DNA testing
Anyone had this done...? Toying with doing it myself.
I'm afraid of what I will find
lol - I'll bet! :-)
i would be afraid if i were you RAPHAEL, very afraid,
Why are you 2 picking on me?
You better behave, you wont like me when I'm angry
WHY RAPHAEL, do you stamp your little feet when your angry, ?throw a tantram, lol, if i was picking on you , you would know it, lol,lol,
WHY RAPHAEL, do you stamp your little feet when your angry, ?throw a tantram, lol, if i was picking on you , you would know it, lol,lol,
Way off with the pricing Foxy if it was that much...no wsaaayyyyyy LOL.....$149 with ancestry.com.There are other places that do it as well.
I want to find out what ancestry I have...just curious. Know I have French,Scottish,Irish,English,Danish...they say we all originated from Africa way back in the year 'dot'.
I do have a great liking for curries and asian food....and I do have eurasian eyes so who knows!
...ok so - why would you want to pay money to know that kinda' stuff - you cannot change your so called "ancestry"? Only thing I would like to know is estimated time of death? :-)
I mean you can't change ya' DNA - so???? - lol
This site gives a review of the three big ancestral DNA testing sites Rads. Quite a lot of practical info.
LOL Foxy....just something I am interested in....as for ET of Death....nah, nah...make it a surprise ;)
Thanks for the link RnR....will have a scout around.
Noooooooooooooooo ..... I wanna' know! lol
the last thing i would want to know is my time of death, i enjoy my life and would worry myself sick if i knew, probably bring on an early heart attack and go BEFORE my time, know a lot about my ancestory, so dont need to know more, but could be interesting for you RADISH, if you want to know, and that seems a resonable price,
the last thing i would want to know is my time of death, i enjoy my life and would worry myself sick if i knew, probably bring on an early heart attack and go BEFORE my time, know a lot about my ancestory, so dont need to know more, but could be interesting for you RADISH, if you want to know, and that seems a resonable price,
My dear old Grandmother was very interested in her family tree. When she went to England she looked up her family history. It turns out one of our ancestors was Sir George Grey who was Gov. of South Australia and twice Gov. of New Zealand, and to top it off we are related to Sir Christopher Wren, Architect of many churches in England and the most famous one St. Paul's Cathedral. My Sister has made us a framed picture of the family tree dating back to the 1800's. It's nice to know the history but when it all boils down, they are just names to me. My sister's husband has traced his family history back 200 years in Sweden. It's a lot of reading .
Fortunately someone has done all the hard work for our family name and we can trace back to 1066 and that is where I found out I had the French blood.
I definitely will get it done. Might even find I have some Eskimo LOL!!
Same here Radish, with a distinctive family name my sister traced it back once she clicked into the same family name it wasn't too difficult to link up and take back to the Doomsday Book and beyond. Still a family cemetery in use and a huge international meet up each year in England and America. Amazing how many living cousins she found.
Yes I have French Blood through my fathers mother family.......they went to the UK to get away from the problems with religion....
Viv, as RnR says below it is only when you get into your later years you start wondering about all this and I am so annoyed I did not ask my parents more (mother in particular) before they passed on.
I have found it amazing that from the ancestors from way back in 1066 the descendants are now scattered to the four corners of the earth and even though the spelling has changed along the way we are all descended from this one particular gentleman and his wife (have not been able to find her name).
Radish - Maybe it's Adam and Eve ?
Is it just me ??
There's a time in your life where you don't care at all about family history ... often busy raising familes of your own.
Then later there's a time of reflection and curiousity about your family history leading to much research on the part of the 'wonderer' who may have more time to spend on the subject in their later years.
Followed by a time where it doesn't matter much again because your curiousity has been answered and the family history baton/knowledge bank has been passed on to others in the family (who often couldn't give a continental at their stage in life).
Seems to be one big circle to me. Having said that, I except those who have been adopted/orphaned/abandoned etc. For them I think it may be a never-ending quest.
Like others here, I've done a lot of research and traced a few sides of the family back as far as I can.
:) I've now passed the results on. Interesting stuff. Much of which explained my poor father's mental health. Now I know, I understand. At the time, nobody would mention the unmentionables of course.
You are quite right in thinking that RnR but people get "hooked " on it in some it becomes an obsession. My sister in England spent every week-end visiting Churches, corroborating known findings, became Secretary of the European branch of the family group helped to produce a family magazine, and drove my sister here and myself nearly bananas with the minutiae she found as we were not really interested. The area she did have trouble with was in tracing matriarchal lines, patriarchal was easy especially once she got hold of a very old family bible which had marriages and offspring listed.
It was her hobby. My sister here also has a friend who is equally obsessed - seems to grab some people like that.
Yes Viv ... I have a cousin like that who nearly drove the family nuts trying to find out what happened to her father who had 'moved on' when she was young. Her only sibling (a brother) wouldn't have a bar of her extreme interest so the rest of us copped it. When she did find out, she dropped the project like a hot cake.
:) Maybe there's some things better unknown.
You have reminded me of something that happened in our extended family.
A cousin decided about 30 years ago to do family history...all excited she told everyone at the dinner table "did you know auntie so and so had to get married". She told me this years later...she said you could have cut the air with a knife. Apparently it was the family "secret" ROFL.
How times have changed!
my elder sister did all that RnR, And like you, she kept harping on it, i wasnt interested in the least, im more focased on the ones that here now, the past is the just that, the past, nothing we can do to change what has happened, lets make sure the present is a good as we can make it,
We are all different Cats :) what interests one does not interest another.
Mine is just idle curiosity and as all the work has been done by others all I have to do is read it.
I have a niece who is adopted and she has never been the slightest bit interested in finding out anything about her background even though she now has children of her own. From a medical stand point it would be of interest to me if I was adopted.
Maybe there should be some way for adoptees to find that out without making contact with their birth mother/father if they do not wish to do so.
Re: DNA testing...
Personally we have not...we got most of our family history done from records in Churches in the UK and National archives in England..Scandinavia and even America...it all took ten years and not yet completed..
Just a caution about Ancestry DNA these ancestry tests have little scientific backing.. and are often so unreliable and inaccurate that they amount to "genetic astrology”.. according to some scientists.
That same history they give you could be given to thousands of other people with a similar ethnic background.. and that any number of different possible interpretations could come from your DNA results. Another thing to consider..I don't think Ancestry DNA use a chromosome browser..you might like to check that...
All in all good fun..providing you don't take it too seriously..you never know what you may discover!
...costs thousands of dollars doesn't it? Only way I would like to do it is the fact that very soon they will be able to tell by DNA - how long a person will live - their exact "lifespan" ....right down almost to the very day - I would pay to know that.......
...once they have achieved that (it's not that far away...) - every "new born" will have it done at birth apparently .......mind you still wouldn't matter if you got hit by "ye olde proverbial bus" etc. lol lol lol
Why would you wanna' get it done Rads?