Ancestry DNA results in!

[D. B. Doober]

I did Ancestry's DNA kit for like a $100 for Christmas...results came back.
Scotland 25%
England 16%
Wales 5%

Then thanks to my mom, 43% Slovak. What the fuck man. It's my mom's DNA side though...I don't feel retarded. Are they retarded? Thank God it wasn't Russian. I'd cry and poop and smear it everywhere. Other than my mom's Klopec DNA I'm pretty impressed. 50% English and Scottish man! Said there were tons of DNA matches...hope I don't have kids or some shit.
Anyone do their DNA? We're you disappointed? Happy? Slovak...? Where even IS Slovakia? Wtf?

 

[exploziv]

Oh, they ask money for those? I thought it's paid by the data they collect on you.
Also, do you miss a finger or something? They only add to 99%..

 

[CosmicGiggle]

........... Where even IS Slovakia? Wtf?

don't know, but I did receive a call from there recently, prolly wanted to sell me some spam!

 

[Nannymouse]

We did my hubby's and my brother's dna's...but just the MtDna and the Y sides, many years ago.

Tons of genetics from the east of Europe for many folks, as that is where one of the bottlenecks happened during the end of the glacial eras, so that would be pretty common. One of my family's genetic markers indicates a specific spot in Russia at about 500 a.d., (if i remember correctly) and i found that in an archeological report that was of a Russian riverbed where Cannabis was being grown...and smoked...evidently, it was an area that was frequented by a 'gathering'. Hard to tell if this is a 'direct hit' of where some of the ancestors hung out, or if the place was after a 'family split'. I was told that the particular linage is probably closer related to native americans, than most, so evidently an earlier part of that group was farther north and ended up going over the 'land bridge' or something. The longer that we wait, the more genetic info is found. Also, the genetics from old mummies and such, just keeps getting more interesting, as methods get refined and more ancient dna is uncovered.

Mum's side is interesting, too. The particular markers go back to the Levant area, at around the time that the tribes that left Eqypt supposedly settled the Levant, possibly from those tribes or Caananite. Our line found its way into southern Great Britain, not far from Wales.

Both sides are rare, hardly any related 'hits'. Both sides about to go extinct. Only one granddaughter for the MtDna side. I only know of one living male left on father's side, and that is from a cousin's family. Lots of lines go extinct.

I am fascinated by the results, but have lost the will to buy more information...yet.

 

[Nannymouse]

Slovakia is part of the 'recent' Chezhoslavkia(sp?) split

 

[Jellyfish]

Slovakia used to be part of Czechoslovakia.

 

[Nannymouse]

I knew there was a z in there somewhere, ha. I have the worst time with Czech and Hungarian names/words.

 

[growshopfrank]

Mormon mafia cash cow.

 

[D. B. Doober]

We did my hubby's and my brother's dna's...but just the MtDna and the Y sides, many years ago.

Tons of genetics from the east of Europe for many folks, as that is where one of the bottlenecks happened during the end of the glacial eras, so that would be pretty common. One of my family's genetic markers indicates a specific spot in Russia at about 500 a.d., (if i remember correctly) and i found that in an archeological report that was of a Russian riverbed where Cannabis was being grown...and smoked...evidently, it was an area that was frequented by a 'gathering'. Hard to tell if this is a 'direct hit' of where some of the ancestors hung out, or if the place was after a 'family split'. I was told that the particular linage is probably closer related to native americans, than most, so evidently an earlier part of that group was farther north and ended up going over the 'land bridge' or something. The longer that we wait, the more genetic info is found. Also, the genetics from old mummies and such, just keeps getting more interesting, as methods get refined and more ancient dna is uncovered.

Mum's side is interesting, too. The particular markers go back to the Levant area, at around the time that the tribes that left Eqypt supposedly settled the Levant, possibly from those tribes or Caananite. Our line found its way into southern Great Britain, not far from Wales.

Both sides are rare, hardly any related 'hits'. Both sides about to go extinct. Only one granddaughter for the MtDna side. I only know of one living male left on father's side, and that is from a cousin's family. Lots of lines go extinct.

I am fascinated by the results, but have lost the will to buy more information...yet.

What DNA service did you use? I used Ancestry and it doesn't give me anything about time periods...just the countries. It was $100.

 

[Ringodoggie]

I think Slovakia was just off the coast of the Hot Sea Tot Sea between Moronica and Great Mitten.

 

[Nannymouse]

FTDna, but i have to say that most of the research was done by mice self. Digging through old maps, doing searches on the most recent Y-upgrades, finding 'ancient DNA' sites where they list the old archeological genetic finds, etc. Also, i wasn't afraid to contact the 'project administrators' when i had questions, but most of the original people on these projects have now moved on. Dunno if the replacments are as helpful. It helped that the Y Dna lineage was rare enough that it didn't fit the original 'groups' within the haplogroups, so it was sort of a mystery. Still is, ha. To find the MtDna line, i even joined an historical group in GreatBritain, and they helped me trace farther than i had gotten with my family records. Geez, i even found old old books that had been scanned and put online, i mean WAY back. It was interesting to see how much the written English has changed through the centuries, and the book pages were yellowed, some burned, some worm eaten, water damaged, etc.

Winters...had to have something to work on. I've sort of lost interest after working it for years and years.

