Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Do I have gypsy ancestry or other foreign ancestors?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Do I have gypsy ancestry or other foreign ancestors?
- Question: Where does the last name ROMAN originate from..?
- Question: Can somebody help me with this first name?
- Question: How can you find information on Freemason ancestors?
- Question: What is the best DNA test?
- Question: What are you supposed to call your cousin's nephew?
| Question: Do I have gypsy ancestry or other foreign ancestors? Posted: 06 Nov 2015 05:48 PM PST What in the world is foreign blood? If you are an American you probably have foreign ancestry. You just said you did when you mentioned you have Norwegian, English and Irish. The only way to know your ancestry is to trace it starting with yourself and working back one generation at a time, documenting everything as you do and "looks" don't tell us anything. The terms "bloodlines" and "blood related" are still used in genealogy today but they are not scientific terms. They came into being before people knew anything about genes and DNA. Your blood contains your DNA but so does your hair, your skin, your bones, your saliva and pretty much all your body tissues and skins. You don't have your mother's blood and you don't have your father's. You have your own blood.  |
| Question: Where does the last name ROMAN originate from..? Posted: 06 Nov 2015 10:04 AM PST Genealogist view 2 things as not having anything to do with genealogy, one is how people look and the other is origin of surnames. Also "originate from" is a redundancy. Why not say where the name originates. Here is what the Dictionary of American Family Names has for Roman Roman Name Meaning Catalan, French, English, German (also Romann), Polish, Hungarian (Román), Romanian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian: from the Latin personal name Romanus, which originally meant 'Roman'. This name was borne by several saints, including a 7th-century bishop of Rouen.English, French, and Catalan: regional or ethnic name for someone from Rome or from Italy in general, or a nickname for someone who had some connection with Rome, as for example having been there on a pilgrimage. Compare Romero. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press |
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| Question: How can you find information on Freemason ancestors? Posted: 06 Nov 2015 05:28 AM PST A lodge will only have records for its own lodge members, You will need to contact the Grand Lodge that covers Chicago http://www.ilmason.org/site/GrandLodgeIl... They will have records for every Freemason that has ever been a member of any regular lodge in Chicago I am a Freemason in England |
| Question: What is the best DNA test? Posted: 05 Nov 2015 10:25 PM PST The company that has the population samples that best match your ancestry and there is no way we are even you can know that. Let me explain. You have 46 chromosomes and there are 4 types of DNA. There are 2 sex chromosomes Y & X. If you are a male you got Y from your father and X from your mother. If you are a female you probably got X from both father and mother. I say probably has some females do get a Y but if you are a female and have or had ovaries and a menstrual period you are not one of them. Then you have 44 Autosomes. 22 Autosomes from your mother and 22 Autosomes from your father. It is a 50-50 split but when your parents passed on the Autosomal they received from their parents to you it went through "meiosis" where it was randomly jumbled and recombined. So while you got 50% from your mother's side and 50% from your father's, there usually will be a bias in what you inherited from grandmother and grandfather on both sides of the family. In other words you could have received 0 to 50% from any one grandparent. How you inherited any bias will not be how your siblings inherited it unless you have an identical twin. Mitochondrial DNA is not a chromosome but in the connective tissues outside your cells. Both males and females get Mitochondrial from their mother only. For years people have used Y & Mitochondrial testing in genealogy and with each they will assign a person to a Haplogroup and show them the origin of their ancestors going pretty far back, but with each only one person in each generation they go back. If you are a male and could have both tested by the time you got back to your 32 great great great grandparents, 30 of them will not be included in the results. If you are a female and can only have Mitochondrial tested, 31 of them will be excluded from the results. For the overall ancestral testing they use Autosomal along with the X. Since there is a bias normally in what you inherited from grandparents, if you and a full sibling were tested by the same company at the same time, the results will probably not be exact. Example: You could have received more Scandinavian Autosomal from a Norwegian grandfather and your brother or sister might have received more Iberian Autosomal from a Spanish or Portuguese grandmother. Also it has been reported if you go to more than one company and have this type of testing done the results will vary. That is because there are no Haplogroups with Autosomal and the only thing companies can do is match you with population samples in their database. So if one doesn't have or is deficient in certain population samples another has and vice versa that will cause a difference in the results. For males the X is also different. If you are a male you got X from your mother but she got X from her mother and her father. Whose X did you get? Your maternal grandmother's or your maternal grandfather's? No definite pattern and how you inherited an X can be different with a brother with whom you share the same mother. So you can see we cannot tell you which company is the best. The best can be different for different people. The most recommended are 23andme, FamilyTreeDNA and Ancestry.Com. The way genealogy DNA testing can be of great value is if you are into traditional genealogy work using documents/records and the company you choose has cousins of yours going back several generations and they are allowed to notify you of those cousins and you make contact with them and they are also into traditional genealogy work. you can collaborate information with them. You might have discovered things they haven't and they might have discovered things you haven't. |
| Question: What are you supposed to call your cousin's nephew? Posted: 05 Nov 2015 09:21 PM PST It does get confusing for sure. Old English defines cousins as the children of 2 siblings. So John and Jane each have 2 children. The 4 children are 1st cousins. The 4 children each have 2 children. Those 8 children are second cousins, once removed. "Removed" means number of generations away from the original denominators John and Jane. As for your cousin's nephew, he is no relation to you as your cousin is an aunt/uncle -in-law to the nephew, not blood. You can refer to him as a "distant cousin" in conversation if you want but there is no legal connection. |
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