Possible nightmare for the future re DNA tracing

[hurworth]

I believe that the sample is definitely skewed, and prominently skewed towards a predominently European population, and is therefore of little value as the 4 billion or more people who are of African and Asian etc. origin are seriously under represented.

Seriously underrepresented in Africa and Asia AT THE MOMENT.  There are plenty of people in China that can afford to do this, and will.

[Redroger]

Agree, and don't forget India. This may well have implications in the UK in at least 2 ways:
1) People of 2nd or 3rd generation descendants of migrants from the sub continent.
2) The connection between Anglo-Indians still living in India, and descendants of those who served the RAJ. This is likely to affect me.

[DevonCruwys]

People in China aren't allowed to send their DNA out of the country. Indians are under-represented in the genetic genealogy databases but I hope that will change over time. If anyone has ancestry from India do join the FIBIS DNA Project:

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/fibis/about/background

FIBIS also have a lot of free resources on their website.

[Redroger]

thanks for the link very useful

[Redroger]

Further to the DNA list on the FIBIS site does it include Europeans? I ask because it may be the solution to my problem. My 2xgreat grandfather John Luffman b1776 seems to have been illegitimate. All extant known Luffman lines have produced no connection or are extinct in the male line. He was born  two miles from Sherborne Dorset (Henstridge Som). However a line of Luffmans recorded on the Lucknow memorial had migrated with the army to India.Records are incomplete but I am really up against it with this brickwall so Indian DNA dara base seems the best(least worst prospect.

[DevonCruwys]

The FIBIS does indeed include Europeans. I believe most of the project members are Europeans rather than Indians. However, they are part of the same FTDNA database so you would have been notified of any matches. The only exception is if someone had restricted their match settings so that they were only seeing matches within a project.

[Redroger]

Thanks, looks like another blank at least for the time being.