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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ball on March 15, 2007, 07:01:15 AM

Title: DNA test
Post by: Ball on March 15, 2007, 07:01:15 AM

Anyone done this?

http://www.dnaancestryproject.com

Am intrigued by it, must be awesome to trace where you are from originally.

Title: DNA test
Post by: Mickey1992 on March 15, 2007, 08:41:55 AM

The Surname Project option sounds interesting.  Of course this all depends on someone else having already participated in the service and their data being on file.

The issue here is that there are many companies providing this kind of service.  If I use one company and some distant ancestor uses another company then a link will never be made.

I would be more inclined to use a company that shows data on the number of previous clients so that I get an idea of how big their database is.  http://www.familytreedna.com/Surname.aspx

I have hit a brick wall in tracing my ancestors back to Ireland around 1830.  Maybe I will ask Santa for a genealogy DNA kit.

Title: DNA test
Post by: Mickey1992 on March 15, 2007, 09:13:05 AM

Wow.  This company has web pages divided into surname and geographical areas.....one for the county in Ireland my ancestors came from.  I might definitely  have to do this now.

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Country%20Longford/

Title: DNA test
Post by: Saintaw on March 15, 2007, 10:15:49 AM

Ahem, *cough cough* (http://www.frenchdna.org/)

Title: DNA test
Post by: Mickey1992 on April 23, 2007, 03:21:26 PM

I got my 12 marker DNA test back from familytreeDNA.com.  Unfortunately I am a member of the R1B1c haplogroup with most of the rest of western Europe and their descendants.  I have sent for an additional 12 marker test.

Title: DNA test
Post by: Nilsen on April 23, 2007, 03:54:17 PM

So you send a DNA sample to some database?