DNA results in....I am a mutt...

IT COULD BE...

snubbyfan said:
Wow! I'll bet you were devastated when you found out that you have no American Indian blood.
Both my Dad and my Uncle Roy told me that we're Blackfoot. They taught me some phrases, words and a few stories.
It had been a family secret since both of them could pass for what was known as "Black Irish." Even though the Irish were discriminated against back in my Dad's generation, it still wasn't as back as being an Injun.
I'm not sure why but I show my Injuness more than they did.
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The tommyhawk in your profile pic. :rolleyes:
 
I had always been told that my great grandfather emigrated from Ireland and that I had a lot of Irish in me. Plus my last name, Lawler is an Irish surname. Did the DNA test with ancestrydotcom and lo and behold, I'm less than 1% Irish! I came in at over 60% Scandinavian, with about equal portions a little less than 10% of Great Britain, Italy/Greece, and East & West European. It's evidently accurate, because it identified several first cousins that I've been in contact with who definitely share ancestors with me.
 
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My wife had her DNA tested. I used to kid her all the time about being a hard headed Norwegian. Her mom has some Scandinavian ancestry.

Her DNA came back and she was really disappointed. Not as much Scandinavian as she thought. Seems there is some Scot and German in there also. She hasn't said too much about it since.

She wanted me to have mine done and I told her I already knew what it was and it wasn't good. I'm related to an Irishman from Ulster that hit these shores in 1750. DNR certified. The DHS knows I'm here. ;)
 
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Mine says 100% European and so far it is proving right as I am working on my family tree. Although I do have less German than I thought, it's mostly Scotland, England, Ireland and Welsh. But I knew about some of it from stories I heard as a child. So yeah, I'm just an ordinary white guy.
 
My brother and I both sent ours in to ancestry at the same time.

Our results were very different - I am 50% western European and he is 50% British. The only thing that was the same was 13% Scandinavian. But the results showed us as full siblings.

The other 1/3 of mine looks like a list of peoples enslaved by the Roman empire.
 
armadillo said:
My brother and I both sent ours in to ancestry at the same time.

Our results were very different - I am 50% western European and he is 50% British. The only thing that was the same was 13% Scandinavian. But the results showed us as full siblings.

The other 1/3 of mine looks like a list of peoples enslaved by the Roman empire.
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How does that work?
 
Three things I'm sure of.....

African, just like everybody.
England (Father)
Holland (Mother)

What came before that is anybody's guess.

I do have Royal Blood though. I'm related to Lydia Smith, the "Queen of the Okefenokee Swamp". She was quite a character. Backed men down. Got rich from selling timber for rail ties for the East Coast Railroad. Bribed the Sheriff to get her 'Baby Doll' (Much younger husband) out of jail, walked straight to the bank and cancelled the check.
 
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I pretty well know mine, mostly through documents and records
which family members went clear to Brit isle and Europe to
track marriages, births, courts and ships manifests. There are
a few holes that they never solved but solid in US back into
late 1600s. I spit in bottle too, which makes me skeptical of these
results against the documented proof. I only live 150mi West of
where family was in 1776. Instead of the hill of Old Virginny, I'm
in the hills of SE Ohio. DNA gives us more Native American blood
than documents do. Not enough for a piece of the casinos. The
interesting thing I found was a copy of a had draw map 1777
had our homestead on Sandy Fork of the Cheat River ( now WVa)
and a lage number of other settlers in that area, by surnames
all ended up over here in Ohio in same area by 1780s. Gene pool
was pure around here until Flat Landers and other rabble came
in to work mines in late 1800s.
 
If I go back five generations on my dad's side four of my grandparents were born and lived there entire lives in Denmark, two were born in England, one in Ireland, and one (my wild card) was Pennsylvania Dutch with an old American blood line that goes back all the way to the Mayflower.

Of this generation of eight paternal grandparents, thanks to the work of other relatives, I know all their birth and death dates, when and where they were born and married, their children, and lines of decent.

My Dad had his DNA tested about six months ago and it came back almost a perfect match to his known bloodline. A little bit of French, which was unexpected, probably from our Dutch "Heinz 57".

No Indian blood, but when I looked back another two generations I did have a set of grandparents who lived on the western Pennsylvania frontier who had their barn and cabin burned to the ground by an Indian raiding party.

They survived by retreating, along with their children and neighbors, to a stone block house which was a short distance away, built and maintained by the community precisely for that purpose.

Faimly lore says all the exitment and commotion caused my grandmother, who was 9 months pregnant, to go into labor precisely as the Indians were attacking and had the settlers under siege and lock in their bunker. Parts of that block house survive to this day.
 
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Maddog 521 said:
I've often wondered if the government gets that DNA information and then puts it into a data bank. Just wondering
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Not the government. For many years the mormans have been collecting DNA from all over the world and they are the ones running the DNA sites. Nothing against the mormans here. Just not sure why they want all the samples along with the seed storage in the artic. Just out of curiosity I looked up my Father's name on acestry.com and the info. Was wrong. When I asked them about it I was told that the accuracy of the info. Is up to the one putting it in and that they are not responsible for it. How confident would you be about tracing your ancestry on such a site. Just saying.

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My research was very interesting, to say the least--my maternal grandfather was born in White Springs, Fl and grew up in Ocala and Palatka. We always thought we were of Seminole heritage, but found that we from an offshoot of the Seminole tribe---it was known as the Semi-oles,
we was a sort of half-assed tribe.
olcop
 
When I am entered in a chili cooking contest or Cowboy Action Shooting event I dress up to portray a Pancho Villa era Mexican. My brother is blue-eyed and has the northern Europe appearance. He patronizes a Mexican grocery store and when he goes in he is greeted in perfect English. Wearing my glasses and black overcoat, I went in to that store with my brother and we were greeted in Spanish. I told my brother that I wasn't even trying to be in character and he said that is what made it so funny. He thinks I was mistaken for an immigration attorney.
 
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