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Anyone get the DNA test from Ancestry.com? (Original Post) whathehell Aug 2014 OP
I've been thinking about it. historylovr Aug 2014 #1
No, not at all..A couple of weeks, maybe, at most. whathehell Aug 2014 #2
No, not at all. whathehell Aug 2014 #16
Thank you. historylovr Aug 2014 #17
I'd be interested in your review of the product/results. CBHagman Aug 2014 #3
I was mostly satisfied with the results..To the extent I was not, whathehell Aug 2014 #7
Yep... pipi_k Aug 2014 #4
I came up as 51% Irish and ten percent Scandanavian, which surprised me too, whathehell Aug 2014 #6
Yah, the Normans... pipi_k Aug 2014 #10
I ordered it on 4th of July for 20% off - waiting for results csziggy Aug 2014 #5
You should be getting it soon, whathehell Aug 2014 #8
Ancestry has been sending email updates csziggy Aug 2014 #9
When Mr Pipi got his I kidded him pipi_k Aug 2014 #11
I thought I was bad at spitting csziggy Aug 2014 #12
Yeah, that pesky research vs the DNA thing pipi_k Aug 2014 #13
I just ordered a kit for $49. NOLALady Aug 2014 #14
Ah, beaten whathehell Aug 2014 #15
Did you get it from Ancestry.com? pipi_k Aug 2014 #18
Yes. NOLALady Aug 2014 #26
Got our results with some interesting surprises! csziggy Aug 2014 #19
Since the site claims pipi_k Aug 2014 #20
No, Native American is a very specific genome csziggy Aug 2014 #21
Definitely a mystery going on there pipi_k Aug 2014 #22
It's definitely thought provoking! csziggy Aug 2014 #23
Maybe the people with no tree pipi_k Aug 2014 #24
I've had quite a few people contacting me csziggy Aug 2014 #25
I received the following a few days ago, NOLALady Aug 2014 #27
Yep pipi_k Aug 2014 #28
My husband has Native American family rumors, NOLALady Aug 2014 #29
I've been wanting a DNA test shanti Aug 2014 #30
Go for it! whathehell Aug 2014 #31
No......! shanti Aug 2014 #32
The Ancestry.com test provided me with results from both sides of my family.. whathehell Aug 2014 #33
What I read pipi_k Aug 2014 #34
My biggest surprise whathehell Aug 2014 #35
Some interesting surprises on mine as well pipi_k Sep 2014 #36
what are trace regions? n/t shanti Sep 2014 #37
Those are areas pipi_k Sep 2014 #38
ok, thanks shanti Sep 2014 #39

CBHagman

(16,968 posts)
3. I'd be interested in your review of the product/results.
Sat Aug 2, 2014, 11:44 AM
Aug 2014

My eyes tend to glaze over when I read the descriptions of the different tests online, but I always enjoy hearing from actual clients.

So are you satisfied with the level of detail? Do you feel the test answered some of your genealogical questions or provided additional avenues for your research? Both?

whathehell

(28,969 posts)
7. I was mostly satisfied with the results..To the extent I was not,
Sun Aug 3, 2014, 01:20 PM
Aug 2014

may have something to do with my not yet perusing the "help"

button on their DNA website.

For the most part, the results were expected, but there were a couple

of surprises..For instance, the family tree I had done for my mother's

side of the family goes back to the 1700 hundreds and contains

a few Italian surnames -- Despite that, the DNA test listed my

Italian heritage as only ONE percent, which I thought odd -- I

knew my mother's family was primarily Croatian, as opposed to Italian,

but given it's proximity to Italy (and the trade history between the two

countries, especially on the Dalmatian coast where the family originates,)

I certainly expected more than that minuscule amount...I may have to

use the "help" button I mentioned above to explain it.


pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
4. Yep...
Sat Aug 2, 2014, 10:27 PM
Aug 2014

well, not me, but Mr Pipi's daughters got him one for Father's day.

Only took a couple of weeks for results.

No huge surprises. English, Scots, Irish, which we knew already. Also showed some Scandinavian which surprised him, but not me, as I've suspected it all along anyway.


