Find Your Paternal-Line Relatives With Y-Chromosome Matches On Line

Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation ^ | Dec 30, 2005 | Me

[Pharmboy]

Those Mormons are pretty good at this stuff, eh?

[Pharmboy]

I came upon this site through a genealogy discussion board. I did NOT ping the pingmeisters (PH; SC) in order for you to ping your lists, but just because I thought you might be interested in this Sorenson site if you've done your Y-haplotypes (or if you're a Mahoney, Nickle or Rogers and we are perhaps, cousins).

[Pharmboy]

Ping...

[PatrickHenry]

Neat article. My Y-haplotypes are probably best unknown. I'm pinging "the few" ...

[Pharmboy]

My Y-haplotypes are probably best unknown.

LOL! What could you possibly find that you'd rather not know? Hey--I hear Genghis Khan even had a soft side...or perhaps you'd find out that you and I are cousins 1,500 generations removed??

[NonValueAdded]

genealogy bump

[martin_fierro]

Poing

[martin_fierro]

Pingvs

[Chanticleer]

Does anyone else find this a bit creepy?

Besides, I can't imagine asking my brother or father for a DNA sample.

Hey, Dad. Could I just swab your cheek for a bit? I want to know about my ancestors.

[Ditter]

How exactly do I find out my Y chromosome markers. I have a brother who would most likely go along with this.

[Pharmboy]

Lemme 'splain. Creepy? If you are uninterested in your ancestry, I still don't get "creepy."

If you're a woman, they do a mitochondrial DNA which gives your maternal line. If you are a guy, then you only need to swab your own cheek. If your dad or brother does it (or paternal uncle, for that matter) YOU do not have to do it since ALL the men in your family with the same last name have the same Y chromosome as you.

[Ditter]

This is not creepy at all. I want to do it. My brother is the last living male of our line. My father was the only son and my brother his only son. My brother has 2 daughters. He will go along with it but I just don't know what to do with the swab.

[aculeus]

Because I'm still trying to deal with Darwin's crazy claim I have ape ancestors I'll pass on this one.

sarcasm ended.

[Pharmboy]

Click here to start your genetic journey...

[Chanticleer]

Guess I'm just old school. Mom and Dad tell you who your ancestors are, if they know, and you take their word for it.

It seems a bit Brave New World, Apocalypse time kinda thing. Like some day, we'll carry our genetic code around like a Driver's License, and the markers will determine what we will or will not be able to do. I've probably read too much dystopian literature or seen one too many SF shows.

It may be a bit paranoid, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility. I guess I just don't want my DNA in a database somewhere. Heck, I don't even like to give out my Social Security number! I think I'll keep my markers to myself.

Still, it is intriguing. Maybe one day my curiosity will get the better of me.

[Ditter]

Thanks, I e-mailed it to my brother.

[Pharmboy]

Understood. It was, however, pretty thrilling for me to find out (with a high degree of certainty) that my paternal ancestors were the cave-painting Cro Magnons from western Europe (although I do suspect that my particular ancestors would have suggested wallpaper).

( :-D

[VadeRetro]

I'm some kind of American mongrel and I like it that way.

[hummingbird]

Thanks, martin_fierro! A genealogy bump!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the ping. There was a GGG topic about the National Genographic, oops, Geographic article on an mtDNA study ($100 a head) in which one could participate. I didn't do that either. ;')

I've seen my own genealogy going back in some lines twelve generations, and have never encountered any crossed lines, so I'm inclined to think that I'm probably cousins with about half of America. :')

There was another topic on FR, I've been unable to find it, regarding a claim that everyone is descended from a single individual who lived in Asia a mere 3500 years ago, IOW, only that (he or) she was our last common ancestor. I wonder if anyone has the link? Good time to post the GGG links update.