"Full Blooded"

**kiltedcontractor** · 22nd February 16, 03:27 PM

My dna came back. I have 7% english/Scottish. It's not much. Im thankful its there. So much for full blooded over here.

**Cavalry Scout** · 22nd February 16, 06:06 PM

This is something I've been giving thought to recently. My DNA testing showed that I'm 69% English/Scottish/Welsh with a bit more from eastern Ireland. The rest is a scattering from northwestern Europe, 5% Scandinavian, etc. Having done some genealogical research (quite a bit actually), I've discovered many interesting facts about who my ancestors were and where we came from.

My wife — her grandfather was a Tyrie who emigrated to America as a stonemason — and I have discussed this topic at length. My ancestors in Scotland were also MacIntyres, although the records I've located list the spelling of my family members as 'MacIntire,' but that was in the early 1800s.

I am still pondering what this all means to me. My family is embedded in the history of the US. But there is no denying where we came from, and that is squarely from what today is the UK. I've always known that we were from there, I just didn't realize how deeply our roots were also embedded, nor just how much of my family's history is the story of Great Britain.

This is a brilliant topic and I am looking forward to hearing what others think about this.

Cheers, Mark

**Wareyin** · 23rd February 16, 05:37 AM

Originally Posted by Cavalry Scout

This is something I've been giving thought to recently. My DNA testing showed that I'm 69% English/Scottish/Welsh with a bit more from eastern Ireland. The rest is a scattering from northwestern Europe, 5% Scandinavian, etc. Having done some genealogical research (quite a bit actually), I've discovered many interesting facts about who my ancestors were and where we came from.

My wife — her grandfather was a Tyrie who emigrated to America as a stonemason — and I have discussed this topic at length. My ancestors in Scotland were also MacIntyres, although the records I've located list the spelling of my family members as 'MacIntire,' but that was in the early 1800s.

I am still pondering what this all means to me. My family is embedded in the history of the US. But there is no denying where we came from, and that is squarely from what today is the UK. I've always known that we were from there, I just didn't realize how deeply our roots were also embedded, nor just how much of my family's history is the story of Great Britain.

This is a brilliant topic and I am looking forward to hearing what others think about this.

Cheers, Mark

I've been considering getting a DNA test, but I'm not sure how accurate they are. Would you mind elaborating which one you chose, and how accurate it was based on your genealogical research?

**Cavalry Scout** · 23rd February 16, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by Wareyin

I've been considering getting a DNA test, but I'm not sure how accurate they are. Would you mind elaborating which one you chose, and how accurate it was based on your genealogical research?

My research has tracked right in line with the DNA test. My sister is also getting one to help us get more precise results. The four direct lines (through my grandparents) all arise in Great Britain. We can follow the main names of our family through quite a few generations.

Cheers, Mark

**jthk** · 23rd February 16, 05:28 PM

Comrades,

A very rapid Google search yielded: http://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_...mparison_chart.

Best,
Jonathan

**freep** · 23rd February 16, 06:00 PM

As for DNA, I was adopted.

Knew a bit about my bio Mom, including a name that was off by one somewhat important letter, where she lived at the time, that she was in her forties and had seven kids prior to my birth. Knew my father's surname--Howell--though everyone in my adoptive family thought it an alias, and nothing else.

Of the initial 35 Y-DNA matches 25 were named Howell. After contacting a few of them I went to Ancestry.com and did some searches. Traced the family back to 1635 in either Wales or Scotland (for those interested there are many listings of my earliest male ancestor as being from Ayrshire, Wales). Time passes.

After the The Aztec NM Celtic Gathering I got interested again and on Ancestry I searched for Nina Irene Rush, the name my adoptive mother had for my bio-mother. Up pops Mina Irene Rush. The information I find on her matches all the family knowledge about her. Not long after that I get an autosomal match at the 1st cousin level and surprise! It's Mina's nephew. Bit of study and while no one in that family knew of me, all the pieces fell in place and everyone in that family is 99% sure I'm Mina's son.

Through all that I've been able to trace back a long, long way (no doubt with a slightly limited degree of accuracy) in Scotland, Wales and England in roughly equal numbers of ancestors. I need to do more with the Cymry and the Sassenach but it's all there.

So, the initial DNA test solved for me a 60+ year mystery as to who I am and whence I came.

Sláinte

**Benning Boy** · 23rd February 16, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by jthk

Comrades,

A very rapid Google search yielded: http://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_...mparison_chart.

Best,
Jonathan

Thanks for the link. I've been hoping for that sort of info

I see none of the services are very good at teasing out British ancestry. My most distant known grandfather was a Tenney who arrived in Massachusetts Colony in 1639 from Yorkshire. Tenney is a Norse version of Denny or Dennis. Norsemen settled in Yorkshire. There are also Tenneys in the northeast of Scotland. As we know Norsemen also settled there. I suppose the Yorkshire Tenneys and Scots Tenneys are perhaps cousins. I'd like to know. However the various DNA services apparently aren't precise enough to give such specific answers. Bummer.

**freep** · 23rd February 16, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Benning Boy

Thanks for the link. I've been hoping for that sort of info

I see none of the services are very good at teasing out British ancestry. My most distant known grandfather was a Tenney who arrived in Massachusetts Colony in 1639 from Yorkshire. Tenney is a Norse version of Denny or Dennis. Norsemen settled in Yorkshire. There are also Tenneys in the northeast of Scotland. As we know Norsemen also settled there. I suppose the Yorkshire Tenneys and Scots Tenneys are perhaps cousins. I'd like to know. However the various DNA services apparently aren't precise enough to give such specific answers. Bummer.

In my experience (FTDNA) DNA is very good at matching you with those who share yours. From that point, it requires a bit of research. As noted elsewhere things became much clearer once I paired my DNA matches with genealogical research. In my case that was through Ancestry.com.

**freep** · 24th February 16, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Benning Boy

Thanks for the link. I've been hoping for that sort of info

I see none of the services are very good at teasing out British ancestry. My most distant known grandfather was a Tenney who arrived in Massachusetts Colony in 1639 from Yorkshire. Tenney is a Norse version of Denny or Dennis. Norsemen settled in Yorkshire. There are also Tenneys in the northeast of Scotland. As we know Norsemen also settled there. I suppose the Yorkshire Tenneys and Scots Tenneys are perhaps cousins. I'd like to know. However the various DNA services apparently aren't precise enough to give such specific answers. Bummer.

If you do a Y-DNA test and come up with R1b haplogroup, you'll have found your British Ancestry, given such is backed up by genealogical research. DNA will match you with people genetically. If you take genealogical information those matches can provide and cross reference that with family trees elsewhere such as Ancestry and what information you have on hand for your roots, you can get a pretty clear picture of whence you came.