I'm going to save up my nickels to get one for myself at some point, to answer the question of whether there really is some First Nations DNA floating around in the family or if it's just rumors and stories.

If it shows anything other than French with a miniscule bit of English and Scots I'll be surprised.

whathehell

(28,969 posts)
6. I came up as 51% Irish and ten percent Scandanavian, which surprised me too,
Sun Aug 3, 2014, 01:06 PM
Aug 2014

but really shouldn't when you look at Ireland's history and that of the

British Isles.

First of all, the "Normans" who conquered England in 1066 and Ireland

a bit later, were actually "Norseman", or Scandinavian.

Secondly, prior their conquest, the Vikings from Scandinavia were

constantly invading Ireland and England. There's even an old

prayer from the 9th or 10th century which asks God to "spare us

from the wrath of the Norseman".

Dublin itself was originally a Viking settlement.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
10. Yah, the Normans...
Sun Aug 3, 2014, 03:05 PM
Aug 2014

Some of my French ancestors came from Normandy, so I'm expecting a smattering of Viking as well.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
5. I ordered it on 4th of July for 20% off - waiting for results
Sun Aug 3, 2014, 02:11 AM
Aug 2014

Got one for me and one for my husband. Should be interesting to compare to our well researched family trees.

whathehell

(28,969 posts)
8. You should be getting it soon,
Sun Aug 3, 2014, 01:28 PM
Aug 2014

though you do know that you have to go to the Ancestry site, right?

I forgot it myself until my husband reminded me.

Have fun!

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
9. Ancestry has been sending email updates
Sun Aug 3, 2014, 01:45 PM
Aug 2014

When I registered the tests and when they received them. The email that came when they received them said it would be 6-8 weeks. I hope it's sooner!

I just checked on Ancestry.com and it says the tests are "Lab processing".

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
11. When Mr Pipi got his I kidded him
Sun Aug 3, 2014, 03:08 PM
Aug 2014

about both of us spitting into the tube to see what would happen with the results




csziggy

(34,120 posts)
12. I thought I was bad at spitting
Sun Aug 3, 2014, 03:44 PM
Aug 2014

Until I watch my husband try to do it. I had no trouble getting enough spit, but my husband had to work at it.

Now I wish I had paid for a third test. My cousin is a straight male line descendant from one of my brick wall ancestors (John Tucker b.1798 SC, d.1889 AL) and I'd like to have him tested. But I think I will have to pay for the Family Tree DNA Y-DNA tests to get any meaningful results.

Once I get my Ancestry results, I plan to import them into the Family Tree Autosomal database to see what that tells me about our lines. Since both sides have been extensively researched, it will be interesting to see how the research and the DNA line up.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
13. Yeah, that pesky research vs the DNA thing
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 07:08 PM
Aug 2014

And the interesting...or even shocking...family secrets that could be uncovered! Or mysteries started that may never be solved.

It never occurs to me that a little bit of extramarital fooling around could have taken place long ago, throwing off everything we think we know about our heritage.

Well, not so much for me (as far as I know), but for a cousin. We share a grandmother, but not a grandfather. Her dad looks so much like my dad, though (they were half brothers), and has a lot of the same paternal features that I'm suspecting that my dad's brother might really have been my dad's uncle's son...that is, my grandfather's brother's son.

Everyone involved in that is dead, so we'll never know...



csziggy

(34,120 posts)
19. Got our results with some interesting surprises!
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 01:55 AM
Aug 2014

My husband's is interesting since his shows:
Europe 100%
Europe West 72%
Ireland 23%
Trace Regions 5%
Iberian Peninsula 3%
Scandinavia 1%
Finland/Northwest Russia < 1%

What is intriguing to me is that it shows NO British ancestry! The percentage of Western European seems a little high to me, but it fits with the known genealogy. The Irish seems to encompass his known Welsh and Scottish ancestors. He's got a good amount of French in his genealogy so the Iberian Peninsula is not too outrageous.

Mine was pretty much as I expected:
Europe 99%
Great Britain 38%
Europe West 28%
Ireland 27%
Trace regions 6%
Finland/Northwest Russia 4%
Scandinavia < 1%
Italy/Greece < 1%

I did NOT expect the Italy/Greece trace - we have no records of all of any ancestors from Southern Europe. But here is the true surprise:
Asia South < 1%

I am somewhat stunned at that! There are no clues in the researched genealogy that tells me where THAT trace is from!

