My uncle (father's brother) has recently agreed to do a dna test for me. He is 85 and the last surviving male in my Dad's direct line, i.e. I was an only child, his children are daughters and other brother died without issue. This test will be my one and only chance to access the information from my Dad's side of the family. So now I need to try to decide whether to test both male & female and how many markers I can afford!
Does anyone know if you order the test through a particular group does that prevent you from submitting it to another group or is there additional cost for that? Ideally I would like to join the Welsh DNA group and the Patronymic group. Is that possible? Sorry if this is a dumb question.
Heather
Hi Heather, I can't see why not, but it would depend on how they set out the database. If/When I do a Y-DNA test, I would need to come under 2 surnames as my GGG Grandfather was illegitimate.
Pettsy: Your brother's and father's Y-DNA will be the same, so they will give the same result. It will just show the male line. However their mtDNA will be different; You and your brother will have got yours from your mother, and your father would have got his from his mother (your paternal grandmother).
The most interesting part was finding that he does not originate from Ireland as was believed. His haplogroup originated in the Nordic area and it is thought his roots are probably French, German, Belgium or the Netherlands.
Don't forget that this is just 1 line of your tree. For all you know it could just be this one line that has originated there, and there are millions of other different lines in your tree. Everyone has multiple origins, the Y or mt haplogroup just shows one of them.
Andrew
