Dna tests

[JcMack]

Stuff happens
"4 Children for Sale", 1948 - Rare Historical Photos

 

[eveled]

I was surprised at my results. 3 sides of my family are from the Canadian east coast.

I always thought I was French.

Europe West 40%
Greek/Italy 20%
Ireland 17%
Iberian Peninsula 11%
Great Britain 5%
American 3%

All of this is interesting but. It doesn't even add up to 100%!
Why is Greek and Italian put together?

 

[GaryS]

I worked with a man who could trace his family back to one of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock. His father was the black sheep of the family because he married a Native American woman. The man I worked with was in his early 70s when I knew him back in the 1970s, so his parent likely married around the turn of the 20th Century.

I mention that only the context of your post as I found it interesting.

Two brothers have done the DNA tests. Both show English, Irish and Danish ancestors along with a variance. I shows 2% Native American which we knew came from the Pilgrim descendants. The other shows 2% Jewish.

 

[WR Moore]

I was surprised at my results. 3 sides of my family are from the Canadian east coast.

I always thought I was French.

Europe West 40%
Greek/Italy 20%
Ireland 17%
Iberian Peninsula 11%
Great Britain 5%
American 3%

All of this is interesting but. It doesn't even add up to 100%!
Why is Greek and Italian put together?

There was this thing called the Roman Empire waaaay back when. They owned Greece early.

 

[eveled]

So Greek and Italian are genetically the same? But Irish and English remained separate? Its mind boggling and fascinating.

It is interesting how DNA is solving cold cases, some 100 years or more old.

 

[steelslaver]

Interestingly 2 siblings will nor have exactly the same DNA. Each of you gets half from each parent, but not the same half.

My DNA shows a lot of cousins and My family was know for having lots of kids. First I have a lot of actual 1st cousins, But, my grandmother on my moms side and 2 of her sisters married 3 brothers. So all my moms cousins have the grandparents. All my second cousins on that side are the same as cousins genetically. My great grandma on my moms side had over 120 great grans kids. She had 8 kids and all of them had a bunch. One of my moms cousins had 21 kids. There is a photo around of her, my grandma, my mom, me and my oldest son. 5 generations. She lived to be 101, and was survived by 4 sisters 2 of them older than her, I was over 25 when she past.

I am also a true Mutt. Large groups of people with my DNA exist in the Boston area and the French Canadian area around Quebec. Ancestors showed up in both places early on. English, Scot, Irish, German, French, Native, Scandinavian. My great greats spread their genes everywhere.

 

[yaktamer]

Why is Greek and Italian put together?

Pepperoncinis?

 

[arjay]

Families were huge back in the day. One of my great grandfathers died at 30 leaving a widow with 9 kids,so she married again and had five more kids with a widower who had 10 children. I have a photo of her taken in the '30s (she was in her 70s ) and she looks tired!

 

[steelslaver]

Families were huge back in the day. One of my great grandfathers died at 30 leaving a widow with 9 kids,so she married again and had five more kids with a widower who had 10 children. I have a photo of her taken in the '30s (she was in her 70s ) and she looks tired!

No doubt she was tired. The women of that era were some tough cookies.

 

[The Preacher]

Nothing like putting one's DNA out on the open market....

 

[Imissedagain]

^^^^
Just traded two swabs for a minty RM.

 

[zeke]

The mere mention of family getting dna tested would send my mother and younger brother into an enraged hissy pissy fit.

 

[arjay]

Along with one of my sisters lol

 

[Beemerguy53]

Nothing like putting one's DNA out on the open market....

Well...your DNA isn't out there, per se. You have an account, with a username and password, and how much of that you share is up to you. You can create a family tree...or not. You can accept messages from DNA matches...or not. You can delve into your family history...or just be content with your ethnicity estimate.

And...nobody has any true privacy these days. Google your own name, and prepare to be shocked...

 

[Beemerguy53]

I joined Ancestry a number of years ago, when I was given the DNA test as a birthday gift.

I already knew my family was mostly German, and the test confirmed that. What was fascinating was the documentation Ancestry provided. I saw the passenger manifest for the ship my mother's grandfather sailed on when he came over here...my father's father's draft card from World War I...marriage and census records going back to 1900...photos of gravestones...

The biggest surprise was that on my paternal grandmother's side, the family had been here since before the Revolution. I had always thought my entire family had come here in the 1800s. And I learned the name of the village in northern Bavaria my father's grandfather came from. I visited there in 2019, and realized immediately why he left: there's nothing there but farms, a church, and a one-bay firehouse.

The DNA matches Ancestry sent me were, for the most part, cousins I already know, so I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of my DNA test. It's been an interesting, and worthwhile, learning experience...

 

[Secundius]

On my father's mother side of the family, they owned and operated a brothel/saloon somewhere in the slaughter house district that then existed in Cleveland, Ohio! My father's side of the family had some of the most colorful lives, if not less than reputable ones…


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[mtgianni]

I worked with a man who could trace his family back to one of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock. His father was the black sheep of the family because he married a Native American woman. The man I worked with was in his early 70s when I knew him back in the 1970s, so his parent likely married around the turn of the 20th Century.

I mention that only the context of your post as I found it interesting.

Teague Jones, born in 1620 in the Plymouth colony married into the Wamponoag Tribe. I think it wasn't uncommon for the Plymouth settlers to do that.

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

I've always claimed to be a Heinz 56 and that is good enough for me.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Generally only a problem if you or a relative become a serial killer . . .

Nothing like putting one's DNA out on the open market....

 

[Golddollar]

This is an actual happening that I just remembered. Years ago I was in the New Jersey State Chili Cookoff in Toms River, NJ. My cousin Larry and his wife lived in New Hope, PA, which is right on the Delaware River, and we made plans to meet each other at the cookoff. Larry and I spent a lot of time together back around Punxsutawney when we were growing up, but life sort of took over for quite awhile.

When we met up, Larry told me his wife, who I had never met before, asked him, "How are you going to find each other? You haven't seen each other in years?"

Larry's reply was, "We'll just look for our fathers."