At least now I have proof to refute the people who claim our fourth or fifth great grandfather or mother was Native American. I never thought it was true but since that is a brick wall for us, couldn't prove it.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
20. Since the site claims
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 11:25 AM
Aug 2014

that DNA can be traced up to a thousand years back, is it possible that the South Asia DNA might have migrated up through Russia and over to North America through some very small landbridge, then over into the US to become Native American?

Just some speculation here, as I don't know how quickly such a migration might happen.

In any case, isn't that the way, though...you do a test to answer questions, and open up even more questions and mysteries.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
21. No, Native American is a very specific genome
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 08:07 PM
Aug 2014

At best it might show up as North East Asian. The results I got are Asian Indian region. It's less than 1% so must be pretty far back.

My husband suggested it was maybe the result of one of my British ancestors that married an Asian Indian during the British Empire period. I guess that is possible but I have seen no indication from my research. Every British ancestor I know about is ridiculously Angl-Saxon or Norman - I have one line that traces back to a Baron that came over with William the Conqueror and whose grandson married a daughter of Henry I that was delegitimized when he became the heir.

In our records we have no ancestors that served in India, though I do have a ?x great uncle or cousin that was the first American in Afghanistan when he quit working the the East India Company - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Harlan

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
22. Definitely a mystery going on there
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 10:34 AM
Aug 2014

Another possibility...maybe somehow a child with that DNA was adopted into the family somehow, took the name, and then passed on the DNA that way.

One thing I've learned is never to assume my ancestors all lived within the traditional bounds of society. Or what I imagine the traditional bounds were, is more like it.


OK so I think I'm about ready to order a kit now just for the excitement of perhaps opening more cans of worms in my own family tree.

And it's all your fault! ha ha

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
23. It's definitely thought provoking!
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 01:38 PM
Aug 2014

I'm also wondering about the Italian/Greek trace - that's another one we have no record to reflect. Maybe the Asian Indian and that trace came in together. I joked with my husband that it could be a child of Marco Polo married in somewhere.

Ancestry has a discounted rate right now - $79.

I'm sort of wondering about some of the people that the DNA test says I might be related to - they have no tree or only a very few people in their tree. Why would they test if they are not doing any genealogy? I guess some people may just be curious about ethnicity but it still doesn't make sense to me.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
24. Maybe the people with no tree
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 03:31 PM
Aug 2014

got the test as a gift.

Mr Pipi doesn't have a tree either, but his girls got him the kit for Father's day.

There's something sort of funny about that, when I think of it...




The people the test said you might be related to...have you thought of contacting them (if there's any way to do that)?

I'm not sure what I would do myself. I have cousins I've discovered, not through DNA, that I've friended through Facebook and all, but we rarely communicate. I guess it's sort of hard to form some kind of bond, or connection, with people you never knew growing up.

Maybe the best I could do would be sort of a once-in-a-while penpal type of thing...

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
25. I've had quite a few people contacting me
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 03:36 PM
Aug 2014

So for right now I've spent time responding to them rather than looking up the others. I'm trying to finish a project for my older sister - a book of pictures and info about our oldest sister who passed away years ago. We want to give it to her children who really don't have many memories about their Mom.

And I certainly don't need more relatives! I've got plenty, most of which I don't like very much, LOL.

I did look at some of the trees to see who the common ancestors were. Unfortunately none of them have more information than I already do.

NOLALady

(4,003 posts)
27. I received the following a few days ago,
Sat Aug 16, 2014, 11:02 AM
Aug 2014

"Forwarded message from CeCe Moore:

Some people are able to get a $49 price for AncestryDNA at this link: https://secure.ancestry.com/Store/Purchase?offerId=O-24174. Try using the FREESHIPDNA code as well."

The sale may be over now. But, they are 20% ($79) off now.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
28. Yep
Sat Aug 16, 2014, 12:04 PM
Aug 2014

I just got one for $79 the other day.

