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

[jtcarm]

If they tell you that you are Italian -Indian are you a Wopaho

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."

 

[jimmyj]

Jimmy is a true "Heinz 57".
I am going to live forever cause Heaven don't want me and Hell is scared of me

 

[snubbyfan]

Be proud of your heritage [emoji4]

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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]

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.

 

[TomkinsSP]

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

 

[Weimar]

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.

 

[DWalt]

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.

 

[PALADIN85020]

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.

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]

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

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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[arjay]

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

 

[DWalt]

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

I agree with that. From about WWI onward, I didn't see those large litters of kids, more like 2 or 3, about like today.

 

[Golddollar]

And, I would add, childhood mortality rates were high. 8 or 10 children usually meant 5 or 6 reaching adulthood and further reproducing QUOTE]

I used to work maintaining an old cemetery that held Revolutionary War veterans. I found a number of family groups where there were small tombstones for minor children. There were several examples of tombstones for young children where there two children in the same family who died within two weeks of each other. I guess there must have been some kind of epidemic going around at that time.

 

[yanici]

I am a descendant of Charlemagne, William the conqueror, some Vikings, French/English/Spanish and predominately Irish. Look up Fulk V the King of Jerusalem, another of my forefathers.

But alas I'm still a mutt too just like most of us. My brother who did all the research into our genealogy has joined all kinds of societies that only allow proven heritage to the past hierarchy. Me, I could care less . Woof-woof.

 

[Golddollar]

I don't have anybody famous in my family tree, but I am having a lot of fun playing Mexicans and Indians in movies, chili cook-offs and SASS.

 

[steelslaver]

2 siblings do not necessarily have the same DNA. Hardly.
I got 1/2 of my DNA from my dad and 1/2 from my mom as did my brother, but we probably did NOT get the same 1/2 from each

It is possible that an ancestor say 8 generations back was 100% B. Does not mean any will show up in all of the people in the 8th generation. 2nd gen will be 50%, but all of the 3rd will NOT be 25% Theoretically possible for one of them to have 0% if the 50% past on was the part with no B genes. The farther from the source the more likely none might be past on.

 

[500SNW]

I have a problem. I just got back the DNA data for both my parents and an uncle. Comparing theirs to mine, AncestryDNA rightly linked us all up as matches/close relatives...but I have two "trace regions" or "low confidence regions" which neither of my parents, nor my uncle have. Since I get everything from my parents...how can that possibly be?

 

[dougb1946]

The hobby in N Europe for centuries was, after spring planting, get the weapons and invade your neighbors. Kill as many as possible, rape as many as possible, take anything of value and a few slaves, and head home for harvest. Next generation was your neighbor , after spring planing, invading your little piece of heaven and returning the favor. In a large part of the world, the Roman army, with members from everywhere, did the invading and raping. England was invaded by everyone. Your blood lines will be mixed. And now, it seems that the oldest body dump in England (Cheddar man) had really dark skin. We have common ancestors, but we just don't like the neighbors. Fear of the stranger, and humans can be strange.

 

[fiasconva]

My wife got her results yesterday. Her mom was a war bride from Ireland so she thought that she was of mostly Irish decent. Turns out she was 57% Great Britain and only 13% Irish. She was even more Scandinavian than Irish. Ya just never know.

 

[CBus660R]

I have a problem. I just got back the DNA data for both my parents and an uncle. Comparing theirs to mine, AncestryDNA rightly linked us all up as matches/close relatives...but I have two "trace regions" or "low confidence regions" which neither of my parents, nor my uncle have. Since I get everything from my parents...how can that possibly be?

As I mentioned before, the databases are small, they rely on what their participants tell them, and are mostly comprised of Americans. That means there's lots of DNA markers they can't identify. Those 2 trace or low confidence regions could actually confirm your heritage, they're just not in their database as such yet.