I am a direct descendent of Catherine the Great.
Just sent ours in. Since I’m adopted this should be interesting.
I am a direct descendent of Harry Tick.
He was impaled on a stake and added to a collection during the Inquisition.
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
Ohhhhh!
My family was run out of every country in Europe.
I am wondering why some one would submit their DNA to any one....IMO wow talk about a security boondogle
Obama’s results were no surprising - he is a direct decendant of Maria Scianna
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!
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 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.
Yeah, my ancestors were those nasty, oppressive, hardworking, racist/sexist/homophobic, Caucasian Puritans and Quakers
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.
Just make sure 0bamaD0ntCare doesn’t gather those data...
Curious as to cost? Care to say like cheap, moderate, expensive?
If not I understand.
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