Anyone get the DNA test from Ancestry.com?

[whathehell]

The spouse and I got them for $99 each...Some interesting surprises.

[historylovr]

1. I've been thinking about it.

Did it take long to get results back?

[whathehell]

2. No, not at all..A couple of weeks, maybe, at most.

[whathehell]

16. No, not at all.

[historylovr]

17. Thank you.

[CBHagman]

3. I'd be interested in your review of the product/results.

My eyes tend to glaze over when I read the descriptions of the different tests online, but I always enjoy hearing from actual clients.

So are you satisfied with the level of detail? Do you feel the test answered some of your genealogical questions or provided additional avenues for your research? Both?

[whathehell]

7. I was mostly satisfied with the results..To the extent I was not,

may have something to do with my not yet perusing the "help"

button on their DNA website.

For the most part, the results were expected, but there were a couple

of surprises..For instance, the family tree I had done for my mother's

side of the family goes back to the 1700 hundreds and contains

a few Italian surnames -- Despite that, the DNA test listed my

Italian heritage as only ONE percent, which I thought odd -- I

knew my mother's family was primarily Croatian, as opposed to Italian,

but given it's proximity to Italy (and the trade history between the two

countries, especially on the Dalmatian coast where the family originates,)

I certainly expected more than that minuscule amount...I may have to

use the "help" button I mentioned above to explain it.

[pipi_k]

4. Yep...

well, not me, but Mr Pipi's daughters got him one for Father's day.

Only took a couple of weeks for results.

No huge surprises. English, Scots, Irish, which we knew already. Also showed some Scandinavian which surprised him, but not me, as I've suspected it all along anyway.


I'm going to save up my nickels to get one for myself at some point, to answer the question of whether there really is some First Nations DNA floating around in the family or if it's just rumors and stories.

If it shows anything other than French with a miniscule bit of English and Scots I'll be surprised.

[whathehell]

6. I came up as 51% Irish and ten percent Scandanavian, which surprised me too,

but really shouldn't when you look at Ireland's history and that of the

British Isles.

First of all, the "Normans" who conquered England in 1066 and Ireland

a bit later, were actually "Norseman", or Scandinavian.

Secondly, prior their conquest, the Vikings from Scandinavia were

constantly invading Ireland and England. There's even an old

prayer from the 9th or 10th century which asks God to "spare us

from the wrath of the Norseman".

Dublin itself was originally a Viking settlement.

[pipi_k]

10. Yah, the Normans...

Some of my French ancestors came from Normandy, so I'm expecting a smattering of Viking as well.

[csziggy]

5. I ordered it on 4th of July for 20% off - waiting for results

Got one for me and one for my husband. Should be interesting to compare to our well researched family trees.

[whathehell]

8. You should be getting it soon,

though you do know that you have to go to the Ancestry site, right?

I forgot it myself until my husband reminded me.

Have fun!

[csziggy]

9. Ancestry has been sending email updates

When I registered the tests and when they received them. The email that came when they received them said it would be 6-8 weeks. I hope it's sooner!

I just checked on Ancestry.com and it says the tests are "Lab processing".

[pipi_k]

11. When Mr Pipi got his I kidded him

about both of us spitting into the tube to see what would happen with the results

[csziggy]

12. I thought I was bad at spitting

Until I watch my husband try to do it. I had no trouble getting enough spit, but my husband had to work at it.

Now I wish I had paid for a third test. My cousin is a straight male line descendant from one of my brick wall ancestors (John Tucker b.1798 SC, d.1889 AL) and I'd like to have him tested. But I think I will have to pay for the Family Tree DNA Y-DNA tests to get any meaningful results.

Once I get my Ancestry results, I plan to import them into the Family Tree Autosomal database to see what that tells me about our lines. Since both sides have been extensively researched, it will be interesting to see how the research and the DNA line up.

[pipi_k]

13. Yeah, that pesky research vs the DNA thing

And the interesting...or even shocking...family secrets that could be uncovered! Or mysteries started that may never be solved.

It never occurs to me that a little bit of extramarital fooling around could have taken place long ago, throwing off everything we think we know about our heritage.

Well, not so much for me (as far as I know), but for a cousin. We share a grandmother, but not a grandfather. Her dad looks so much like my dad, though (they were half brothers), and has a lot of the same paternal features that I'm suspecting that my dad's brother might really have been my dad's uncle's son...that is, my grandfather's brother's son.

