 | | 
07-11-2009, 02:49 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Coeur d Alene, ID
Posts: 4,435
| | |
I have been thinking about this for some time. Is there a good spot on the web to up to speed on DNA genealogy?
__________________ Phil in Idaho "Walk Tall, Walk Straight, and Look the World Right in the Eye."
That Great Celtic Philosopher Val Doonican |
07-11-2009, 03:25 PM
| | | | Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,862
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by pdcorlis  I have been thinking about this for some time. Is there a good spot on the web to up to speed on DNA genealogy? | www.familytreedna.com |
07-11-2009, 03:39 PM
| | | | Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,862
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by O'Callaghan I haven't had mine tested either. We discovered my wife's maiden name on my side of the family tree! No, none of our family are from West Virginia! We may, nevertheless, be distant cousins. | We are all cousins. It's a question of degree. The most recent common ancestor of all humans lived sometime between the 6th millemium BCE and the 1st millenium CE. The most recent common ancestor of all Western Europeans may have lived as recently as 1000 CE. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_re...ommon_ancestor
Also we all descent from one women, whose mitochondrial DNA we all carry, and one man, whose Y DNA we men inherited from our fathers. "Mitochondrial Eve is estimated to have lived about 140,000 years ago. Y-chromosomal Adam is estimated to have lived around 60,000 years ago. The MRCA [most recent common ancestor] of [all] humans alive today would therefore need to have lived more recently than either."
It has been estimated that every human shares at least one common ancestor with every other human who was no more than about 50 generations in the past. In other words, there is no one on earth who is not your 50th cousin, if not more closely related. At 25 years per generation, that is about 750 CE.
|
07-11-2009, 03:57 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Norfolk, England
Posts: 4,039
| | |
Just a quick question to anybody who has had this done. Roughly how much does it cost? Thanks.
Regards
Chas
__________________
Stand and be counted!
All it takes for evil to flourish, is for good men to do nothing. |
07-11-2009, 08:01 PM
| | | | Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,862
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chas Just a quick question to anybody who has had this done. Roughly how much does it cost? Thanks.
Regards
Chas | From $100 to $700, depending which one(s) you want, and how much detail you want. See http://www.familytreedna.com/products.aspx
There is a discount if you order through a surname project, and allow the results to be shared with others.
FTDNA has the largest database of the several testing companies, and therefore the most useful.
|
07-12-2009, 12:13 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Forfar, Angus, Scotland
Posts: 272
| | |
i got mine done last year, i'm U2 |
07-12-2009, 10:15 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Greer, SC
Posts: 72
| | |
Ok, question then. Never met my father. I am Corey MacLeod, taking my mother's maiden name. My grandparents were both MacLeods when they met. Haven't found a common ancestor for the two yet. Anyway, what does that mean for me?
|
07-12-2009, 10:40 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Charlotte, NC
Posts: 2,259
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by CoreyMacLeod Ok, question then. Never met my father. I am Corey MacLeod, taking my mother's maiden name. My grandparents were both MacLeods when they met. Haven't found a common ancestor for the two yet. Anyway, what does that mean for me? | Yer either an alien from Mars or yer weird. 
__________________
Gillmore of Clan Morrison
"Long Live the Long Shirts!"- Ryan Ross
|
07-12-2009, 11:02 AM
| | | | Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,862
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by CoreyMacLeod Ok, question then. Never met my father. I am Corey MacLeod, taking my mother's maiden name. My grandparents were both MacLeods when they met. Haven't found a common ancestor for the two yet. Anyway, what does that mean for me? | Y DNA traces one's patrilineal ancestry, one's father's father's father, etc.
mt DNA traces matrilineal ancestry, one's mother's mother's mother's mother, etc.
Either can be useful, depending on what you want to know. They are mostly a supplement to doing genealogical research tracing the paper trail backward in time.
|
07-13-2009, 03:11 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Glaschú, Alba
Posts: 1,335
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by skauwt thats great news
I'm awaiting my ydna 37 and mtdna test results in the following weeks and reading your wee snippet has made me more excited of what news lies ahead
interesting you have a Scots maternal side also especially with as you say the time span since when your ancestors lived
doing my mtdna has made me search the female lines of my family tree a bit more indepth than i used to before has this been the case with you also ? | Most of the people I know from Coatbridge claim to be 100% Irish! | | |
| X Marks Advertisers |  |  For Quality Scottish Made Products at Affordable Prices |  |  | |
|
| Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
| | |
|
|
