DNA Mapping/ Geneology

[Tanya]

hi,
i didn't think this quite fit with the geneology sticky... so...

has anyone done much with these DNA mapping companies?

I've done my father an my husband with 2 different companies.

My father's came back.. amazing... we are TOTALLY not who we thought we were through my parternal grandfather...

we had some family legends about maybe being Romni, Decendents fo the Golden Horde, and maybe being Askenazi Jews... those were all true were .... but the big surprize was even though my great grandfather came from Poland... they are mostly Vikings and Siberians.. with a dash of Greenland Inuit, and a little Saudi Arabian to boot!

you never are who you think you are!

I can't wait til my father's X markers come back, as grandma was supposed to be Lakota Souix...

conversely my hubby's company was a big bust... or maybe he's just boring,... but there was little break down on where other people with his markers lived now or their ethnic groups and no step mutations back.... he did get to put to bed a rumour that' he's Chinese.... its true.. he's a Sino-Celt

.. funny how these family myths keep panning out... it says something about the power of oral histories in families,

[sunny.spoone]

That really interesting. My family claims my sister and I are 7/8ths Romanian and 1/8th Swiss. I highly doubt that my lineage is as 'pure' as that, though.

Out of curiosity, what companies have you used?

[Lyrien]

Tanya,

I know this is an older post, but what kind of DNA are they mapping? What company? My mother heavily researches our family's genealogy and has tested the only living relative from my grandfather's generation. The only thing she got back, that I'm aware of, is a sheet of paper with a crapton of location/numbers on it (DNA markers), an ancestral group of R1b, and a short explanation of where R1b comes from. The explanation states, "...R1b remains by far the most common haplogroup in western Europe (Spain, Portugal, France, UK and Ireland)." That's a pretty broad brush in comparisson to the feedback you received. I too am curious as to which company you used, you seemed to have found a winner.

The company name on the print out I have is DNA ancestry, performed by Sorenson Genomics.

[Tanya]

Familytreedna.com

yes I got a list of numbers and haplogroup symbols as well... but I also got a really interesting breakdown of WHERE pople with those haplo groups now live and the ethnic groups they identify with.

Again and again came the same results for us: "Native Siberian" " Scandinavian(including many hits from GreenlandIceland and the North sea islands)" "central Russian/Ethnic Minority Chinese" "North India/Tibet /Nepal" "Askanasi and various middle eastern countries" so it was possible to draw some conclusions... like "clearly my ansestors spent a lot of time around the artic circle and central Asia....

lol anyone to look at me would know I was Eurasian... but i don't think anyone would have guessed we were Vikings... HA! look at my pic.. do they come any browner, rounder or shorter than me? LOL... clearly the Inuit genes die hard.

[Lyrien]

I googled the type and came up with a fair amount of information, but nothing more than what was included with the results. Perhaps the haplogroup is just too broad to give more details than it does.

It was nice to get what information we did, though. My grandfather's line is the one my mother is having trouble with. Apparently one of them changed their last name on a whim and she can not 'legally' make the connection to his original name. All the research is done from this guy and back, but there is no documentation for the name change. The testing was done to see if his DNA matched up with the rest of the families from the original sir name.

My grandmother's side is well researched. We were highlanders, LOL.