Genealogy and DNA: Odd things discovered

Self | 10/8/2017 | madison10

[madison10]

I happen to be a member of one of the genealogical sites. Currently my DNA profile is 78% Western European and a typical native Western European is 48%. Which means 30% more of MY DNA came from the region than that of a native.

Thank God I am not in Europe welcoming the Muslim hordes.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Mine came out Irish, Italian, and Spanish (Iberian Peninsula?), along with a smattering of Swedish (2-3%) and other little chunks of DNA. 2-3 percent Arab, which I suppose makes me slightly crazy. Weirdly, the Spanish DNA was only 12 percent, even though I have a Spanish surname, and we all thought we were just European Spanish because the family is from Monterrey, Mexico, and of all the blondies and red heads in the family. It turns out we’re more Italian and Irish than Spanish.

[madison10]

Interesting about Patton! You could have the same % if her father had some Bantu, also, right?

['smith]

I’ve been messing with genealogy for years. Four years ago I did a 23andMe DNA test which showed 99.9 Western European. That matches what I know of the family. Then I downloaded the DNA file from 23andMe and started running it through other tools with varied results. Try it. there are lots of tools out there and none of them know everything. One shows me with 3.8% Neanderthal, which my wife says explains a lot.

[sauropod]

Back in the day, my paternal line fought in the Rev War
(at least some did). Others were Tories and hightailed it to Canada.

You want stories, I got stories! ;-).

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Hey! It’s MY Conspiracy Theory! Make up your own, LOL! :)

[cherry]

call me paranoid but I think once you submit your dna its open for the govt...

[madison10]

My husband’s did show up with 2% European Jew, but that disappeared over time. I guess the results get more accurate as tests are sent in?

Others have said it was such a low percentage as to not even be there.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m an Army Vet and use the VA for my healthcare.

I’m in Breast Cancer and Colon Cancer research groups. (Control groups, as I have neither disease. Yet. Until they want to give me either, LOL!)

They have all the data on me they could possibly need for Good or Evil. ;)

[madison10]

Mine, too, but do not have the stories. Tories and Patriots.

[stylin19a]

so you are a black guy that wears a cape & top hat that carries a cane ?

[grania]

I had my done. It's very consistent with family stories ....all four branches. Also, when I compared it with a few cousins and cousin's children who had it done, where it overlapped gave me a real good picture of all of my grandparents DNA. Two "clusters" confirmed interesting specifics.

Most of the relatives I compared with, and my own, all had over 50% something. I was actually surprised, considering how inexpensive it was, how much information it provided.

[Leaning Right]

> so you are a black guy that wears a cape & top hat that carries a cane? <

That was a rumor started by anti-royalists.

[Albion Wilde]

Nearly half Eastern EU (Polish, Slovac, German) and nearly half Western EU (English, Scottish, Irish) with 2% Bantu. My daughter got back the same 2% Bantu.

Rounded yours down, rounded hers up?

[sagar]

LOL. now that they already have the genes, they will clone and use the clones to collect welfare checks and vote for them.

Genetically, you wouldn't stand a chance against yourself.

[miliantnutcase]

68% Scandinavia
20% Europe East
12% British Isles

No surprises at all. Family came over from Sweden and Norway around 1900. Ancestry has genetic communities for me in Norway, but none in this country.

[Albion Wilde]

It turns out we’re more Italian and Irish than Spanish.

Those Celts got around. (Wikipedia):

Yellow: Core Halstatt (predominant Iron-Age culture) territory, by 6th C. BC
Aqua: Maximal Celtic expansion by 275 BC
Light green: Lusitanian area of Iberia - Celtic presence uncertain
Dark green: Where Celtic languages remain widely spoken today

[Forgotten Amendments]

I had mine done. Turns out, I am 50% Maury Povich.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I am cousins to both Patton and the guy who played him in the movie.

You magnificent b*st*rd!

[mairdie]

I love the stories. Love to hear them.

Did the FamilyTree DNA and came back a quarter Ashkenazi jewish, which was a shock. Still trying to figure out one grandmother’s background since she had stories but no firm parentage. Uncle remembered them getting tickets to the Wild West Show opening at Soldiers Field when he was little and Lucille Mulhall, for whom the word “cowgirl” was invented, riding up on a horse to chat. Grandmother said she was her half-sister but not getting that out of the DNA. Got other illegitimate offspring to give me their DNA so it’s been a fun, if frustrating, search. Wonderful stories of grandmother raised on a ranch in Butte MT with rough vocabularied cowhands and an old Indian “chief” she’d visit in her pony cart.

[ladyjane]

You have to take some of the Ancestry reports with a grain of salt. They are based on statistics and probable match with people living in that country now.

I did the Ancestry thing and it has been interesting to find matches who have the same ancestors in their trees as mine going back hundreds of years.

There was an article on the internet about identical triplets who did the Ancestry test and their results were all different. Fairly close but different. They interviewed some ‘expert’ who said the tests were good for entertainment value - whatever that means.