Piece Together Shattered Family Branches | Finding Your Roots | PBS

 

[hittman77]

Seems an incredible waste of money and effort to me but ..... to each their own. I'm more interested in knowing where I'm going than where ancestors "may" have been.

Call me skeptical about the whole thing.

 

[carpriver]

I have been told that my mothers side of the family were Scot-Irish, family supposedly migrated to this country in the 1600's. they came here because the British raised the cost of the families lease on the land they had been living on for a couple hundred years. Being priced out of the land and not being able to return to ireland, the were forced to migrate to the colonies. Some ended up in New Hampshire and some moving to michigan.

My Dad family reportedly can from Wales in the late 1600's

Both my mother maiden name is traced make to the Viking settlers, my father's family name is walsh meaning Saddle maker.

 

[Targets Guy]

All of us essentially come from Africa. Couple of spots there.

 

[DavidWJ]

Serious doubts about DNA tracing without blood. Even when dogs are tested, only blood is used. What kind of questionaire did you fill out?

 

[rwsmith]

Our son....

We know our son's birth mother side, clearly North European but we don't know about the father's side, except that he might have had some Hispanic background. Our son really looks Samoan. When he was little we did one of the DNA tests that only showed some possible Eaurasian descent. Someone told me that they have come a long way in 17 years and we could get a lot more information. Unfortunately, after a fire and lot of other stuff we don't have the identification number. But for $100 it would be worthwhile to start again. My son says he's not interested it in that after he got over serious issues of abandonment. It wouldn't be such a big deal, except that he's obvious of some extraction outside of your typical European/American and I'm really curious.

 

[armadillo]

My brother and I got tested through Ancestry.com at the same time last year. They identified us a siblings, but almost all of our information was different.

We know about our great grandparents and they are 6-German, and 1 each Dutch and Scotch-Irish - but the only common factor was that we are both 13% Scandinavian.

 

[wbraswell]

I find it all fascinating. I love genealogy, and greatly appreciate what the internet has done for family research. I know most of my ancestors of European descent, but I have a couple of lines of American Indians that I need to work on. I plan on sending my DNA to them before long. I have never worried or cared about what my ancestors did, or who they were. I don't care if they were famous or "royalty". (Why would you want to come from inbred tyrants?) I find it humorous that some are horrified that one of their ancestors was hanged or a criminal. Most of mine were farmers, a couple of preachers, and a couple of local planters. I live in Texas, Hell you can't get much more "royal" than that.

 

[Tom S.]

I had mine and my daughter's done last year. I told her I wanted to make sure the post man's background didn't show up in her history instead of mine. No real surprises in either results. Well, other than the canine showing up in mine. Not sure what to think about that...

 

[smokindog]

My wife and I did this with a Black Friday 30% off deal. Got our results after Christmas. It was about $150 TTL for the two of us. Decided to do this for "our gifts". Not really any surprises except that I'm 10% revolver and 22% carbine

The more fun has really been building the family tree. As someone said, the two activities aren't co-dependent. We did get a discount on the ancestry website with the DNA test.

Much of my tree returns to Europe within 100 years and, of course, that's yet another paid membership (there's a trend to this as you go deeper)! My maternal grandfather does go back to the late 1700's or early 1800's in Ohio and in areas I didn't expect. Confirmed some family lore and "explained" others in the research.

Not sure I'll do much more beyond the initial membership. Can't recall if it was 6 mos or 12 mos for $49 with the DNA kit.

 

[Arik]

Isn't Jewish a religion as opposed to a race of people?

It's both

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[Arik]

Serious doubts about DNA tracing without blood. Even when dogs are tested, only blood is used. What kind of questionaire did you fill out?

Blood isn't needed although it's the most popular way.

98% Toothbrushes, Ear Wax, Hair with root, Dried blood

95% Nail clippings, mucous on tissue, chewing gum

93% Razors, Baby toys, clothing, dental floss

85% Bottles, cans, forks, spoons, cigarettes



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[Muss Muggins]

This article in a Jewish newspaper may be of interest:

Newer DNA Tests Uncover Hidden Jewish Bloodlines – Forward.com

and so might this PBS page:

Ashkenazi Jewish DNA and the Potential to Piece Together Shattered Family Branches | Finding Your Roots | PBS

I took a cold rainy day opportunity yesterday during the NFL games to do some similar research, just because I was curious. It seems to be a much more complicated answer that I first imagined . . .

 

[Muss Muggins]

Serious doubts about DNA tracing without blood. Even when dogs are tested, only blood is used. What kind of questionaire did you fill out?

At least around here, LEO's have gone almost exclusively to mouth swabs to collect DNA from suspects/incarcerated persons.

 

[Salty RI]

I wish I could trust in the accuracy of those ancestry tests, then I might order one. Right now I am not convinced. And in any event, I don't care that much what the results might be or their value to me. Call me a skeptic.

I'm with you, I think they use a dart board.

 

[Bullet Bob]

I don't think I'll do DNA testing, but it is interesting - almost everything is, really.

It's got to be more accurate than family history, because people have always been people, and messing around is what we do.

I'm sure than anyone who is reading this all have ancestors that were pure as the driven snow D), but those other folks, well, you can be sure of who your mother is. Mostly. I knew a girl who's mother was her (half) sister, but she was raised by her grandmother as her own - didn't find out until she was an adult.

Here's a youtube clip of a song about the subject by Mike Cross, a real favorite of mine:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmZiRlksg0w[/ame]

 

[Comrad]

I'm American.

 

[walkinghorse]

I would do it but I think it might come back 1% Cocker Spaniel.

You would be a lucky man then!
Mine would be porcupine, or hedgehog, hopefully stay mammal ?

 

[chaparrito]

DNA tests don't trace family. They will give you a breakdown of your very ancient DNA percentages from world regions. I knew both sides of my family back to the 1500s in Wales and Spain, and still found many surprises. I used 23andMe for the test. 23andMe includes an assessment of genetic disease markers as well, which is interesting and might be a bit scary.
My wife is a 4/4 blood ******* American Indian. I suggested we do her DNA and for a long time she resisted, saying "what for?". Her ancestral village here in AZ was occupied for a long time in the 17th C. by the Spanish. I told her "I bet we can find a Spaniard in the woodpile". She finally relented and sure enough, her test came back 97% Native American DNA and 3% Iberian/North African.