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.
FTDNA and Ancestry don't provide that detail, and to be honest, I don't think any test can make that claim.
“Well, to tell the family secret, my grandmother was Dutch.”
If you’re anyone it isn’t the brightest thing to do.
Respectfully disagree. If you think we would get to Utopian Society of that level, my dna would the last thing i woud worry about.
Maybe Grannie had a secret but then again when you knocked some of the local talent in those days you had to accept your evil ways in front of the Parish. We had a few of those.
But as the girls used to say the first can come at any time the second takes nine months.
Do some family Research, its there if you want to look.
Laverenty Beria
Nearly all of humanity is very mixed from some 300 generations of population movements. Many people who have DNA tests done for genealogy research have been surprised. We’re all descended from savages to various extents.
As for the Norman invasion, yeah. Many Britons and Americans are part Norman, French, Hun/Mongolian, Saxon, etc. Many Americans are part American Indian. Many people around the Mediterranean are part African, Arab, etc.
Besides, for those of us with many previous generations in America, this is America. It’s the “great melting pot.” Mutts rule, you know. ;-)
If your descent from Charles Martel is through Henry I or Henry II, you are probably related to Obama because he is descended from them.
Here is a great site I find very credible to run your royal ancestry down if you have a gateway American ancestor:
Don't let the fact that it is an Australian site put you off. I met the gentleman who owns it and also a 9th cousin who was very knowledgeable on the rootsweb Plantagenet newsgroup.
If you have American Farwell anestry, it is almost certain you have royal ancestors. The gateway ancestress is Olive Welby who was married to Henry Farwell, a simple tailor. I have them 2 or 3 ways but can't find sufficient proof how the lineage goes.
That is what I recommend to those who choose to attend my genealogy class.
I hadn't found any real black sheep until I found a 3rd cousin once removed in Bellevue, Washington, James Schumacher, who killed his wife with a hatchet in 2012.
I guess that's not an ancestor but it was through researching an ancestor that I finally tracked him down because I was looking for living cousins from lines they didn't know the others existed.
I’d venture a good at least half of us Freepers are of the R Haplogroup and its variations The general migration of “R was from Africa to Arabia, to Persia, and then a hard left turn throughout Europe.
I never really understood the whole genealogy thing. My parents were really into it. My sister is into it.
Every once in a while I hear about another connection. I ask my sister about the person—what did they do, ant stories about their lives? Nope. Just dates and towns.
While I am generally respectful of others’ hobbies, dredging through the town halls on a Sunny day doesn’t really “do it” for me. But, whatever floats your boat.
Not Starbucks....
My family roots on both sides are fairly well researched but undistinguished. Perhaps the best story I have to offer is of a thrice great aunt of the Guinness brewing clan who was disinherited for marrying into my Irish side of the family and converting to Catholicism.
I've looked through a couple of his books on ancestry and never found any but ones I wrote about in another post.
I got as far as I could with my New England ancestors and just hit 3 brick walls, John Osgood and Sarah Solendine/Sullendine of Lancaster, MA; Alpheus Perry and Polly Farwell of Charlestown, NH. My other big mystery I'll never solve is my paternal grandmother was descended from Charles Stewart who fought at the Battle of Boyne. I also have New England Stewarts from the nobility line.
I would love to attend your class if I could. I'm a fairly seasoned researcher but there is always room for improvement. With me, I'm the only one in the family who was willing and interested enough to put in years of work. I met cousins on the web, and we teamed up to research together, made great headway, then we hit that old brick wall.
I made many more contacts in the late 90's early 2000's. It all seems to have dried up for years now. The only exception is I finally found a living cousin on my mom's side through findagrave.
My unexpected results were that Ancestry says I have 0% American Indian, when I know my Great-Grandmother and Great-Aunt were both Cherokee; my Great-Aunt lived on the rez in OK while I was growing up.
The coolest was finding out that my 12th Great Grandfather was the Reverend Robert Hunt, the first Reverend at the First Colony of Jamestown. I found this through research, not DNA.
I bet you and Laz were separated at birth.
Some of my ancestors were early visitors to Tennessee. Last name of Boone.
Funny, I don’t feel black!
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