tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post3787840960938467338..comments2024-03-08T15:43:54.700+00:00Comments on Cruwys news: Exploring my genome with 23andMe - ancestryDebbie Kennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573470282571579765noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-38789179685241192582019-12-16T17:03:09.049+00:002019-12-16T17:03:09.049+00:00You can get an idea of the distribution of U4a2b b...You can get an idea of the distribution of U4a2b by looking at the results page of our U4 Project at FamilyTree DNA. Set the page size to 2000 to see all the results on one page: <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/public/U4mtDNA?iframe=mtresults" rel="nofollow">https://www.familytreedna.com/public/U4mtDNA?iframe=mtresults</a>Debbie Kennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11573470282571579765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-49085474651055764092019-12-15T06:10:07.897+00:002019-12-15T06:10:07.897+00:00Why is u4a2b so uncommon I know nothing about this...Why is u4a2b so uncommon I know nothing about this how can I find out moreAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01402640634200860807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-83825090841523603902017-06-29T16:39:58.566+01:002017-06-29T16:39:58.566+01:00Dear Mr Hoffman
Mitochondrial DNA only traces the...Dear Mr Hoffman<br /><br />Mitochondrial DNA only traces the direct maternal line (your mother, your mother's mother, your mother's mother's mother, etc) so it only represents a very tiny percentage of your total ancestry. See the diagram here:<br /><br /><a href="https://isogg.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA_tests" rel="nofollow">https://isogg.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA_tests</a><br /><br />You only have to go back five or six generations before your genealogical ancestors start to drop off your genetic tree:<br /><br /><a href="http://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2009/11/10/qa-everyone-has-two-family-trees-a-genealogical-tree-and-a-genetic-tree/" rel="nofollow">http://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2009/11/10/qa-everyone-has-two-family-trees-a-genealogical-tree-and-a-genetic-tree/</a><br /><br />It is therefore quite possible to have a distant Native American genealogical ancestor who has not left any genetic legacy in your DNA.Debbie Kennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11573470282571579765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-23502637288478386102017-06-07T17:30:50.485+01:002017-06-07T17:30:50.485+01:00Just got my mitDNA results from 23andMe today........Just got my mitDNA results from 23andMe today.....looks like U4c1 too. Shows me as 100% European (breaking down roughly to 80% English, 12% French/German, 2.3% S European, and a percent or two E European and Scandinavian). The paternal halpotype is Rm405. Thru Ancestry.com, I can trace the maternal line directly back to the 1200s in York and Kent----my 13th Great Grandfather was Sir Thomas Wyatt The Poet, alleged lover of Ann Boleyn and a member of Henry VII's court. My paternal side vanishes around 1680 in the Cologne region of France/Germany when the first generation came to America and settled in Virginia and then Pennsylvania. <br />All of this came as a bit of a surprise as the family legend had a lot of Native American stories, and I have very dark copper colored skin, black hair, and brown eyes.....along with shovel shaped incisors and most of the other Native traits you'd expect. Best guess is an ultimate Central Asian/Siberian heritage, with mine heading to N Europe and the other kin heading for the Siberian land bridge into N America during the last ice age???? Any rate, both the DNA and Ancestry results were a bit of a surprise, to say the least. English nobility direct lineage, first generation in Jamestown Colony, and now an oddball U4 mit DNA. <br />Any ideas on any of this out there? <br />(I have no living relatives to compare to; am an only child of two only children, and only have a very recently discovered half-cousin related by an unknown half-sister of my mother's which my grandfather sired and abandoned back around 1916 which nobody knew of until I unearthed the info a few months back). Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11829237884905171640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-24564215955421334972011-12-06T01:21:31.006+00:002011-12-06T01:21:31.006+00:00There is a Romany DNA project. Lots of Romany men ...There is a Romany DNA project. Lots of Romany men come out as haplogroup H, but equally there are many R1b1a2s. If you have a gypsy surname and are haplogroup H then the results would be consistent. A small Indian admixture percentage could mean anything, especially with the small reference population databases, and would not necessarily indicate gypsy ancestry. The Roots of the British project is doing a special study of British Romanies but I believe they're only doing Y-DNA and mtDNA testing.Debbie Kennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11573470282571579765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-31559189143445828292011-12-06T00:48:25.488+00:002011-12-06T00:48:25.488+00:00Hi - you don't have to have a population of Ro...Hi - you don't have to have a population of Romani/Gypsy to draw conclusions, which would be a self-identified population under the best of circumstances. Since the Roma derive from populations who migrated from India - perhaps very specific tribal populations - you compare markers to the fairly wide-ranging DNA studies of Indians.<br /><br />If a person in Norway has an mtDNA haplogroup, or a YDNA haplogroup, or a series of specific SNPs that occur with great frequency in these Indian populations, you can make some pretty robust inferences.<br /><br />NickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-55440047223942081062011-12-05T01:11:51.654+00:002011-12-05T01:11:51.654+00:00Hi Nick
