Ancestry DNA update

[Zaphod99]

I've read that 1-2% of births are down to an unknown father.  Statistically that means about one in 75  of us has an unexplained birth IN EVERY 100 PEOPLE IN OUR TREE, with corresponding unknown ethnicity. 

If you've got 2,000 in your tree that could be 20 cases.

Zaph

[Biggles50]

I've read that 1-2% of births are down to an unknown father.  Statistically that means about one in 75  of us has an unexplained birth IN EVERY 100 PEOPLE IN OUR TREE, with corresponding unknown ethnicity. 

If you've got 2,000 in your tree that could be 20 cases.

Zaph

That is so very right.

If any Male takes a yDNA test then let us say that one such person is called David Lowe.

What you would find is dozens of yDNA matches with a MRCA in the that last 300 years, but only a smattering with the Lowe surname.

In my own case 775 matches & only 4 with the family name, so this does throw a spanner in the works.

[coombs]

I will probably get a guarantee that not every ancestor I have known to have traced, which is quite a few, will be a genetic one. About 1 to 2% will likely be an unknown NPE. I am sure one born in 1835 was the grandchild of the documented parents as the mother was 51 at the time.

I also wonder the percentage of pregnant brides in our ancestors days who were marrying someone other than the blood father. I say about 2 to 3% like the concealed NPE's within marriage.

[Zaphod99]

With the price of DNA tests dropping, I can't see how anyone who is serious about their ancestors not doing one

You could spend weeks researching someone irrelevant.

Zaph

[frostyknight]

Well, in the latest update my 2% Iceland has vanished. I've gained 2% Wales, and have also somehow got 3% Netherlands. A 1c1r who had a Dutch grandfather shows 0% Netherlands!

[Nanna52]

This new ethnicity has thrown up a conundrum with my son.  They say he has 4% Sweden and 1% Norway on his maternal side.  They also tell me I don’t have anything from either area.  I know his paternal side resembles Heinz 57 varieties, have they added a couple of his to my side?

[coombs]

Never done my DNA testing yet but my maternal gran was born to a part Scottish father, part French Huguenot mother. The Huguenot ancestry were mainly among the later immigrants to come to the UK in the early 1750s, and he wed a woman of 100% Huguenot descent in 1752, so the amount of DNA I inherited will be quite minimal, if I have inherited any DNA due to the random nature DNA is passed down. They were from Normandy, but mainly Poitou in Western France. Apparently Poitou did see a lot of Roman DNA left behind in the area according to a DNA map but how accurate that is I am not sure, but Poitou was also probably settled by Germanic and Celtic tribes.