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Pappy

Pappy

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I've always been told I have several orgins of ancestry in my blood. Welch, French, Indian and more. Now it's possible to send for a DNA kit to tell your exactly what you are. Would you do this or not. Sounds interesting to me. Cost is $99. I have often wondered how far this could go because my grandmother was stranded to be raised by a great couple who took her in.
 

Pappy said:
I've always been told I have several orgins of ancestry in my blood. Welch, French, Indian and more. Now it's possible to send for a DNA kit to tell your exactly what you are. Would you do this or not. Sounds interesting to me. Cost is $99. I have often wondered how far this could go because my grandmother was stranded to be raised by a great couple who took her in.
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Don't do the 23 and me one. Bad reviews. The one from Ancestry.com gets better reviews. I had it done. Not really specific as they lump UK and Ireland all together, so you don't know if you're Scottish, English, Welsh, or Irish. Mine also had a small amount of Turkish. Really?!
 
Doesn't sound like it could hurt. Might be interesting. $99 is chump change these days anyway.

Give it a go Pappy and let us know what you find.
 

I would probably do it, but for that price I'm not sure the results would be 100% accurate. It might tell me I'm descended from a pack of feral Romanian yodelers, when I know for a fact they were Magyar.

Still, I've spent more money on lesser things, so sure, I'd try it.
 
I have a very common last name. I got very lucky and tracked my ancestors back to 1770. It was all done on free sites on the internet..
 
SifuPhil said:
I would probably do it, but for that price I'm not sure the results would be 100% accurate. It might tell me I'm descended from a pack of feral Romanian yodelers, when I know for a fact they were Magyar.

Still, I've spent more money on lesser things, so sure, I'd try it.
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What the 23 and me did was group you into genotypes or something and base the findings on how many in a certain country have that type. Hardly 100% accurate.

Found out something I didn't want to know either!
 
Ken N Tx said:
I have a very common last name. I got very lucky and tracked my ancestors back to 1770. It was all done on free sites on the internet..
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I had a lot of cousins who did research and I also did it on ancestry.com and found quite a lot on their censuses. I've got back to mid 1700's and one is listed as Patriot Service in the war of independence.
 
I tried the free Ancestry.com trial and try as I might I couldn't get back any further than the 1920's. I guess my family has a long history of being "under the radar". :cool:
 
SifuPhil said:
I tried the free Ancestry.com trial and try as I might I couldn't get back any further than the 1920's. I guess my family has a long history of being "under the radar". :cool:
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My cousins had been researching for decades before the internet. One gggrandfather left Ireland in 1851 and was born in 1819. I've seen his grave. I know his mother's maiden name and would love to know about her. Her surname was Scottish.
 
I traced mine back 100 years ago.

Seems I had an uncle who was a great painter; painted men and women all over the country.

He painted MEN on one door and WOMEN on the other door.
 
Falcon said:
I traced mine back 100 years ago.

Seems I had an uncle who was a great painter; painted men and women all over the country.

He painted MEN on one door and WOMEN on the other door.
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Yes, I think I read that joke in a hundred year old book once.:D

I'm not willing to pay any money at all to find my ancestors [ I can go back easily to the 1700's anyway] but beyond that who knows? A mixture of English on my Mother's side and Irish on my Father's side.My husband looks like a Viking [I think it's the horns that do it] so his ancestors may have come over here and settled as many of them did.
 
HaHa That's where I got it.

One of my ancestors was the Lord Mayor of London. I think he was a Halifax if I'm not mistaken.

Anyway, I'm one of the Websters.
 
Pappy said:
I've always been told I have several orgins of ancestry in my blood. Welch, French, Indian and more. Now it's possible to send for a DNA kit to tell your exactly what you are. Would you do this or not. Sounds interesting to me. Cost is $99. I have often wondered how far this could go because my grandmother was stranded to be raised by a great couple who took her in.
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Wow, I would Pappy, also, I am Welsh, French, and Nez Perce, Cherokee. I don't usually meet anyone that is just the same, although I don't know what tribes are in your family;) I think it's so interesting;)
 
It's interesting. I've though about this. Back back and back. Who were these people. Hundreds and thousands of years back. We all have ancestors.
 
SifuPhil said:
I tried the free Ancestry.com trial and try as I might I couldn't get back any further than the 1920's. I guess my family has a long history of being "under the radar". :cool:
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I did find that Ancestry.com did have a lot of inaccuracies..Seems like they let a lot of people send in what they had..One of my ggggrandmothers had a child when she was 46 years old and 2 years after her husband had died!! Should be in the Guinness book ..
 
Ken N Tx said:
I did find that Ancestry.com did have a lot of inaccuracies..Seems like they let a lot of people send in what they had..One of my ggggrandmothers had a child when she was 46 years old and 2 years after her husband had died!! Should be in the Guinness book ..
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I found the best thing for tracing ancestors who lived in the US itself was to look through the censuses. They are the originals. Another good source is the free message board and go to the surname you're looking for. I've found many distant cousins on there who had done a lot of work already. Found my ggggrandfathers will from 1840 on there.

I've got the death certificate from another gggrandfather to verify his mother's maiden name. Can't find anything on her and am dying of curiosity to know why my Irish ancestor had a mother with a Scottish surname. She probably would have been born late 1700's. So I've got a short trip over to Dublin to the records office. Apparently they are very helpful. Many Irish records were lost in a big fire though which is why some have to travel around to the all parishes to look through their records.
 
Yep, had a niece who is big on genealogy pay for a swab for my DNA and found that there might have been some fooling around in tepees happening back in the good old days. Just call me "Running" Ralphy...
 
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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