Finding your roots? show and family genealogy

Free said:
So here's what I thought I knew about my heritage and ancestry. My paternal grandfather was mostly Scottish and grandmother was from Germany, my maternal great-grandparents hailed from different parts of Europe before settling in South America.

Now, after drooling into a tube and shipping my saliva off to some laboratory, here's what I definitively know:



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Turns out, my paternal grandmother, although blonde haired and blue eyed, was definitely not from Germany. :p

I was surprised by the rather large chunk of Native American, no doubt stemming from my Chilean mother. 41% Native. Pretty sweet.

What we think about where we came from could be quite different from the truth. I'm not in any way dismayed about my results. They're rather liberating.
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So cool!! I definitely want to do similar kind of test someday, where you send a sample of saliva to them and then they get the results for you etc.

Also, I notice Finland there, lol. :p
 
This is a good article to read if you have Southeastern Native American in your DNA fabrication. I think for now there will be flaws in the DNA matches, which will improve over time as more and more people contribute, and the organization which does the testing finds more homogenous group from which to collect samples. The article is merely one person's speculation, as he states that they have not been able to collect DNA from any Cherokee group. It at least opens your mind to other tribe possibilities, and to see how complex this process is: http://peopleofonefire.com/so-your-...outh-carolina-and-think-you-are-cherokee.html
 
invisible said:
I would be pretty interested to do that genetic testing. But also feel like mine would just say "White, white, white... yeah, you are white. White!"
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but if you go back far enough, we are all from Africa. everyone alive today is a direct descendant of our ancient mother.

color is just the result of natural selection, the work of generations to guard against environmental circumstance. the only difference between us is our migration patterns.
that all. lol
and I love that about us.

some cats are stripey. some have long fur. all of them are awesome. and so are we <3
 
Pleiades said:
but if you go back far enough, we are all from Africa. everyone alive today is a direct descendant of our ancient mother.

color is just the result of natural selection, the work of generations to guard against environmental circumstance. the only difference between us is our migration patterns.
that all. lol
and I love that about us.

some cats are stripey. some have long fur. all of them are awesome. and so are we <3
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Like you I love human differences. The history of human beings is pretty interesting.
 
Sriracha said:
This is a good article to read if you have Southeastern Native American in your DNA fabrication. I think for now there will be flaws in the DNA matches, which will improve over time as more and more people contribute, and the organization which does the testing finds more homogenous group from which to collect samples. The article is merely one person's speculation, as he states that they have not been able to collect DNA from any Cherokee group. It at least opens your mind to other tribe possibilities, and to see how complex this process is: http://peopleofonefire.com/so-your-...outh-carolina-and-think-you-are-cherokee.html
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Great article, Sri! Thanks for sharing that. It really is quite amazing how we're learning more about our own personal ancestry, but the process is also starting to unravel the biggest mystery of them all... our human history. I absolutely love this.
 
Pleiades said:
but if you go back far enough, we are all from Africa. everyone alive today is a direct descendant of our ancient mother.

color is just the result of natural selection, the work of generations to guard against environmental circumstance. the only difference between us is our migration patterns.
that all. lol
and I love that about us.

some cats are stripey. some have long fur. all of them are awesome. and so are we <3
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I agree. There is even definitive proof now that we all have a female ancestor in common traced back through the mitochondrial DNA, waaaay back to Africa. It's pretty amazing.

@invisible I think you'd be pleasantly surprised to see what's hiding in your DNA. If we're going by color, I'm day-glo white and also thought my European ancestry was predominantly white. Keep in mind that your history goes back so much further than your family tree can track. <3
 
Free said:
I am flaunting my 2% Finland like there's no tomorrow! :D
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Haha! :D I think it's really interesting how we might have roots from some parts of the world which we never even thought about etc. and it's fascinating how it seems to be possible to see that from our dna like those tests show.
 
To compare, I did two separate DNA tests - one from ancestry.com and one from 23andme.com. Both were equally valid, and I wanted to see if they found the same information. They did, with only slight variations between the two. So I highly recommend doing a DNA test, if you're ever curious. I enjoyed 23andme.com a little more, because at the time I was able to include a health panel (they aren't doing that any more).
 
I love the "high" off of finding new information. Yesterday I found an ancestor in the Civil War and involved in the Battle of Kennesaw Mtn. I had only hiked that mountain a dozen times when I lived in Georgia. I think that's pretty cool having lived where he marched through ... understanding the terrain, the humidity, creepy foggy mornings, etc.
 
I wont show the proof but I will say may lineage has been traced all the way back to the Anglo Saxons and the most famous known relative appears to be Ulysses Grant.
 
My mother recently did one of these ancestry DNA kits, for the most part it was as expected.. primarily Italian/Greek----but there's a good bit more Middle Eastern in there than previously thought (which makes sense given the Greeks history).
I hope I can get one of these kits soon; I personally find this kind of stuff fascinating.
 
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