Ancestry DNA results in!

[tobedetermined]

St Devizes

That is 15 miles away from my mother's kin - North Bradley/Trowbridge/Melksham all crop up in related birth/marriage/christening records. They left around 1845 to the Boston area. They stayed long enough to be in a census and then bought land in Canada.

 

[RobFromTX]

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

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Staywayoff. Now that sounds nice. no neighbor drama

 

[moose eater]

I was disconnected from most family history, other than immediate family (mother, father, brother, sister) for the majority of my life. A little bit of knowledge about extended family one tier up either side or so.

And a few aunts, uncles, couisins, etc. from longer ago.

Then, a bit over 20 years ago, my now-deceased Aunt sent a family heritage collection of sorts, including research, a family tree, maybe a plot map or 2, and the family history in a book. Lots of photos, and sketches of significant places and people There were a couple of fairly positive and/or stunning things that came to light, along with most of my maternal side's heritage going back to 500 A.D. in Ireland in one case, and including the first ancestor to arrive in the US in the early mid-1700.

But the only bits on my father's side involved items I had seen once or a couple times, or not at all, but had heard about, the physical parts of which were in my sister's possession when she passed, so they're gone. There were one or 2 oddities and/or curiosities in there as well.

IN a short period I went from having little or no focus on anything remotely like that, a shaded area of life, to having an incredible awareness of roots and more.

But finally connecting to an identity not even really having been thought about, one deeper or beyond the more commonly carried everyday sense of immediate places and people, was a positive thing. Perspective, identity, some pride (whether deserved or not), and contemplations about truths and fictions concerning the concept of inter-generational cultures, patterns, templates re. these things and behaviors or experiences, etc. Those moments imparted some thoughtfulness and, sometimes, humor, too.

 

[midwestkid]

I did one of these a few years back but it only reported what I believe to be my mother's side?
I have native blood from my dad's side and none of that showed up? I get super brown in the summer. I'm the brownest Irishman ever according to 23 and me...
I ended up watching a video on YouTube of a black lady reading her results. She was crying because it said she wasn't black.
So I don't think they have it dialed in quite yet?

 

[mean mr.mustard]

I'm a Slovakian prince and am very wealthy.

I'd like to inform you that you have inherited many rubels and I need some personal banking information to help you with your monetary acquisition...

 

[moose eater]

I did one of these a few years back but it only reported what I believe to be my mother's side?
I have native blood from my dad's side and none of that showed up? I get super brown in the summer. I'm the brownest Irishman ever according to 23 and me...
I ended up watching a video on YouTube of a black lady reading her results. She was crying because it said she wasn't black.
So I don't think they have it dialed in quite yet?

Yep, there are different qualities of background hunts where DNA is concerned, whether people, or other species.
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In the pet world, I've seen some bizarre lineages come back showing some alleged breeds, where a person only needed one look at the pup, and if they knew dogs, the first response was "No f'in way!!" I think the same range of quality and such occurs in the sites offering DNA research for people. "Order before midnite tonight!!"

I suspect the seaches that incorporate town registries, sailing manifestos, birth records, death records, immigration entry registries, and documents such as that, while more painstaking and time-consuming, are apt to provide more credible results. Such records may not always answer all of the blood-quantum-type questions, but they can give a good view of ancestry, with some assumptions, or, even better, more precise and specific written records that might go beyond the previously mentioned ones..

 

[Nannymouse]

Oh, yes, Hubby and i worked on the records thing for days on end...even those are sometimes not quite right.

 

[D. B. Doober]