Posted on 10/08/2017 1:10:31 PM PDT by 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.
99.95% Northern European. .05 percent Guido. It is Whya I maka de good pasta. ;-)
My sympathies... (cute) That would be funny.
Guarantee Big Brother is using Ancestry to get more data on you. I’ve done my own genealogy research back several hundred years. That’s enough for me and verified the family stories. I don’t need the NSA to know any more.
My Y-dna haplogroup is I1, which centers on the middle of Sweden.
Exactly same as my “genealogical” paternal great grandfathers, many generations back, too.
DNA works.
Maybe.
I do not want to have my DNA run as to ancestry. I am afraid the tales about my great grandparents might be true.
Good you corrected that. I was wondering how they arrived here instead of China.
My Y-dna haplogroup is I1, which centers on the middle of Sweden.
Exactly same as my “genealogical” paternal great grandfathers, many generations back, too.
DNA works.
We tested her son ( my uncle) several years ago, but had no way of making sense of the results, so the results just sat for a while. Then I attended a genealogy seminar that focused on this very thing and was able to triangulate until I located a possible mother. It turns out this woman's grandfather was a Czech who immigrated in the 1850s (He called himself Austrian on some census records and Hungarian on others...because at the time of his emigration, the area was part of the Hapsburg Empire). He had fought for the Empire in Italy in the 1840s, then after immigration he fought for the Union in the Civil War. The things that man must have seen.
Here's the weird part...I located his hometown, which is just outside of Brno in modern Czech Republic. I was in Brno in the 1990s...while I was in college, an opportunity to live in Prague sort of fell in my lap and while there I traveled around Bohemia for a bit. I fell in love with the country even though I had had no interest in it previously. I almost fell out of my chair when I found out where he was from.
I do think our ancestors guide us sometimes.
ROFL that is scary.
I have read stories where siblings/children are found that were previously unknown the the family. Awkward.
My daughter got back the same 2% Bantu.
Bantu would be the tribe from which the largest number of slaves were taken to the US. For you to have Bantu, it most likely means that there were slaves in your US ancestry.
I also have some Bantu.
The majority of my genetic background is British, Irish, Scandanavian, Iberian, the "-stan" area of Eurasia, and a bit from India.
I'd always heard that we are part Indian... but we always thought it was Native American, and not actual Indian.
I'd like to do the 23andme test for comparison.
My genealogy is interesting, too. The majority of my ancestors came here as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Some ancestors were part of the Connecticut colony. Either way, the American part of my family tree goes back to the mid 1600s, and there are no immigrants for the last couple of hundred years. So I can call my husband one of those danged newcomers, since his ancestors immigrated in the 1800s.
The blood test is the one you want if you want certainty.
Same here. Some say "memories" in our DNA. Would not surprise me.
Everyone who joins the military has a DNA sample on file. It's routine. It is really no more or less significant than having fingerprints or pictures on file--it's a way to identify you. Having DNA on file is handy for forensic purposes... I won't go too much into details.
Something like that.
There was some question if one g-g-g-grandmother was a Cherokee. Turns out she wasn't. Family lore was wrong. But, it was interesting to think that we mighta had some Indian blood in us.
So, what you are saying is you don’t mind giving a DNA sample to the gubmint without a warrant? Why not send your serial numbers to your gun collection also?
My maternal haplotype comes directly from Cheddar Man.
Of course I care. You do not think they have more than enough already to cause harm? Going to the doctor is probably enough.
What guns?
I wrote a book sitting on a stool in a Dunkin Donuts. I later learned that when I turned and looked out the glass windows, I was looking at the graveyard of my ancestors in MA, where I never knew I had any ancestors. Born in NY and raised in IL.
Anyone with a heritage from the Alpine regions will likely have a surprising amount of Neandethal. Apparently, in the isolated valleys and mountaintops Neandethal settlements existed for a long time in parallel with Our guys.
There is a small town on Italian-Austrian border where the locals are all 20-30% neandethal.
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