Unexpected Results From DNA Tests

Self | January 12, 2016 | Self

[catfish1957]

I am a genealogy instructor, and can only comment based on my own experiences. My Ancestry matches tend to seem more consistent as far as relationship distance. Again, this is in my own case. However, as I mentioned earlier FTDNA were more pioneers in this field, and I much more trust their Ydna testing.

Have no experience on 23/Me, maybe just because of the bad press they have gotten.

[catfish1957]

Family Tree DNA (FTDNA). This company offers many more options, and they have much better customer service

Disagree. Finding matches with their tools mostly via ancestral charts is tough at best. Just my opinion. Feedback from FTDNA has been met with silence.

[wildbill]

My Great Aunt published a book on vanity press about an event that happened on her mother’s side of the family back in the 1800s near St. Joseph Missouri.

Three children, 2 teen=age girls and a younger boy were taken by Indians. They were recovered some time later by Texas Rangers in W. Texas and returned to the family. One of the girls married a young man almost immediately and they moved to Fort Laramie. Apparently she had a child there only a few months later.

If my prim and proper maiden aunt ever made the obvious connection on the dates, she never revealed it personally or in her book.

[wafflehouse]

It is my personal theory that many “Holcombe” and “Holcomboroughs”, after migrating to America in the early 1800s, changed the spelling of their names to the phonetic sound of the local vernacular, becoming “Huckabee” (huh-cum-be) and “Huckleberry” (huh-cum-ber-rah).

very interesting

[blam]

DITTER, is that you?

[Ditter]

No blam! I told you the horse was bareback NOT me!

; )

[Ditter]

And my horse was brown. I was about than slim back then!

[Grimmy]

“I am a descendant of Adam and Eve.”

From what little I know of my own family history, I’m guessing we come from one of those stones that Noah threw over his shoulder after the flood.

[Grimmy]

My little sis did a family line search some years back.

Found our family descends (direct patri line) from John McKay, brother of Alexander McKay, who came to the US in 1750.

That’s as far back as she went and as far back as anyone in the family is interested.

We’re American. No interest in who was who or whatever in them foreign devil lands.

[Little Bill]

I traced me back to Salem circa 1628 and Virginia same time period.

Family history is about Family History why wouldn’t you want to know WHY they took the trip? What drove them to sever their relationship with friends and family forever?

I find that strange.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[riri]

I jus did this the past year. Mine showed me to be 27% Great Britain and I was not expecting any. I figured it would be all E. Europe or W. Europe. It mostly was 43% E. Euro and 16% W. Euro but then I had 6% Italy and Greece and 3% from the Iberian Peninsula which was very weird.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

There’s also the out on the edge kinds of weird stuff:

Man who failed paternity test for his child is shocked to discover the DNA in his sperm came from his TWIN who was ‘lost’ in the womb in first-of-its-kind case
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3288976/Man-failed-paternity-test-child-shocked-discover-DNA-sperm-came-TWIN-lost-womb-kind-case.html

Woman Gives Birth to Children, Discovers Her Twin is Actually the Biological Mother, But She is Technically Her Own Twin
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/womens-health/woman-gives-birth-children-discovers-her-twin-actually-biological-mother-she

Weird: Kids’ DNA Tested, Parent Informed The DNA Is Not A Match
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/118606.php

Parent-Child Non-Matching Autosomal DNA Segments
http://dna-explained.com/2015/05/14/parent-child-non-matching-autosomal-dna-segments/

Paternal mtDNA transmission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal_mtDNA_transmission

Dental Calculus as an Alternate Source of Mitochondrial DNA
https://scahome.org/publications/proceedings/Proceedings.25Black.pdf

[SunkenCiv]

Wow, that’s quite a find.

[Jamestown1630]

I am descended from the Plantagenets as well; but while all of this *genealogy* was being drilled into me when I was growing up, I kept thinking that all those records were only as true as the women were honest ;-)

It seemed weird to me that people put so much store by it, even though I realized at the same time that being raised with a certain sense of one’s background, and the traditions that came with it passed down through generations, were valuable.

In the end, it can get you into the “Hereditary Register”, which is worth about....a cup of coffee :-)

-JT

[mass55th]

I sent my DNA into National Geographic several years ago. They’ve got the Genographic Project that’s still ongoing. I paid $100 back then, but they’ve got a newer test, that they’ve reduced the price to $149 from $200. Back then I was recognized as being in Haplogroup J. Would like to have it done again as I’m sure they’d be able to be more specific regarding my ancestors, but I don’t have the money to spare at the moment.

[spyone]

I am one of the many direct descendants of President Bill Clinton.

[Jamestown1630]

Isn’t it alleged that he claimed at some point to be sterile?

-JT

[spyone]

I love genealogy and was going to sign up for DNA, but ultimately didn’t after I read this...
http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-asking-ancestry-com-and-23andme-for-their-customers-dna/

[gorush]

True, indeed. Ain’t life a trip?