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Unexpected Results From DNA Tests
Self | January 12, 2016 | Self

Posted on 01/13/2016 1:40:00 PM PST by Little Bill

I am wondering if any FReepers had unexpected results when they did a DNA test during a family History search.

In my case I was looking for an oppressed history of serfdom and general nastiness from Norman Overlords during the Middle Ages, just preparing for an Obama America.

To my surprise I discovered we were Normans, in the Staple, Merchants, and in general capitalists, until God and Religion brought us unto this Blessed Shore to continue in the same trades.

So in this election year of the usual Freeper cage fights I thought to step outside the blood and gore of FReeper politics and speak of Family History.


TOPICS: History; Hobbies; Science
KEYWORDS: dna; genealogy; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; results; strange
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To: Hawthorn
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.

181 posted on 01/14/2016 9:08:16 AM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: Hawthorn
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.

182 posted on 01/14/2016 9:12:04 AM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: SaraJohnson

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.


183 posted on 01/14/2016 9:24:27 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: Albion Wilde
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
184 posted on 01/14/2016 9:32:51 AM PST by wafflehouse (RE-ELECT NO ONE !)
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To: Ditter

DITTER, is that you?

185 posted on 01/14/2016 9:46:27 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam
No blam! I told you the horse was bareback NOT me!

; )

186 posted on 01/14/2016 10:54:13 AM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: blam

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


187 posted on 01/14/2016 10:56:15 AM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: paintriot

“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.


188 posted on 01/14/2016 12:02:57 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


189 posted on 01/14/2016 12:13:14 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

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.


190 posted on 01/14/2016 12:45:25 PM PST by Little Bill (o)
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To: Grimmy

:’)


191 posted on 01/14/2016 2:44:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Little Bill

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.


192 posted on 01/14/2016 2:51:07 PM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: Hawthorn

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


193 posted on 01/14/2016 3:15:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Aliska

Wow, that’s quite a find.


194 posted on 01/14/2016 3:36:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: gorush

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


195 posted on 01/14/2016 4:01:49 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Little Bill

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.


196 posted on 01/14/2016 4:13:23 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Little Bill

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


197 posted on 01/14/2016 4:35:45 PM PST by spyone (ridiculum)
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To: spyone

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

-JT


198 posted on 01/14/2016 4:38:50 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Little Bill

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/


199 posted on 01/14/2016 4:44:53 PM PST by spyone (ridiculum)
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To: Jamestown1630

True, indeed. Ain’t life a trip?


200 posted on 01/14/2016 4:56:34 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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