DNA results back!

[speleobat2]

Just got my DNA results back from Ancestry.com. The 53% Finland and NW Russia was no surprise. The other 47% sure is! According to their statistics, I'm not Scottish. I'm 20% Irish and 11 % comes from the Iberian Peninsula. I couldn't have guessed that one! I supposed the part about not being Scottish depends on how many years your family has to be living in Scotland before you qualify. I have my family traced back at least to the late 1700's in Scotland. Before that who knows where they wandered. Given the Crusades and the Vikings and trading in general people certainly had the chance to move around. This is all very interesting and they have given me 67 matches to check out too. The housework can wait!

Carol

[SarahND]

Hi Carol,
The ethnicity testing is still in its infancy and should be taken with a large grain of salt Here is a very good article that was just posted the other day explaining how the different ethnicity tests work and why it is so difficult to get an accurate result:
http://dna-explained.com/2016/02/10/eth ... conundrum/

I guess I'm not one of your 67 matches

Best wishes anyway
Sarah

[speleobat2]

Nope, haven't seen you anywhere in there yet, Sarah! But then, many of my matches don't have family trees with them so it means some serious emailing if I decide to pursue them. I did this for fun and to satisfy my curiosity. Since I have no records further back than the 1700's I can reimagine my ancestors any way I want. Were they soldiers or slaves or sailors or merchants or just adventurers? I don't know and it really isn't important to me. Up until today, as far as I knew they were all farmers and shopkeepers and that was fine too.

Carol

[SarahND]

Since I have no records further back than the 1700's I can reimagine my ancestors any way I want. Were they soldiers or slaves or sailors or merchants or just adventurers?

I suspect they were speleologists (i.e. cavemen)

Sorry, couldn't resist


Sarah

[speleobat2]

Love it!

Carol

[sheilajim]

Hi All
I would have thought that the DNA difference between Scottish and Irish would be practically non-existent. After all, people have been moving between Scotland & Ireland for at least 2 thousand years.

[Ina]

After doing a DNA test three years ago I finally broke through my brick wall. My gg grandparents never married so I was unable to trace them back further as the name Ferguson is so common. My gg grandfather's brother immigrated to Nova Scotia and I've been in touch with his descendants (my 3rd cousins) for several years but they also were unable to break the brick wall.......until a few months ago we both got a match to a Ferguson and we are 4th cousins to this Ferguson, which means we share the same ggg grandparents.

I think I checked every Ferguson in Greenock looking for my John and it turns out he was born in East Kilbride. Yeah for DNA

Ina

[speleobat2]

=D> Glad to hear that Ina! I'm hoping to find my missing Clerihew line. My gr greatgrandfather died after the 1851 census, but before the 1855 registrations began so I don't know which family I actually belong to. So far, no luck, but I have found someone from my Longmuir/Longmore line. The biggest problem is that over half of the people on my contact list don't have family trees posted or they have locked them which means I have to email all of these people! This will keep me busy for a long time.

Carol

[Ina]

Hope the DNA works out for you. Try to be patient as I mentioned it took me three years to be connected to this match. Most of my matches prior to this one were all 5-6th cousins so hard to tell where the connection came from.........I'm even related to our very own Sarah =D> but we can't find the connection yet.

It can be frustrating when your match doesn't have a tree uploaded or they don't bother to answer your emails. I have one result connecting me to a 3rd cousin (a Moran) but his tree is private and he doesn't answer emails. Would just love to know which Moran he is descended from.

Ina