I know someone who did the tv one, ancestry dna kit. I have to say, it seemed total made up random rubbish. Maybe he had a glitch (we knew where at least five gens came from), but that's my judgement of it.
Yep I think it will be interesting to see if it is accurate to my knowledge as although some may see me as a mix, I am pretty sure I am less of a mix than most On my Father’s side we are 100% (according to the tree) Indian, and on my Mother’s side 100% Italian. Be nice to see if I am really a curried flavored cornetto or something more complex
So 3 hours before we were due to fly to Gran Canaria , I take Toby to the vet . Some of the dental work , tooth extractions his got infected . Jumped on the plane and left him at home . A good friend will try and look after him . Give him pain killers etc . Now I can't sleep for worrying about the poor little bugger .
Did you see Coronation Street DNA programme? One actor had a healthy splash of Iberian with no clue where it came from....turned out her father was Cornish....and Cornwall was settled by peoples from Spain and Portugal centuries ago. Another who was told by her family that she was part British/part Portuguese (with family tree to prove it), but was born in India....had no Portuguese DNA but a large dollop of Indian...turned out that generations before her family had turned to Christianity and taken Portuguese names (apparently common at the time as sadly many were ashamed to be Indian). A third was nearly all Irish...described as the most Irish man in the world ...only possible if your family were isolated from others....his family had apparently mainly lived on a small island off the Irish coast. As a note of caution, there have been doubts cast on the accuracy of some kits...or even if any can be that accurate. You could be a nice experiment....see if they reveal you are largely Southern European and South East Asian. There will be other bits in there as well....apparently most white Britons are only about 40-50% British with Scandinavian the most common 'pollutant'.
I'm sure he will be fine as you left him in good hands. Enjoy your holiday...you'll probably get a call in a couple of days to say he is fine and forgotten all about you.
I did see that Corrie DNA program and did think it was excellent. That is what triggered my memory about these kits. As I have got older I have become more and more fascinated by my family tree and would love to know what I am made of. I still think 99% of what I do and like is socialisation, but be interesting to see if that 1% is genetic. Surely being a masochistic (Saints fan), curry loving, pasta loving, red wine loving person can’t be all down to the environment around me
My maternal grandmother came from County Durham and the names on that side of the family are predominantly found in that area....all the rest are South East and London....though must never overlook some random appearing in the family tree. , so I suspect that I am mainly British* with a peppering of Scandi (from the North East). *When they quote British, the meaning is quite specific because we have had incomers for millennia arriving from Europe and spreading out, so I believe that people on the margins of the Islands tend to have more British DNA than those in SE and London.
There are two major problems with those DNA kits. 1. You give them the right to use your genetic material pretty much as they wish - by an automatic opt-in. Be sure to opt out. 2. How do you determine where DNA comes from? What date do you use? If all the inhabitants of Norway loaded all their possessions onto planes on Jan 1st 1950 and moved to India then if the chosen date was 31st December 1949, you might have a great deal of Norwegian blood, whereas on 2nd January 1950, it'd all be Indian. Vin
A good point. How far back does it go? 100 years, or 5000. Not knowing that allows them to chuck in any old country they decide.
However, it is only in the last 50 or so years that real mobility around the world has happened, and before then only a little movement. Yep, there are invasions etc, but the last 50 years there has been real movement of people around the world.
I'll answer the question with 100% accuracy without your paying a penny. You're of African descent. Specifically, Tanzania. Almost certainly, Olduvai Gorge. And you're a descendant of every single person who was alive on the planet who had kids if you go back around around 10,000 years. And there was a pretty big migration a mere 70,000 years ago: please log in to view this image By Metspalu et al. [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Vin
It was actually my brother, but I (perhaps wrongly!) presumed I would have pretty much the same DNA! I'll find out where he got it from.
Correct - I think I was about 43% British, with a dabble of a number of other things including Italian. Apparently most people will have a small % of Italian in there because of the Roman invasion and a quickie round the back of the chariot shed. That, or Scandi because of the Vikings. God knows how accurate it is really, but it's quite fun.
And if you go by mDNA (mitochondrial DNA) which you only get from your mother, all Europeans are all descended from a few women (6?) who left Africa.
If you live in Britain then if you shake someone's hand at random it's about a 50% chance that they are fifth cousins. (According to Prof Steve Jones). Vin
