EddardStark Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Anyone had it done ? This is mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDFH64 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 51 minutes ago, EddardStark said: Anyone had it done ? This is mine. Where’s the red ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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weekevie04 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 19 hours ago, EddardStark said: Anyone had it done ? This is mine. As a Rangers man that must delight you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddardStark Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 19 minutes ago, weekevie04 said: As a Rangers man that must delight you My NI family was 50/50. My grandad was from a travelling community background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 20 hours ago, EddardStark said: Anyone had it done ? This is mine. Staunch Eddie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Not had mine done but gonna do it. Mine will be a mixture of Italian, Scottish and Irish. My granddad was Italian (my grandad was born here but his siblings and parents born in Italy) and my gran's side were all from Ireland (my great grandad the north and my great gran the south). Think my dad's side are Scottish though quite a few generations but we've an Irish surname so must come from Ireland at some point on my dad's side! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThistleWhistle Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 My wee one on the other side is half nomadic Tibetan (wife's family were yak herders up the mountains when the Chinese invaded) and defo has Sherpa genes - complete and utter beast mode! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N4Footsoldier Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 What are the recommended sites to do this on? Also how do they check and how far back does it go? Never done this but always been in the back of my mind. I have one great grandmother who was Lithuanian (USSR at the time), going much further back likely English will pop up given my surname. Otherwise immediate generations all Scottish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddardStark Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 (edited) 4 hours ago, N4Footsoldier said: What are the recommended sites to do this on? Also how do they check and how far back does it go? Never done this but always been in the back of my mind. I have one great grandmother who was Lithuanian (USSR at the time), going much further back likely English will pop up given my surname. Otherwise immediate generations all Scottish Ancestry.co.uk... It has the largest database and you can upload your DNA info from Ancestry to other databases. You can't upload from other sites to Ancestry though. There are different parts to the results. There is ethnicity which goes back thousands of years and then your DNA matching to specific people which can go back a couple of hundred years. Edited March 18 by EddardStark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDYER63 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Is this stuff fairly accurate and not like the ‘ put 3 strands of hair in a wee bag and we will sort out your gut problems ‘ websites which are pretty poor ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 4 minutes ago, TDYER63 said: Is this stuff fairly accurate and not like the ‘ put 3 strands of hair in a wee bag and we will sort out your gut problems ‘ websites which are pretty poor ? There is a huge difference between genetic sequencing and witchcraft. Did you forget to put the eye of toad and wing of bat into the wee bag? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan II Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 While not totally bullshit, the results are fairly meaningless. There's examples of identical twins giving quite different results. The science just isn't there. Go back just a few generations and you have multiple lineages, each of those with multiple lineages. I would be very wary of parting cash for something like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDYER63 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 2 minutes ago, Orraloon said: There is a huge difference between genetic sequencing and witchcraft. Did you forget to put the eye of toad and wing of bat into the wee bag? 🤣 You will no be laughing when you find out you are 70 % McTidy . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddardStark Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 15 minutes ago, duncan II said: While not totally bullshit, the results are fairly meaningless. There's examples of identical twins giving quite different results. The science just isn't there. Go back just a few generations and you have multiple lineages, each of those with multiple lineages. I would be very wary of parting cash for something like this. To be honest the DNA matching is very useful in terms of family history stuff, if you know what you are doing( I don't, my wife does). In terms of ethnicity then its a the results are consistently being refined and give a decent indication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan II Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Fair play, Eddard. I'm no expert these days. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) 14 hours ago, EddardStark said: To be honest the DNA matching is very useful in terms of family history stuff, if you know what you are doing( I don't, my wife does). In terms of ethnicity then its a the results are consistently being refined and give a decent indication. I'd second this. My brother took the test (saved me a job 😁) and while the results were pretty much as expected (68% Scottish Highlands, 27% Irish with a little bit of English and Scandinavian mixed in (our mum's grandpas were from Killarney in Ireland and Cornwall)), the links they gave to people you may be related to that have also done the test were surprising. A couple of close relatives were mentioned to corroborate the findings, but also distant cousins I'd never heard of, with common names to the family that the people compiling the test would never have known. Edited March 19 by Toepoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N4Footsoldier Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Somebody might have mentioned it's £80 for the basic test 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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