Am looking forward to doing the test and getting the results, which could either confirm, or put to rest (once and for all), family rumors of Native American (actually Canadian First Nations) ancestry.



NOLALady

(4,003 posts)
29. My husband has Native American family rumors,
Sat Aug 16, 2014, 04:57 PM
Aug 2014

while my family does not.

The results shows I have a bit more Native DNA than he does through both parents! In fact, his Paternal GMother (the suspected Native) is of Irish/African heritage.

I've tested with 23andMe as well. Surprisingly, my Dad shows possible Ashkenazi ancestry at possibly a GGFather level. I think it may be Sephardi and not Ashkenazi though, as many Canary Islanders (Islenos) settled in our area.

I just received my $49 kit in the mail. I don't know who I will test as I've tested practically everyone already. I just couldn't pass up the $49 sale.



shanti

(21,670 posts)
30. I've been wanting a DNA test
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 05:50 PM
Aug 2014

for a long time. Well, I'm going to give it to my brother, the last remaining male on my side. I just checked Ancestry, and they have a deal now where you can get the DNA test AND 6 months of membership for $99. It does sound like a good deal, I may spring for it!

whathehell

(28,969 posts)
31. Go for it!
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 05:58 PM
Aug 2014

Just to let you know, that if you were giving it to your brother because

you thought females can only get Mitochondrial DNA (Mother's side) that

has changed!...They can now do BOTH sides of the family for males and

females.

shanti

(21,670 posts)
32. No......!
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 10:31 PM
Aug 2014

Really?? When did this happen? That would make things a lot more convenient. There are a couple on Native connections on dad's side that I want to verify. Oh, and the Neanderthal link, lol.

whathehell

(28,969 posts)
33. The Ancestry.com test provided me with results from both sides of my family..
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 11:01 PM
Aug 2014

Fifty one percent Irish, 33% Eastern European,10% Scandinavian, and other "trace" DNA -- 3% European Jewish, 2% Iberian Peninsula,

2% English, 1% Italian.

I don't know when they discovered a way to improve the process, but they did.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
34. What I read
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 08:59 AM
Aug 2014

was that they're now able to match customer DNA with DNA in some sort of databank.

anyway, were any of your results a huge surprise for you?


The more people are talking about this, the more itchy I am to get my hot little hands on my own kit, which should be arriving this Friday, if shipping estimates are correct.

whathehell

(28,969 posts)
35. My biggest surprise
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 11:58 AM
Aug 2014

I don't know if I'd call it huge, was that I had only ONE percent Italian ancestry, when I have

a few Italian surnames in my family tree, going back almost two hundred years.

My other surprise, not huge, but surprising, was that I have three percent Jewish ancestry.

Surprised because everyone I know of on both sides of my family have been Roman Catholic.

Not so surprising because my Mother's side is Mid- Europe (Croatian) with 33% of that being

Eastern European, and I imagine there was a fair amount of 'mixing' over the centuries throughout

that huge swath of Europe.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
36. Some interesting surprises on mine as well
Thu Sep 11, 2014, 01:12 PM
Sep 2014

Just got the results a while ago. Expected some European, but not what came up.

Well, at least the results put the whole "Native American ancestry or not?" question to rest. Zero...zilch...nada.


As for the rest, it's funny because for years I've been kidding my mom about the possibility that a man she had a relationship with might be my true father. Now I get to tease her even more. Did she mess with the mailman while married to my dad? hahahahaha!!!!

Northern Africa...awesome!


Anyway, here they are...





pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
38. Those are areas
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 03:53 PM
Sep 2014

where the evidence isn't overwhelmingly clear for any ancestry from those regions.


From the site:

Trace Regions

Expanding the Trace Regions icon allows you to drill down into other regions of your genetic ethnicity. Trace Regions are regions where the estimated range includes zero and does not go above 15%, or where the predicted percentage is less than 4.5%. Since there is only a small amount of evidence that you have genetic ethnicity from these regions, it is possible that you may not have genetic ethnicity from them at all.


shanti

(21,670 posts)
39. ok, thanks
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 09:57 PM
Sep 2014

i didn't get in the timeframe for the Ancestry deal, so will have to wait for the next one.

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