Have your ever done a DNA test? What were your results?

Nqp15hhu · 20-03-2021 2:16pm #1

I am interested in genealogy and have got my results on several different sites. AncestryDNA seems to be the best. It is fascinating how the results differ by individual.

Here are my results:

My Fathers’:

My mums:

Have you done any dna tests? Were the results what you expected?

Gmaximum · 20-03-2021 2:18pm

Proved I was at the scene but a jury of my peers didn’t convict me

Edgware · 20-03-2021 2:21pm

Gmaximum wrote: »

Proved I was at the scene but a jury of my peers didn’t convict me

And what about your sister the hooker? Did she fail her orals?

Fake Scores · 20-03-2021 2:23pm

B+ in the honours paper.

YFlyer · 20-03-2021 2:48pm

Be more specific.

Badly Drunk Boy · 20-03-2021 5:14pm

Here's mine. Very exotic!!

Nqp15hhu · 20-03-2021 5:18pm

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Here's mine. Very exotic!!

Cool! Is that what you expected?

Pherekydes · 20-03-2021 5:19pm

I got 90% banana.

waxmelts2000 · 20-03-2021 5:19pm

Love to do this , I love watching the DNA shows etc and its pretty amazing what they can find out. I don't expect to find out any secrets but who knows !!

mfceiling · 20-03-2021 5:19pm

Inbred.

Brussels Sprout · 20-03-2021 5:20pm

I'd be interested in getting my results but I know that the business model of these companies is:

Offer DNA testing at below-cost
Harvest DNA records of all testees
Sell this data in bundles to the highest bidder - typically pharma companies

Corporations are already profiting off of my tech data. I don't want someone else profiting off of my biological data.

coinop · 20-03-2021 5:23pm

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Here's mine. Very exotic!!

Congrats, you're Irish enough to be allowed to join the National Party. The other planter...not so much.

ulster · 20-03-2021 5:24pm

coinop wrote: »

Congrats, you're Irish enough to be allowed to join the National Party. The other planter...not so much.

It's a troll.

fits · 20-03-2021 5:28pm

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

I'd be interested in getting my results but I know that the business model of these companies is:
Offer DNA testing at below-cost

Harvest DNA records of all testees

Sell this data in bundles to the highest bidder - typically pharma companies

Corporations are already profiting off of my tech data. I don't want someone else profiting off of my biological data.

Agreed. There is absolutely no way I’d give a private company access to this information. I’ve actually had a test done to check for a specific mutation and it’s highly controlled what they can do with the sample and data. And rightly so.

martinedwards · 20-03-2021 5:34pm

No way.

one Gene that doesn't mean anything TODAY may some day mean you'll never get life or travel insurance..... or potentially a mortgage or personal loan.

My family tree has its fair share of low hanging branches, but I'll not be passing that info to anyone else thanks

JupiterKid · 20-03-2021 5:38pm

My sister in Canada had one of those DNA “ethnicity” tests done last year, so I would presume I am of the same background. The science behind it is still rather inexact as the use RNA and DNA haplogroup markers - which are open to different interpretations by geneticists.

Hers was 82% Irish, 10% Scandinavian, 3% Iberian and 5% English. So I suppose that’s my ethnic background too...

Anyone else read Stephen Oppenheimer’s excellent books on the origins of human races and the people of Britain and Ireland?

Trigger Happy · 20-03-2021 5:40pm

I did the ancestry one but under a fake name.
100% irish with a high focus on monaghan, Leitrim and cork which is where my grandparents are from. Seems that for generations they did no breeding outside their own parish.

silliussoddius · 20-03-2021 5:41pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

My sister in Canada had one of those DNA “ethnicity” tests done last year, so I would presume I am of the same background. The science behind it is still rather inexact as the use RNA and DNA haplogroup markers - which are open to different interpretations by geneticists.

Hers was 82% Irish, 10% Scandinavian, 3% Iberian and 5% English. So I suppose that’s my ethnic background too...

Anyone else read Stephen Oppenheimer’s excellent books on the origins of human races and the people of Britain and Ireland?

