transit
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Remember, it doesn't "mess up results." The test simply reveals facts that may be in opposition to received information or family tradition.
DNA results in....I am a mutt...
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Remember, it doesn't "mess up results." The test simply reveals facts that may be in opposition to received information or family tradition.
transit
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You've misunderstood how that site works.
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What one must keep in mind is the histories of Ireland, UK, and Europe. Their people's are all mixtures of succeeding invasions from other areas. For example, Northern Ireland was a Viking stronghold for about 300 years. That is a lot of generations. The original Celts came from Hispania. Not to mention that individual DNA strands provide different characteristics in siblings. Finally, infidelity is a whole other topic.
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If you ever decide to check out your family history but can't afford it, just run for public office.
Targets Guy
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We all end up in Africa.
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Collo Rosso
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Oh boy...
Did you guys know wop came from Ellis Island? If you were missing forms or some other paperwork problem they hung a card around your neck W.O.P., "with out papers". Nationality didn't matter but somehow it stuck to my paisans.
Whitwabit
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Friend had that done and found out that a great,great,great could be more was wanted for murder .. he had some shady characters in his lineage ..
Funny how so many of us had longstanding family tales of at least one Indian ancestor no more than 3 or 4 generations back... but when I got into ancestry research in a big and serious way... absolutely nothing. 
No casino $$$ for me. 
Tales of old "Horse Thief TTSH" and his supposed hanging up in Vermont went away as well. 
I won't tell you who we did find in the family tree going back 10+ generations... it would be politically incorrect. 
No casino $$$ for me. Tales of old "Horse Thief TTSH" and his supposed hanging up in Vermont went away as well. I won't tell you who we did find in the family tree going back 10+ generations... it would be politically incorrect. Cardboard_killer
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One of the celebrities interviewed on the PBS show on ancestors had an ancestor who was an overseer. One of those he was over-seeing murdered him. The celebrity said, "Good!".
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Oh please, can we be serious here?
Italian blood would mean he’s descended from a Hollywood western tribe, possibly the Hekowi from the 60s series “F-Troop”, or the more common one known as “Extras.”
Jimmy is a true "Heinz 57".
I am going to live forever cause Heaven don't want me and Hell is scared of me
I am going to live forever cause Heaven don't want me and Hell is scared of me
I'm very proud of my heritage. Just wish my Dad and Uncle Roy had time to tell me more about it.
My grandfather was, as my Dad described it, a drunken Indian that killed himself with booze.
CBus660R
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My mom and I tested ours recently. She was raised that she was 100% Croatian, we have paperwork on both sets of her grandparents coming here in the early 1900's from the old country. She came back as 100% Balkan/Eastern European which works with her family history. What was interesting were my results. My dad always joked he was a western European mutt and all he knew for sure where his mom's parents were from England (we do know his maternal grandmother was born in London) yet the test says I have no English blood in me! I am 15% Irish/Scotch/Welsh and 10% Scandinavian (which, based on history, works with the English story). My last name is a German/Austrian name, but no German in my test results either. I came back as 67% Balkan/Eastern European and dad did say there was some Czech in him too. I also had some Iberian Peninsula (Spain/Portugal) and Ashkenazi Jew in me. I wish these tests were around when dad was still with us, they certainly do show he was correct about being a mutt! LOL
BTW, I've read up on these tests a bit and they should only be used for fun. The databases are pretty small and mostly come from Americans where they're relying on family history that can be a bit circumspect. They're not giving you false results, but if you have a DNA marker for a certain ethnicity that's not in their database, they can't confirm that ethnicity either, or they could be looking at a marker that shows for multiple ethnicities and then they have to pick one.
BTW, I've read up on these tests a bit and they should only be used for fun. The databases are pretty small and mostly come from Americans where they're relying on family history that can be a bit circumspect. They're not giving you false results, but if you have a DNA marker for a certain ethnicity that's not in their database, they can't confirm that ethnicity either, or they could be looking at a marker that shows for multiple ethnicities and then they have to pick one.
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TomkinsSP
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As luck would have it, mine just came back. Let's get it open and read it...
Lets see...
"Grandfather was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for..." uh, nevermind.
"Grandmother was a fifteen year old French..." uh, uh, didn't know that, "named Chloe, with webbed feet." Wow, this stuff is really detailed!
"Grandpa would womanize, he would drink," well he was a State Assemblyman.
"He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark." Wow, gramps was an inventor! "Sometimes he would accuse Chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius posess, and the insane lament." It says right here grandpa was a genius!
