"For a penny I'll scribble you anything you want. From summons, decrees, edicts, warrants, patents of nobility."
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.
According to mitochondrial DNA analysis, every person living today shares a common ancestor: a woman who lived in Africa about 250,000 years ago.
All said though, how does it feel now being one of the Norman overlords? I hope that you do not attempt to take up the exercise of droit du seigneur on the local maidens. The times being what they are, that could set the local gendarmes and outraged and armed male kinfolk after you.
I was surprised to find I’m 16% Scandinavian. I’d had no idea there was any Scandinavian in me!
That is really great. Must be related. I am descended form Charles the Hammer Martel, Some Egyptian Pharaoh, some Caesars, Kings of Jerusalem, a bunch of Knights...
Now for my real brag, I am not related to Obama.
My dad’s cousin had his done and he thinks it proves we are not descended from the exact person we thought we were, ten generations back.
>> I am wondering why some one would submit their DNA to any one....IMO wow talk about a security boondogle
>> the last thing I want finding its way into the public domain is my DNA.
See? That’s ANOTHER advantage of the Tick Family Tree Service.
I don’t actually analyze the sample — I throw it away unopened and just make stuff up.
I haven’t done a DNA test, but my father did some geneological research and found that his family came from a line of silversmiths in jolly old England. They brought over a silver tea set with their coat of arms on it (meaning at some point, one of our ancestors had earned that coat somehow), but our cousins in Michigan were the elder branch of the family, so they got it. Who knows where it is now.
It's a commonplace experience among people who participate in surname group studies through a shared interest in genealogy. Test error is probably not the issue; missing paper trail is the issue 99% of the time. People who lost a spouse and other parent to their child or children didn't wait around, typically they'd remarry as quick as they could find an acceptable candidate. The adoptive parent becomes the most recent and therefore only parent in the record, and in a lot of old-time families none of that information got passed down.
There's also the "act like a fool factor", which no one wants to admit their ancestors did. In my experience, genealogists are really nice people who nevertheless like everything exact, cut and dried, and are absolutely sure that *only they* have the correct information.
In one of my surname groups, the test participants (1000s by now) are split into four groups; while all of them are, on paper, from common ancestors circa 400 years back, each of the first three groups are indeed of common descent, but don't match the other two large groups. The fourth group doesn't match anyone else in the study, except perhaps some first cousins.
Gets even better. I had an email from England, another exact match who wanted to know if a family member who was stationed in England during WW2 knocked up his mother.
LOL, I was wondering if this could be a scam. I suppose there could be some legit ones.
The goobermint probably uses those DNA results.
I used FNDNA.
Yeah, my ancestors were those nasty, oppressive, hardworking, racist/sexist/homophobic, Caucasian Puritans and Quakers
>> I suppose there could be some legit ones.
There probably are. I’m just poking some irreverent fun.
I had an aunt (since passed) who was “all ate up” with the genealogy stuff. She bragged that she had us traced back to Charlemagne. I used to yank her chain by wondering aloud why EVERY family gynecologist traces the roots back to Charlemagne or Catherine the Great or King Gustav or something... never to some peasant. There were WAY more peasants.
"For a penny I'll scribble you anything you want. From summons, decrees, edicts, warrants, patents of nobility."
I did it and was surprised to find 1% Neanderthal and some Greek connections. I knew we had come up from Austria through Germany and England and Scotland, but I guess the Greeks migrated North as everyone else.
On my mom’s side direct descendents of the Lucy family some of whom still reside in the family home in Charlecote in Warwickshire.
My father’s side is less documented. Family legend has it brothers left Ireland just ahead of the law. They supposedly changed their name upon arrival in the USA.
No DNA tests in the public domain. The government is trying to get access to the DNA information in Ancestry.com for “law enforcement and homeland security purposes”.
Aw shucks, here I thought this would be a thread about finding out if Obunga’s “children” were related to him and Micheal or not.
The lower classes tended to be cannon fodder, except when the plagues took them. Nearly everybody alive is descended from dark age royalty.
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