| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? 20:23 - Jun 18 with 2860 views | Keno |
just intrigued what my long term ancestry might be and what % pure potato I am.
Have anyone do one, which did you use and was it worth it? |  |
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| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 00:35 - Jun 19 with 802 views | jeera |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 23:46 - Jun 18 by gtsb1966 |
I was adopted at 6 weeks old in 1966. My biological mother lived on a caravan site in Bury St Edmunds. I've got my original birth certificate but it means nothing. My mother (yes the one who raised me and has been there ever since) is now ill in Addenbrokes. I may have an extended family. I'm not bothered though. I understand people who do though. Must be quite exciting. |
I can fully understand someone wanting to try to reconnect with lost family members but also how others like yourself wouldn't have the same feelings.
Both make sense in their own way.
Sorry to hear about your mum. Hope she show signs of some improvement soon. [Post edited 19 Jun 2022 0:54]
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| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 00:56 - Jun 19 with 784 views | gtsb1966 |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 00:35 - Jun 19 by jeera |
I can fully understand someone wanting to try to reconnect with lost family members but also how others like yourself wouldn't have the same feelings.
Both make sense in their own way.
Sorry to hear about your mum. Hope she show signs of some improvement soon. [Post edited 19 Jun 2022 0:54]
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Thanks. She has had a major op and at 80 isn't good. For me being adopted so young doesn't bother me but I fully understand the people that want to find out. It really is a case of each to their own. The laws have changed too . Now mothers can trace their children. It used to be that only the son/daughter could do this. Mine could've have done this for the last few years but hasn't and I'm.happy about that to be honest. Sadly she may be dead. I'll never know. What i do know is that my mum is in hospital and I'll be beside her whenever I can. |  | | |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 07:50 - Jun 19 with 701 views | DanTheMan |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 23:55 - Jun 18 by factual_blue |
For a reason, Keno, for a reason. |
EDIT: Didn't mean for this to be a quoted reply.
I did one fairly recently and had the results back a few days ago.
Honestly was mostly interested in the genetic makeup, which showed a mix. 50% English (most of which was East Anglia) and then 25% Welsh, some Scotland and then a smattering of Nordic countries, with a sprinkling of French and Portuguese to round it off.
What was most interesting though was the DNA links to other people.
I messaged a two people who came back as being related to me as close as a cousin (or a half aunt / uncle).
It seems my Grandfather may have been quite a naughty boy. Now I already knew this a little. It's never really been talked about in my family but I know that he either left my grandmother or was kicked out a short time after my father was born.
Long story short it seems I may have provided two people with the likely identify of their father. I'm still trying to absolutely confirm it but I don't have a lot to go off. [Post edited 19 Jun 2022 7:50]
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| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 08:03 - Jun 19 with 690 views | Churchman |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 07:50 - Jun 19 by DanTheMan |
EDIT: Didn't mean for this to be a quoted reply.
I did one fairly recently and had the results back a few days ago.
Honestly was mostly interested in the genetic makeup, which showed a mix. 50% English (most of which was East Anglia) and then 25% Welsh, some Scotland and then a smattering of Nordic countries, with a sprinkling of French and Portuguese to round it off.
What was most interesting though was the DNA links to other people.
I messaged a two people who came back as being related to me as close as a cousin (or a half aunt / uncle).
It seems my Grandfather may have been quite a naughty boy. Now I already knew this a little. It's never really been talked about in my family but I know that he either left my grandmother or was kicked out a short time after my father was born.
Long story short it seems I may have provided two people with the likely identify of their father. I'm still trying to absolutely confirm it but I don't have a lot to go off. [Post edited 19 Jun 2022 7:50]
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That’s really interesting. Sorry to hear about the Welsh and Scottish bits. Still, it looks like you have plenty of good DNA to hide that 😃 …….only joking with a slight sense of entitlement as my grandmother’s name was Bevan!
I wonder if anyone has ever done one of these and come back 100% English or Irish or whatever? I very much doubt it.
