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.
Yeah, rumors of several common law marriages, horse thieves, white slavers, that sort of thing. Rampant alcoholism and womanizing. I say let sleeping relatives lie unless genetic disease rears its ugly head.
I hope that I do. I keep forgetting to take the test.
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ROFL that is scary.
I have read stories where siblings/children are found that were previously unknown the the family. Awkward.
I have a situation where it seems that the man I always thought (through family stories) was my great-grandfather does not actually exist. This man was recorded in one census, and no place else. My grandfather's birth certificate was issued to his mother when he was 20 years old, and so does not verify that his father is actually the person his mother claimed. My dear great-grandmother, as I like to say, had the morals of an alley cat.
I've thought about researching some of the people that the DNA test says are related to me, but who have no common ancestors on their family trees. Perhaps if I look at their trees and extrapolate from those, I can figure out who my great-grandfather was.
Congratulations. You ARE your own father. :-P
What I’ve loved about genealogy is finding which traits come from which ancestors. I was raised in a risk-adverse family and always took jobs I hadn’t the faintest idea how to do. Scared my family to death. Worked in total terror and usually succeeded. Turns out a grandfather was a gold miner from Alaska down to Central America. So I’m thinking that type of mental risk taking was genetic.
I searched all along one line asking each new cousin I met if they were from the line where my joy of life originated. All said, sadly, no. Finally found the source back in 1748. Isn’t there always one ancestor that just “fits” and you connect with emotionally?
These tests aren’t as accurate as their promoters would like customers to believe.
The technicalities are such that such tests have percentage accuracy variances, which I’m sure are in the fine print explaining each test.
Here’s one check of tests’ accuracy:
I had one experience while there that was very odd. I was with a large group and we were touring one of the Hapsburg homes, a summer cottage. At one point while walking around, I had a strong urge to just get out of the house. It wasn’t a fear thing...I just wanted to go outside because I was intensely bored. I broke away from the group and went out into the garden alone and just sat there, feeling the air and just having really strong sensations that I couldn’t explain, fighting off the urge to cry. At the time I took it as an episode of intense homesickness; that summer was the first time I had been away from home for a long period of time. Now I wonder about it.
ancestry.com has me at
Great Brittain 42%
Ireland 28%
Europe West 13%
Scandinavia 11%
Myheritage.com has me at:
Irish, Scottish, and Welsh
59.4%
Scandinavian
24.0%
North and West European
15.1%
My dear Hubby at ancestry:
Great Britain 26%
Ireland 20%
Iberian Peninsula 12%
Italy/Greece 9%
Native American 16%
Asia Central 3%
Africa North 2%
Myheritage has him at:
Irish, Scottish, and Welsh
46.7%
North and West European
5.9%
East European
9.5%
Iberian
7.0%
Central American
21.8%
Central Asian (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan)
2.4%
North African (Morroco,Egypt,Libya)
4.2%
There are some slight differences but mostly myheritage.com doesn’t show either of us as having and English DNA and has transferred it all to Ireland/Scotland/Wales.
For information, my DH is 1/2 New Mexico native hispanic/amerind. There are rumors that at least one of his Spanish ancestors was in fact a dispossessed Shephardic Jew that was forced to flee to the Americas during the Spanish inquistion and that may very well be true since we see North Africa and Cental Asia in his DNA.
What a story! What an ancestor!
I had one of those experiences, sort of. Great grandfather who is buried and lived not ten miles from my house. Saw his photo for the first time in 2015. Made me cry. Odd reaction on my part. His birthday was Oct. 6.
“You have to take some of the Ancestry reports with a grain of salt.”
Really. Easy revenue gerating scams. Isn’t one of these “labs” an arm of LDS? I believe their genealogy info is heavy on quantity and skimpy on quality and accuracy. Grain of salt, definitely.
you wouldn’t happen to have a Roger Tyrrell in you past, would you? My ancestor; came it Boston in 1632, and then moved down to found Milford, Connecticut.
Well that blows my conspiracy theory out of the water! ;)
Both Patton and Scott families come from central Virginia (Orange county) where historian Bernard Bailyn called it the “great tangled cousinry” of Virginia gentry.
Stories of the glories and mores of the Tories?
I did find dome free diets like that.
Do you have any good links?
(grins!!)
“...now that they already have the genes, they will clone and use the clones...”
Do you REALLY think that Mother Government stopped with the cloning of Dolly the Sheep?
Conspiracies abound! :)
East Europe: 43%
Great Britain: 27%
West Europe: 16%
Italy/Greece: 6%
Ireland: 2%
Iberian Peninsula: 2%
European Jewish: 2%
Asia South: 2%
Definitely worth more research!
There is a single small street in an absolutely obscure New Hampshire town where I would take guests, park and say “If I could afford a second home, it would be on this street.” Turns out I thought I’d later discovered that an ancestor was buried at the end of that street, but it was only an aunt.
Working from memory but I do recall a small amount in Western Turkey. My guess is some of my Viking ancestors ventured that far but that’s about as much “ethnic” blood in my veins.
As for accuracy, I consider it a fun lark that’s great for party chitchat but that’s about it.
Harmless diversion from the real world angst.
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