***Official Ancestry and DNA Thread***

[Randallflagg]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Yeah, I hear ya. way too much time spent in late night exploring the family leafs. We white guys if we can get back to England will find we are the ancestors of Kings or Lords. Mainly because they were the ones documenting christenings, marriages, wills etc. that prove they get to keep their wealth and privileged lives. Farthest I've got back was 1122.

I always find history fascinating. My Ancestors came here long before the Revolutionary War and settled in Boston. Others came here as indentured servants to North Carolina (Imprisoned by the English during the "cleanse" of the Highlands) and sent here.

Eventually, they (more or less) joined together in Kentucky and Tennessee and became farmers. Amazing.....

[Monty]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Yeah, I hear ya. way too much time spent in late night exploring the family leafs. We white guys if we can get back to England will find we are the ancestors of Kings or Lords. Mainly because they were the ones documenting christenings, marriages, wills etc. that prove they get to keep their wealth and privileged lives. Farthest I've got back was 1122.

That's me. I'm in the Edwards family tree that traces back to the first illegitimate son of King Henry VIII.

I also found my Mom's half sister and her family in Seattle. I reached out, but no response. Their loss.

My paternal line is almost all Swedish/Viking, so that's been fun to play around with. I mostly started this because I really had no idea how my family (both sides) ended up in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Lots of incorrect information along the way, but I also found a ton of information that hadn't been captured previously. I'm the only one in my family that even gives a shit about their heritage, but the information is there in case someone wants it.

[Hydrae]

Originally Posted by Monty

That's me. I'm in the Edwards family tree that traces back to the first illegitimate son of King Henry VIII.

I also found my Mom's half sister and her family in Seattle. I reached out, but no response. Their loss.

My paternal line is almost all Swedish/Viking, so that's been fun to play around with. I mostly started this because I really had no idea how my family (both sides) ended up in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Lots of incorrect information along the way, but I also found a ton of information that hadn't been captured previously. I'm the only one in my family that even gives a shit about their heritage, but the information is there in case someone wants it.

My great grandfather came here from Sweden and married a woman who also immigrated from Sweden so we know that I am at least 25% Swedish. My dad did the Ancestry DNA test and came back ~20% Swedish. So yeah, these tests are not very accurate in that manner.

However, my brother has really run with the information that we already had and has found that all of the old census records in Sweden have been digitized! He has extended our knowledge on that end by several generations as a result. He also wound up finding a relative on my mom's side who was illegitimate and never knew his birth heritage. No one in the family even knew it happened (great aunt got pregnant during WWII while hubby was gone. Oops!). So this 70+ year old man is just now learning about his lineage. Pretty cool although a few people in the family are not happy about this turn of events.

[Monty]

Originally Posted by Hydrae

My great grandfather came here from Sweden and married a woman who also immigrated from Sweden so we know that I am at least 25% Swedish. My dad did the Ancestry DNA test and came back ~20% Swedish. So yeah, these tests are not very accurate in that manner.

However, my brother has really run with the information that we already had and has found that all of the old census records in Sweden have been digitized! He has extended our knowledge on that end by several generations as a result. He also wound up finding a relative on my mom's side who was illegitimate and never knew his birth heritage. No one in the family even knew it happened (great aunt got pregnant during WWII while hubby was gone. Oops!). So this 70+ year old man is just now learning about his lineage. Pretty cool although a few people in the family are not happy about this turn of events.

Good stuff! My 2 GG immigrated from Sweden and married a woman in Illinois who was also from Sweden.

Are the digitized records from Sweden included in Ancestry.com or in a separate database? I'd be curious to know if I could get access.

I found a 4th cousin in Sweden over the holidays via the DNA report, but we can't seem to find the connection in our family trees, so I have no idea at this point how we're related.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Yeah, I hear ya. way too much time spent in late night exploring the family leafs. We white guys if we can get back to England will find we are the ancestors of Kings or Lords. Mainly because they were the ones documenting christenings, marriages, wills etc. that prove they get to keep their wealth and privileged lives. Farthest I've got back was 1122.

I can easily go back to the early 900's on my father's side but it gets murky right about then. There are some likely ancestors before that but nothing that can be declared with certainty.

[Randallflagg]

Originally Posted by listopencil

I can easily go back to the early 900's on my father's side but it gets murky right about then. There are some likely ancestors before that but nothing that can be declared with certainty.

Yeah, I worked on it again last night and discovered that the "1st Earl of Stirling" is NOT my Cousin - he is my 14th GG....go figure..

Now, however, things are becoming hazy. The record keeping wasn't that great back then, in the Highlands of Scotland, so it appears that, at least for the foreseeable future that an impasse has been reached.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by Randallflagg

Yeah, I worked on it again last night and discovered that the "1st Earl of Stirling" is NOT my Cousin - he is my 14th GG....go figure..

Now, however, things are becoming hazy. The record keeping wasn't that great back then, in the Highlands of Scotland, so it appears that, at least for the foreseeable future that an impasse has been reached.

I was able to trace back to the progenitor of my clan in Scotland, and his father was from Norway. So it started over again there and went back a few hundred more years. I have the trifecta going for me. A very old family here going back to one of the shires of Virginia who hobnobbed with historical figures. A clan in Scotland with a well documented history. A royal family in Norway that had many records kept.

[dirk digler]

I found my birth mom and her side of the family via Ancestry this year. Crazy stuff...

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

I found my birth mom and her side of the family via Ancestry this year. Crazy stuff...

Man thats really cool. I cant imagine, even if your loved totally, not knowing who my birth mom was. Did you get to meet her in person, that side of the family?

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Man thats really cool. I cant imagine, even if your loved totally, not knowing who my birth mom was. Did you get to meet her in person, that side of the family?

No not yet, this just happened in the last 4-6 weeks. Part of me feels bad about intruding in their lives and my birth mom is trying to absorb all of this so it is going to be a process.

[ThaVirus]

I did mine through AncestryDNA for fun. It turned up pretty much half parts of northwest Europe and the other half western and central Africa. It even correctly guessed my 'family history' with the European side having settled in America in the Ohio river valley and the African side in Virginia and the Carolinas.

A good friend of mine found three siblings on Ancestry as well, so there's clearly some use for the information they glean from your DNA.. but, yeah, the whole 'I'm __% Swedish and __% Southeast Asian' is probably largely bullshit.

[TribalElder]

Years from now a mysterious fine shows up addressed for you

When you begin to look into the issue you will find out that ancestry.com has shared your dna profile with the authorities who used it to match you to a disposable cup they found on the highway. This cup had been blown out the window when speeding down the highway in the hellcat but the authorities could never know it was an accident. They picked up the litter and extracted trace dna which was then used to match your ancestry.com dns profile

The future is gonna suck, thanks dna testing

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by TribalElder

Years from now a mysterious fine shows up addressed for you

When you begin to look into the issue you will find out that ancestry.com has shared your dna profile with the authorities who used it to match you to a disposable cup they found on the highway. This cup had been blown out the window when speeding down the highway in the hellcat but the authorities could never know it was an accident. They picked up the litter and extracted trace dna which was then used to match your ancestry.com dns profile

The future is gonna suck, thanks dna testing

Tom Cruise already kicked in my front door two weeks prior because the Precogs saw me littering before I even bought the coffee.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Tom Cruise already kicked in my front door two weeks prior because the Precogs saw me littering before I even bought the coffee.

You get an autograph?

[Beef Supreme]

Why would you send your saliva in to the internet?