Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ethnicity DNA Estimates
Funny. I'm just wondering how they determined that yer Mom was knocked up by a New York Jew? Is there a particular DNA signature to indicate the presence or absence of a foreskin? :-) More seriously, Alex, that's essentially my bro's story of why he's interested in this, too. Our father never knew who he was before adoption, and never cared. After his death, my brother did the private detective legwork to find out that his parents were most likely from the Ukraine, and Jewish. Both died in the great flu epidemic. The genetic DNA tracking outfit he used to create the report I saw doesn't seem to do DNA back to the Neanderthal period. Or if it does, I didn't notice it. To be honest, I was just fascinated by the whole tech of it, that many DNA strains can be traced back to their geographical origins, and that everyone subsequently descended from that DNA strain can *also* be traced back to that location. From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 6:35 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ethnicity DNA Estimates I was adopted, and my biological mother, of English and German descent, revealed nothing about my biological father. Thanks to DNA testing and a paternal haplogroup that occurs almost exclusively in one ethnic group, I now know that I'm the result of a New York Jew knocking up a shiksa. I'm also 2.9% Neanderthal, which is near the high end of Neanderthal genetic content. And, I'm APO E4/E4, which puts me at the absolute highest risk for Alzheimer's; E4 is the original form of that allele, with the E2 and E3 forms having evolved later. This amuses me greatly, because for all of Fairfield's spiritual dogmas about evolution and being more evolved, etc., I am literally a less evolved human being. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoi...@yahoo.com 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.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ethnicity DNA Estimates
That's okay, according to my horoscope I'm trailer trash. :-D On 10/31/2014 10:35 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I was adopted, and my biological mother, of English and German descent, revealed nothing about my biological father. Thanks to DNA testing and a paternal haplogroup that occurs almost exclusively in one ethnic group, I now know that I'm the result of a New York Jew knocking up a shiksa. I'm also 2.9% Neanderthal, which is near the high end of Neanderthal genetic content. And, I'm APO E4/E4, which puts me at the absolute highest risk for Alzheimer's; E4 is the original form of that allele, with the E2 and E3 forms having evolved later. This amuses me greatly, because for all of Fairfield's spiritual dogmas about evolution and being more evolved, etc., I am literally a less evolved human being. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoi...@yahoo.com 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.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ethnicity DNA Estimates
On 10/31/2014 12:52 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: That's okay, according to my horoscope I'm trailer trash. :-D /According to Judy, I am white trailer trash and a mollusk./ On 10/31/2014 10:35 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I was adopted, and my biological mother, of English and German descent, revealed nothing about my biological father. Thanks to DNA testing and a paternal haplogroup that occurs almost exclusively in one ethnic group, I now know that I'm the result of a New York Jew knocking up a shiksa. I'm also 2.9% Neanderthal, which is near the high end of Neanderthal genetic content. And, I'm APO E4/E4, which puts me at the absolute highest risk for Alzheimer's; E4 is the original form of that allele, with the E2 and E3 forms having evolved later. This amuses me greatly, because for all of Fairfield's spiritual dogmas about evolution and being more evolved, etc., I am literally a less evolved human being. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoi...@yahoo.com 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.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ethnicity DNA Estimates
On 10/31/2014 12:47 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Funny. I'm just wondering how they determined that yer Mom was knocked up by a New York Jew? Is there a particular DNA signature to indicate the presence or absence of a foreskin? :-) /You forgot to mention any of your past lives which could have affected your DNA. In fact, when you came out of the Tibetan Bardo, you probably weren't even your self any more. //Go figure./ More seriously, Alex, that's essentially my bro's story of why he's interested in this, too. Our father never knew who he was before adoption, and never cared. After his death, my brother did the private detective legwork to find out that his parents were most likely from the Ukraine, and Jewish. Both died in the great flu epidemic. The genetic DNA tracking outfit he used to create the report I saw doesn't seem to do DNA back to the Neanderthal period. Or if it does, I didn't notice it. To be honest, I was just fascinated by the whole tech of it, that many DNA strains can be traced back to their geographical origins, and that everyone subsequently descended from that DNA strain can *also* be traced back to that location. *From:* j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, October 31, 2014 6:35 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Ethnicity DNA Estimates I was adopted, and my biological mother, of English and German descent, revealed nothing about my biological father. Thanks to DNA testing and a paternal haplogroup that occurs almost exclusively in one ethnic group, I now know that I'm the result of a New York Jew knocking up a shiksa. I'm also 2.9% Neanderthal, which is near the high end of Neanderthal genetic content. And, I'm APO E4/E4, which puts me at the absolute highest risk for Alzheimer's; E4 is the original form of that allele, with the E2 and E3 forms having evolved later. This amuses me greatly, because for all of Fairfield's spiritual dogmas about evolution and being more evolved, etc., I am literally a less evolved human being. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoi...@yahoo.com 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.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ethnicity DNA Estimates
---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/