Oppeneheimer’s book was out of date about a year after it came out. Best to forget it at this stage, discoveries in ancient DNA point to a Pontic-Caspian steppe origin of the big DNA group he was talking about.

trixi001 · 20-03-2021 5:47pm

My Dads DNA - very proud of this - 100% Irish

My own - shows 23% Scottish - must come from my mum's side

I have traced my family tree - and all the way back to early/mid 1800 all live within about 10 mile of where I was born!

My Dads DNA

My DNA

Nqp15hhu · 20-03-2021 5:48pm

Trigger Happy wrote: »

I did the ancestry one but under a fake name.
100% irish with a high focus on monaghan, Leitrim and cork which is where my grandparents are from. Seems that for generations they did no breeding outside their own parish.

It’s very interesting how they can detect our ancestry right down to the county level.

Badly Drunk Boy · 20-03-2021 5:54pm

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

Cool! Is that what you expected?

Fairly much, and it proved for once and for all that I'm not adopted!!

(My parents were tested too.)

corner of hells · 20-03-2021 5:56pm

I did one , but i put in my dogs saliva , im mainly Jack Russell and part Yorkshire terrier.

20-03-2021 6:02pm

Can't believe people send off their DNA to God knows where, allowing his knows who to do whatever they want with it!
Everyone reads the small print yeah?
Wouldn't be so fast to hand your DNA to database kept in the country I bet!

Badly Drunk Boy · 20-03-2021 6:15pm

bubblypop wrote: »

Can't believe people send off their DNA to God knows where, allowing his knows who to do whatever they want with it!
Everyone reads the small print yeah?
Wouldn't be so fast to hand your DNA to database kept in the country I bet!

Every day, people give other personal information through faceless websites and apps that could have a lot more of an immediate negative effect on their lives.

Compare the number of people who have had money (or their identities) stolen to the number of people who might possibly have some unknown horror done to or with a sample of their DNA. Which is higher?

whisky_galore · 20-03-2021 6:27pm

Apart from privacy, I'm not particularly interested as I know where I've come from going back to at least late 1700s I don't think it would hold any great surprises.
If I was a mongrel yank I might express more of an interest.

20-03-2021 6:27pm

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Every day, people give other personal information through faceless websites and apps that could have a lot more of an immediate negative effect on their lives.

Compare the number of people who have had money (or their identities) stolen to the number of people who might possibly have some unknown horror done to or with a sample of their DNA. Which is higher?

Give it time

Nqp15hhu · 20-03-2021 6:29pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Apart from privacy, I'm not particularly interested as I know where I've come from going back to at least late 1700s I don't think it would hold any great surprises.
If I was a mongrel yank I might express more of an interest.

You never know.. you cannot be confident of your ancestry. Paper trails are not always right.

Fake Scores · 20-03-2021 6:34pm

silliussoddius wrote: »

Oppeneheimer’s book was out of date about a year after it came out. Best to forget it at this stage, discoveries in ancient DNA point to a Pontic-Caspian steppe origin of the big DNA group he was talking about.

That's right - Beaker People migrating onto the island with steppe DNA replaced around 90% of the population of neolithic Britain in the space of a 100 years.

Duckworth_Luas · 20-03-2021 6:39pm

The DNA test results were very confusing!

I need a new skin care routine!

Nqp15hhu · 20-03-2021 6:41pm

NeuralNetwork wrote: »

I did one and it came out 70% Donegal (specifically and no other part of Ireland ?!) , 20% Scottish (Highlands and Islands) & 10% Norwegian.

Do you have recent Scottish ancestry? Highlands isn’t a region that people here usually get.

Nqp15hhu · 20-03-2021 6:52pm

NeuralNetwork wrote: »

Some, but it’s all Donegal linked. There would have been multiple links back and forth & via the US and back again ... It’s a wee bit complicated!

Seems other than shagging the odd Viking, my ancestors didn’t move much outside Donegal, except to go to the Highlands...

Aw right ok, so that makes sense. Most people here have the SW Scotland or Lowland (Ulster Scots) community.

Nqp15hhu · 20-03-2021 6:52pm

trixi001 wrote: »

My Dads DNA - very proud of this - 100% Irish

My own - shows 23% Scottish - must come from my mum's side

I have traced my family tree - and all the way back to early/mid 1800 all live within about 10 mile of where I was born!

My Dads DNA

My DNA

Is your mum part Ulster Scots?