Everyone involved in that is dead, so we'll never know...

[NOLALady]

14. I just ordered a kit for $49.

with free shipping.

[whathehell]

15. Ah, beaten

by a better deal..

[pipi_k]

18. Did you get it from Ancestry.com?

Always on the lookout for a good deal...

[NOLALady]

26. Yes.

CeCe Moore posted the link.

[csziggy]

19. Got our results with some interesting surprises!

My husband's is interesting since his shows:
Europe 100%
Europe West 72%
Ireland 23%
Trace Regions 5%
Iberian Peninsula 3%
Scandinavia 1%
Finland/Northwest Russia < 1%

What is intriguing to me is that it shows NO British ancestry! The percentage of Western European seems a little high to me, but it fits with the known genealogy. The Irish seems to encompass his known Welsh and Scottish ancestors. He's got a good amount of French in his genealogy so the Iberian Peninsula is not too outrageous.

Mine was pretty much as I expected:
Europe 99%
Great Britain 38%
Europe West 28%
Ireland 27%
Trace regions 6%
Finland/Northwest Russia 4%
Scandinavia < 1%
Italy/Greece < 1%

I did NOT expect the Italy/Greece trace - we have no records of all of any ancestors from Southern Europe. But here is the true surprise:
Asia South < 1%

I am somewhat stunned at that! There are no clues in the researched genealogy that tells me where THAT trace is from!

At least now I have proof to refute the people who claim our fourth or fifth great grandfather or mother was Native American. I never thought it was true but since that is a brick wall for us, couldn't prove it.

[pipi_k]

20. Since the site claims

that DNA can be traced up to a thousand years back, is it possible that the South Asia DNA might have migrated up through Russia and over to North America through some very small landbridge, then over into the US to become Native American?

Just some speculation here, as I don't know how quickly such a migration might happen.

In any case, isn't that the way, though...you do a test to answer questions, and open up even more questions and mysteries.

[csziggy]

21. No, Native American is a very specific genome

At best it might show up as North East Asian. The results I got are Asian Indian region. It's less than 1% so must be pretty far back.

My husband suggested it was maybe the result of one of my British ancestors that married an Asian Indian during the British Empire period. I guess that is possible but I have seen no indication from my research. Every British ancestor I know about is ridiculously Angl-Saxon or Norman - I have one line that traces back to a Baron that came over with William the Conqueror and whose grandson married a daughter of Henry I that was delegitimized when he became the heir.

In our records we have no ancestors that served in India, though I do have a ?x great uncle or cousin that was the first American in Afghanistan when he quit working the the East India Company - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Harlan

[pipi_k]

22. Definitely a mystery going on there

Another possibility...maybe somehow a child with that DNA was adopted into the family somehow, took the name, and then passed on the DNA that way.

One thing I've learned is never to assume my ancestors all lived within the traditional bounds of society. Or what I imagine the traditional bounds were, is more like it.


OK so I think I'm about ready to order a kit now just for the excitement of perhaps opening more cans of worms in my own family tree.

And it's all your fault! ha ha

[csziggy]

23. It's definitely thought provoking!

I'm also wondering about the Italian/Greek trace - that's another one we have no record to reflect. Maybe the Asian Indian and that trace came in together. I joked with my husband that it could be a child of Marco Polo married in somewhere.

Ancestry has a discounted rate right now - $79.

I'm sort of wondering about some of the people that the DNA test says I might be related to - they have no tree or only a very few people in their tree. Why would they test if they are not doing any genealogy? I guess some people may just be curious about ethnicity but it still doesn't make sense to me.

[pipi_k]

24. Maybe the people with no tree

got the test as a gift.

Mr Pipi doesn't have a tree either, but his girls got him the kit for Father's day.

There's something sort of funny about that, when I think of it...




The people the test said you might be related to...have you thought of contacting them (if there's any way to do that)?

I'm not sure what I would do myself. I have cousins I've discovered, not through DNA, that I've friended through Facebook and all, but we rarely communicate. I guess it's sort of hard to form some kind of bond, or connection, with people you never knew growing up.

Maybe the best I could do would be sort of a once-in-a-while penpal type of thing...

[csziggy]

25. I've had quite a few people contacting me

So for right now I've spent time responding to them rather than looking up the others. I'm trying to finish a project for my older sister - a book of pictures and info about our oldest sister who passed away years ago. We want to give it to her children who really don't have many memories about their Mom.