I haven't bothered with all the other...Hi Nick<br /><br />I haven't bothered with all the other services that provide ethnic percentages. I already know where all my ancestors come from so they are not going to tell me very much as there are not yet enough reference populations in the databases to provide meaningful results for people of 100% British ancestry. I'm waiting for the People of the British Isles Project to publish their research as they have been able to find differences between people in different regions and sometimes counties of the British Isles. I'm looking forward to the day when I will be able to find out what percentage of my DNA is from Devon!<br /><br />I'm not aware of any sequencing that has been done on gypsy populations. Where did this information come from?Debbie Kennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11573470282571579765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-22821029436146596312011-12-05T00:22:01.835+00:002011-12-05T00:22:01.835+00:00Hi Debbie this is NickGC from RC. I know your pos...Hi Debbie this is NickGC from RC. I know your post is over a year old, but I hope you still read comments.<br /><br />I too showed 100% European on 23andMe and this jibed well with my quite detailed ancestry of colonial Americans on my paternal side, and mostly Scots and a few English ancestors on maternal. Back to 1600s to late 1700s for paternal lines, and 1750s to 1800 for most maternal.<br /><br />Have you tried sending your raw data to places like GEDMatch, or running it through the Dodecad calculators and others that are freely available. Since they apparently use different mixes of populations for comparisons the results can be quite eye opening.<br /><br />Doug McDonald, a University professor, is also a person who will run your results through his computer. What I found is that 94.5 percent of my ancestry is indeed as the genealogy show, but about 5.5% is very likely to have come from a (possibly ancient) Roma/Gypsy contribution.<br /><br />If you haven't tried these calculators, etc. I suggest you do... great fun!<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />NickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-56699005703307316222010-08-03T13:10:24.010+01:002010-08-03T13:10:24.010+01:00I think the timing of my Relative Finder contacts ...I think the timing of my Relative Finder contacts was somewhat unfortunate as a lot of people will probably be away on holiday. I do hope I get more responses in the coming months. I have put a long list of surnames in my profile and I've also added a separate list of all the locations.<br /><br />I've looked at the Ancestry Finder matches. I have very few matches with people with public profiles. The ones I do have mostly have four grandparents in the US. One person has four grandparents in Germany, and another four grandparents in Spain so there's little chance of finding an ancestor in common. However on checking this morning I was very pleased to see a new match who has four grandparents in Australia and for the first time a surname that I recognise so I've just sent him a message.<br /><br />Are you sure Relative Finder is opt-out rather than opt-in? I thought I had to tick a box to use the service. In the settings under Relative Finder options it does say: "By checking this box, your profile will not be able to use Relative Finder to view or contact relatives. Also, you will not show up in other people's Relative Finder results. If you change your mind, you may re-join at any time by unchecking the box."Debbienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-34317528736386504502010-08-03T08:45:58.903+01:002010-08-03T08:45:58.903+01:00I hope your acceptance rate will increase. A coupl...I hope your acceptance rate will increase. A couple of months ago, I finished sending out all my invitations, and I still have acceptances trickling in once in a while. My overall acceptance rate is about 25%, but it took a while to get there. Do you have any surnames in your profile or anything? I think that helps motivate people to respond.<br /><br />Have you had a chance to check out the "public match" section of Ancestry Finder much at all? It just came out last Thursday. In the Ancestry Finder lab, you can check the "only show public matches" box. This is helpful because the cut-off for Relative Finder is 7cMs, but the cut-off for Ancestry Finder is 5cMs. So you may be able to find new cousins from Ancestry Finder that are slightly below the threshold for Relative Finder. <br /><br />I found about 20 new cousins from Ancestry Finder, and they seem to be more interested in genealogy & communicating with me than most others in Relative Finder. Relative Finder, by the way, is opt-out, not opt-in. This may partially explain the low response rate. I think a lot of people are only interested in the health aspects, and they check their results when they first come in, and then it seems they don't come back too often.Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16858480399075402560noreply@blogger.com