Nqp15hhu · 20-03-2021 7:02pm

NeuralNetwork wrote: »

There would be some logic to it though.

My Donegal grandmother’s family have some very far back links to the Scottish islands it seems, which seems to have possibly been a direct link from Donegal.

When you think about the map, they’re not all that far away and I would suspect those communities were in touch more than we tend to assume based on political history rather than just how people moved about, particularly when you consider that Gaelic speakers have to have been connected at some point not that far back - it’s more or less the same language. There’s also a more recent linkage which is via Glasgow & the US.

Yes Islay is visible from here. I would imagine my own scots percentage is a mix of gallowglass and lowland scots. Most here, even Ulster Irish would probably have a chunk of gallowglass, I would think.

But your connection is more recent than Gallowglass for it to show up in the Genetic communities.

NeuralNetwork · 20-03-2021 7:12pm

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

Yes Islay is visible from here. I would imagine my own scots percentage is a mix of gallowglass and lowland scots. Most here, even Ulster Irish would probably have a chunk of gallowglass, I would think.

But your connection is more recent than Gallowglass for it to show up in the Genetic communities.

There was a lot of movement and migration in both directions, you’ll likely see it, particularly in coastal areas with big ports etc

It’s interesting, in the sense that it can often contrast with what might be accepted political histories and so on. People always moved around and a lot of who won what battle or who was in power can sometimes be another layer of history that doesn’t necessarily reflect day to day reality.

I remember talking to someone about how there’s significant links for example between Cork and South Wales / SW England due to trade routes and also into NW France. Dublin goes all over the place due to having been a signifiant port city, especially older parts of the city centre itself.

I wouldn’t get caught up on it though myself. I’d wonder a little about the accuracy of the profile and also I deleted it after I started getting bombarded with some quite odd messages, mostly from Americans claiming to be my 9th cousin or something lol.

There’s a fine line between it being interesting and then a borderline creepy DNA based Facebook...

trixi001 · 20-03-2021 7:21pm

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

Is your mum part Ulster Scots?

Not that we ever knew of, and i know religion isn't a guarantee of whether or not someone is Ulster Scots, but my all 8 of my mum's great grandparents were Catholic as are the 11 gg grandparents who we have identified (or at least their weddings, baptisms or funerals were all in Catholic churches!)

There was so much migration between Ireland & Scotland that who knows though

Andrea B. · 20-03-2021 7:25pm

"I just though it was quite cool to see that I’ve relatives in China who are actually Chinese and some in Latin America too."

That's cool.
Fertile missionaries maybe?

Nigel Fairservice · 20-03-2021 8:11pm

My one said 100% Irish, even narrowing it down to South West Munster. SW Munster is very accurate.

My partner got her mother one for Christmas one year and we were joking about skeletons in the closet. It turned out the DNA test uncovered a first cousin that had been given up for adoption that nobody knew about.

Mullinabreena · 20-03-2021 8:19pm

It's something I have a lot if interest in but I don't like the idea of some company having my DNA. Although my Sister did one so i guess it doesn't matter anymore. But on my mother's side I was able to trace back to my grand parents grand parents(Great Great Grandparents) the same on my father's side but I also traced my Great Great Great Grandfather. Only 40km between them all in Co. Sligo. On my sisters DNA test with my heritage, I'm not sure what test she did but the results were 100% Irish. Specifically north Connacht. So I'm probably a bit inbred

Mullinabreena · 20-03-2021 8:35pm

Fake Scores wrote: »

That's right - Beaker People migrating onto the island with steppe DNA replaced around 90% of the population of neolithic Britain in the space of a 100 years.

I have read in a few places the neolithic people who were here before the arrival of the Celts/Beaker probably looked more like someone from Sardinia today. I think the DNA of a neolithic woman in the North backed this theory up, others will say one sallow doesn't make a summer.

byhookorbycrook · 20-03-2021 8:44pm

Found my birth father’s family, a half sister, a whole clatter of cousins as well.

Fake Scores · 20-03-2021 8:45pm

Mullinabreena wrote: »

I have read in a few places the neolithic people who were here before the arrival of the Celts/Beaker probably looked more like someone from Sardinia today. I think the DNA of a neolithic woman in the North backed this theory up, others will say one sallow doesn't make a summer.

