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Post by Cody™ on Sept 6, 2018 21:39:37 GMT
Done mine very recently. Discovered that 15% of my DNA is Southern European, predominantly Italian/Greek and 3% from the Caucasus region which I found a tad surprising. I’m not aware of any Italian or Greek relatives in my immediate family. So that was interesting to discover.
I apparently also have no south Asian or African ancestry. Which wasn’t surprising.
Anyone else done theirs?
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Post by progressiveelement on Sept 7, 2018 13:01:19 GMT
Which means your ancestors were probably gyppos.
😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Sept 7, 2018 14:01:41 GMT
I am inclined to call BS on ancestry dna. The level of mixing between populations must be immense. A possible racial profile that could be the result of a viking raping a slav 1000 years ago seems to me somewhat yawnworthy. Does the company promise anything more exciting like being a direct descendant of george washington?
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Post by Cody™ on Sept 7, 2018 14:10:24 GMT
Which means your ancestors were probably gyppos. 😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝 Highly unlikely. Last I checked Italians and Greek are not gypsies. And the Caucasus region is Armenia, Georgia and Russia none of which are gypsy origin. Plus I have zero south Asian dna which is the part of the world gypsies originally hail from. Not that it matters but the chances I have any gypsy blood is next to nothing. |
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Post by progressiveelement on Sept 7, 2018 14:11:47 GMT
Which means your ancestors were probably gyppos. 😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝 Highly unlikely. Last I checked Italians and Greek are not gypsies. And the Caucasus region is Armenia, Georgia and Russia none of which are gypsy origin. Plus I have zero south Asian dna which is the part of the world gypsies originally hail from. Not that it matters but the chances I have any gypsy blood is next to nothing. They're foreign, its all the same. 👍 |
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Post by Cody™ on Sept 7, 2018 14:36:15 GMT
I am inclined to call BS on ancestry dna. The level of mixing between populations must be immense. A possible racial profile that could be the result of a viking raping a slav 1000 years ago seems to me somewhat yawnworthy. Does the company promise anything more exciting like being a direct descendant of george washington? I think they’re able to trace your ancestry back to around 2000 years. And you’d be surprised at how accurate it is. Check out some of the videos uploaded on YouTube of people’s results. |
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 7, 2018 14:40:51 GMT
Mine came back that I'm 15% wombat.
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Post by general313 on Sept 7, 2018 15:10:05 GMT
According to my 23andMe results, I have more Neandertal genes than 55 percent of the population.
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Post by thefleetsin on Sept 7, 2018 15:13:19 GMT
LOLOLOLOL
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Post by Catman on Sept 7, 2018 15:14:46 GMT
Catman is a descendant of Dick Whittington's cat Tommy.
Don't need no stinking DNA test to verify that!
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 7, 2018 15:20:31 GMT
One of the websites said that blood of Númenor flows in my veins. 62.7% Númenorian, 28.3% Elvish, 5.6% dwarf, 1.8% crannogmen, 1.7% Neffertiti and traces of Orc and Uruk-Hai. I suspect Saruman was responsible for altering my DNA.
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 7, 2018 15:23:41 GMT
Ah, well, as to the whole gypsy discussion I probably have gypsy blood in me.  My maternal grandparents did the Ancestry.com test and we got these results: My grandmother is 73% Italian, specifically southern Italian (Calabria), which was the only thing we'd really expected; 20% Middle Eastern, probably Turkish; 4% Caucasian (i.e., from the Caucasus, like the OP’s family); 2% European Jewish; and <1% South Asian. We found out that her family didn’t come over to the US from Italy until about 1850, which we’d expected as well. My grandfather’s was 50% German, as expected, but also—41% Scotch-Irish, from Ulster; 8% Scandinavian; and 1% English. This after years of his having told us he was mostly English! We also found out (this was unexpected) that his Irish family had originally come over before the Revolution! Still checking to see if we had a Revolutionary War ancestor… (Watch we do, but he fought on the British side!) I told this to a co-worker once, and he said, “I love it! You’re an all-American mutt!”  |
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Post by Morgana on Sept 8, 2018 8:42:28 GMT
Done mine very recently. Discovered that 15% of my DNA is Southern European, predominantly Italian/Greek and 3% from the Caucasus region which I found a tad surprising. I’m not aware of any Italian or Greek relatives in my immediate family. So that was interesting to discover. I apparently also have no south Asian or African ancestry. Which wasn’t surprising. Anyone else done theirs? So that accounts for 18%. What is the rest? |
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Post by Morgana on Sept 8, 2018 8:45:49 GMT
I would love to do an ancestry DNA test. Since I already know I am English, Arab and Chinese, I would be interested to find out what other, if any, DNA I have in the mix.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 8, 2018 9:01:18 GMT
Never done one, not even for kicks. There's no way to tell if the information they give you is correct, and there's no way to control what they do with the information they collect. I am an unbranded member of the Herd.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 10:00:55 GMT
Problem is there is no set standard of single nucleotide polymorphism DNA markers the companies use to analyse your DNA.
