DNA Sequencing Megathread! Neanderthals, Denisovans and other ancient DNA!

[grumbler]

Katmai:

40% whale
40% Manatee
20% hot air

So mean to me, I'm quitting Languish for twice as long as Ed Anger!

You keep making these failing promises you will never keep.  Sad!

[Caliga]

LOCK HIM UP
LOCK HIM UP

[The Brain]

Katmai:

40% whale
40% Manatee
20% hot air

[The Minsky Moment]

What more can be expected from the moderator of the failing languish.org.

[katmai]

What more can be expected from the moderator of the failing languish.org.

E tu Cousin

[derspiess]

Still waiting on my Ancestry DNA results but I was playing around on ancestry.com and traced one of our lines back to a dude that was knighted by Elizabeth I. Switching to a different site, it looks like I can trace back to ca. 1180.  Apparently that family line (Booth/de Bothe) was originally from Normandy and came over during or after the invasion.  At least a couple direct ancestors were baronets of Dunham Massey.

[Ed Anger]

Still waiting on my Ancestry DNA results but I was playing around on ancestry.com and traced one of our lines back to a dude that was knighted by Elizabeth I. Switching to a different site, it looks like I can trace back to ca. 1180.  Apparently that family line (Booth/de Bothe) was originally from Normandy and came over during or after the invasion.  At least a couple direct ancestors were baronets of Dunham Massey.

Hey! I claim Normandy for the Hawkins line. Pretenders will be flogged.

[derspiess]

Hey! I claim Normandy for the Hawkins line. Pretenders will be flogged.

I'll relinquish all claims in exchange for Calvados.

[The Minsky Moment]

I'm descended from a long line of impoverished farmers and itinerant peddlers.  I traced one line back to guy who once stepped in the droppings of Stephen Bathory's horse.

[derspiess]

I found a lot of Germans from Pfalz and Alsace, some going back into the 1400s.  And I found the Hessian deserter on my mom's side; even found an interview with his son that confirms the family legend (though he claims his dad was captured).  There is another guy from Hesse born mid-1700s that may be in a similar boat.

Every time I got back into the 1700s and saw someone from "Ireland" I got a little spooked, but in each case it turned out to be someone from Northern Ireland originally from Scotland, or at least having a Scottish name.

Speaking of Scots, going back in my Cameron line it looks like I am David Cameron's 5th cousin. 

Aaaaand I found an ancestor from the Channel Islands and a whole lot of French names before him.  So I guess I'm a tiny bit French.  Damn it.

One of the more interesting characters was a hardcore Puritan dude named Hatevil Nutter that came over from England and settled in New Hampshire in the 1600s.  He was a church elder and was most widely known for his hatred of Quakers

[HVC]

One of the more interesting characters was a hardcore Puritan dude named Hatevil Nutter that came over from England and settled in New Hampshire in the 1600s.  He was a church elder and was most widely known for his hatred of Quakers

Nice of you to keep the tradition alive

[Malthus]

Because of my aunt, we have whole teams of graduate students researching our family history on my father's side. We are descended from a long line of Atwoods and Websters.

The family name goes back to the settlement in New England. There is even a museum there located in an old family house with our name: http://www.chathamhistoricalsociety.org/

Our most interesting ancestor was "half-hanged Mary" - a woman accused of witchcraft and hanged ... who survived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Webster_(alleged_witch)

An account of her witchery: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N00392.0001.001/1:6?rgn=div1;view=fulltext;q1=Witchcraft

[Grinning_Colossus]

Every time I got back into the 1700s and saw someone from "Ireland" I got a little spooked,

In any case, I'm glad that your German ancestor was a coward, so that his descendants couldn't turn into Nazis

[Valmy]

I am Abraham Lincoln's second cousin, or cousin Abe as I like to call him.

[derspiess]

Every time I got back into the 1700s and saw someone from "Ireland" I got a little spooked,

In any case, I'm glad that your German ancestor was a coward, so that his descendants couldn't turn into Nazis