Dna ancestry

[prepstudinsc]

Have any of you taken the 23&Me or Ancestry.com DNA tests? I just did one and was very shocked at the results. I had always been told I was 3/4 Italian and 1/4 French/German and Irish. Tuns out I'm more Spanish/Portuguese than Italian, have Italian, Sardinian, Sicilian, and Greek, plus a healthy dose of Irish/British, Eastern European, AND the shocker--Asian. Apparently, I had a 5th-6th great grandparent who was 100% Yakut.

Anyone else find out that what they thought they were was not completely true?

 

[Industrialsize]

Mine was interesting in a very different way. All 4 of my grandparents were from Poland. My Ancestry Dna came back as 99% eastern european, 1% western Russia. My "people" were lazy and didn't move or marry outsiders.

 

[notN2pussy]

I am curious as my heritage is interesting? there is Native American, Scottish, Irish and some British Royalty so again might be interesting. Oh Dutch and French Canadian too.

 

[prepstudinsc]

This test that I did was from 23 & Me, now I've done the Ancestry.com one, just to compare. I think I can trace the Eastern European lineage through my family in Trieste, Italy--being so close to what is now Austria and Hungary, it is likely that my Eastern European side is there and also how the Ashkenazi is. I know that my family was subject to forced conversion to Roman Catholicism, but didn't know that we had Asheknaz blood, I thought it was all Italki. The things we learn...

 

[Industrialsize]

This test that I did was from 23 & Me, now I've done the Ancestry.com one, just to compare. I think I can trace the Eastern European lineage through my family in Trieste, Italy--being so close to what is now Austria and Hungary, it is likely that my Eastern European side is there and also how the Ashkenazi is. I know that my family was subject to forced conversion to Roman Catholicism, but didn't know that we had Asheknaz blood, I thought it was all Italki. The things we learn...

Knowing you have Ashkenazi blood can be important. For some reason, they are susceptible to a host of genetic diseases.
Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Diseases
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ashkenazi-jewish-genetic-diseases

 

[rbkwp]

well
mine said i have a big cock and thats absolutely false news
but i am hoping it will grow and prove them correct
better damn hurry up tho bc at my age i am due to crap out any moment

save Rob some bandwidth anyway?

hope that helps!

Anyone else find out that what they thought they were was not completely true?

 

[WillyLong]

Yep. In descending order, I found out I'm a combination of African, European, East Asian/Native American, and South Asian.

Everybody sing: "I'm every Hung Man, it's all in me!"

 

[EllieP]

I did that with Ancestry.com.

The results were:

EUROPE
Great Britain
Europe West
Scandinavia
Iberia Peninsula
Italy/Greece

NORTH AMERICA
Native American

I never told my Mum there was traces of Scottish and Irish! She would flip! The Italy/Greece thing got her in an uproar, too! But she figured that that and the Spanish were from Dad. Definitely the Native American was.

 

[prepstudinsc]

Why would she have flipped over the Scottish and Irish?

When I called my mother she was shocked at some of the results I got, but as we talked, we started to make some guesses about some of the family history. Now that the oldest generation has all died, the living are forced to make heads and tails out of family tales, which is how I confirmed the Italian Jewish stuff years ago, however knowing where the family traces their origin made sense with some of the Eastern European. We're thinking that my Spanish is probably on my father's side, since my grandmother once told me that the family was originally from Sicily and moved northward--which would also explain the Sardinian. We'll see when she gets her test back!

 

[MisterVIP]

Ancestry website is a scam.

http://www.livescience.com/2084-dna-kits-secrets-scientific-scam.html

They're every bit as big of a scam as those "coat of arms" scammers at county fairs and pop-up stands. Save your money.

 

[EllieP]

Why would she have flipped over the Scottish and Irish?

Mum is a very prejudiced Brit.

 

[1Cody]

I will save my money, because we have our Native American family tree and we know French, German, and Irish was a part of our make up. Three of our last names are English or Anglo, and only one is native.

 

[palakaorion]

Yes I've done both Ancestry and Nat Geo. Both gave similar results within the margins of uncertainty of the tests. Roughly half Eastern European (I knew a grandparent was Czech) and half Scandinavian (I knew other ancestors were Swede or Norse). Sprinkle some NW Russia, Irish, and NW Mediterranean. Also I'm slightly more Neanderthal than average.

23 and Me doesn't appear to offer any more specific ethnicity groupings than Ancestry or Nat Geo, but does provide other possible disease profiles to scare the crap out of you.

Even though the ethnicity wasn't a surprise, the Ancestry test wasn't a waste; I was able to definitively confirm the identity of my birth parents (I am an adoptee).