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There is one male cousin but I barely know him and he's not the type who would do this. Going back to a previous generation won't work either. That would be my grandfather's brother's children--his two brothers died young back in England so they never had children. One died of a seizure and one died of TB. (It's because of their deaths plus my grandfather's first son dying of kidney disease that he left England never to return.)
Even if I "worked on" this male cousin who probably won't do it, that would only give me the haplogroup that goes back thousands of years, right? Won't I still get some paternal information from 23andme?
I'd just like to know "what" we were back in England. If I could just get back a few hundred years that would be fine.
Yes, the AC results will give you both sides, so you will get what you are looking for.
Being a female and my direct male cousins gone, my grandfather's brother's son agreed to do the YDNA test with Family Tree. Since It was the same paternal line, we both go back to our mutual great grandfather's YDNA. Two brick walls were knocked over with this. So if that is an option, it works.
Being a female and my direct male cousins gone, my grandfather's brother's son agreed to do the YDNA test with Family Tree. Since It was the same paternal line, we both go back to our mutual great grandfather's YDNA. Two brick walls were knocked over with this. So if that is an option, it works.
I did the 23andme and got reasonable results.
good luck
That's great and you are very lucky to have someone living who could do it.
Genome is (I don't understand this) UK 1.2%, Ireland 0.6%, Finland 0.3%, Poland 0.1%
It also said 20.0% British and Irish. I think I am almost ALL British and Irish. The other countries must have been from eons ago?
If you're looking at Ancestry Composition, the standard level is default. You can also chose conservative or speculative. Speculative best matches what was already known in my experience.
I just noticed there's a lot more possible detail breaking out on the African and Asian. That's new and should be useful for those with ancestry from those areas.
African is broken out as:
Sub-Saharan African
-West African
-East African
-Central & South African
-Nonspecific Sub-Saharan African
And Asian as:
East Asian & Native American
-East Asian
-Japanese
-Korean
-Yakut
-Mongolian
-Chinese
-Nonspecific East Asian
-Southeast Asian
-Native American
-Nonspecific East Asian & Native American
And
Oceanian for the Pacific Islands.
They've been busy expanding these populations for comparison, evidently.
Genome is (I don't understand this) UK 1.2%, Ireland 0.6%, Finland 0.3%, Poland 0.1%
It also said 20.0% British and Irish. I think I am almost ALL British and Irish. The other countries must have been from eons ago?
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How far back have you taken your family tree?
Remember that the results roughly correspond to about 500 years ago. There could be a lot of French and German in there.
I expected to find English, Scots, Irish, and German ancestors. The French Huguenots floored me.
I agree with the 99.9% European. I have my American lines back to about 1600 and my English lines vary from the Norman conquest to only 1774 in one line.
The European part is from 500 years back. That does make sense. They wouldn't have necessarily arrived in the British Isles yet, they would have still been wandering around somewhere in Europe. OH--and maybe the 20% English/Irish means that early on, some of my ancestors had already arrived in the British Isles. Anglos/Saxons/Jutes whatever. But is it like a snapshot of 500 years ago? Or some sort of averaging. That part is confusing and even *I* am not sure what I mean.
But it's the Genome that I don't understand--a % of what? What's it supposed to add up to?
I am mostly thinking out loud--I'm so excited to have received my information and haven't calmed down enough to sit here and do the reading.
Found out that I have some cousins in Massachusetts, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario on my mom's side. I know that she was descended from Loyalists that fled Massachusetts and went to the Bahamas, but apparently some of them also went to Lower Canada and then eventually went out West in the late 19th and early 20th century. On my dad's side, I found relations with a man from Curacao. Apparently, we have some ancestors that were brothers but one was taken to the Bahamas while the other was taken to Havana then sent again to Curacao.
Found out that I have some cousins in Massachusetts, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario on my mom's side. I know that she was descended from Loyalists that fled Massachusetts and went to the Bahamas, but apparently some of them also went to Lower Canada and then eventually went out West in the late 19th and early 20th century. On my dad's side, I found relations with a man from Curacao. Apparently, we have some ancestors that were brothers but one was taken to the Bahamas while the other was taken to Havana then sent again to Curacao.
Isn't it interesting where everyone ends up! i have some Loyalists too and they abandoned their land and fled over the Canadian border. Your people seemed to travel around; mine just stayed in the general area whenever they could. Yours really need to be chased after.
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