The hardest part of the family to trace is the 'German' side. So many churches were damaged, and that is where the old records were held.

Also, i attacked it from several different angles. The family name, for instance, has old places with the same name. Some in Germany, some in what was once Poland, some in Rugen, etc. That was a real tough one, because i had to go back before 'the wars' to see which villages had their names changed when the Jewish folk were taken from their villages, and the villages were 're-populated' and the village names changed. Not to mention how the borders changed. A lesson in history, for sure.

Still don't have the family history completed, and not really sure sometimes how accurate.

Some interesting surprises with the searches, though. Didn't know that part of the family has been here since before this became a country. I figured that i was the result of 'recent immigrants', but found that three (a father and two sons) fought in the battle of Brandywine, and two were killed there. The surviving brother's lineage also fought in the Civil War. Didn't know any of this.

So, as 'family historian', i was working it both ways, from what i had as family records, as well as the 'dna's. But i never did the one that you did for nationalities. I mean, i don't know how accurate that would be, with how many times parts of Europe were 'de-populated' and 're-populated'. In my family tree, it probably wouldn't be worth it, with how many times that Germany switched around.

 

[Nannymouse]

The 'Russian' part was totally accidental. I was researching an archeological site because of the Cannabis thing, and there it was, a mention of the haplogroup that is part of our male side heritage. So, of course, now feel that i have very old genetic connections to the earlier use of weed. maybe.

 

[D. B. Doober]

The 'Russian' part was totally accidental. I was researching an archeological site because of the Cannabis thing, and there it was, a mention of the haplogroup that is part of our male side heritage. So, of course, now feel that i have very old genetic connections to the earlier use of weed. maybe.

Hey that's pretty awesome! You did a lot of work! i wonder if there's a way to find out if we are related to any of the kings of England...I would like to do that

 

[Nannymouse]

I sure doubt that my 'English' side had anything to do with kings. The older stuff, like the Dangerfield name goes back to a lot of questions, perhaps D'angerville or some such thing, and that or one of the other families from England, has a gruesome history of abuse when there was all that back and forth religious stuff amongst the royals. Like one fella was hiding out, cuz he'd badmouthed i forget which queen (Mary?) and the sheriff caught him going home to see his newborn 11th child, put him in shackles so long that...when he was let 'free', he died on the way home, maybe with some help from the sheriff's guys. Then, they put his wife in prison, with the new baby, and the women in the prison wouldn't let her have any food, she and the baby died. The other ten kids...no idea if they were adopted or just ran the streets or countrysides. Don't know for sure if this is ancestors, because of name changes...and if you go back far enough in history, there were no last names, at all.

You will probably find traces of maybes, if you search far enough. Most any family ancestry is going to find some very evil stuff, somewhere along the line. Maybe cool stuff, too, though. My son's ancestry goes back to a couple of early Virginia Senators. Hubby's family goes back to some king in Norway, back when every mountain had it's king, ha.

 

[tobedetermined]

That all sound familiar @Nannymouse My brother started the research back before the Internet with visits to Canada’s archives and ordering fiche transcriptions from the Mormon church. He got us back to the great-grandfather level. I got involved 20 years ago and I did a lot of online research through the LDS site that preceded Family Search. I even got involved indexing records for a while. I have worked us back to the 16th Century and then the records go for a crap because of war etc. Then, working from the other direction, I did the original NatGeo DNA sampling and a subsequent Y DNA deeper look see. All said and done, I know that I am a Scot with Nordic DNA (a Viking remnant) and the family were sharecroppers in Argyll & Bute, Scotland. My mother’s side were farmers in Wiltshire, England and possible Huguenots refugees - if the family history is true.

 

[D. B. Doober]

Castle Rock, dudes

Place is forboding

You'd think Macbeth was about that place

 

[Ca++]

The timeline thing is useful. My results just said I was a fish.

 

[Nannymouse]

Yes, Wiltshire was the historical society that got me some info. The farthest i got back on that branch, was St Devizes (sp?). I was surprised to see it so close to historic sites. Of course, there are historic sites all the heck over, there. I even got on google earth and zoomed down to see the names of the streets and church sites where i knew the ancestors walked.

I asked one of the project people about how the genes from the Levant would show up so far from 'home', he said that you would be surprised how much the Roman Empire spread genetics around. Many slaves were left in the outer regions, as it was expensive to take them all back home to Rome. I also thought that St Devizes region was very much into building canals, and i suppose folks from all over would make the move for 'work'...I may never know how they hopped from the main continent, but it is interesting to find variables.

I can tell you that people really moved around Europe/Asia. This research is what makes me believe that the term 'landrace' for Cannabis...well, it just has to be taken with a grain of salt. I'm pretty certain that the peoples that came before us loved their Cannabis as much as we do. They took their seeds with them when they moved, if they could.

 

[Frosty Nuggets]

Congratulations you are now owned, they patent your DNA when they do the test, did you read the terms and conditions?

 

[armedoldhippy]

afraid to do the DNA thing. both sides of my family came from along Clinch Mountain & the Clinch river. apparently scots-irish moonshiners and clan folk that intermarried for a damn long time, although it looks like there was an infusion of Cherokee or Melungeon. my family tree looks like a telephone pole that was struck by lightning and the wires were just left hanging alongside of it...