I’d never thought about the links to other people, which you and others have pointed out. You are right - that is the most fascinating bit of this and it encourages me to buy a kit. |  | | |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 09:09 - Jun 19 with 666 views | PhilTWTD |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 23:18 - Jun 18 by Churchman |
So it’s his fault we lost America then. You let us down, Phil. |
I can only apologise on his behalf. |  | | |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 09:59 - Jun 19 with 648 views | Keno |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 09:09 - Jun 19 by PhilTWTD |
I can only apologise on his behalf. |
so is the basis of the famous musical the story of the ancestors of two Town legends Ham-Milton | |
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| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 10:33 - Jun 19 with 637 views | Deano69 |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 21:10 - Jun 18 by WeWereZombies |
These results were all from the same kit, they just seem to send me updates when they feel like it. And I keep on getting emails telling me that I have a DNA match with a fourth cousin twice removed and so on...no Nigerian princes with fortunes waiting to be unlocked if I can only deposit a thousand pounds in such and such account yet though. |
So is your sample mutating in their lab? |  |
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| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 11:01 - Jun 19 with 630 views | bracknell_blue |
Yeah. I got an Ancestry DNA test as a birthday present a few years ago because my wife knew I had been researching my family tree which indicated pretty much pure bred East Anglian (N Essex, Suffolk and S Norfolk) although it is likely my paternal male line came originally from Germany (Hanover/Bremen areas) about 350-400 years ago.
I was interested in whether I had any Viking blood, seeing as Eastern England was part of the Danelaw - and I do (Sweden/Norway) from my dad's side, which will likely come from his mother's family who I have traced back to a Norman knight in the early 11th centruy (and Norman's were Vikings who settled in France: Norman = Norsemen).
They do tell you what you inherited from each parent, so I was surprised to find out I had 9% Scottish blood from my mother. Weird, I have traced her family lines back to the 1750s and they never moved out of N Essex (Great Tey, Earls Colne, Witham, Coggeshall). So that's my next research project.
Well worth doing an d fascinating, esepcially if you are into genealogy. |  |
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| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 11:10 - Jun 19 with 612 views | Mullet |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 11:01 - Jun 19 by bracknell_blue |
Yeah. I got an Ancestry DNA test as a birthday present a few years ago because my wife knew I had been researching my family tree which indicated pretty much pure bred East Anglian (N Essex, Suffolk and S Norfolk) although it is likely my paternal male line came originally from Germany (Hanover/Bremen areas) about 350-400 years ago.
I was interested in whether I had any Viking blood, seeing as Eastern England was part of the Danelaw - and I do (Sweden/Norway) from my dad's side, which will likely come from his mother's family who I have traced back to a Norman knight in the early 11th centruy (and Norman's were Vikings who settled in France: Norman = Norsemen).
They do tell you what you inherited from each parent, so I was surprised to find out I had 9% Scottish blood from my mother. Weird, I have traced her family lines back to the 1750s and they never moved out of N Essex (Great Tey, Earls Colne, Witham, Coggeshall). So that's my next research project.
Well worth doing an d fascinating, esepcially if you are into genealogy. |
According to fellow Town fan and Humanist UK president Dr Rutherford, if I understood his book correctly, basically if you're white you've got Viking blood.
The genetic sides of things doesn't go back in the way we think of it either. More a bush than a tree. I find his books really fascinating and they turned a lot of what I thought I knew about genealogy upside down.
Basically if you're alive today you'll likely be related to lots of famous dead people etc.
He did put me off these tests though, as the T's and C's seems a bit dodgy to me and a lot of it seems to be about commercial value of the data rather than anything else. |  |
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| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 12:36 - Jun 19 with 572 views | JamestownPrince |
Mate from Norfolk did one,
Came back 25%Aunty, 25%Uncle, 25% sister and 25% brother |  | | |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 14:03 - Jun 19 with 520 views | Ftnfwest |
It’s one of those ‘when I retire’ tasks (will be about 80 then…) A few years ago I did a little digging on line in terms of census information etc just on my own surname. My dad RIP was always convinced he was pure Anglo Saxon although with possibly a little bit of Scot’s somewhere along the line (which will make Koont laugh if he sees this.)
As it turns out my other 3 grandparents names are all Anglo Saxon/old English but the family name is actually Norman and originated from the Luxembourg/Ardennes region. |  | | |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 21:08 - Jun 19 with 424 views | WeWereZombies |
| DNA Tests Kits - anyone done one at all? on 10:33 - Jun 19 by Deano69 |
So is your sample mutating in their lab? |
Yep, I think my little tube of spittle got excited being around so many other ones and started to cosy up... |  |
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