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Posted on: 6/13/14 5:56 PM ET
For quite a while I was very interested in my families genealogy, and researched quite a bit of it, which was satisfying and fun, and resulted in a scrapbook I am very proud of that documents what i found. Afetra lot of work I finally exhausted what I could find and document (I was pretty picky, and wanted corroborating evidence for my finds), and kind of shelved everything.

Flash forward, and my brother decides to do some DNA testing through Ancestry! He gave me the raw data, and using Gedmatch I found a close connection with someone I already knew knew on paper that we had a connection to; in fact the gentleman and I had helped each other with some data more than 12 years ago. So, very good verification of the method. Now I am waiting for my own test results, including MtDNA, which is only passed in a line from mother to daughter to daughter (and from mother to son, but only once.... MtDNA is what they used to prove that the skeleton in the car park was Richard III).

Anyone else tried this? Any interesting results?
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Posted on: 6/13/14 6:22 PM ET
Not to take this too far off track, but someone at the dog park told me that you can have this done for dogs to find out what the breed mix is. I'd like to have it done at some point for our dog (a shelter mutt) just to satiate my own curiosity/confirm my guesses about what breed(s) she is.

We suspect that the breed mix that the shelter told us was incorrect (not a big deal; she's a great dog and didn't get as big as we were expecting), and we have some guesses from the vet and other dog people as to what breeds likely make up her mix.
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Posted on: 6/13/14 6:30 PM ET
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Definitely lots of interesting applications for this, and it's getting relatively cheap....

My brother was very excited that his testing showed a trace of Native American, but after looking into it more it's more likely to be a common ancestor with Native Americans who would have been from Siberia or Northern Asia. Here's a blog I like that talks about this and related topics... Dna explained
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Posted on: 6/13/14 7:07 PM ET
I've also done a lot of Ancestry searching. I would enjoy having the DNA done too. Did you find a particular company that does this? I was told a year or so ago, that having DNA testing through Ancestry.com was questionable. I was surprised to hear this, as I have done quite a bit of my research with them. I would be interested in hearing if anyone has had this done and through Ancestry.com.
  
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Posted on: 6/13/14 7:21 PM ET
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Not to take this too far off track, but someone at the dog park told me that you can have this done for dogs to find out what the breed mix is. I'd like to have it done at some point for our dog (a shelter mutt) just to satiate my own curiosity/confirm my guesses about what breed(s) she is.



We suspect that the breed mix that the shelter told us was incorrect (not a big deal; she's a great dog and didn't get as big as we were expecting), and we have some guesses from the vet and other dog people as to what breeds likely make up her mix.

Dog DNA testing can be fun but probably is not reliable. It depends what breeds are in the company's data base and some people have submitted known purebreds with several generations of pedigree only to have their dog come back as some kind of a mix.
  
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Posted on: 6/13/14 9:07 PM ET
Interesting. I am interested in having this type of DNA done, but wasn't aware that there is any controversy about the accuracy.
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Posted on: 6/13/14 9:21 PM ET
I haven't but my mother has and it revealed some neat things about the family tree. Nothing terribly surprising except that there's more nordic blood than expected. We had one ancestor where all we know about her is her name and so maybe now we know a bit more

Now the REALLY fun part is that part of what would be the right percentage to come from her is "unknown." That just means that they haven't mapped everything yet but we've personally decided it's alien. From Asguard (Thor's homeworld.) Because we're geeks and why WOULDN'T you want to be related to the Asguardians? :)
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Posted on: 6/13/14 10:32 PM ET
I used 23andme. My son and I both did, and they surely tagged us as mother and son. I did mine early enough to get the health results, but now they aren't giving new members the health results.

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Posted on: 6/14/14 0:48 AM ET
I haven't had it done, but there is an interesting wrinkle: In many vertebrates, including humans, a certain known percentage of what is called misattributed paternityoccurs. IOW, the husband is not the father.

In humans, it's probably under 10%, but still high enough to lead to a few surprises among people tracing their genealogy.

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Posted on: 6/14/14 1:19 AM ET
I'm just happy that dna studies have revealed Neanderthal dna in humans. The idea that this intelligent species had just become extinct had always made me a little sad. I'm glad they were instead absorbed into modern humans.

Other than that, I'm not all that interested in personal testing. My family had a priest who had traced the family back quite a ways to a small German town. When I rented a car and drove around Germany, I stayed for awhile in that town. Looking at the prevalence of my name and it's variations, along with a preponderance of people who looked quite similar, that's good enough for me. I'm some mix of German, Russian, and Polish, so I can speculate as to my heritage further back.
  
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