Your Ancestry

[richi1173]

My father recently got his DNA tested in order to find out his ancestry. My family's records grow cold after my grandfather's grandfather and thus it was impossible for us to know where his line descended from.

My family immigrated from Cuba, so there was frantic speculation that either we were Jewish, Croatian, or Spanish. However, the hard evidence spoke clearly and my family was left in shock.

My father's line belonged to the Haplogroup I1 which includes Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Anglo-Saxons, Normans ect. The service that we used also let us compare my father's DNA to others around the globe in order to identify relationships. There were many people around the US and Europe - all with Anglo-Saxon names and with greatest frequency in Southern England - confirming that we were of Northern Europe.

I might even be related to the Texan Tank =]

We ordered a further DNA test to learn which subgroup we belong to.

So, I want to know which haplogroup you belong to? If you have not had your DNA tested, its relatively cheap, coming in at 99 USD for a 33 marker test and 149 USD for a 46 marker test. For females, you can get your mitochondrial DNA tested for 179 USD.

Trust me, its worth every penny.

http://dna.ancestry.com/welcome.aspx

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Why?

 

[xman]

Well my father's line is pretty clear back to the 17th century. Scottish from the Hebrides so there might be some Dane in there too. My mother's line is from northern England so there'll be some Celt in there. It would be good to get a clear picture though and one day I'll probably do just that.

 

[stulogic]

Mine's quite an eclectic mix but par for the course I guess, I'm from NE england so it's inevitable there's either going to be viking or celt in me, there's both, indeed a lot of my family tree can be traced through Norway and Denmark.

I've long been obsessed with vikings, and ... well pretty much anything norse. Indeed I'll be spending quite a bit of time in the fair lands of the nordic countries this winter, something I've wanted to do for quite some time.

 

[AndroidAR]

My great great grandfather was the difference engine.
I kid, I kid.

My grandfather did an old fashioned trace your ancestry via records, and if I recall correctly, the earliest he went back was in the 14th century, ending up on King Edward III, so I guess I am a relative of the British royal family.

My dad tried to trace it back, but records weren't so complete, but, by using the etymology of our last name, and the scant records he could get, and figured that his ancestors were of French origin, and likely came over with William the Conqueror. I am 7/8 Scottish/Irish/English (no Welsh), and 1/8 Slovene, but there are likely other ethnicities thrown in at trace amounts. Also, since I am Canadian, and 1/3 of the responders to the 2006 (?) census said that their ethnicity was Canadian (the largest group), you can count me a full blooded one. A pure breed Canadian.

I am 100% machine though.

 

[Giliell]

I'm often wondering why especially Americans are so obsessed with their genetic ancestry...

Well, for mine: My last name clearly indicates a small village some 20 km from where I live, so that's my paternal grandpa. Paternal grandma is a so called Russian-German, meaning that she's a descendent of those people who were brought to settle there under Katherina.
On the maternal side we have some French and some Gypsies.
I usually claim to be a Celt from the tribe of the Mediamatricans :lol:
Seriously, I live in Germany. Every conquering or retreating army, every wandering tribe during the last some thousand years passed through here...

 

[nasher168]

I'm possibly descended from the British Parisii tribe through my Grandmother on my Dad's side (it's just speculation, but it's quite plausible).
On my Mum's side I'm almost certainly related to George Bush through someone called Eberneezer Parkman.

 

[MRaverz]

My grandfather has done a lot of research on this, in fact I have a book of my ancestors written by him with me right now. So I'll just mention a few of the interesting bits I can find.

My surname itself has a strong Viking warrior origin, so my ancestor at the time would most likely have been part of a Viking invasion. Due to there being a coat of Arms for my family name which consists of a shield and crest it's highly likely that my early Medieval ancestors were knights.

My earliest recorded relative that my Grandfather found lived in the 1200s.

 

[digitalbuddha48]

I'm often wondering why especially Americans are so obsessed with their genetic ancestry...

General curiosity?

 

[aeroeng314]

I'm often wondering why especially Americans are so obsessed with their genetic ancestry...

General curiosity?

Or it's because the majority of people in the country are descended from immigrants (a rather large variety of them as well). If you know your more recent ancestors weren't from this country I'd imagine you'd be more inclined to want to know where they did come from.

 

[connorkimbro]

My mothers side is mostly german, having come to the states in the 1850's. My fathers side is mostly lithuanian, having come to the states in the early 1900's.

 

[darthrender2010]

My father's side is pretty much just Irish, the surname being linked back to the Aua'Hanluain sept that ruled a portion of Ireland a long ways back. My mother's side is about half German with a bunch of other stuff mixed in.

 

[Zylstra]

We came here quite some time ago and started fiddling with the local DNA to produce new slaves/sex partners to satisfy our fetishes... We taught them about civilization, but they rebelled and formed what you know as the Sumerian Empire. A bunch of us were left behind as Watchers to keep tabs on things, but we kept screwing the local hybrids, and the resulting children were renowned for their unusual attributes. Long story short, they blamed us for the flooding that accompanied the recession of the ice holding back the oceans at the end of the last ice age, everyone forgot what our original name was, we haven't heard back from the homeworld in forever and we're getting really bored. Most of us just live here like everyone else (no surprise, seeing as most of us have been interbreeding with the locals this whole time, so very few look anything like the folk back home).

So, yea.... whatever the hell we were called mixed (noone remembers, anymore) with a bunch of evolved/mutated hybrids.

Truth is probably that the bastards back home forgot ll about us...

 

[Giliell]

Giliell wrote:
I'm often wondering why especially Americans are so obsessed with their genetic ancestry...



General curiosity?

Or it's because the majority of people in the country are descended from immigrants (a rather large variety of them as well). If you know your more recent ancestors weren't from this country I'd imagine you'd be more inclined to want to know where they did come from.

Hmmm, neither are mine (France, Ukraine, Hungary), but it never bothered me that much...
Frankly said, when I lived in ireland, I simply found it funny how the American tourists would buy almost anything that said "Irish" on the label and wore T-shirts saying something like "I've got Irish roots" or "Kiss me I'm Irish". They had, for the larger part, frankly no idea about Ireland, its people, history and language.
The same was my American housemate who, one day, tried to argue with me about "Italian food", claiming that there were so many "Italians" living in the states that they knew best. (To be honest, he was one of those walking clichée stupid Americans, probably never even heard about evolution or creationism). He'd never met someone who'd actually been to Italy, let alone real Italians. Just some one, two hundred year old ancestry.

 

[orpiment99]

Unfortunately, there was a strong push that everyone "assimilate' in the United States for several decades. My maternal grandfather was Ukrainian and German (from Russia) but his parents forbid speaking the language or keeping any of the culture alive because they wished for their children to be fully assimilated. So many of us who have lost some of our cultural history are interested in tracing our families.

My family:
Paternal grandfather: the patriarch of the line was born in Virginia in 1769 from English parents and the line remained fairly English, though we know of some Cherokee and Italian through that branch.
Paternal grandmother: Dutch, Danish, and German
Maternal grandfather: Ukrainian and Russian German (is there a better term for this?)
Maternal grandmother: Irish and Scottish

The only branch of my family that has been in the United States for a long time is my paternal grandfather's line.

 

[Billah]

Gosh, my genes are very mixed up, 500 years ago, I'd of had ancestors living in Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia. I really need my genes tested to know exactly what's what.