Has anybody here had a DNA test done?
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Soldato
Did ours on suspicion of my Grandma. Turns out she took the secret to her grave. My Dad's dad was as we knew a white Englishman (we never knew him or met him as he died before any of us kids were born). My Mum's side came back as we expected, Grandma's Irish side was as expected, but apparently our Grandad came back as someone from some Asian country.
Difficult to pinpoint and there's no information to go off, pretty much left it there. Will probably never know the truth of who he was, or what our actual family name would have been. I stopped caring after researching was very difficult. Not like knowing now would make any difference.
Difficult to pinpoint and there's no information to go off, pretty much left it there. Will probably never know the truth of who he was, or what our actual family name would have been. I stopped caring after researching was very difficult. Not like knowing now would make any difference.
If its OK to am.. Does it bother you?
I know my bio dad, but he's had no real involvement since he split with my mum. And none of us (me or sisters) care about that stuff. But your case is a bit different.
Soldato
It doesnt bother me. I would be finding out more from interest now. This person was never on the birth certificate, the certificate contained the name of who we knew as Grandad. She never spoke about this to anybody, so there's pretty much two scenarios I can see have happened. Either she had a secret affair, or someone did something to her and she never spoke up. This happened in the 50s.
I suppose the only thing that sort of gets me, is knowing my surname might not actually be what it should be. And not knowing if his birth was concensual.
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Pop in to certain bars, start calling people daddy and I'm sure someone will take you home for a hug.
My best mate has just left my house and he was adopted as a baby.
About 5 years ago he found out his real Mum and decided to go and knock on the door about 4 miles away.
He approached the door and the elderly neighbour looked at him and said "OMG, you are the exact double of Harold who lived there, are you related to him?".
Anyway he knocked on the door, asked questions, they invited him, made phone calls and another two siblings arrived.
Obviously his blood parents were now RIP and he said they were one of the biggest horrible chav families he's ever come across and he couldn't wait to get out of there
His adopted parents were quite well off and lived next door to us from 1968 so he a great upbringing where his siblings looked like they were dragged up.
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I've done a lot of family history so knew most of my DNA pretty much anyway, ancestry.com DNA is traced back 1000 years.
60% Scottish
13% English
13% Irish
12% Welsh
2% Norway/Sweden
The family has strong ties to the Scottish Borders, the Irish side come over during the famine and everyones got a bit viking in them.
60% Scottish
13% English
13% Irish
12% Welsh
2% Norway/Sweden
The family has strong ties to the Scottish Borders, the Irish side come over during the famine and everyones got a bit viking in them.
Soldato
And the results are in...........................SexyGreyFox................................Cheesefest is indeed your son, congratulations!
Soldato
Mine:
Central Asia-South : 83%
Northern India: 17%.
Pretty standard result for Punjabis.
Interesting thing I discovered was a close cousin I never knew I had, she dont know who her father is except he was Pakistani..
Other interesting thing you can do is download the raw data. You can then upload this to gedmatch or genoplot. Run various calculators find out things like ancient ancestry, hunter gatherer/farmer ancestry.
Central Asia-South : 83%
Northern India: 17%.
Pretty standard result for Punjabis.
Interesting thing I discovered was a close cousin I never knew I had, she dont know who her father is except he was Pakistani..
Other interesting thing you can do is download the raw data. You can then upload this to gedmatch or genoplot. Run various calculators find out things like ancient ancestry, hunter gatherer/farmer ancestry.
Cheesefest has changed her gender
Soldato
Well that is the trendy thing these days
Soldato
Can the results be trusted, seems like someone is just playing with dice or an auto generator
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Reminds me of this South Park episode:
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Soldato
2 years ago after my uncle funeral, my cousin talked about Ancestry and I signed up then hit many brick walls after 1 year then I decided to ordered AncestryDNA kit and posted my DNA sample back in July 2023. Ancestry extracted my DNA and process was completed in August 2023. My cousin never took AncestryDNA test.
I was so shocked at many results.
When I was a boy, I thought I have around 250 cousins, now I am so shocked to discovered I has 42,250 living cousins.
I was hit brick wall on my 3rd grandfather and grandmother, they had no records and I dont know where, when they were born and where they were married. I remembered dad told me around 15 years ago my 3rd grandfather was born in Manchester and my 2nd grandfather was the only child born in 1881 used my grandmother maiden surname S, he had 3rd grandfather retired butcher and 3rd grandmother domestic servant both married named on 1910 marriage certificate. After my DNA process completed and 2 empty profiles on my DNA ThruLines suddenly had 2 potential profiles with 1 DNA Match, I was very excited clicked on it to see my cousin Mike tree and I was so shocked at the results.