And I certainly don't need more relatives! I've got plenty, most of which I don't like very much, LOL.

I did look at some of the trees to see who the common ancestors were. Unfortunately none of them have more information than I already do.

[NOLALady]

27. I received the following a few days ago,

"Forwarded message from CeCe Moore:

Some people are able to get a $49 price for AncestryDNA at this link: https://secure.ancestry.com/Store/Purchase?offerId=O-24174. Try using the FREESHIPDNA code as well."

The sale may be over now. But, they are 20% ($79) off now.

[pipi_k]

28. Yep

I just got one for $79 the other day.

Am looking forward to doing the test and getting the results, which could either confirm, or put to rest (once and for all), family rumors of Native American (actually Canadian First Nations) ancestry.

[NOLALady]

29. My husband has Native American family rumors,

while my family does not.

The results shows I have a bit more Native DNA than he does through both parents! In fact, his Paternal GMother (the suspected Native) is of Irish/African heritage.

I've tested with 23andMe as well. Surprisingly, my Dad shows possible Ashkenazi ancestry at possibly a GGFather level. I think it may be Sephardi and not Ashkenazi though, as many Canary Islanders (Islenos) settled in our area.

I just received my $49 kit in the mail. I don't know who I will test as I've tested practically everyone already. I just couldn't pass up the $49 sale.

[shanti]

30. I've been wanting a DNA test

for a long time. Well, I'm going to give it to my brother, the last remaining male on my side. I just checked Ancestry, and they have a deal now where you can get the DNA test AND 6 months of membership for $99. It does sound like a good deal, I may spring for it!

[whathehell]

31. Go for it!

Just to let you know, that if you were giving it to your brother because

you thought females can only get Mitochondrial DNA (Mother's side) that

has changed!...They can now do BOTH sides of the family for males and

females.

[shanti]

32. No......!

Really?? When did this happen? That would make things a lot more convenient. There are a couple on Native connections on dad's side that I want to verify. Oh, and the Neanderthal link, lol.

[whathehell]

33. The Ancestry.com test provided me with results from both sides of my family..

Fifty one percent Irish, 33% Eastern European,10% Scandinavian, and other "trace" DNA -- 3% European Jewish, 2% Iberian Peninsula,

2% English, 1% Italian.

I don't know when they discovered a way to improve the process, but they did.

[pipi_k]

34. What I read

was that they're now able to match customer DNA with DNA in some sort of databank.

anyway, were any of your results a huge surprise for you?


The more people are talking about this, the more itchy I am to get my hot little hands on my own kit, which should be arriving this Friday, if shipping estimates are correct.

[whathehell]

35. My biggest surprise

I don't know if I'd call it huge, was that I had only ONE percent Italian ancestry, when I have

a few Italian surnames in my family tree, going back almost two hundred years.

My other surprise, not huge, but surprising, was that I have three percent Jewish ancestry.

Surprised because everyone I know of on both sides of my family have been Roman Catholic.

Not so surprising because my Mother's side is Mid- Europe (Croatian) with 33% of that being

Eastern European, and I imagine there was a fair amount of 'mixing' over the centuries throughout

that huge swath of Europe.

[pipi_k]

36. Some interesting surprises on mine as well

Just got the results a while ago. Expected some European, but not what came up.

Well, at least the results put the whole "Native American ancestry or not?" question to rest. Zero...zilch...nada.


As for the rest, it's funny because for years I've been kidding my mom about the possibility that a man she had a relationship with might be my true father. Now I get to tease her even more. Did she mess with the mailman while married to my dad? hahahahaha!!!!

Northern Africa...awesome!


Anyway, here they are...

[shanti]

37. what are trace regions? n/t

[pipi_k]

38. Those are areas

where the evidence isn't overwhelmingly clear for any ancestry from those regions.


From the site:

Trace Regions

Expanding the Trace Regions icon allows you to drill down into other regions of your genetic ethnicity. Trace Regions are regions where the estimated range includes zero and does not go above 15%, or where the predicted percentage is less than 4.5%. Since there is only a small amount of evidence that you have genetic ethnicity from these regions, it is possible that you may not have genetic ethnicity from them at all.

[shanti]

39. ok, thanks

i didn't get in the timeframe for the Ancestry deal, so will have to wait for the next one.