Genealogy - Getting to Know your Heritage

[catfish1957]

Later on this afternoon (14.54 pm UK time) a user posted in the Genetic Genealogy Tips and Techniques group on Facebook that all his kits on GEDmatch were now publicly accessible and all marked as available to the police. This included not just standard kits but also phased kits and Lazarus kits

Quite the irony.  Lazurus kit might generate a bunch of new loans and credit cards on behalf of the previousy deceased.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete


Your more Siberian American than Warren.

@kevindavis

LOL!

[sneakypete]

That's my story. The Scandinavian Vikings ended up in Scotland and intermarried with the locals, apparently.

@mountaineer

The interesting Scots to me were the Picts,that latter disappeared from history. Most likely after being bred out of existence by the Basques that moved north,and evolved into the Highland Scots.

The Picts were so fierce they not only stopped the Holy Roman Empire in it's tracks,the Romans build a big stone barricade (Harridan's Wall) to try to keep the Picts from attacking them.

There are no drawings or paintings of the Picts. All we really know about them is a Roman historian described them as "Giants with red hair that liked to paint their bodies blue and run into battle naked."

[sneakypete]

That's my story. The Scandinavian Vikings ended up in Scotland and intermarried with the locals, apparently.

@mountaineer

Yeah,"intermarried"! That's what they did.

[catfish1957]

@mountaineer

Yeah,"intermarried"! That's what they did.

Funny how the males of Norway and Sweden compare now vs say 1000 years ago.  Valhalla is probbly not a very happy place right now.

[sneakypete]

Funny how the males of Norway and Sweden compare now vs say 1000 years ago.  Valhalla is probbly not a very happy place right now.

@catfish1957

All the ones with "adventurous spirits" went off "adventuring",and either died in foreign lands or looked around at the available hot women and nice weather,and just decided to not go back to the frozen north.

Leaving the wusses and sissyboys at home to bred the new generations.

[Slide Rule]

@mountaineer

All we really know about them is a Roman historian described them as "Giants with red hair that liked to paint their bodies blue and run into battle naked."

I have never tried that. Bet it would be great fun. You would also be ready for raping and pillaging.

[sneakypete]

I have never tried that. Bet it would be great fun. You would also be ready for raping and pillaging.[/b]

@Slide Rule

And I believe they probably were.

[mountaineer]

Yeah,"intermarried"! That's what they did.

Of course. They were models of decorum. For Vikings, anyway.

[bigheadfred]

Running naked is great until you get into flora that is higher than your footwear.

[Bigun]

Running naked is great until you get into flora that is higher than your footwear.

I'll promise you that they would only do that once down here in East Texas.

[bigheadfred]

Got a bunch of Nordic DNA. Don't know about the intermarriage thing since we are all bastards.

[Smokin Joe]

I'll promise you that they would only do that once down here in East Texas.

Nettles....

[Bigun]

Nettles....

And briars and cat claw vines and hawthorn bushes and catus and...

[catfish1957]

And briars and cat claw vines and hawthorn bushes and catus and...

And Fire Ants and Brammel and Thistle and the fact that the Big Thicket area has more snakes per square mile than anywhere else in the United States.

[Elderberry]

From my tromping around, I've seen the most Rattlers in the saltgrass along the Intercoastal near Chocolate Bayou, the most Moccasins in the Crosby area, and the most Copperheads around Giddings. But they're everywhere. I don't know how, but somehow when wood rots, some of it becomes copperheads. They are always under wood piles and I knew 2 friends that found copperheads under the  sheet of plywood in the bed of each of their trucks.

[GrouchoTex]

From my tromping around, I've seen the most Rattlers in the saltgrass along the Intercoastal near Chocolate Bayou, the most Moccasins in the Crosby area, and the most Copperheads around Giddings. But they're everywhere. I don't know how, but somehow when wood rots, some of it becomes copperheads. They are always under wood piles and I knew 2 friends that found copperheads under the  sheet of plywood in the bed of each of their trucks.

I've killed about 7-10 copperheads over the years in my yard in Sugar Land.
As you say, usually under wood or rocks.
I laid a bird bath down in my back yard during hurricane Ike.
When I went to but the bowl portion back up, 3 of them were underneath it.

[kevindavis007]

Well my DNA results from ancestry was updated:


Irish: 35%
English - Northwestern Europe: 35%
Scottish: 22%
Weslh: 8%

I find this believable, but it needs to be towards Germany.

[mountaineer]

My DNA results also were updated. They added a greater possibility of some Swedish heritage. I'm currently:

England and northwestern Europe: 49%
Scotland 17%
Ireland  13%
Germanic Europe  9%
Sweden 7%
Norway  3%
Wales  2%

My family tree, going back at least 9 or 10 generations, shows quite a few Germans and Welsh, however. A few years ago, we visited three of their home villages in Germany and the Alsace region of France.

 Still, it's all very interesting. Good food, too.

[catfish1957]

Here's mine, but looking at my son's puts the data in question:

English - Northwestern Europe- 51%
Scotland- 27%
Ireland- 15%
Wales- 7%

However, my son's shows 2% Irish.  That is impossible too, since he has a g-g grandfather who immigrated from Dublin Ireland on my wife's side.

I still think the science behind this side of the field is hokey.

[sneakypete]

Here's mine, but looking at my son's puts the data in question:

English - Northwestern Europe- 51%
Scotland- 27%
Ireland- 15%
Wales- 7%

However, my son's shows 2% Irish.  That is impossible too, since he has a g-g grandfather who immigrated from Dublin Ireland on my wife's side.

I still think the science behind this side of the field is hokey.

@catfish1957

I do,too. The only people who know this for sure are our mamas,grandmamas,great grandmamas,etc,etc,etc,and they ain't talking.

[Elderberry]

I checked ours and they were updated as well.

Mine now shows:

Central Europe   51%

Great Britain    22%

Ireland          18%

Scandinavia       6%


And my wife's:

Amerindian – Central & South Mexico   56%

Amerindian – Andes & Caribbean         3%

Amerindian – North America             3%

Amerindian – North Mexico              1%

Iberian Peninsula                     22%

Greece & Balkans                       7%

Maghreb & Egypt                        5%

[Gefn]

Running naked is great until you get into flora that is higher than your footwear.

Or poison ivy.

[kevindavis007]

Here's mine, but looking at my son's puts the data in question:

English - Northwestern Europe- 51%
Scotland- 27%
Ireland- 15%
Wales- 7%

However, my son's shows 2% Irish.  That is impossible too, since he has a g-g grandfather who immigrated from Dublin Ireland on my wife's side.

I still think the science behind this side of the field is hokey.

@catfish1957


I agree, since my mother side is mostly from Germany.  I kinda understand that from my dad side that the Welsh DNA gets weaker as the time progresses since they have been in this country since Colonial times.

[Bigun]

Here's mine:

England & Northwestern Europe 49%
Ireland 20%
Scotland 18%
Sweden 10%
France 3%

Not much changed really.