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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: Siamese Girl on Tuesday 27 March 18 08:27 BST (UK)
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I've always been a bit dubious about the use of DNA testing and genealogy, and I don't have a very scientific brain to wholly understand if it would really give me more than a general idea of where in the world my ancestors come from in the distant past, but I have blood group B+ which I inherited from my mother and which I understand is rare in England. All the ancestors I have traced (and I have gathered a lot over the years) are English, the only query line I have is my mother's father who was born in Australia in 1895. His mother's family came from Lancashire but he was illegitimate and I haven't been able to trace his father. My grandfather, unusually, had black hair and blue eyes - which neither I nor my mother inherited.
Might a DNA test suggest a line of enquiry for me?
Carole
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I am B+ blood group. On average 1 person in 12 has it about 8.5 per cent of the population.
UK 8 per cent
Australia 8 per cent
NZ 9 per cent
I share the group with my Father/Daug. My Son has not been tested fpr grouping.
My Fathers Anc is Irish/English as is mine.
As to DNA testing its not my area.
Trish :)
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I've always been a bit dubious about the use of DNA testing and genealogy, and I don't have a very scientific brain to wholly understand if it would really give me more than a general idea of where in the world my ancestors come from in the distant past, but I have blood group B+ which I inherited from my mother and which I understand is rare in England. All the ancestors I have traced (and I have gathered a lot over the years) are English, the only query line I have is my mother's father who was born in Australia in 1895. His mother's family came from Lancashire but he was illegitimate and I haven't been able to trace his father. My grandfather, unusually, had black hair and blue eyes - which neither I nor my mother inherited.
Might a DNA test suggest a line of enquiry for me?
Carole
Black hair and blue eyes are a common combination in Ireland, and there was a lot of Irish immigration into Lancashire.
Harry
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DNA testing most certainly could help find your Australian grandfather's paternal family.
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I am also B+ blood group.
My DNA is 68.2% English, 22.2% Irish/Scottish/Welsh, 4.4% Scandinavian, 3.8% Ashkenazi Jewish, 1.4% North Africa.
I have known Irish Ancestry.
I would love to know where the Ashkenazi Jewish comes from.
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Both my Wife and I had the DNA test, after the first flush of useless links everything dried up.
My Wife came out as 25% Irish, despite going back 500 years she has zero Irish connections.
The Ancestry tests are only a partial test and then of dubious results.
Needless to say we have not been impressed.
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I am also B+ blood group.
My DNA is 68.2% English, 22.2% Irish/Scottish/Welsh, 4.4% Scandinavian, 3.8% Ashkenazi Jewish, 1.4% North Africa.
I have known Irish Ancestry.
I would love to know where the Ashkenazi Jewish comes from.
It's looks as if you've tested with MyHeritage. So have I. I tested earlier with FTDNA FamilyFinder, and they sent me one set of results - e.g. 0% Scandinavian, 32% Western & Central Europe - then they emailed me revised results, e.g. 33% Scandinavian, 0% Western & Central Europe. I've had 5% Finland and North Siberia, which later disappeared, and I got a small percentage of Sephardic Jewish. That has disappeared with MyHeritage results, but they gave me back a bit of Finland and the Baltics (thanks for that!), and 1% each of Nigerian and North African. Truly, you pays your money and you takes your pick.
I can remember, in the days before genetic genealogy, when you could get car stickers in Scotland saying Pict, or Scot (can't remember if they did an Angle one). The point is, you could decide what you were, whatever appealed to you most. In the same way, I think you can pick your favourite ethnicity out of your autosomal DNA test results and stick with it.
Harry
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Yes hdw I tested with MyHeritage, it has to be said a little reluctantly. The kit was bought for another family member who refused to do it ;D Then someone in the family said no so I was roped in ;D. I thought it wouldn't be worth doing it because my sister had but in actual fact our results are quite different.
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My husband has B+ blood group, his DNA results have just come through (although no sign of mine sent off at the same time) and it shows he is 100% Northern European, that is 88.5% English and the rest Irish. That's probably correct, I've only managed to trace his ancestors back to early 1800s and apart from one branch they were all English. Of the others his 3 x g.grandfather Charles is the furthest back I've found, he was born in Dublin in 1805, I know his father was also called Charles but I can't find anything else about him, nor can I find out the origins of his 3 x g.grandmother Mary.
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I haven't done a DNA test yet. My only reason for doing one would be to find a potential father for my illegitimate great great grandmother on my father's side as I have had no joy following the usual routes (bastardy records etc.) I have a potential surname from family lore. I have traced all my lines back to the mid/ early 1700s, with a good degree of certainty, on all except the illegitimate one. I am blood group B negative, a rarer group I believe. My dad is AB negative and my mum is B positive so I will follow this thread with interest :)
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We only did our DNA tests as we were given them as Christmas presents.
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LizzieW
Fingers crossed - it might turn out to be the best Christmas ever ;D
Kim
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My husband's results weren't very inspiring, so I'll wait to see what mine are. Our eldest son had his DNA done with Ancestry (a gift to him from his partner) and they are more diverse than my husband's, so I'm expecting my results to be more diverse too, or else where did my son come from ;D ;D ;D
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Thank you for all your replies. That's interesting about about the B groups showing up as European - I was curious about the B group as, apparently, the highest incidence of it appears in south east Asia, and gets less the further norther and west you travel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_distribution_by_country
I still wonder about the usefulness of a test but it might be worth asking for one as a birthday present just out of curiosity and reading your replies I think MyHeritage sounds the best bet - it might well give me some clues to my grandfather's father.
My other grandfather, whose surname I had before marriage was, as far as I can see, pretty much 100% Essex right back to the C16th at least, and if anyone asks my ethnicity I always half jokingly reply "Trinovantes" - the Celtic tribe of pre-Roman Britain who lived in North Essex - but to be honest most DNA tests seem to give you such a mix of heritage that you can pretty much pick whatever one you want to be anyway.
Carole