My cousin Mike A got my 3rd grandparents married certificate showed they were married in 1884 at Glasgow with ranks as widower butcher and domestic servant, that matched my 2nd grandfather married certificate. I read facts and images that my 3rd grandfather married first wife MacDonald in 1870, had 5 children born between 1871-1882 carried MacDonald A surname. First wife MacDonald died in 1883 then he married my 3rd grandmother domestic servant as second wife in 1884 and had 5 more children between 1885-1898 carried his father surname A. I went to scottishpeople website to find 1881 census records found my 3rd grandfather was lived with first wife, his 5 children and domestic servant in Springburn, Glasgow. I searched 1881 cenus record of my 2nd grandfather found he was 6 months old took cared by my 4th grandmother residenced in my town so it turned out he was born in my town in 1880, he did not had birth certificate.
That took me completed by surprise then I worked out that in 1879 my 3rd grandfather had an affair with domestic servant while his wife and 5 children were out. I found 1891 census of my 2nd grandfather residenced in Duke Street, Glasgow with my 4th grandmother. I worked out that my 3rd grandfather rented out a house in Duke Street for his secret son to lived with my 4th grandmother so his parent can visited him while he went to school somewhere. His 5 100% biological siblings lived in Springburn, Glasgow was not awared they had 1 secret brother lived and buried in my town. I never knew I had 10 2nd grand uncles/aunts lived in Glasgow. I will sent message to my cousin Mike to say him I am his secret cousin he never awared of it, I will ask him to see if he have photos of my 3rd grandparents.
I found my mum's grandfather birth certificate did not had father name in it then I found RCE form that had father name and residence in it. I hit brick wall with no progress for 1 year, I dont know where he was born, profile had 1 DNA Match with cousin name I knew and met in past so she also hit the brick wall with his son had unknown father in tree Then I read some interesting on reddit suggested people to try create his parent profiles then wait a day to find if it has DNA Match. I searched his parent surname in census records found 6 records from 6 places. I entered parents name and date/place of birth on profiles and waited a day to see result. Next day result came in 0 DNA Match on parent from Lesmahagow, I tried other parent from Glasgow then next day 0 DNA Match. Yesterday I tried parent from a town then today I finally got the biggest breakthrough with 4 DNA Matches that finally identified my 2nd grandfather was born there and I found pdf on my 3rd grandparents profile hints contain pages about them and direct descendants, I read through it and I am so shocked to disovered who my 2 cousins are.
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I was so shocked at many results.
When I was a boy, I thought I have around 250 cousins, now I am so shocked to discovered I has 42,250 living cousins.
I was hit brick wall on my 3rd grandfather and grandmother, they had no records and I dont know where, when they were born and where they were married. I remembered dad told me around 15 years ago my 3rd grandfather was born in Manchester and my 2nd grandfather was the only child born in 1881 used my grandmother maiden surname S, he had 3rd grandfather retired butcher and 3rd grandmother domestic servant both married named on 1910 marriage certificate. After my DNA process completed and 2 empty profiles on my DNA ThruLines suddenly had 2 potential profiles with 1 DNA Match, I was very excited clicked on it to see my cousin Mike tree and I was so shocked at the results.
My cousin Mike A got my 3rd grandparents married certificate showed they were married in 1884 at Glasgow with ranks as widower butcher and domestic servant, that matched my 2nd grandfather married certificate. I read facts and images that my 3rd grandfather married first wife MacDonald in 1870, had 5 children born between 1871-1882 carried MacDonald A surname. First wife MacDonald died in 1883 then he married my 3rd grandmother domestic servant as second wife in 1884 and had 5 more children between 1885-1898 carried his father surname A. I went to scottishpeople website to find 1881 census records found my 3rd grandfather was lived with first wife, his 5 children and domestic servant in Springburn, Glasgow. I searched 1881 cenus record of my 2nd grandfather found he was 6 months old took cared by my 4th grandmother residenced in my town so it turned out he was born in my town in 1880, he did not had birth certificate.
That took me completed by surprise then I worked out that in 1879 my 3rd grandfather had an affair with domestic servant while his wife and 5 children were out. I found 1891 census of my 2nd grandfather residenced in Duke Street, Glasgow with my 4th grandmother. I worked out that my 3rd grandfather rented out a house in Duke Street for his secret son to lived with my 4th grandmother so his parent can visited him while he went to school somewhere. His 5 100% biological siblings lived in Springburn, Glasgow was not awared they had 1 secret brother lived and buried in my town. I never knew I had 10 2nd grand uncles/aunts lived in Glasgow. I will sent message to my cousin Mike to say him I am his secret cousin he never awared of it, I will ask him to see if he have photos of my 3rd grandparents.
