Finding your roots: DNA analysis for dummies.

[mlmooney89]

Let us know how that goes because I was going to buy my husband a DNA kit through ancestry.com for Christmas but might use this site y'all are talking about if it works well.

[Edwardo Piet]

I'm guessing ancestry.com is a lot more expensive.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Let us know how that goes because I was going to buy my husband a DNA kit through ancestry.com for Christmas but might use this site y'all are talking about if it works well.

I'm very pleased with the 23andMe service, no complaints.

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I'm guessing ancestry.com is a lot more expensive.

I saw one advertising $69 analyses, don't know anything else about it.

[Jackalope]

So my girlfriend hasn't received her results yet... But I did, even though my sample went out two weeks after hers.

The results put me in maternal haplogroup H7 and paternal haplogroup N-M46 - the latter is said to be quite rare amongst 23andme testees (1:130000).

Unsurprisingly, my heritage is 49% northwestern European (with British/Irish, French/German, and Scandinavian components, along with "broadly northwestern European), and 48.1% eastern European - unsurprising because our family history is said to be British/Welsh on my mother's side, and Lithuanian/Polish on my father's side.

Add to that a smattering of "broadly southern European", "broadly European", Ashkenazi Jewish, and Oceanian. WTF on those last two? It's a tiny contribution but it came out of left field. The report claims that those contributions date back to the 18th century and prior.

[ignoramus]

So you're a 47 Heinz like the rest of us!
I coulda told ya that fer nothin! Lol

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My test came back "99.9% Irish/Something else that doesn't matter."

[Jackalope]

So you're a 47 Heinz like the rest of us!
I coulda told ya that fer nothin! Lol

Pretty much, yeah - but I did learn that the mom's side of the family is only 40% as British as they thought.

I also learned later today that at least two of the closet relatives that 23andme found (probably second cousins) share a surname with my maternal grandmother. It's a fairly common anglo surname but that and the genetic match are interesting to me.

[brewer]

Dreaming is anglo??? I never would have guessed. Maybe they changed the spelling at some point.