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Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:29 pm to White Roach
The Genealogy.com kit is great. The National Geographic kit is garbage.
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:29 pm to White Roach
Just pay the child support, deadbeat.
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:31 pm to PrideofTheSEC
quote:If you're male one of the Y-DNA tests from FTDNA doesn't pinpoint any particular area but might help you with your surname family tree. They have many family group projects, you might find your DNA matches others with your surname who do know where their ancestors came from. FTDNA also has SNP testing that might actually pinpoint an area (SNP L21 is often associated with Ireland, for instance).
Is there one that pinpoints certain areas that your relatives came from? Not just 80% Italian 20% British, etc.
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:40 pm to MISSOURI WALTZ
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The Genealogy.com kit is great. The National Geographic kit is garbage.
Thanks for the tip. Especially since you warned me before I bought five of them!
What makes one better than the other? Is it the lab doing the testing?
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:42 pm to Jim Rockford
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Just pay the child support, deadbeat.
No chirren that I'm aware of. However, I did take the phone off the hook every Father's Day for about twenty years after college.
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:44 pm to White Roach
Thanks a bunch for the info!
Posted on 11/29/17 at 8:50 pm to alphamicro
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If you're male one of the Y-DNA tests from FTDNA doesn't pinpoint any particular area but might help you with your surname family tree. They have many family group projects, you might find your DNA matches others with your surname who do know where their ancestors came from. FTDNA also has SNP testing that might actually pinpoint an area (SNP L21 is often associated with Ireland, for instance).
Interesting ... getting complicated, but interesting. I guess I've got to talk with my cousins from my mom's side and see if any of them have gone the DNA route yet.
My dad was an only child and his father was killed during WWII. I think he was also an only child, but I'm not 100% positive. My paternal grandmother had a bunch of siblings, but several died in the influenza pandemic. Don't know much about that side of the family.
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:18 pm to White Roach
I paid $100 for ancestry.com for a christmas gift to someone last year...finally got the kit in,she sent it in... months later "they lost it"...sent another one two months ago and still haven't got results...frick them
Posted on 11/30/17 at 12:11 pm to White Roach
quote:Nah, dad was son of pure dutch father and pure cajun mother, and maternal grandfather was scotch-german mix who went to Panama in WWII w the AAC and married a local girl. All the weird stuff comes from the Panamanian grandmother. I've done alot of research and find it super interesting.
79% Northern European result is the part that sounds strange
Posted on 11/30/17 at 12:11 pm to Mung
and you still throw a football like a girl
Posted on 11/30/17 at 12:23 pm to CAD703X
i'll put my athletic prowess against yours anyday (except on a road bike), pretty boy.
Posted on 11/30/17 at 12:23 pm to CAD703X
I did my Ancestry.com one and got:
-34% English
-34% Irish
-17% Scandinavian
My question is what is the timeline for this? I mean the Vikings invaded England (after it was invaded by the modern day French and earlier the Romans) and the English and Irish have been at each others' throats and crotches for millenia; so how is DNA determined to be "English" or "Scandinavian"?
I do think it "proves" my kids can't claim any sort of minority status and I'll be 100% on the hook for reparations...
-34% English
-34% Irish
-17% Scandinavian
My question is what is the timeline for this? I mean the Vikings invaded England (after it was invaded by the modern day French and earlier the Romans) and the English and Irish have been at each others' throats and crotches for millenia; so how is DNA determined to be "English" or "Scandinavian"?
I do think it "proves" my kids can't claim any sort of minority status and I'll be 100% on the hook for reparations...
Posted on 11/30/17 at 12:31 pm to Mung
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i'll put my athletic prowess against yours anyday (except on a road bike), pretty boy.
hey you're the a-hole who got me into road bikes in the first place.
believe it looked something like this
Posted on 11/30/17 at 12:45 pm to CAD703X
that is it. loaned it to my best friend from law school and never saw it again. now i just stick to mountain bikes and the cruiser for strolls around town.
Posted on 11/30/17 at 12:50 pm to Mung
dont you mean 'former' best friend?
Posted on 11/30/17 at 1:23 pm to Itismemc
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Back in my day we were just happy with our coat of arms
True story, most people dont know that the vast majority of family crests out there are BS.
Posted on 11/30/17 at 6:56 pm to frankenfish
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My question is what is the timeline for this? I mean the Vikings invaded England (after it was invaded by the modern day French and earlier the Romans) and the English and Irish have been at each others' throats and crotches for millenia; so how is DNA determined to be "English" or "Scandinavian"?
Shoot, Vikings invaded England, Ireland, France(Normandy), Germany, Denmark, Russia, America. Those dudes spread their seed across many continents and modern countries. You have to read the spiel on how they make whatever determination. There was so much migration in and around Europe from the neo-lithic onward, who knows whether their determination is accurate?
Posted on 11/30/17 at 7:29 pm to White Roach
Rip off and you are a sucker to pay them to research your DNA.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 9:52 am to White Roach
Here's a bump for you:
Frauds
Who didn't see this coming?
Frauds
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But when Inside Edition had a set of triplets send their spit in to Ancestry.com and 23andMe, they got wildly different results from both services. Neither gave each triplet the same ancestry results — which, considering they all came from the same womb, is pretty weird.
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The Cracked article then celebrates that the company throws “racists” off of on purpose by giving them fake results. Their source is “Morgan, who works for one of the major ancestry testing companies” so we don’t know which one….
Who didn't see this coming?
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