Different results can come from different companies, depending on what database of markers they are using, and what markers of yours they compare that to.
Your results will be somewhere in the ball park, but take it with a pinch of salt.
The companies offering this service are not making their money from what you pay them for looking at your DNA in an ancestry context. Their main business is selling on your DNA to the pharmaceutical industry, and others.
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 8, 2018 14:57:12 GMT
Catman is a descendant of Dick Whittington's cat Tommy. Don't need no stinking DNA test to verify that! "Tell Tom Tilden that Tim Tolden's dead." "Then I am King Of The Cats!!!" |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Sept 8, 2018 14:59:38 GMT
I've never been much of a family tree guy.
My family's history is one hodge podge of slavery, rape, interracial marriages between minorities, and little to no means until the generations I've been a part of.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Sept 8, 2018 15:40:12 GMT
Problem is there is no set standard of single nucleotide polymorphism DNA markers the companies use to analyse your DNA. Different results can come from different companies, depending on what database of markers they are using, and what markers of yours they compare that to. Your results will be somewhere in the ball park, but take it with a pinch of salt. The companies offering this service are not making their money from what you pay them for looking at your DNA in an ancestry context. Their main business is selling on your DNA to the pharmaceutical industry, and others. I have long suspected that DNA is not kept private; they are providing it to pharma companies, insurance companies and perhaps even law enforcement . I'm not much into conspiracy theories, but this one seems like an entirely plausible one. I don't really understand the attraction to having this done; my father's father was Danish (last name ended in 'sen', Dad's mother was Swedish (last name ended in 'son'), my mother's mother had a maiden name that was German and her father's surname English. I look about as Nordic as one can, what do I need to know beyond that? I never knew my father's parents; they had died before I was born, and I rarely saw my mother's parents, it was a terribly dysfunctional family and they lived far away. They were all fairly new immigrants so no surprise descent from someone famous in the US. I can think of lots better things to do with that money than spend it on ancestry! |
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 8, 2018 15:46:02 GMT
Problem is there is no set standard of single nucleotide polymorphism DNA markers the companies use to analyse your DNA. Different results can come from different companies, depending on what database of markers they are using, and what markers of yours they compare that to. Your results will be somewhere in the ball park, but take it with a pinch of salt. The companies offering this service are not making their money from what you pay them for looking at your DNA in an ancestry context. Their main business is selling on your DNA to the pharmaceutical industry, and others. I have long suspected that DNA is not kept private; they are providing it to pharma companies, insurance companies and perhaps even law enforcement . I'm not much into conspiracy theories, but this one seems like an entirely plausible one. I don't really understand the attraction to having this done; my father's father was Danish (last name ended in 'sen', Dad's mother was Swedish (last name ended in 'son'), my mother's mother had a maiden name that was German and her father's surname English. I look about as Nordic as one can, what do I need to know beyond that? I never knew my father's parents; they had died before I was born, and I rarely saw my mother's parents, it was a terribly dysfunctional family and they lived far away. They were all fairly new immigrants so no surprise descent from someone famous in the US. I can think of lots better things to do with that money than spend it on ancestry! Yeah if you completely look Nordic then there is not much to go for it. May be people who are unusual looking in comparison to others from their ethnicity may gain more from it. I won't also spend money on this thing. But yeah some people may be inquisitive so I am fine with them. But much like you I have no great interest in it. People are same all over the world anyway. |
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My maternal grandparents did the Ancestry.com test and we got these results:
