Ancestry DNA

Pappy said:
When I went to my hometowns Historical Society, I was able to find out where my great grandparents were buried. However that's about all the info I could find.

My half sister took a trip to Canada and found quite a few relatives were from there and of course France. A couple she stayed with spoke no English so I guess the conversation was at a minimum.

On my moms side, her father, my grandpa were stone masons from way back. I would like to find out more.
This photo dates back to 1913. My grandpa is first on left back row.
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That's cool! I've got a few photos of great and gg grandparents.
 

My son had it done. It doesn't get that specific about countries.. in other words, it won't say if you are French, German, Polish... but you will be European, and perhaps some Scandinavian. IE.. Northern European. Which is what my son got from me. It will tell you if you have some Neanderthal DNA.. interesting... many people do, and they are mostly redheads.. My son has a very small amount of that as well as some Native American. I'm sure this is completely from his Father... Particularly the Neanderthal!. From what I have read, it basically picks out the Races. It will talk about African, and Asian DNA. The test will also give some interesting famous ancestors. So I guess if you want to know if you have African, or Native American... or even Neanderthal, it's an interesting thing to do.
 
QuickSilver said:
My son had it done. It doesn't get that specific about countries.. in other words, it won't say if you are French, German, Polish... but you will be European, and perhaps some Scandinavian. IE.. Northern European. Which is what my son got from me. It will tell you if you have some Neanderthal DNA.. interesting... many people do, and they are mostly redheads.. My son has a very small amount of that as well as some Native American. I'm sure this is completely from his Father... Particularly the Neanderthal!. From what I have read, it basically picks out the Races. It will talk about African, and Asian DNA. The test will also give some interesting famous ancestors. So I guess if you want to know if you have African, or Native American... or even Neanderthal, it's an interesting thing to do.
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Mine said neanderthal as did my aunt's.
 

I started doing geneology several years ago and just hit a stone wall that I couldn't get past until I met up with a distant cousin who has done extensive searching on our family. His info explained a lot of puzzling stuff, but he has a point he can't get past, either.....why our family up and changed their last name abruptly somewhere around 1895 and packed up and moved north. I also found out that my great-grandmother was a Melungeon (a mixture of white, Black and Cherokee Indian) who apparently was a great beauty. The only picture of her I had ever seen was as an old woman (she died before I was born) and she was a dead ringer for Jabba the Hutt. I'm not kidding.
 
THis DNA test has nothing to do with geneology.. It simply tells you what race, and area your DNA comes from.. and what mixes you have. It will give you percentages of each race or ethnic group. I'm mostly Eastern European, with some Scandanavian thrown in. The bulk of my family, both maternal and paternal emmigrated from Germany in the late 1800's early 1900's.. I know that from family accounts and from Ancestors.com where I was able to find the actual ship rosters for each family group. The DNA test will not tell you things like that.. for that you have to dig in records.
 
I had done Genealogy search in the early 2000s, went by the wayside with Real Life taking precedence, but I intend to resurrect my quest. I think I'll spring for the DNA testing and see what's really going on. ;)
 
Well, I finally got the results back from myFTDNA, looks like this:


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With the myFTDNA data you can search and see individuals that share your genetic markers, ranking by degree of relation(2nd cousin, 3rd, etc). Found a few that have familiar surnames, and location(name+location=important).

Perhaps someday I'll determine whether my paternal surname is of Welsh or of German(or Swiss or French) origin.
 
I also had that Ancestry "mini" DNA test maybe a year ago. Most of it I was sure of anyway but wondered about any surprises. While my 94% Eastern European was expected as well as the 4% Russian, I was delighted & surprised to find my 2% Finnish.
 

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