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***Official Ancestry and DNA Thread***
I sent in the DNA to 24 and me a couple of years ago. I didn't have any ticking genetic time bombs like the Alzheimer gene so I posted it publicly. People contacted me and I found out stuff real quick.
I recently spent some time to trace my roots on Ancestry.com. Found some interesting stuff. Probably others have too. Get your share on in here. I'm 85% British/15% Irish/Scotish. Gentically, like every other human being ever born with Red hair and blue eyes, I come from Doggerland. Use to be the land mass connecting England to Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland My ancestors came here as rich British military officers. Had great wealth in NY, bought huge tracks of land in what is now the Bronx, My 7th GG dies and my 6th great grandfather inherited the wealth. He joined the revolution in 1775. The British took all his wealth, burned his farms when he signed the Declaration of Independence. Served as the General of the NY militia during the war. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration.../morris_l.html My 4th GG moved to Tennessee in 1830 as a southern Baptist preacher. His son moved to green county Missouri in 1850 to be a southern baptist preacher. And thats where they stayed. Many remained preachers, even today. All sided with the Union.Since we left NY, my ancestors were mainly poor man of God preachers, drunks or killers. Not much middle ground. But, at least there was no slave owners. ![]() What interesting stuff did you find out? |
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Mahomes Dynasty
Join Date: Mar 2005
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I'm 50% Oneida Indian (Oneida Nations of Wisconsin - from my mother, who's 100%)
My fathers side is mostly Irish, some German...came over just prior to Civil War era and were steel/coal workers in Pennsylvania area then migrated to Illinois and became blacksmiths and farmers where they still live today. Haven't met any of my extended family out east although it's said some still live in that area. |
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In my youth i pray to keep
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Clown World
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Did Ancestry.com and it came back pretty much all from British Isles, which would explain my horrible teeth.
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: North by Northwest
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The problem I have with those DNA regions is that most of the western European ones overlap. So even if no one in your 10 or 12 generation profile ever set foot in Scandinavia, you may have some Viking roots. Borders change, conquerors come and go, and names are written as they sound to different people.
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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I came from sperm
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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My family is all from Sicily. Nonna Giovatelli-Gorgonzola always made a real spicy meatball and I call pasta sauce "tomato gravy"!!!!
/takes DNA test. Definitely just English with some mutt mixed in. |
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Has a particular set of skills
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Yeah, once you get over to Europe, you can get a 14 day free trial and access to all those documents and photos the world has available. You can see the documents from the 16th/15th century that has your 12th GG listed with their parents and siblings. There it is documented 300-400 years ago.
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Fight, build, win!
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Join Date: Dec 2011
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I find it interesting to see what parts of our history immigrants played a part in. There was a documentary on the Smithsonian Channel I watched the other day about an all Irish brigade in the Civil War that was pretty interesting. I did some research for my cousin and found this forgotten piece of history a little closer to to KC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cole_Camp_(1861)
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Sandbox: Leander Lasercats
Join Date: Jul 2001
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However, my brother has really run with the information that we already had and has found that all of the old census records in Sweden have been digitized! He has extended our knowledge on that end by several generations as a result. He also wound up finding a relative on my mom's side who was illegitimate and never knew his birth heritage. No one in the family even knew it happened (great aunt got pregnant during WWII while hubby was gone. Oops!). So this 70+ year old man is just now learning about his lineage. Pretty cool although a few people in the family are not happy about this turn of events. |
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Rabbi Goldmann
Join Date: Nov 2012
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These are so dumb, Europe is being overrun by Muslims, Pakis and soon, Africans. So saying “I’m 33% Swede!” is pointless since Sweden won’t exist very much longer.
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Are the digitized records from Sweden included in Ancestry.com or in a separate database? I'd be curious to know if I could get access. I found a 4th cousin in Sweden over the holidays via the DNA report, but we can't seem to find the connection in our family trees, so I have no idea at this point how we're related. |
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