Author Topic: Ancestory DNA test kits. (Read 2776 times)

Wingnut · « **on:** March 13, 2019, 03:37:33 am »

Anyone else send theirs off for testing?

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #1 on:** March 13, 2019, 05:41:12 am »

Nope. When my brother goes on a five-state murder spree I don't want the DNA test to finger me for it.

Sighlass · « **Reply #2 on:** March 13, 2019, 08:29:46 am »

I read the Feds are getting access to the results and fingering folks with it. It ain't private, I don't care for it.... (not that I have done anything, but dna results also affect family members).

Bigun · « **Reply #3 on:** March 13, 2019, 10:04:59 am »

I have DNA kits at Ancestry and FTDNA so if I disappear you will know why.

Seriously, it has helped me connect with many relatives I would otherwise have never met.

sneakypete · « **Reply #4 on:** March 13, 2019, 01:12:54 pm »

Quote from: Bigun on March 13, 2019, 10:04:59 am

I have DNA kits at Ancestry and FTDNA so if I disappear you will know why.

Seriously, it has helped me connect with many relatives I would otherwise have never met.

@Bigun

Let that be a lesson to you.

mountaineer · « **Reply #5 on:** March 13, 2019, 01:21:57 pm »

The possibility of bad guys getting the information did occur to me, but I really wanted to know whether family lore about Shawnee ancestry was true, so I did the test. No injun blood, as it turns out.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 13, 2019, 01:41:41 pm »

Quote from: Bigun on March 13, 2019, 10:04:59 am

I have DNA kits at Ancestry and FTDNA so if I disappear you will know why.

Seriously, it has helped me connect with many relatives I would otherwise have never met.

Same here. Several previous genealogical finds were speculative, until I had some genetic proof. My criminal record has been limited to speeding tickets, so I find the risk (at least in my case) minimal.

mystery-ak · « **Reply #7 on:** March 13, 2019, 01:46:20 pm »

Quote from: The Ghost on March 13, 2019, 03:37:33 am

Anyone else send theirs off for testing?

I did mine at Christmas..it was dead on....one surprise was that I am 13% Swedish......no one knows where that came from...mostly Eastern Europe...

sneakypete · « **Reply #8 on:** March 13, 2019, 01:52:36 pm »

Quote from: mystery-ak on March 13, 2019, 01:46:20 pm

I did mine at Christmas..it was dead on....one surprise was that I am 13% Swedish......no one knows where that came from...mostly Eastern Europe...

@mystery-ak

Why would that be surprising when it was the Vikings that settled Eastern Europe? Russia got it's name from the Viking tribe known as the "Rus".

mystery-ak · « **Reply #9 on:** March 13, 2019, 01:58:34 pm »

Quote from: sneakypete on March 13, 2019, 01:52:36 pm

@mystery-ak

Why would that be surprising when it was the Vikings that settled Eastern Europe? Russia got it's name from the Viking tribe known as the "Rus".

Hmmmm...interesting..didn't think about that...

Ethnicity Estimate

Germanic Europe39%

Eastern Europe & Russia38%

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland & Lithuania

MaÅ‚opolska & the Tatras

Poland, Slovakia, Hungary & Romania

Hungary & Slovakia

Sweden13%

England, Wales & Northwestern Europe6%

Ireland & Scotland4%

truth_seeker · « **Reply #10 on:** March 13, 2019, 02:00:42 pm »

Quote from: sneakypete on March 13, 2019, 01:52:36 pm

@mystery-ak

Why would that be surprising when it was the Vikings that settled Eastern Europe? Russia got it's name from the Viking tribe known as the "Rus".

I believe there must have been a good amount of travel around the Baltic region, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Russia, and the Swedes. etc

catfish1957 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 13, 2019, 02:02:46 pm »

Quote from: mystery-ak on March 13, 2019, 01:58:34 pm

Hmmmm...interesting..didn't think about that...

Same here, I am as Anglo as they come... English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh descent.... Still test came back 5% Nowegian. Norseman did a number on the Island about 1200 years ago.

Bigun · « **Reply #12 on:** March 13, 2019, 02:11:22 pm »

61% England, Wales, and Northwestern Europe
29% Scotland and Ireland
5% Iberian Peninsula
2 other regions

Elderberry · « **Reply #13 on:** March 13, 2019, 02:24:26 pm »

My Breakdown:

European 97%

British Isles 46%
East Europe < 2%
Finland < 2%
Scandinavia 13%
West and Central Europe 38%

My Better Half's Breakdown:

East Central Africa < 2%
West Africa 2%
North and Central America 63%
South America 3%
East Asian 2%
Siberia 2%
Southeast Asia < 1%
North Africa < 2%
Southeast Europe 26%

sneakypete · « **Reply #14 on:** March 13, 2019, 02:26:50 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on March 13, 2019, 02:02:46 pm

Same here, I am as Anglo as they come... English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh descent.... Still test came back 5% Nowegian. Norseman did a number on the Island about 1200 years ago.

@catfish1957

Well,as the girls have been saying since the dawn of history,"Hi,sailor! New in town?". Boys will be boys and girls will be girls,and don't kid yourself. The people back then have a VERY good understanding of the value of fresh blood to the survival of their tribe. When the occasional redheaded and blue or green-eyed child showed up after a birth,everybody would say "WOW! Lookit that! How cute!" and just pretend it was normal.

For the same reasons,that child was never lacking in attention from the opposite gender once they hit puberty.

Got NOTHING to do with morality or a lack of morality,and EVERYTHING to do with the survival of the human race. It is instinctive and needs no thought or reasoning. It's the human part of human nature,

Victoria33 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 13, 2019, 02:35:55 pm »

Quote from: mystery-ak on March 13, 2019, 01:46:20 pm

I did mine at Christmas..it was dead on....one surprise was that I am 13% Swedish......no one knows where that came from...mostly Eastern Europe...

@mystery-ak

I also did mine at Christmas because the kit was on sale. Right now I'm in the kitchen on small computer. When I go back to my work area with main computer, I'll list the results here. I haven't filled out the family tree thingy yet. Did you do that?

Elderberry · « **Reply #16 on:** March 13, 2019, 02:48:39 pm »

Quote from: Victoria33 on March 13, 2019, 02:35:55 pm

@mystery-ak

I also did mine at Christmas because the kit was on sale. Right now I'm in the kitchen on small computer. When I go back to my work area with main computer, I'll list the results here. I haven't filled out the family tree thingy yet. Did you do that?

Family Tree Thingy?

Yes, but I haven't done much with it for a long time. I currently have 3,535 people on it and I have 14,427 Hints listed to go thru.

Bigun · « **Reply #17 on:** March 13, 2019, 02:51:41 pm »

Quote from: Elderberry on March 13, 2019, 02:48:39 pm

Family Tree Thingy?

Yes, but I haven't done much with it for a long time. I currently have 3,535 people on it and I have 14,427 Hints listed to go thru.

My tree currently has 14425 names in it. My wive has a similar number.

mystery-ak · « **Reply #18 on:** March 13, 2019, 02:56:28 pm »

Quote from: Victoria33 on March 13, 2019, 02:35:55 pm

@mystery-ak

I also did mine at Christmas because the kit was on sale. Right now I'm in the kitchen on small computer. When I go back to my work area with main computer, I'll list the results here. I haven't filled out the family tree thingy yet. Did you do that?

I started it on my father's side...but really don't need to since an uncle did it years ago...

I would like to do my Mother's side since this is probably her's...no one kept records so it will be hard

England, Wales & Northwestern Europe6%

Ireland & Scotland4%

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #19 on:** March 13, 2019, 03:13:14 pm »

Quote from: Bigun on March 13, 2019, 02:51:41 pm

My tree currently has 14425 names in it. My wive has a similar number.

Joke from the Clinton years: "My family tree has no branches!"

austingirl · « **Reply #20 on:** March 13, 2019, 04:34:18 pm »

Three of my grandparents were Lithuanian and one Irish- the results confirm this.

Ethnicity Estimate

Baltic States
65%

Ireland & Scotland
18%
Munster, Ireland
North Munster
Waterford

Eastern Europe & Russia
12%

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland & Lithuania
Lithuania

Germanic Europe
3%

European Jewish
1%

England, Wales & Northwestern Europe
1%

catfish1957 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 13, 2019, 04:39:52 pm »

Quote from: austingirl on March 13, 2019, 04:34:18 pm

Ethnicity Estimate

Ireland & Scotland
18%
Munster, Ireland
North Munster
Waterford

How are you getting the breakdown on Irish section? I have had an ancestry account since 1998, and a dna test since 2013. No breakdowns for me on any of my locals.

mountaineer · « **Reply #22 on:** March 13, 2019, 07:51:58 pm »

I've been working on my family tree with Ancestry. Last September, we traveled to France and Germany and visited the home villages of my greatx7-grandparents. Quite a thrill. Since then, I've been able to go deeper by about 100 years.

austingirl · « **Reply #23 on:** March 13, 2019, 10:35:51 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on March 13, 2019, 04:39:52 pm

How are you getting the breakdown on Irish section? I have had an ancestry account since 1998, and a dna test since 2013. No breakdowns for me on any of my locals.

This breakdown recently showed up- they are always updating and improving the data. I knew my ancestors were from Waterford County, probably Dungarvan, but if you don't know which hamlet, it's hard to find information. I have connected to several people who are distant relatives.

austingirl · « **Reply #24 on:** March 13, 2019, 10:38:07 pm »

Quote from: mountaineer on March 13, 2019, 07:51:58 pm

I've been working on my family tree with Ancestry. Last September, we traveled to France and Germany and visited the home villages of my greatx7-grandparents. Quite a thrill. Since then, I've been able to go deeper by about 100 years.

When I went to Ireland, I got the line "we have no records, the church burned down." I think that's standard. I have since seen baptismal records from a distant relative who has international access on Ancestry. Nice that you had better results on your trip.