Dna test results

[Colonel MacNeal]

I was ready to buy the DNA test for myself until I received my dog's DNA results. It turned out my little fellow is not at all what he seems. Not sure if I could deal with similar revelations about my own DNA.

[gilmore]

I was ready to buy the DNA test for myself until I received my dog's DNA results. It turned out my little fellow is not at all what he seems. Not sure if I could deal with similar revelations about my own DNA.

That could very well happen.

All sorts of unexpected results had their roots in those days before birth control, back when divorce was available only to those who were both wealthy and well-connected, but nature took its course nonetheless.

However, I would rather know unexpected and perhaps unwanted news than to remain in ignorance. But that's just me.

P.S. If you decide to test your DNA and find something that some might think unsavory, you might want to be careful who you tell about it. I had a cousin who didn't speak to me for over a year, though she is coming around to accepting the newly discovered and quite inconvenient facts.

[skauwt]

I was ready to buy the DNA test for myself until I received my dog's DNA results. It turned out my little fellow is not at all what he seems. Not sure if I could deal with similar revelations about my own DNA.

i still say you should go ahead and find out regardless i see it as a must for future generations ,
im still somewhat awestruck by my results.... but Ive found the family tree dna groups a bit confusing for example the Chisholm surname group have me down as Britain /nw Europe where as the 12b1 m223 clan group have me down as in the Scottish group
so one is saying i may be from Europe and another is saying my ancestors have been in the UK since after the ice age so im unsure how to further this to pinpoint a location

here is a link for the surname database
http://www.familytreedna.com/projects.aspx

[gilmore]

i still say you should go ahead and find out regardless i see it as a must for future generations ,
im still somewhat awestruck by my results.... but Ive found the family tree dna groups a bit confusing for example the Chisholm surname group have me down as Britain /nw Europe where as the 12b1 m223 clan group have me down as in the Scottish group
so one is saying i may be from Europe and another is saying my ancestors have been in the UK since after the ice age so im unsure how to further this to pinpoint a location

here is a link for the surname database
http://www.familytreedna.com/projects.aspx

During the last Ice Age most of Europe was covered by the ice cap and uninhabitable. However, three goruops of humans have been identified through the Y DNA of their descendants. One group was in the east, around what is now Ukraine or east of there. There, the R1a Haplogroup developed.

A second group was in the Iberian peninsula. Their male descendants are mostly R1b. As the ice receded, they slowly migrated up the Atlantic coast and are the majority in the British Isles as well as in Western Europe, as you can see in these maps here that show the distribution of Y DNA in about 1500AD, just before the European expansion into the rest of the world began: http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mcdonald/Wo...groupsMaps.pdf

A third group was in the Balkans and Greece. There, the I Haplogroup developed. They slowly (by our standards) migrated into central Europe over the centuries, and some then to the British Isles, including Scotland. Along the way, the various subclades ---or subdivisions---of the I Haplogroup developed, such as I1, I2, I3, and so on, as well as the further smaller groupings within the subclades.

So the results aren't contradictory at all, but should be read chronologically. Evidently your most recent patrilineal ancestors were in Scotland. Before that they were in northwest Europe, and quite some time before that they were in the Balkans or Greece.

[skauwt]

During the last Ice Age most of Europe was covered by the ice cap and uninhabitable. However, three goruops of humans have been identified through the Y DNA of their descendants. One group was in the east, around what is now Ukraine or east of there. There, the R1a Haplogroup developed.

A second group was in the Iberian peninsula. Their male descendants are mostly R1b. As the ice receded, they slowly migrated up the Atlantic coast and are the majority in the British Isles as well as in Western Europe, as you can see in these maps here that show the distribution of Y DNA in about 1500AD, just before the European expansion into the rest of the world began: http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mcdonald/Wo...groupsMaps.pdf

A third group was in the Balkans and Greece. There, the I Haplogroup developed. They slowly (by our standards) migrated into central Europe over the centuries, and some then to the British Isles, including Scotland. Along the way, the various subclades ---or subdivisions---of the I Haplogroup developed, such as I1, I2, I3, and so on, as well as the further smaller groupings within the subclades.

So the results aren't contradictory at all, but should be read chronologically. Evidently your most recent patrilineal ancestors were in Scotland. Before that they were in northwest Europe, and quite some time before that they were in the Balkans or Greece.

your right one of these "aww-naw" moments here spose your right about the time frame Ive been looking at it more in a location term rather then over a time frame
thanks for the clarification