It will come back as a dog. I know someone who thought it would be funny to waste money doing this.
OT: Ancestry DNA Kit
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You and your sister would not necessarily have the same percentages, no. You would both be in the same ballpark but it wouldn't have to be exactly the same.
And yes, going far enough you should lose any trace DNA from an ancestor of a specific kind, but if they were something off the wall like a Cherokee or Aztec then it'll take more than a few generations to completely disappear as an individual subset.
In my case the one side of the family all generally look the same. Dark eyes, dark hair, noses & cheekbones appear native american, but nothing came back as Cherokee.
Honestly, depending on how common your last name is you can use google last name searches. My last name is pretty unique. I had a cousin put together a family tree years ago and worked off some of his findings. This is where I found out about some of the spelling morphology.
Interestingly enough, a single adoption can skew last name results. DNA is far more accurate.
Yep. Another problem that some have is how ancestors, particular immigrants, changed names. And they didn't necessarily change it to match other members of their family. DNA is helping to bridge those gaps.
I think the best thing you could do would be to save $10 a month and give up posting.
While your stance might have merit, I sure don’t live my life worrying about that sort of stuff. To each their own.
There are multiple reasons, and things are improving with more submitting. But possibly the biggest reason is that you can be dis-enrolled from a tribe if your lineage isn't what you think/say it is.
I understand some of the consequences, I’m just wondering where you’ve heard that they aren’t participating.
Well as it relates to these ancestry websites. Just googled and found this to be a common statement in many posts about it. That's why I started my post with 'apparently.'
My Mom bought me one for Christmas.....what do you think she is trying to say?
A ton of places. It seems to be common knowledge. Some tribes have stated that they are getting more people to submit to testing, but I haven't seen anything that corroborates their statements yet.
And if you look at the descriptions of most of the "Native American" swaths, they don't include anything mentioning tribes outside of Alaska and the Western US.
Found out that my GGG Grandfather was part of the Jacobite rebels during the 1715 rebellion against England. The English assaulted their town 14 November 1715 and forced them to surrender. As punishment, he was put aboard the ship, the "Elizabeth and Ann", commanded by Edward Trafford, which left Liverpool, England 28 July 1716 bound for Virginia and Jamaica with 128 prisoners.
Even crazier... my dad was adopted at months old. His biological fathers Great Great Great grandad was also on that same ship. What's the chances.
They were white slaves. Found some crazy pictures. Sad pictures too.
But that was through Ancestry. I've never sent my DNA to anyone and don't plan on it.
Even crazier... my dad was adopted at months old. His biological fathers Great Great Great grandad was also on that same ship. What's the chances.
They were white slaves. Found some crazy pictures. Sad pictures too.
But that was through Ancestry. I've never sent my DNA to anyone and don't plan on it.
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I don't "live my life worrying about it" because I'm not sending mine off to some company I know nothing about. People fight DNA results (for different reasons) for decades. Think about how the court of public opinion is swayed by the phrase "DNA results confirms..." !
One of my great aunts did a full family tree years ago. We have updated it since then and its framed and hanging in my house. I am awaiting the next update as I used a sharpie to remove my ex from it.
Its fascinating really and it goes all the way back to the first of my people to come to America, Colonel George Chicken.
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A grandfather living as an adult in 1715? Sounds about 175-225 years off. May be your grandfather's grandfather's grandfather?
NRe:Africa Not according to Ancestry .com . They admitted that I had African ancestry but could not identify the specifics. Admitted multiple African gene pools.
How much does one cost that gives you details and names as far as they can go back? How is that presented? Book? How long does it take to get it back?
I have 2 black cousins in Kansas City. That one threw me for a loop
If you are planning on committing any serious crimes is there a broader concern about this? Don’t see the issue
Ancestry doesnt do that. You do it yourself.
If you want to pay someone else to do all this research, thousands of dollars.
Congratulations on being cloned in some Bond villain's secret lair.
Just don’t forget your tinfoil hat when you walk outside, they can read your mind ya know.
"Found out that my GGG Grandfather was part of the Jacobite rebels during the 1715 rebellion against England. The English assaulted their town 14 November 1715 and forced them to surrender. As punishment, he was put aboard the ship, the "Elizabeth and Ann", commanded by Edward Trafford, which left Liverpool, England 28 July 1716 bound for Virginia and Jamaica with 128 prisoners."
My Ross ancestor was on that boat, called Scripto...He too was captured during the Jacobite Rebellion, at the Battle of Preston on 9 Nov 1715. The information reads as such:
Arrived first in Antigua, then Virginia Colony, America, on ship Scipio from Liverpool. Read Jacobite Rebellion Ships and The Original Scots Colonists of Early America from media gallery, also, Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775.
List of about 300 Scottish rebels captured at the Battle of Preston, Lancashire, in 1716 and transported variously to Carolina Colony (North & South Carolina; Carolina officially split to North and South in 1729), Virginia, Maryland, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, St. Christopher and Barbados.
My Ross ancestor was on that boat, called Scripto...He too was captured during the Jacobite Rebellion, at the Battle of Preston on 9 Nov 1715. The information reads as such:
Arrived first in Antigua, then Virginia Colony, America, on ship Scipio from Liverpool. Read Jacobite Rebellion Ships and The Original Scots Colonists of Early America from media gallery, also, Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775.
List of about 300 Scottish rebels captured at the Battle of Preston, Lancashire, in 1716 and transported variously to Carolina Colony (North & South Carolina; Carolina officially split to North and South in 1729), Virginia, Maryland, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, St. Christopher and Barbados.
Pocahontas has a very narrow path that anyone can connect to. I was very close, but just missed her by a bit. I'm a direct descendant of her 2nd (?) husband, but my ancestor was by his 1st wife before Pocahontas.
She was drunk leaving a Tupperware party and your dad was in Toledo at the rotary polishers and finishers convention. She stopped at the local bar for one more drink on her way home....
I think it's pretty accurate based on my usage. I sent mine in back in July and had a 1st cousin send his in after Christmas and he showed up as a likely 1st cousin. They would have no way of knowing that we were related and the amount of shared DNA was indicative of 1st cousins.. The regions are somewhat estimates that will become more accurate over time butI have a pretty good record of my heritage via documentation and it matches fairly closely. Have other distant relatives that have same ggg grandfather and they match a small segment of my DNA and appear in my matches.
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Well at one time, Englaland was on the verge of being called Daneland.... so...
I don’t think you want to know about your dog’s grandmother. Word is she was bit of a hoe
All the government conspiracy theorists crack me up. What are they really going to do with your DNA? Clone you? Use it to confirm you are a serial murderer? L.O.L.
Anyway, I did my test a few months back hoping for interesting results. Add me to the group with native American ancestors that didn't show up in the test. My great grandmother was "full blooded" Cherokee, or so they say...either way, pictures seem to confirm she was some form of native American. My results showed that I am 98.7 % Western European...in other words, just another white guy.
Anyway, I did my test a few months back hoping for interesting results. Add me to the group with native American ancestors that didn't show up in the test. My great grandmother was "full blooded" Cherokee, or so they say...either way, pictures seem to confirm she was some form of native American. My results showed that I am 98.7 % Western European...in other words, just another white guy.
I was literally thinking about doing this right before picking my phone up and this was the first thread.
