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HAVE YOU USED THE GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT?
ME

Posted on 11/28/2012 2:41:29 PM PST by WHATNEXT?

Thinking of getting the kit for a Christmas gift.


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; History; Science
KEYWORDS: dna; familytree; genoproject; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble
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To: Jewbacca

Cohen project? Is that like the surname DNA? Could you explain?


21 posted on 11/28/2012 5:02:02 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: Jewbacca

“Have a common ancestor male with most other Jewish folk and most arabs circa 3500 years ago.”

Hmmm.... that sounds awfully like... nah, couldn’t be, the scientifically enlightened liberals tell us that the Bible is just a bunch of old myths with no basis in reality.


22 posted on 11/28/2012 5:02:26 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Cyber Liberty

Oh, brother!


23 posted on 11/28/2012 5:04:57 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: Boogieman

Hmmmmm.....


24 posted on 11/28/2012 5:06:19 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: WHATNEXT?

http://cohen-levi.org/


25 posted on 11/28/2012 5:12:27 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: WHATNEXT?

There is a certain bit of DNA shared by most Jews with variations of the last name “Cohen” (Cohn, Coen, etc), which derives from the Hebrew word for priest. It’s assumed that they share this bit of DNA because of their common descent from the priestly tribe of Levites.

I know there was a project originally set up to use test for this marker, in order to determine which populations around the world claiming Jewish descent are actually related to the ancient tribes. If, for example, some tribe in Africa says they are part of the diaspora, they can be tested, and if some of them have the “Cohen” marker, then they have strong evidence for their claim. It sounds like they might have expanded their mission since I last read about them, to tracing ancestry and not just checking for that marker.


26 posted on 11/28/2012 5:13:23 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: WHATNEXT?

Just joking around. (it’s a reference to the Prometheus movie)


27 posted on 11/28/2012 5:14:32 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Sparky1776

I imaging it took a little study to understand the results. Would you do it again at the higher price of $199.00?


28 posted on 11/28/2012 5:17:12 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: WHATNEXT?
Oh, brother!

Oh, you're my littermate?? ;^)

29 posted on 11/28/2012 5:25:15 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: jjotto

Hey, hey, hey.....Thanks for looking it up for me :^) Very fascinating!


30 posted on 11/28/2012 5:27:29 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: Cyber Liberty

You’re quick!


31 posted on 11/28/2012 5:29:13 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: WHATNEXT?

I was just fooling around, but apparently this is a lot deeper than I thought....


32 posted on 11/28/2012 5:37:28 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: bigheadfred

33 posted on 11/28/2012 6:20:45 PM PST by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: WHATNEXT?

Oops I actually got the “Y-DNA67+mtDNAPlus” kit @ FTDNA and it says it is #399, which is what I think was the price in Oct 2007 when I got it.

At some point I’d like to upgrade to the full sequence - they use the original sample already provided.

Thankfully there are plenty of people out there at DNA sites that help you along.


34 posted on 11/28/2012 6:32:35 PM PST by Sparky1776
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To: WHATNEXT?

I did it, and it verified pretty much what we already knew, but was, I think, very worthwhile for the price. It helps to do additional reading on your own, and now I often dwell on just how different our lives have become and wonder what happened to the strength of those early people. My daughter called today to say she had diagnosed me with ADHD because I have to be busy or working all the time. I told her I was raised by people who believed if you didn’t stay busy and work hard you would run the risk of starving, and so would your children. Now I have a DSM diagnosis. The couch potatoes are the “normal” ones.


35 posted on 11/28/2012 6:49:10 PM PST by binreadin
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To: WHATNEXT?; AdmSmith; agrace; AnalogReigns; Cacique; caryatid; Celtjew Libertarian; CobaltBlue; ...
Genetic
Genealogy
>> PING <<
Send FReepmail if you want on/off GGP list
Marty = Paternal Haplogroup O(2?)(M175)
Maternal Haplogroup H
GG LINKS:
African Ancestry
DNAPrint Genomics
FamilyTree DNA
GeneTree
Int'l Society of Genetic Genealogy
mitosearch
Nat'l Geographic Genographic Project
Oxford Ancestors
RelativeGenetics
Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation
Trace Genetics
ybase
ysearch
The List of Ping Lists

Yep. It was okay.

36 posted on 11/28/2012 6:59:59 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: blam; martin_fierro; WHATNEXT?; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks WHATNEXT? I tried it, and it turned out my genetic match was the ham sandwich I'd eaten for lunch. That was the day I had my car horn changed to a snippet of the theme song from "Deliverance".

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


37 posted on 11/28/2012 7:55:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: blam; martin_fierro; WHATNEXT?; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks WHATNEXT? I tried it, and it turned out my genetic match was the ham sandwich I'd eaten for lunch. That was the day I had my car horn changed to a snippet of the theme song from "Deliverance".

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


38 posted on 11/28/2012 7:57:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: WHATNEXT?; SunkenCiv
I posted this article back in 6-15-2005 and had family's my DNA done. I was very satisfied.

The Genographic Project (Have Your DNA Checked, Find Your Roots)

My DNA data was included in a one-hour National Geographic TV special a few years back.

39 posted on 11/28/2012 8:10:19 PM PST by blam
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To: WHATNEXT?

We did family tree DNA for my father, providing a Y-chromosome for a family name project. Also used DNA consultants for determination of racial breakdown.

Family Tree DNA
Has a more extensive database for Y-chromosome, finding closest matches and info for last common ancestor.
You get a discount if you are going through a project to trace the links between those of the same or a related last name.
But you get a lot of email, both as they analyze the markers and for all of their “specials”.

DNA Consultants
Their DNA database is light on Native Americans. Because my grandfather has both Cherokee and Tejas blood, it came back as saying he was an admixture of Cherokee, Japanese, Chinese, Gypsy, German and English. It couldn’t really handle Native American as a whole percentage when it came from two different tribes. And their reports are darn near useless for genealogy, too abstract.


40 posted on 11/28/2012 8:30:11 PM PST by tbw2
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