I found my mum's grandfather birth certificate did not had father name in it then I found RCE form that had father name and residence in it. I hit brick wall with no progress for 1 year, I dont know where he was born, profile had 1 DNA Match with cousin name I knew and met in past so she also hit the brick wall with his son had unknown father in tree Then I read some interesting on reddit suggested people to try create his parent profiles then wait a day to find if it has DNA Match. I searched his parent surname in census records found 6 records from 6 places. I entered parents name and date/place of birth on profiles and waited a day to see result. Next day result came in 0 DNA Match on parent from Lesmahagow, I tried other parent from Glasgow then next day 0 DNA Match. Yesterday I tried parent from a town then today I finally got the biggest breakthrough with 4 DNA Matches that finally identified my 2nd grandfather was born there and I found pdf on my 3rd grandparents profile hints contain pages about them and direct descendants, I read through it and I am so shocked to disovered who my 2 cousins are.
Richard Schaal | Actor, Writer, Director
Known for: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Hollywood Knights
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Wendy Schaal | Actress, Additional Crew, Script and Continuity Department
Known for: Innerspace, The 'Burbs, *batteries not included
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I watched I Dream of Jeannie when I was a boy, never knew my cousin actor Richard Schaal were in season 4 episode 25 Jeannie and the Secret Weapon. I am proud of him worked closely with my favourite actor Larry Hagman RIP and actress Barbara Eden. I will watch that episode.
RIP my cousin Richard Schaal
RIP my cousin Richard Schaal
Wow I watched Happy Days, AfterMASH, Knight Rider, The A-Team, MacGyver, AirWolf, Murder, She Wrote, Friends, Star Trek: Voyager and The X-Files TV series and movies *batteries not included, Innerspace and The 'Burbs.
I am absolutely really very proud of her worked closely with all my favourite actors Corey Feldman, David Duchovny, David Hasselhoff, Dennis Quaid, Henry Winkler, Martin Short, Richard Dean Anderson, Robert Picardo, Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, and actresses Angela Lansbury RIP, Carrie Fisher RIP.
I will watch all episodes and movies my cousin Wendy Schaal I never knew she were in it.
I will sent fan mail to my cousin Wendy to say hi.
I am absolutely really very proud of her worked closely with all my favourite actors Corey Feldman, David Duchovny, David Hasselhoff, Dennis Quaid, Henry Winkler, Martin Short, Richard Dean Anderson, Robert Picardo, Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, and actresses Angela Lansbury RIP, Carrie Fisher RIP.
I will watch all episodes and movies my cousin Wendy Schaal I never knew she were in it.
I will sent fan mail to my cousin Wendy to say hi.
I'll be honest, I'm still pee'd off by all this.
I 100% know my 4 grand parents were Irish and my 8 great grand parents are Irish but it came back with 4% Irish.
AncestryDNA say that just because they are all Irish it doesn't mean they have Irish DNA
My results are because of my non Irish surname and where I told them I lived,
Even on these Police programs they can't tell if a suspect comes from a certain area but AncestryDNA said I come from the Midlands
Scam artists.
I 100% know my 4 grand parents were Irish and my 8 great grand parents are Irish but it came back with 4% Irish.
AncestryDNA say that just because they are all Irish it doesn't mean they have Irish DNA
My results are because of my non Irish surname and where I told them I lived,
Even on these Police programs they can't tell if a suspect comes from a certain area but AncestryDNA said I come from the Midlands
Scam artists.
Soldato
This thread reminds me of the Boondocks episode, where Uncle Ruckus finds out to his amazement he's 102% African, with a 2% margin of error.
Soldato
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One assumes they don't have a database of genetic markers associated with certain countries and peoples but rather do statistical analysis with people with similar DNA in the database and where they say they're from. That's why you get the daft results like 3% Nigerian because uncle Bob rogered some girl whilst on shore leave in Lagos despite the fact apart from uncle Bob the last 20 generations lived worked and died within a 20 mile radius of Matlock.I'll be honest, I'm still pee'd off by all this.
I 100% know my 4 grand parents were Irish and my 8 great grand parents are Irish but it came back with 4% Irish.
AncestryDNA say that just because they are all Irish it doesn't mean they have Irish DNA
My results are because of my non Irish surname and where I told them I lived,
Even on these Police programs they can't tell if a suspect comes from a certain area but AncestryDNA said I come from the Midlands
Scam artists.
I'll be honest, I'm still pee'd off by all this.
I 100% know my 4 grand parents were Irish and my 8 great grand parents are Irish but it came back with 4% Irish.
AncestryDNA say that just because they are all Irish it doesn't mean they have Irish DNA
My results are because of my non Irish surname and where I told them I lived,
Even on these Police programs they can't tell if a suspect comes from a certain area but AncestryDNA said I come from the Midlands
Scam artists.
Not surprised really.
Commissario
Test them.
Do another one, put your name down as Paddy Fitzpatrick and use an Irish relatives address.
We're all descended from Robin (and his sister) anyway
