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Lon

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I received my DNA Kit this morning which I ordered at the insistence of my daughter who has been involved in genealogy for years. The test will apparently indicate what part of the world my ancestry lies. I will give a sample and mail it in today. I have long thought that my ancestry on both family sides is pretty much all Brittish. Now we will find out.

Has any one else done this?
 

My Dad this through record searches, they didn't have DNA kits yet. Pinpointed almost the whole line from Berwick Upon Tweed, UK.

England or Scotland? Berwick-upon-Tweed's position on the north bank of the River Tweed, long held to be the nominal border between the two countries, led to the town changing hands no fewer than 14 times in the two centuries up to 1482.
 
Interesting Lon,let us know, you may be English or Sottish or Irish, but don't look Welsh ( though you never know!)
 

Sounds like fun, Lon... Have you seen the commercial about the guy whose family celebrated being German..including wearing Liederhosen..and found out they were all Scottish via the DNA thing.

Let us us know the results :)
 
I would just hope the human test is more accurate than the dog version. I've known people who had their dogs heritage checked and some were just too silly to believe. A fifty pound Heinz 57 and it would come back listing Shiba Inu, Ridgeback, a dash of Doberman, okay so far so good...then cocker spaniel and Pomeranian...
 
Good luck with it, Lon. I've seen the commercial Fur referred to - for the life of me I can't imagine how someone would think their ancestry is German when they're really Scots/Irish, but that's TV I guess.

Maybe I should do it to make sure I'm really Italian and entitled to all that pizza.

,,, Nah. :playful:
 
SifuPhil said:
Good luck with it, Lon. I've seen the commercial Fur referred to - for the life of me I can't imagine how someone would think their ancestry is German when they're really Scots/Irish, but that's TV I guess.
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I believed what my mother told me...that I was half Portuguese and half German. But she left out my father, whom she bitterly divorced when I was 5. Mom might be Portuguese and German, but I recently learned that my biological father was either Scottish or, more likely, Irish on both his paternal and maternal side. I traded in my leiderhosen.:playful:
 
My daughter did that and the rest of the family plans to eventually. Her DNA shows she's mostly from the Orkney Islands in Scotland (So she's purchased some Scull Crusher beer (has a Viking looking guy on the label) that is brewed there and gave it to the guys in our family. Next after that shows she's got a lot of DNA from Belgium and then Germany, France, and somewhere surprising but I can't recall where it was. Africa or the middle east. She was shocked to find out she was a very small amount of American Indian as we thought quite a bit of that would show up. And I think 2.8 percent Neanderthal. They also gave her a lot of health info but I don't think they are allowed to do that any longer.

Hope you tell us what you find out Lon.
 
FazeFour said:
I believed what my mother told me...that I was half Portuguese and half German. But she left out my father, whom she bitterly divorced when I was 5. Mom might be Portuguese and German, but I recently learned that my biological father was either Scottish or, more likely, Irish on both his paternal and maternal side. I traded in my leiderhosen.:playful:
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Ah, see, I was lucky - I got the "whole" story from Mom and Dad over the years. Thing is, I'm supposedly of 4 different breeds, and some of them are a bit, well, cloudy - like the Magyar part (I still have my tambourine)- but I don't know how accurate these DNA tests are.
 
I had mine done last year through FamilyTreeDNA, here's my roots: 97% European, 4% mid Eastern. I know that adds up to over 100%, but that's how they listed the breakdown.
 

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SifuPhil said:
Ah, see, I was lucky - I got the "whole" story from Mom and Dad over the years. Thing is, I'm supposedly of 4 different breeds, and some of them are a bit, well, cloudy - like the Magyar part (I still have my tambourine)- but I don't know how accurate these DNA tests are.
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Ooooo -- aren't the Magyars the folks with the vampires and Vlad the Impaler?
 
My wife is claimed to be 1/16 Blackfoot Indian; that is insufficient to qualify for any kind of recognition. Her feet look pretty white! imp
 
My husband is one quarter Cherokee. His maternal grandmother was 100%.. but no special recognition or privilege. You have to have direct affiliation with a tribe to have that.
 
fureverywhere said:
I would just hope the human test is more accurate than the dog version. I've known people who had their dogs heritage checked and some were just too silly to believe. A fifty pound Heinz 57 and it would come back listing Shiba Inu, Ridgeback, a dash of Doberman, okay so far so good...then cocker spaniel and Pomeranian...
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Yes, my sister had that done on her little white ball of fur and the report came back "part Great Pyrenees". OKaaaay.
 
Magyar in my blood 1/4 of me.
Mixed with Scottish, Irish, and English blood, and a smattering of "merican". Seems nobody is sure what great granny was beyond being from the United States. (I am Canadian).
My mother always claimed the worst temper she ever saw was a Hungarian Irishman. So when she said it that way I presumed she really meant my brother. ;)
 
I loved that National Geographic Special where they tested a large group of people and traced their ancestries with an eye to tracing the ancient migrations of humans out of Africa. Some went West toward Europe, others East toward Asia. They assembled everyone in Central park and separated them into groups according to their genetic make up. The results were surprising for many. The important thing, for me anyway, was that it showed us to be what we are. One family. Not them and us. Just us.
 
As far as I'm aware my ancestors are, England, Ireland,Scotland & Guernsey in the Channel Islands. I would like to have my DNA done to see where the black hair & olive skin comes from, probably Celtic, but who knows.
 
Well so from what we know my kids are Welsh and Sicilian...great poets, heavy drinkers, devoted to family with explosive tempers. Oy, that I shouldn't have had kidz
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