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Re: DNA testing - genetic genealogy
« Reply #306 on: Friday 16 March 12 09:41 GMT (UK) »
I wouldn't mind being approached by Americans looking for their ancestral roots, but they are doing it on 12 and 25 marker matches  ::)


I already have links to America..... my maternal grandfather's brother emigrated to the US at the turn of the last century (I'm in touch with his descendants), and his ancestors were early traders in Virginia in the 1600's (both on the maternal line, though).
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Re: DNA testing - genetic genealogy
« Reply #307 on: Tuesday 20 March 12 21:05 GMT (UK) »
Andreabro

This  sounds a bit like Oxford Ancestry's "Tribes of Britain".  My brother had this test done and what he got was "possible Mediterranean".  Lookin2
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Re: DNA testing - genetic genealogy
« Reply #308 on: Tuesday 20 March 12 22:18 GMT (UK) »
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Re: DNA testing - genetic genealogy
« Reply #309 on: Wednesday 21 March 12 15:07 GMT (UK) »
Nick,  this business is largely driven by folk in the US who may not have a paper trail back to the UK. Getting matches in the US, while interesting, isn't taking them where they want to be. Finding donors this side is really what they're after. Hence the opportunity for a bargain.

Skoosh.

Yeah, I noticed that.   No-one who has approached me yet has managed to find their origins outside of America.  Still, at least it's fairly easy to upload the Y-DNA results to YSearch.org and Ancestry  :)

My circumstances precisely, an ironic outcome though; no matches whatsoever with people in the USA or Canada with my surname, but a match 36/37 with a Canadian whos ancestry is from Lincolnshire during the time period when my ancestors migrated there, interestingly he turned out to be the descendant of an illegitimate son of my father's uncle around 1870. No other matches, the world is a lonely place, hope many of my unknown relations were tested at WDYTYA this February.
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Re: DNA testing - genetic genealogy
« Reply #310 on: Friday 20 April 12 15:16 BST (UK) »
therewasa leveson-gower who moved to america i hope he has his dna listed would make it easier if he did,i have had my exbrotherinlaws step sister ciopying my family tree, i told my mum, her reaction was that she should be tracing her own family name of dannegar, so now i have blocked her.she should only be interested in kevin his exwife,mysisterand yheir children in which case sh should write to them dont you think?but i have found that americans like the idea of being related to our royal family
marcie. a lot of the false heraldry on offer comes from them.
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Lanark/Argyll/Renfrew/Ayr:Smith, Steele,Kirkwood,Hamilton,May,orO'mayscott and anderso, craig , forbes taggart Kirkwood, milloy and steel apart ftom others which are numerous, graham mcilroy. stewart.brown battonisle of sku rothsay etc.
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Edinburgh/Aberdeen:portsea marsh,brownwhittcomb and others. to numerous to mentionweymouth frank.  Laidlaw,Brown,Dean//Charles/Hall/Slight/Johnston belgium loquet

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Re: DNA testing - genetic genealogy
« Reply #311 on: Friday 20 April 12 15:22 BST (UK) »
"i have found that americans like the idea of being related to our royal family"

rofl.  Not this American.  My ancestors only got some dignity once they had picked up and moved themselves to the New World.
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Re: DNA testing - genetic genealogy
« Reply #312 on: Friday 20 April 12 17:38 BST (UK) »
Andreabro

Just in case you have not heard a very short sale on FamilyTreeDNA.  Started 6pm Thursday, April 19 concljudes 11.59pm Apr 21. (US time).  Lookin2
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« Reply #313 on: Friday 20 April 12 18:12 BST (UK) »
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Re: DNA testing - genetic genealogy
« Reply #314 on: Friday 20 April 12 22:42 BST (UK) »
There's a website offering a free test to twenty guys named Brown, but they have to be of Scottish or Ulster stock and genuine Broon's.

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