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Bellbird

Bellbird

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I am waiting for my DNA results to arrive, still have 3 weeks to wait. I am quite excited, maybe I will have some exotic heritage.:D Has anyone on the forum had their DNA tested, how did you react to what you were finding?
 

There was another post about this a while back, a lot of people posted to that.

It is interesting, the file is my report, also said I was about 3% Neanderthal.

And that I am a descendant of Niall of the Nine Hostages, an Irish King about 1,500 years ago. Apparently about half of Irish are descendant from Niall.

Its probably not far wrong, my ancestry I know best is mostly Irish and Scottish.

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For those who have done it, what service did you use? I used 23 & Me. Other than my daughter and one first cousin, I don’t know any of the others.
 
Bellbird said:
I am waiting for my DNA results to arrive, still have 3 weeks to wait. I am quite excited, maybe I will have some exotic heritage.:D Has anyone on the forum had their DNA tested, how did you react to what you were finding?
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My daughter sent mine and Hubby's away for analysis and no surprises. DNA was pretty much as expected - Anglo-Saxon-Norman-Celtic.
 
I had my DNA ancestry done many years ago and every few years I get an update where they change the percentages of my different heritages. Sometimes a nationality is added or is dropped. The more data they get they change the nationalities and percentages. I am disappointed in the results I have received because they keep changing.
 
Lawrence said:
I had my DNA ancestry done many years ago and every few years I get an update where they change the percentages of my different heritages. Sometimes a nationality is added or is dropped. The more data they get they change the nationalities and percentages. I am disappointed in the results I have received because they keep changing.
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That's why I've never had mine done. I watched a TV documentary on people having their DNA done . They would have it carried out from one place, and then tested at a second and third, and the results were always different .

Although I know I'm a Celt born and bred, to Celtic parents and grandparents for as far back as I've managed to find to be the 14th century.. I'd love to know if I've got Scandinavian DNA, which is more than likely... but with results that are far from honest I don't want to waste money..
 
I don't need to know my DNA. My sister did that, and if DNA results are worth a hoot, would there be any reason for my DNA ancestry to be any different from hers? If it was, I would question the results, or maybe question my parent's sexual practices.

My sister does a lot of ancestry research and fills me in. I can't remember half of it. All I know goes back to my grandparents and what I know about where they came from. Beyond that is a mystery of the lost and forgotten, and beyond that we might as well be discussing my ancestors who lived in caves sharpening their spears, and while priding themselves on their knowledge of fire. I admit that would be interesting.

I wonder if any of my ancestors were great people. Some of them might have been total losers. The only thing I know for sure is that they all had sex with each other.
 
My daughter wanted to get me a DNA test kit. Her daughter was tested and was surprised by the results. For being the darkest skinned member of the family, she tested largely European. Go figure. According to my maternal grandfather's stories, we were related through an illegitimate birth to someone they write stories and make movies about - horrible, disgusting stories. Do we really want verification?
 
My son had reason to do it, and despite 3 or 4 countries involved I am 100% Ashkenazi Jew. From Wikpedia:
"Ashkenazi Jews (/ˌɑːʃkəˈnɑːzi, ˌæʃ-/ AHSH-kə-NAH-zee, ASH-;[18] Hebrew: יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, romanized: Yehudei Ashkenaz, lit. 'Jews of Germania'), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim,[a] are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the 1st millennium CE.[20] Their traditional diaspora language is Yiddish (a West Germanic language with Jewish linguistic elements, including the Hebrew alphabet),[20] which developed during the Middle Ages after they had moved from Germany and France into Northern Europe and Eastern Europe. For centuries, Ashkenazim in Europe used Hebrew only as a sacred language until the revival of Hebrew as a common language in 20th-century Israel."

Made me proud. I bet my ancestors knew some of those famous Biblical folks.
 
My daughter gave me one of those DNA kits for Christmas two years ago and I still have it sitting on top of my dresser. Every now and then, my wife will bring it to me and tell me to do this today. I tell OK and then I put it back.
 
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Pre-Covid, I saw a short comedy play about two Scottish sisters who bought each other DNA testing kits. They had the mad idea that their father was Prince Philip. When they got the results, they found that they weren't Scottish and they weren't even related - especially not to Prince Philip. They discovered from their 'mother' who was a nurse, that they were born on the same day in Leicester during WW2 and when the hospital was damaged by a bomb, all the records were lost and nobody knew who the infants were. The nurse adopted the two girls and brought them up as sisters. Anyway, they all live happily ever after.
 
Jules said:
For those who have done it, what service did you use?
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Only the ancestry thing I posted, there are more details available, my post was just a summary. I did agree to the thing that shows people genetic relatives. No surprises there, I got a list of something like 1,400 DNA relatives mostly 3rd, 4th or further removed cousins. The closer relatives were all people I know, and the relationships shown were close to right.
Lawrence said:
I had my DNA ancestry done many years ago and every few years I get an update where they change the percentages of my different heritages
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Same here, but they pretty much have all been northern European. Biggest change was my ~10% Scandinavian disappeared into British Isles. I am thinking that was probably Viking... I am however now a bit more German and less French than I used to be.
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I'd love to know if I've got Scandinavian DNA, which is more than likely...
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It is likely, but it appears to me they have reclassified Viking DNA found in the British Isles so you may or may not see that. As I say a couple of years ago I was Scandinavian, but no longer.
Em in Ohio said:
According to my maternal grandfather's stories, we were related through an illegitimate birth to someone they write stories and make movies about - horrible, disgusting stories. Do we really want verification?
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Only you know the answer to that, but the way I look at it is that was long past, no reflection on us today. And it makes an interesting story.

I did not need DNA testing to know of my family's slaveholding past, but knowing it doesn't hurt me today. I think it makes me a bit more aware of history, that's all.
 
Pepper said:
My son had reason to do it, and despite 3 or 4 countries involved I am 100% Ashkenazi Jew. From Wikpedia:
"Ashkenazi Jews (/ˌɑːʃkəˈnɑːzi, ˌæʃ-/ AHSH-kə-NAH-zee, ASH-;[18] Hebrew: יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, romanized: Yehudei Ashkenaz, lit. 'Jews of Germania'), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim,[a] are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the 1st millennium CE.[20] Their traditional diaspora language is Yiddish (a West Germanic language with Jewish linguistic elements, including the Hebrew alphabet),[20] which developed during the Middle Ages after they had moved from Germany and France into Northern Europe and Eastern Europe. For centuries, Ashkenazim in Europe used Hebrew only as a sacred language until the revival of Hebrew as a common language in 20th-century Israel."

Made me proud. I bet my ancestors knew some of those famous Biblical folks.
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I was only....I think it said 9%, or maybe 7%. I'm more Finn than Jew, which really surprised me.

But my son said to expect another analysis. This outfit sends your sample on to another lab that does a deeper study, and some of your percentages will likely change and something gets added, plus it tells you what health problems are in your genes.
 

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