---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Otherwise known as the "Where yer people hailed from" test. My brother
is into genealogy, and figuring out our lineage. It never interested
me all that much, even when his detective work indicated that our
father's unknown original parents (he was an orphan, left on a
doorstep in Philadelphia during the big flu epidemic in the 1920s)
were probably from the Ukraine, and Jewish.
More interesting to me was his latest endeavor, in which he submitted
DNA samples to a company and got a "readout" on where his DNA (and
presumably mine as well, since our Mom was SO not a person given to
fool around) *came from* on the planet. The company says that it
matches the samples against many thousands of similar samples tied
primarily to geographical locations around the world, and then they
ship you a report on what they found.
I have no idea if it's legit. I just looked as his (and presumably my)
results, and they sounded "right" to me:
99% European
(broken down)
54% English
28% Irish
12% Eastern Europe
05% Western Europe
Cheap entertainment...what can I say? Just posted in case anyone here
gets all Woo Woo behind the idea of figuring out where *their* DNA
comes from. The site is dna.ancestry.com. Not responsible.
>
On 10/31/2014 1:03 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
>
I'd love to do this, it's sure to be really interesting. but then I
know that I'm mostly English with a large bit of Scottish and a bit of
Romanian gipsy from my Gran who hailed from those parts (don't tell
Nigel Farage). What else lurks in there? How much Neanderthal or even
African farmer?
Fascinating stuff DNA as it cannot lie, if you want to know how close
you are to anything from Zebra's to mushrooms it will tell you. And
all living things are related to one original cell, I never get over
thinking about that, what a discovery, what a thing to know about
yourself!
>
/“Europeans today have genes from three very different populations. The
oldest of these populations were the first Europeans, who appear to have
lived as hunter-gatherers. The second were farmers who expanded into
Europe about 8,500 years ago from the Near East. But most living
Europeans also carry genes from a third population, which appears to
have arrived more recently."//
//
//http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/science/from-ancient-dna-a-clearer-picture-of-europeans-today.html?ref=science&_r=0/
