Posted on 11/23/2017 6:14:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With a vial of saliva and a little cutting-edge science, AncestryDNA can tell you if you’ve got any Irish heritage in your genes. And with a lot of cutting-edge science, researchers in December 2015 published a study telling the world where that Irish heritage first originated.
By studying the 5,000-year-old remains of a female farmer buried near Belfast, Ireland, and the remains of three men buried 3,000 and 4,000 years ago on Rathlin Island in County Antrim, archaeologists and geneticists now say they now know where the modern Irish people originally came from.
The remains of the Stone Age female farmer show that she resembled modern people from Spain and Sardinia, suggesting she had roots there. But her ancestors ultimately originated from the Fertile Crescent, the once-lush region of the Middle East where humans first practiced agriculture. Those migrants brought cattle, cereals, and ceramics, along with black hair and brown eyes.
The remains of the Bronze Age male farmers show a different group of migrants entering Ireland one to two thousand years later. Those farmers came from the Pontic steppe of southern Russia. They brought metalworking culture, the genetic disposition for blue eyes, and the gene for a blood disorder so often found in Ireland that it’s known as the Celtic disease: haemochromatosis.
Using a technique called whole-genome analysis, scientists at Trinity College Dublin studied the DNA from all four bodies to establish a history of ancestral migration and settlement.
“There was a great wave of genome change that swept into [Bronze Age] Europe from above the Black Sea … we now know it washed all the way to the shores of its most westerly island,” geneticist and lead researcher Dan Bradley told the BBC.
The research shows that cultural changes in the ancient British Isles, such as the introduction of agriculture and metalworking, likely arrived because of large-scale migrations rather than the adoption of new ways by indigenous people.
DNA research isn’t just for looking back thousands of years. With AncestryDNA, you can discover whether your grandparents or great-grandparents really did hail from Ireland or any one of 26 distinct ethnic populations. AncestryDNA can also be an invaluable tool in genealogical research by matching up your DNA with relatives you might never have known and by identifying common forebears you may never have heard of.
From there, the 16 billion historical records on Ancestry can help you search forwards or backward in time to fill in your family tree — wherever that tree first took root.
Thank you!
Interesting.
“I had always heard that my great-grandma was half Cherokee.....But the Ancestry.com DNA analysis found no Native American ethnicity in my background.”
I’ve heard from several sources that Cherokee ancestors are different from other Native American tribes.
from https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/cherokee-dna.htm
“The Cherokees tested had high levels of DNA test markers associated with the Berbers, native Egyptians, Turks, Lebanese, Hebrews and Mesopotamians. Genetically, they are more Jewish than the typical American Jew of European ancestry. So-called “full-blooded” Cherokees had high levels of European DNA and a trace of Asiatic (Native American) DNA. 80 Some “card-carrying” Cherokees had almost no Asiatic DNA. “
Whoah. Looks like I need a bloodletting. Why didn’t the doctors tell us about this?
American Hemochromatosis Society
http://americanhs.org/celtic.htm
Pretty much the same story here. “We have “Cherokee” blood was the cover for having slave ancestry.
I have been reading articles lately saying the genealogy DNA tests have shown to be unreliable when it comes to Native American ancestry. According to the articles I have seen they are referring to all the companies doing it not just Ancestry.com. The articles were saying not enough is known about the origins of Native Americans and something about not having enough Native American samples to do reliable matches. They looked at Native Americans who are currently members of a known tribe, documented Native Americans. If the tests are unreliable for them I would think it would be worse for people like you and I that are only part Native American. Might be why your results are puzzling.
Interesting stuff! I’d always considered myself roughly half-Irish and half-Portuguese; my Ancestry.com DNA test revealed 38% Ireland-GB, 24% Italy-Greece region, 28% Iberian Peninsula (Spain/Portugal/Azores), and smaller traces from Russia, Scandinavia and North Africa.
Regards,
Notes on my birth say Scots/Irish both sides. I’m adopted so I checked to see about health tendencies. Found out I was Mainly Scandinavian and Western European with 18% Irish/GB and a tad of Iberian and a smidgen of west African.The areas are so wide it would cover 6 or 8 modern countries. In a few years it might be possible to narrow it down once there are more samples for comparison.
Well sure ‘n’ begoorah so it’s from Spain me people are from now is it? Mother of Mary!
>But the Ancestry.com DNA analysis found no Native American ethnicity in my background. Instead, it shows southeastern African, the Bantu tribe.
It’s Bantu peoples, not a tribe(there are lots of Bantu tribes). Around 400ad the Bantu’s started to spread out from their western Africa homeland wiping out pretty much all other African groups in their expansion due to herding tech and iron weapons.
Did it for my adopted daughter as well, and she has the Iberian peninsula and a dash of west African in her, in addition to Irish and the North American island natives - probably Taino - from Puerto Rico. So you might have an ancestor from there too.
>Northern Japanese have strong Caucasian genes as well.
Northern Japanese don’t have any Caucasian genes. They look very white, but they’re east Asain stock according to DNA results.
>http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/10/the-mysterious-european-mummies-of-china/
It’s only really a mystery because it’s not politically correct. Sometime in prehistory whites expanded deep into Asia and then were pushed back and genocided by East Asians.
LOLOLOL
Interesting
Cherokee/Comanchee?
No where near each other geographically, in those days
I will wait on this. Did the dna test on my dog. The results were so far off as to be ridiculous. Afraid to see what mine would be.
Ping.
You still kill Spaniards on sight??? You probably shouldn't do that, it's illegal!
Sorry, I couldn't help it, I have a strange sense of humor.
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