Post by maudefindlay on Mar 7, 2023 8:56:05 GMT -5
I did 23 and Me. I've only had one person contact me so far to connect the dots. We are listed as 3rd cousins which seems pretty far down the line and kind of hard to pinpoint. Could be from a 2nd great grandparent or could be from a removed situation. If he was from my maternal side I'd have this all figured out or we'd be closer to an answer, but I suspect it's from my Dad's side and there were remarriages (several women died in childbirth) and they are more secretive/not the sharing type and as an adult I've chosen not to stay in touch because our beliefs do not match up.
Anybody have tips? Do I just need to do the Ancestry version?
BUT! You'll need a family tree to link it to make it make sense & the other person would probably have to do the same (or, the other person can do all this if you don't really care how you are linked together).
ETA: that link pasted in weird. I would just google 'How to link 23andme to ancestry'
Post by starburst604 on Mar 7, 2023 13:26:21 GMT -5
I did 23 and Me as well and now I'm kind of regretting it. I have a very big family on both sides and it's connected me to maybe one 1st cousin and 2 second cousins? gardengal I may try that out!
I did 23 and Me as well and now I'm kind of regretting it. I have a very big family on both sides and it's connected me to maybe one 1st cousin and 2 second cousins? gardengal I may try that out!
Note: I have personally not done this.
I have done Ancestry DNA & really only did it bc I don't know who my great grandmother is. She's not American or European so I may never get a hit, but I figured it was worth a shot.
Mostly I use my hits to verify or nail down some shadiness of my family tree (e.g., one dude had 2 families). And I've gossiped with a distant relation on what an attention whore liar one of our common ancestors was. It's cool info, but I was pretty aware of who most of my ancestors were (except above) & where they came from so I haven't gotten much out of the DNA or connected with people, tbh.
Post by MixedBerryJam on Mar 7, 2023 13:37:23 GMT -5
Huh. I did 23&Me years ago and I get tons of distant relative notifications. Some of the names are familiar to me so I assume we're related but I don't know any of them pretty much further out than first cousins and the once-removeds. I didn't do it for ancestry though, as my mom was pretty into genealogy while she was alive; I did it back in the early days when there was more medical information.
As mentioned above, you'd probably have to figure out your respective family trees, which Ancestry may help with.
For me, if I connected with a 3rd cousin, who the f knows where that person would come from. I know nothing of my bio-dad's side, and my maternal side had a great grandfather who sowed his wild oats like it was his mission in life.
As mentioned above, you'd probably have to figure out your respective family trees, which Ancestry may help with.
For me, if I connected with a 3rd cousin, who the f knows where that person would come from. I know nothing of my bio-dad's side, and my maternal side had a great grandfather who sowed his wild oats like it was his mission in life.
I'm working on the family tree on 23 and me, it's time consuming. I think the man contacted me as we are different races and he is likely curious about that aspect.
We found out through ancestry DNA that my grandfather was a product of rape and the lineage we always thought we knew is not correct. My great uncle was actually super shitty to my dad about it when it all came to light and insinuated that we weren’t actually apart of the family. ::eye roll::
Just did 23 & me (gift from my brother who also did it and gifted the kit to our parents as well)
no big surprises. still waiting for mom's to get processed- they had to send her a new kit as her 1st sample wasn't good enough to get results. my dad's my dad, and my brother is my brother. almost 1500 distant relatives on the list, about 10 of those we recognize as people we know we're related to
as far as the ancestry composition that was pretty much as i expected, Italian/Polish, but did not expect to see French and German. my dad and brother's percentages showed Irish/English which was not expected, however mine did not.
i did enjoy reading that at <2%, i have more Neanderthal DNA then 94% of other testers!