Anybody ever do the ancestry.com DNA test ?

[Mikey]

My nephew talked his mom (my sis) into trying it.

They did his dad already and got some fun interesting results.

Question, would my DNA be exactly the same as my sis ?

Anybody else try this ?

[EmergencyIan]

It should be, Mikey, as long as you both have the same parents.

- Ian

[Mego Magyar]

If it didn't cost so much I'd do it just to see how accurate it is. I know my ancestry for generations back and it would be interesting if it matches what I know for a fact.

[cjefferys]

Question, would my DNA be exactly the same as my sis ?

No, not unless you are clones. You get 50% of your DNA from each parent, but your sister did not necessarily get the same 50% from each as you did. There would be many genetic differences between the two of you.

[Mikey]

If it didn't cost so much I'd do it just to see how accurate it is. I know my ancestry for generations back and it would be interesting if it matches what I know for a fact.

My father was adopted so that's what throws a monkey wrench in my ancestry.

My father's side of the family was wiped out during the 1918 flu pandemic.

He was the only one left.

They were all buried in mass graves at my local cemetery along with hundreds of other townspeople

Wish someday they'd put up a monument

[EmergencyIan]

No, not unless you are clones. You get 50% of your DNA from each parent, but your sister did not necessarily get the same 50% from each as you did. There would be many genetic differences between the two of you.

As far as ancestry goes, wouldn't it be the same? While what you're saying may be valid, the ancestry would remain the same, I would think. I cannot see how it wouldn't be.

- Ian

[cjefferys]

My father was adopted so that's what throws a monkey wrench in my ancestry.

My father's side of the family was wiped out during the 1918 flu pandemic.

He was the only one left.

They were all buried in mass graves at my local cemetery along with hundreds of other townspeople

Wish someday they'd put up a monument

Man, that's a sad story, how old was he at the time?

As far as ancestry goes, wouldn't it be the same? While what you're saying may be valid, the ancestry would remain the same, I would think. I cannot see how it wouldn't be.

- Ian

True, they would have the exact same ancestry, but their DNA wouldn't be exactly the same, I was just answering that part.

[boss]

My mom and brother did it, so I figure I'm covered.

[Mikey]

Man, that's a sad story, how old was he at the time?


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One year old, born 1917

His adopted father was a family friend so he was able to tell him some things about his family when he grew up

[El Hombre Nuclear]

Like any good starchy old WASP family, my mother's side had our entire family tree worked out in minute detail back to the Norman invasions decades before I was even born, and my father is a Basque whose family had lived in the same small village in the Pyrenees since the dawn of the Neolithic, so I've never figured there was much point in doing a DNA test.

On thing that's interesting about genealogy is that you'll notice how everyone starts being related to everyone else once you get farther back than around 500 years or so. The whole "most recent common ancestor" factor really becomes noticeable, at least if you're of Western European stock. That's why it's funny when you occasionally see people who delve too deeply into this subject too fast getting all excited about being a "direct descendant of Charlemagne!!!". Yeah, and so is everyone else in the western world...

[Mikey]

My bro-in-law prided himself on his Italian heritage.

It was fun to find out he also had North African and Arabian roots.

Hope mine turns out to have plenty of fun diversecity as well.

Being Polish i'm guessing I have some Mongolian blood --- GO Genghis Khan !!!

[Rallygirl]

I have been doing genealogy since my great grandma got me into it back in the 1980s. All that letter writing, and paper back then was a pain in the butt. All the online archives and records nowadays are awesome! So far, all we have ever found though is Dutch, Dutch, Dutch, and more Dutch people. A family member plunked down her money to do one of these DNA tests and it came back that one side of our family was of 35% Chinese ancestry. Now, I could understand a little bit of something other than northern European being in there, but 35% Chinese? My trust of those tests went right out the window.

[Mikey]

Well you never know if you can go back far enough.

Eventually everybody will end up in Africa - between then and now who knows

[SentientApe]

I have not yet taken the DNA test, but it remains the sole method to unlock the greatest remaining mystery remaining in my family's history.

As far as going back "too far," I have actually traced my family lineage back beyond recorded factual history into the prehistory of legend... I can present a legitimate unbroken pedigree that traces my roots back to Bellenos the Sun God (of the Druids) and, through the mother of his children, all the way back to (and beyond) Aphrodite.

So, clearly, I need to do the DNA test to solve more recent mysteries of, oh, only 300 years ago and stop messing around with documented yet unprovable events of over 2500 years ago.

[Mikey]

Finally got our results.

Not really surprising ... mostly Eastern European with some Western European and Scandinavian sprinkled in.