"Full Blooded"

**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.

**OC Richard** · 23rd February 16, 09:08 PM

I would like to do DNA testing to find out if the family legend is true- if the "first settler" on the Guyandotte, John Cooke, born in London, was indeed descended from Cookes from Arran.

And if his wife, Nellie Pemberton, was Scottish, as has always been asserted.

Clan Donald has identified some markers, and if those show up, then the family story might be true.

http://clan-donald-usa.org/index.php/dna-project

The name Pemberton

http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=pemberton

**Downunder Kilt** · 24th February 16, 12:03 AM

There are 26 posts to this thread and we are in the general kilt talk section, yet the word kilt has not even been used
Perhaps the OP can ask the mods to move the thread to the correct area.
Cheers

**Kiltedjohn** · 24th February 16, 01:14 AM

I had a DNA test done through ancestry.com. One thing I felt was unfortunate was that the regional classifications that they use are very broad. (Is this inevitable? - I'm not an authority on DNA.) The "Irish" category seems to include Scotland. My father's side came from Cyprus - I find that Cyprus is on the fringes of three overlapping regions (Greece/Italy, Middle East, and Caucasus), so that my DNA seems to be a mixture of all three. I don't know whether this reflects three different lines in my ancestry, or is it that a Cypriot DNA is geographically in the middle of these three regions?

**freep** · 24th February 16, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by Downunder Kilt

There are 26 posts to this thread and we are in the general kilt talk section, yet the word kilt has not even been used
Perhaps the OP can ask the mods to move the thread to the correct area.
Cheers

Yeah. When I started it I wasn't sure where it should go. In that case I usually put it here and rely on the kindness of strangers to sort it out.