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

[The Brain]

23 and me has updated.
98% British and Irish now.

Odd. You don't come across as parochial.

[katmai]

8% Eastern European....

There's hope for you yet, then.

i did another services test (my heritage). Came back Friday saying 23% Balkans...WTF!!!?

[Tamas]

8% Eastern European....

There's hope for you yet, then.

i did another services test (my heritage). Came back Friday saying 23% Balkans...WTF!!!?

[The Brain]

8% Eastern European....

There's hope for you yet, then.

i did another services test (my heritage). Came back Friday saying 23% Balkans...WTF!!!?

You're like that half-blood in Blood In, Blood Out. You may have to prove yourself harder.

[katmai]

8% Eastern European....

There's hope for you yet, then.

i did another services test (my heritage). Came back Friday saying 23% Balkans...WTF!!!?

You're like that half-blood in Blood In, Blood Out. You may have to prove yourself harder.

I am a man of the world, in all these DNA tests the only continent I don't have traces of lineage is Australia. 

[The Brain]

8% Eastern European....

There's hope for you yet, then.

i did another services test (my heritage). Came back Friday saying 23% Balkans...WTF!!!?

You're like that half-blood in Blood In, Blood Out. You may have to prove yourself harder.

I am a man of the world,

And how!

[Valmy]

23 and me has updated.
98% British and Irish now.

Sorry you weren't more French

[Josquius]

23 and me has updated.
98% British and Irish now.

Odd. You don't come across as parochial.

Interesting that jokes from 20 years ago still exist on languish.

[Valmy]

23 and me has updated.
98% British and Irish now.

Odd. You don't come across as parochial.

Interesting that jokes from 20 years ago still exist on languish.

Is it really that interesting?

[Caliga]

23 and me has updated.
98% British and Irish now.

Mine is now: more accurate.

66.8%  French and German
23.3%  British and Irish
4.5%    Scandinavian
5.3%    Broadly NW European
0.1%    Unassigned

It further says the 'French and German' is from Hesse, the Rhineland, and Westphalia.  This is not entirely correct as I have quite a bit of documented Swiss ancestry as well as some Alsatian.  Interestingly, Ancestry.com does detect the Swiss ancestry.  I do however have ancestry from the Rhineland for sure, so it at least got that right.

It claims my British ancestry is from London (  ), Manchester, Glasgow, Lancashire, Merseyside, West Midlands, Belfast, West Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, and South Yorkshire.  Of those, I for sure have ancestors who came from the West Riding... I even know what towns they came from (Rillington and Scampston), Lancashire, and Belfast.  I also have ancestry from Wiltshire (town of Great Cheverell).

So yeah, it's getting better.

[The Minsky Moment]

Trump's 23 and me was hacked and released:

74.8% German.  But the wrong kind of German, you know what I mean
8.2% Greenlander
7.5% Ponginae
4.6% Mexican rapist
3.0% Chinese bank account
1.0% snips
0.6% snails
0.3% dog tails

And 100% Putin's bitch.

[derspiess]

23 and me has updated.
98% British and Irish now.

Mine is now: more accurate.

66.8%  French and German
23.3%  British and Irish
4.5%    Scandinavian
5.3%    Broadly NW European
0.1%    Unassigned

It further says the 'French and German' is from Hesse, the Rhineland, and Westphalia.  This is not entirely correct as I have quite a bit of documented Swiss ancestry as well as some Alsatian.  Interestingly, Ancestry.com does detect the Swiss ancestry.  I do however have ancestry from the Rhineland for sure, so it at least got that right.

It claims my British ancestry is from London (  ), Manchester, Glasgow, Lancashire, Merseyside, West Midlands, Belfast, West Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, and South Yorkshire.  Of those, I for sure have ancestors who came from the West Riding... I even know what towns they came from (Rillington and Scampston), Lancashire, and Belfast.  I also have ancestry from Wiltshire (town of Great Cheverell).

So yeah, it's getting better.

Do you trust 23 and me more than Ancestry DNA? 

[viper37]

8% Eastern European....

There's hope for you yet, then.

i did another services test (my heritage). Came back Friday saying 23% Balkans...WTF!!!?

Time to start digging about your grandmothers' amourous lives before marriage

[merithyn]

23 and me has updated.
98% British and Irish now.

Mine fits better with my ancestral knowledge, though I'm still a little confused by the Swiss. Okay, and the Spanish/Portuguese and Jewish, too, but those are throw-aways, they're so small.

European                                  100%
   British & Irish                          81.6%
       Greater London
       Greater Manchester
       West Midlands
       Merseyside
       Tyne and Wear ()
       Glasgow City
       West Yorkshire
       Lancashire
       Carmathenshire (Wales?)
       City of Bristol
   French & German                     17.2%
       Grisons, Switzerland
   Broadly Northwestern European  0.5%
Southern European                       0.4%
   Spanish & Portuguese   
Ashkenazi Jewish                          0.3%             

[Josquius]

Tyne and Wear includes the original Washington, George Washingtons ancestral home. Could point to a relation there :p
(well. Him and a bunch of other Geordies but hey ho)

It is weird that large cities are always disproportionately marked. Historically they didn't dominate to the extent they do today.