Sardinia doesn't seem to have been hit by the wave of steppe dna originating from the Yamnaya culture. So there may have been similarities of neolithic Ireland and Britain to them. Before the Bronze Age there were different parts of Europe that had different levels of mixture of dna from western hunter gatherers and early european farmers. Some more or less of either.

pinkypinky · 21-03-2021 12:08am

I'm a professional genealogist and interested to see this thread outside the genealogy forum.

Unfortunately, ethnicity results are only guaranteed accurate on a continental level at this stage.

The sort of reports you see above from Ancestry DNA where they show counties are derived from the people you match and their user-imputed family trees, ergo, you can't rely on them.

I have no doubt that this science will improve in the years to come.

My own ethnicity shows no evidence of my overwhelming Dublin ancestry, nor my confirmed relatively recent Welsh ancestor.

Hi_thur_folks · 21-03-2021 12:58am

Genuine question
My mother is adopted my father is not on the scene (don’t know much about his backround bar Scottish v far back)
My mother’s birth mother is also adopted
My mother’s birth father is ahem unknown
What test could I do to find out something f’ing concrete about myself

pinkypinky · 21-03-2021 1:06am

You could do an autosomal DNA test and take a look for close matches, then talk to them to work out where you might fit in their tree.
For your father's side, you could also look at Y DNA, but it probably wouldn't give you a lot of detail.

If you were taking a test, I would also recommend talking to your mother first to make sure she's ok with you possibly uncovering something about her birth parents. Also, speaking to a trained social worker or counsellor would be useful too. This kind of stuff can be very emotional.

21-03-2021 1:36am

Here's my result from my heritage..
I find this stuff fascinating.
I matched with come of my grandmother's family who came from mayo who now live in the States, they sent me some impressive family trees! I now know 5 generations that side, it was very nice as my grandmother lost contact with this family due to being in industrial schools.
My Dublin links I know but the rest is still a mystery!

Melzea · 21-03-2021 2:01am

Only 1% will have an all irish dna result
As most of irish dna is mixed
All my relatives have different colour eyes and hair so there is french spanish irish viking etc

Most dna tests are not that accurate
And different company's will have different results
If they are giving out dna tests that say your all irish they have not got enough samples in the database there would have to be in breeding somewhere to be 100%

B.A._Baracus · 21-03-2021 2:32am

I can only speak for myself but I have no interest in doing a DNA test. I am more interested in where I am going, than where my ancestors have been.

Sure, it might be a little bit cool to see oh I am 4% Dutch etc. But it would just be a passing moment and I wouldnt really care.

Nqp15hhu · 21-03-2021 5:39am

Melzea wrote: »

Only 1% will have an all irish dna result
As most of irish dna is mixed
All my relatives have different colour eyes and hair so there is french spanish irish viking etc

Most dna tests are not that accurate
And different company's will have different results
If they are giving out dna tests that say your all irish they have not got enough samples in the database there would have to be in breeding somewhere to be 100%

Are you sure about that? I have a lot of 95%+ Irish matches

NeuralNetwork · 21-03-2021 8:27pm

pinkypinky wrote: »

I'm a professional genealogist and interested to see this thread outside the genealogy forum.

Unfortunately, ethnicity results are only guaranteed accurate on a continental level at this stage.

The sort of reports you see above from Ancestry DNA where they show counties are derived from the people you match and their user-imputed family trees, ergo, you can't rely on them.

I have no doubt that this science will improve in the years to come.

My own ethnicity shows no evidence of my overwhelming Dublin ancestry, nor my confirmed relatively recent Welsh ancestor.

That’s what I suspected. It crowdsourced data.

Nqp15hhu · 21-03-2021 8:57pm

He’s talking about genetic communities. Your actual dna results are based on SNP’s (your dna) and how well your SNP’s match with the reference population. So that will be accurate. Otherwise you wouldn’t have differences between siblings and parents.

Genetic communities are based on the frequency of certain places appearing within your matches family trees.

pinkypinky · 21-03-2021 9:51pm

Yes, but the reference population only tells you about who lives in a place now, not how people 200 years ago were made it.

We can have this discussion till the cows come home, but it won't change the result. At the moment, ethnicity results are just a fun guide and you can't take anything seriously from them.

Have your ever done a DNA test? What were your results?

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