"My father's childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring he would make meat helmets. When he was insolent he was placed in a burlap bag..."
Wow all this from a cheek swab!
"and..." uh... "beaten... with... reeds... pretty... standard... really... At the age of 12 he recieved his first scribe... At the age of 14 a Zeroastrian named Vilma..." uh... "ritualusticly..." uh... "shorn..."wait a minute, this can't be right... see here.
"Mother was the founder of the millitant wing of the..." no, this cannot be right.
Oh,
Look,wrong address, this is for a Mr. Scott Evil.
Never mind
Lets see...
"Grandfather was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for..." uh, nevermind.
"Grandmother was a fifteen year old French..." uh, uh, didn't know that, "named Chloe, with webbed feet." Wow, this stuff is really detailed!
"Grandpa would womanize, he would drink," well he was a State Assemblyman.
"He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark." Wow, gramps was an inventor! "Sometimes he would accuse Chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius posess, and the insane lament." It says right here grandpa was a genius!
"My father's childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring he would make meat helmets. When he was insolent he was placed in a burlap bag..."
Wow all this from a cheek swab!
"and..." uh... "beaten... with... reeds... pretty... standard... really... At the age of 12 he recieved his first scribe... At the age of 14 a Zeroastrian named Vilma..." uh... "ritualusticly..." uh... "shorn..."wait a minute, this can't be right... see here.
"Mother was the founder of the millitant wing of the..." no, this cannot be right.
Oh,
Look,wrong address, this is for a Mr. Scott Evil.
Never mind
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Weimar
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My wife and I did one DNA test (not Ancestry) and it came back weird, but they used databases of where people with DNS like mine now live.
We next did Ancestry and it showed a couple percent Mali (Africa), mostly western european and some others.
My grandmother and my ex-brother in law both did a lot of accurate genealogy and takes our line back to around 1600's, but found Revolutionary War, Civil War etc. Their work matched much of what we found out via the DNA testing - my brother, (sisters daughter) niece and my results were very close.
The interesting story my grandmother found - a freed slave who served during the revolutionary war - his brother was AT Valley Forge and is in the official records (since he was a brother of a direct lineage, I presume that means he is related to me) - one of the ancestors was on the Mayflower (I know there are tens of thousands of decedents) and we were visiting a close friend in Scotland and he mentioned that his ancestor was Miles Standish - who was a friend of my ancestor! Pretty cool and amazing.
We next did Ancestry and it showed a couple percent Mali (Africa), mostly western european and some others.
My grandmother and my ex-brother in law both did a lot of accurate genealogy and takes our line back to around 1600's, but found Revolutionary War, Civil War etc. Their work matched much of what we found out via the DNA testing - my brother, (sisters daughter) niece and my results were very close.
The interesting story my grandmother found - a freed slave who served during the revolutionary war - his brother was AT Valley Forge and is in the official records (since he was a brother of a direct lineage, I presume that means he is related to me) - one of the ancestors was on the Mayflower (I know there are tens of thousands of decedents) and we were visiting a close friend in Scotland and he mentioned that his ancestor was Miles Standish - who was a friend of my ancestor! Pretty cool and amazing.
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DWalt
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Back when I was doing some serious genealogy research on my roots, the thing that surprised me the most was how prolific (and fertile) my earlier ancestors were. Having 8-10 kids (or more) was typical, even into the early 20th century. It must have been really hard on women.
The Ancestry and FamilySearch websites are mainly compilations of available early records - census, birth and death certificates, draft records, immigration records, etc. I tried looking up my wife's family. I found considerable information about her father's side (who were mainly from northern Ohio and upstate New York), but very little on her mother's side. Probably because her mother's family was from rural central Alabama and apparently there they weren't too much into keeping good records.
The Ancestry and FamilySearch websites are mainly compilations of available early records - census, birth and death certificates, draft records, immigration records, etc. I tried looking up my wife's family. I found considerable information about her father's side (who were mainly from northern Ohio and upstate New York), but very little on her mother's side. Probably because her mother's family was from rural central Alabama and apparently there they weren't too much into keeping good records.
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I found this true with my family tree also. I think the reason is that at that time, it was a largely agrarian environment. Kids were needed to work on the farms with their parents; if you didn't have enough help, you could create it...
John
Chromedhearts
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And, I would add, childhood mortality rates were high. 8 or 10 children usually meant 5 or 6 reaching adulthood and further reproducing
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Reliable birth control really changed things.I came across a photo of a great grandmother of mine taken in her 70s.She had 14-15 children.She looks exhausted
