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

[Syt]

"Schmendrick"

[Sheilbh]

Is this 23andme or ancestry? And what is the difference?

[Valmy]

23andme is more focused on genetic diseases and that sort of thing. Though I understand regulators sometimes have issues with their health claims, but I don't remember the details.

Ancestry is more interested in the genealogy stuff. It will link you to people whose DNA indicates they are a close relative and so forth.

[Sheilbh]

!!!

Can those people find you?

[Valmy]

!!!

Can those people find you?

Well yes and no.

Yes they can message you on Ancestry and you are free to ignore them.

But it is not like they are giving them your personal name or phone number or anything. Just your ancestry account

I mean if you are on Ancestry you are interested in collaboration for genealogy research.

I am sure you can opt out if that makes you paranoid or something.

[Sheilbh]

It doesn't make me paranoid, I just feel like there's a real risk it's an organ harvesting Yellow Pages.

[Valmy]

It doesn't make me paranoid, I just feel like there's a real risk it's an organ harvesting Yellow Pages.

Yeah...nothing paranoid about that

But no they cannot find you IRL just on the family research site for collaboration.

[Malthus]

My whole family has fallen down this rabbit hole.

All they talk about is the random distant relations they discovered through linking up over DNA profiles, and genealogical history.

Last time I went over to visit my parents, they had me looking over a self-published manuscript detailing family grave sites in Nova Scotia (an amazing number of them were of the sort 'some random unidentified bodies washed ashore, and were kindly buried in the McGregor family plot as an act of Christian charity'. This seems to have happened - a lot ... ). Cheerful! 

Edit: another very common one was 'Nineteenth century mother and her five children all died of the fever within a few days of each other'.

[Valmy]

Yeah there are often forgotten children from your family you discover when you look at the gravesites.

[Sheilbh]

Might get this for my dad for Christmas. I think he'd love it.

Although likely results, are:
98.7% Irish
1.3% Spanish from some poor bugger from the Armada who washed up in County Cork

[Malthus]

Yeah there are often forgotten children from your family you discover when you look at the gravesites.

Those who visit nineteenth century gravesites rarely become anti-vaxers. 

[Valmy]

Yeah there are often forgotten children from your family you discover when you look at the gravesites.

Those who visit nineteenth century gravesites rarely become anti-vaxers. 

Natural immunity is superior to big pharma! Sure there might be a few casualties...

[Valmy]

Might get this for my dad for Christmas. I think he'd love it.

Although likely results, are:
98.7% Irish
1.3% Spanish from some poor bugger from the Armada who washed up in County Cork

You never know. Vikings and Scots and Normans and others were always showing up in Ireland.

[Razgovory]

One my cousins went through actual records to find out stuff about our family.  He discovered that we have family in Swabia.  He even found a family mausoleum.  Most of the names shown death dates between 1939-1945.  His father, my uncle did do the DNA test thing.  Significant Jewish ancestor.  I wonder if those two facts are related.  What I do know is that the ones that fled after the failed revolutions in 1848 did much better than those who stayed.

[viper37]

My whole family has fallen down this rabbit hole.

All they talk about is the random distant relations they discovered through linking up over DNA profiles, and genealogical history.

Last time I went over to visit my parents, they had me looking over a self-published manuscript detailing family grave sites in Nova Scotia (an amazing number of them were of the sort 'some random unidentified bodies washed ashore, and were kindly buried in the McGregor family plot as an act of Christian charity'. This seems to have happened - a lot ... ). Cheerful! 

Edit: another very common one was 'Nineteenth century mother and her five children all died of the fever within a few days of each other'.

The waters around Nova Scotia and Magdelen Islands in the gulf are reputed to be treacherous - well, for 18th-19th century travelers.  Some high ground or such, moving underwater sand dunes and such.