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

[Agelastus]

Finland - 1%

Finno-Ugric? That would be odd. Nordic I would get considering all the pillaging and settling and breeding they did in Britain.

1% is what? 1 individual 7 generations back or an older larger infusion that's gradually been diluted?

Does Derspiess' ancestry go back to New Sweden?

[Tamas]

Finland - 1%

Finno-Ugric? That would be odd. Nordic I would get considering all the pillaging and settling and breeding they did in Britain.

1% is what? 1 individual 7 generations back or an older larger infusion that's gradually been diluted?

Does Derspiess' ancestry go back to New Sweden?

His ancestry goes back to Africa, and before that, to the oceans.

[derspiess]

Finland - 1%

Finno-Ugric? That would be odd. Nordic I would get considering all the pillaging and settling and breeding they did in Britain.

1% is what? 1 individual 7 generations back or an older larger infusion that's gradually been diluted?

Does Derspiess' ancestry go back to New Sweden?

No, but I knew some folks back in Delaware that could trace their lines to those colonists-- still carried a Finnish surname.

[Razgovory]

My cousins did one of these.  My Uncle (now deceased) was part Jewish.  Which means my dad is part Jewish.  Which I suppose means I'm part Jewish.

[Agelastus]

His ancestry goes back to Africa, and before that, to the oceans.

And before that to even more distant shores if you believe the panspermia hypothesis...

[Which I don't.]

No, but I knew some folks back in Delaware that could trace their lines to those colonists-- still carried a Finnish surname.

Interesting.

[The Brain]

John Rambo traces his ancestry to New Sweden.

[Caliga]

John Rambo traces his ancestry to New Sweden.

Correct. 

[Josquius]

I logged into 23 and me again.
They've updated it so that now you can see maps by county in the UK and Ireland. Which is cool.
No Northern Ireland it seem though.

Also, less cool...my results have gone up to  89% British, then mostly French and German with less than 1% Scandinavian. Boo inbreeding

I wonder though whether this may not be down to a lack of Scandinavians using the site.

My heritage continues to give the same as before.

Yep. This is all a nonsense. I'm fascinated how they come up with these though. If I were living in Japan still would it be telling all my distant relative matches that they have Japanese ancestry? Or considering its self reported could I claim to be half Chinese and mess up their numbers in that way?

[Caliga]

Yeah, I saw that new, more-specific map on 23andme, and guess what... for me at least it (sort of) lines up with my research.

It puts my top English area at Greater London, which makes sense as, while I know of no ancestors who came from London, so many English folks migrated to London after my ancestors left it's logical it would show up at the top of my list.  Also high in my list is Manchester, probably for the same reason.  But a few pegs down is Yorkshire, the West Midlands, Lincolnshire, and Belfast, all of which are places I traced at least one ancestor emigrating from.

For Germany I got Hesse, which is quite possibly correct as my grandfather insisted we had Hessian ancestry, though I have not yet found that ancestor.

[Tamas]

So you guys realise that your genetic map is now not owned by you? Well, it is also owned by the companies you submitted them to.

[derspiess]

My Hessian ancestor seems to have a Huguenot and/or Alsatian background.  His Germanized surname is Virnau but you also see it as Ferneau.

[Caliga]

So you guys realise that your genetic map is now not owned by you? Well, it is also owned by the companies you submitted them to.

*shrug* So?

[Tamas]

So you guys realise that your genetic map is now not owned by you? Well, it is also owned by the companies you submitted them to.

*shrug* So?

I'd be a bit concerned about relinquishing my exclusive rights over my own DNA before it is even clear what it can be used for in the near future.

[derspiess]

"That's how they getcha!"

[Tamas]

 

You are the nation who detest ID cards but freely give away their full genetic information to random strangers to freely abuse in the future.