Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: How can I get DNA testing about where my ancestors came form?” plus 5 more |
- Question: How can I get DNA testing about where my ancestors came form?
- Question: How are my parents related?
- Question: Family Vanished on Ancestry?!?!?
- Question: Are ethnic dna tests reliable for latin american populations? do genes have anything to do with looks?
- Question: Would I be considered a Frenchmen/creole if my grandpa is a Frenchmen/creole?
- Question: Does anyone know about a website that tells you your ancestry?
| Question: How can I get DNA testing about where my ancestors came form? Posted: 03 Jan 2016 04:47 PM PST Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel  |
| Question: How are my parents related? Posted: 03 Jan 2016 03:37 PM PST Your dad has an uncle, "Ralph". "Ralph" is a brother to one of your dad's parents. "Ralph" marries Matilda. Matilda is now your dad's aunt by marriage. Matilda also is your mother's first cousin once removed, but that doesn't make your parents related, since they don't have any common ancestor. If your mom and dad were, for instance, second cousins, they would be related. Aunts and Uncles by marriage aren't related to anyone in the family by blood, usually. In this case there is a second relation, and it IS by blood. To take an extreme example, if "Matilda" was a Korean lady Ralph met when he was in the Air Force, "Matilda" wouldn't have any relations in the USA, except her children. |
| Question: Family Vanished on Ancestry?!?!? Posted: 03 Jan 2016 01:16 PM PST Hi everyone, i have been trying so hard to find my family from Mississippi for a while on familysearch.org. Well i got as far as 1910, 1930, 1940 census but i cannot find them in the 1920 and previous census records. Its almost like they vanished. Is it possible that you guys can trace them back to 1870? I would really appreciate it and be really thankful if you did. Here they are: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBSP-J65 (1940) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9MS-B76 (1930) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPDX-QNV (1910) |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2016 11:23 PM PST Yes, your DNA and genes determines whether you have blue or brown eyes, how tall you are genetically and the color or your hair and your skin tones and your facial features. Now genealogy is not the same thing as genetics and no reputable genealogist will tell you that if you are Latin American or any type of background, how you should look or tell you if you look a certain way your ancestral background is such and such. There are no pure nationalities, ethnicities and even races. You can have traits that you don't see in your parents but it is because they carry the allele for those traits in their DNA but it doesn't show up in them and can in their offsprings. I have a bone anomaly in my left foot that my maternal grandfather had. My mother didn't have it but apparently she had the allele for it. My older sister's granddaughter was born with it in her right foot. That was a 3 generation jump to get to her. People of Latin American countries can be a mixture of many things like the people of the United States. Also among European countries they are not pure. There have been boundary changes. One country invading and conquering another. When this happened the original population didn't get up and move. In times past I doubt if they had border guards at every mountain pass leading into another country. Geheagist use documents/records. Reliability of DNA tests. If you mean the tests that break down your overall ancestry, well it can vary among siblings. They use Autosomal along with the X. They don't use the Y & Mitochondrial that have been used in genealogy for years and is respected as being very precise as if you are a male you get each from only one person in each generation you go back. If you are a female you only get Mitochondrial from only one person in each generation you go back. Your ancestry doubles each generation, 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents, 32 great great great grandparents.. So you can see with Y & Mitchondrial a lot of people are excluded. The X is different for males. A male gets X from his mother but she got X from both her mother and her father. So it is always a question whose X did any particular male get, his maternal grandmother's or his maternal grandfather's. No definite pattern and it can differ among brothers who share the same mother. For a female she gets X from her direct maternal line, her mother, her mother's mother, her maternal grandmother's mother and so forth. Autosomal is different. You got it 50-50 from both parents, 22 Autosomes from your mother and 22 from your father. However, you don't get it 25% from each of your 4 grandparents as there usually will be a bias in what you inherited from grandmother and grandfather on both sides of the family. This means you coud have inherited anywhere from 0 to 50% from any one grandparent. How you inherited any bias will not be how your siblings inherited it. So if you and a full sibling were tested by the same company at the same time, the results will probably not be exact unless you have an identical twin. Also it has been reported if you are tested by more than one company the results will not be exact. 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 groups another has and vice versa, you can see how the results will vary. It has also been reported if you go back to the same company, say a year later, the results will be different because by that time they have received more population groups to which to compare you. So the company that is best is the one that has the population samples that best match your ancestry. There is no way we or you can know that. The most recommended are 23andme, FamilyTreeDNA and Ancestry.Com A poster on this board in the past says FamilyTreeDNA does the testing for National Geographic. FamilyTreeDNA has been in the genealogy DNA testing for much longer than all the others. |
| Question: Would I be considered a Frenchmen/creole if my grandpa is a Frenchmen/creole? Posted: 02 Jan 2016 10:33 PM PST Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel |
| Question: Does anyone know about a website that tells you your ancestry? Posted: 02 Jan 2016 07:40 PM PST No website will tell you your ancestry. There are websites which are helpful in researching your ancestry. Two I like are Ancestry.Com which many public libraries have and you can use for free there and FamilySearch.org which is entirely free. Both websites have subscriber submitted family trees and records. However, family trees on ANY WEBSITE should be verified with records before accepted as fact. Ancestry.Com's ads are a misleading when it makes it appear you can put in a name and up pops your family history. Even if your family is in one of the family trees you should get the documentation to back up what is in the tree. Even when you see the absolute same information on the same people from many different subscribers that doesn't mean for one moment the information is correct as too many people copy without verifying. No, the websites do not hire people to verify the information their subscribers submit. It would cost a fortune. However, if you haven't done so, you should get as much information from living family as possible. Find out what all they might have. Some just might have some birth, marriage and death certificates on your ancestors. Some might have some old wills, deeds, old family photos, letters from elderly and deceased relatives that will shed a light on your ancestry. Depending on the religous faith of your ancestors, baptismal, confirmation, marriage and death certificates from their churches can usually be just as helpful, if not more so, than civil records. Those records normally have the names of both parents including mother's maiden name. Maybe your family has some certificates from your ancestors' churches. Interview senior members of your families like grandparents, aunts and uncles of your parents, maybe some elderly cousins and tape them if they will let you. Chances are they will get into telling stories of days gone by you wouldn't write down but in those stories can be clues that will later help you break through a brick wall in your research. You should go back now and then and listen to the tapes again as you probably will hear things you didn't hear the first time around. Now, not al family stories pan out but get them anyway. Even when they are not exactly true there can be clues in them. Go to a Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. If you find anything in their database you would like to view and print off a copy of an original document there, they can order microfilm for you to view for about $5. I have never had them to try and convert me nor have I heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources. A lot of their volunteers are not Mormon. Use the following link to find the nearest Mormon FHC. https://familysearch.org/locations/cente... If someone has told you they found their family tree online all prepared, please tell that person unless he/she has verified the information with actual records they can't be certain what was found is correct or not. As I stated the 2 websites I recommended, you must distinguish between the records they have and their subscriber submitted family trees which ARE NOT records. Sometimes they have the original images of records and sometimes only an index, but when it is only on an index, at least you will know where to write to get a copy of the original document. That is far less costly than to travel many miles to get it. |
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