DNA

Vikings still running rampant in Scottish DNA:

www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/vikings-still-running-rampant-in-scottish-dna-1-3781684

The Up Helly Aa festival on Shetland was this week.

My dad was a Brummie and he had Depuytren's contracture.

You might be surprised where his ancestors came from. It was over a thousand years since the Vikings invaded Britain and I expect people moved to all sorts of different places during that time. He only had to have one Viking ancestor (out of hundreds of ancestors), who passed on the gene.

anya and elegran, I have only just got round to reading this thread again. The sad fact is that my father died many years ago and there were no males in my generation. So that leaves us in a slight quandary. My sisters and I would love to know something of our origins, but I feel that my Dad's side of the family (Celtic?) would have been very interesting. I know something of my maternal grandmother's ancestry because she passed on quite a detailed family tree going back around 300 years.

I have the same problem with my male ancestors. My father is dead and I am one of three sisters. The only way I could find any DNA information about my paternal line would be through a male cousin.

I am a Brummie as were my parents but my geneaology research going back three or four generations shows that they were all migrants from all over the uk - the "city of a thousand trades" attracted thousands in search of work in the 19th century.

That doesn't surprise me. Most cities are the same and Birmingham was one of the biggest of them all.

When I researched my own family history, I was really lucky, because most of my ancestors had stayed in small villages and towns for centuries, so it was really easy to search parish records. The only real brick wall I have is an ancestor who was born in London. Even though he had an unusual surname, it's been impossible to get any further back. It doesn't help that the family were non-conformists, who had to baptise their children in secret.

I have had an Email about my DNA test it appears it's in the backlog of the DNA test Christmas rush. I really want to know.

The problem with fathers is that you can't rely on who the father is even from the old census records. And a lot of children were brought up by a father who was not related. Sometimes the grandfather was the real father so at least that is the same line.
I wouldn't pay for DNA.

MargaretX The father is who the mother said he is in the absence of any other information.

My father was born in 1915 his mother was 18 and unmarried. his father is unknown. I think my father may be of foreign descent and now with luck I might be able to find this out. I really do want to know.

But for God's sake don't tell Mair off the political threads.

My daughter bought me the test kit for my Christmas present this year. I sent it off and am waiting for the results.

I have just had an email saying my sample is now being tested in the lab.

Here goes! I have my results. I could not really look at them properly yesterday as I was off to see my littlest descendants.
This is how the results are presented .
(There are no surprises for me at all and my unknown PGF is just plain GB stock from wherever.)

REGION APPROXIMATE AMOUNT
Africa 0%

Other Regions Tested
Africa Southeastern Bantu 0%
Senegal 0%
Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers 0%
Benin/Togo 0%
Nigeria 0%
Ivory Coast/Ghana 0%
Cameroon/Congo 0%
Mali 0%
Africa North 0%

America 0%

Other Regions Tested
Native American 0%

Asia 0%

Other Regions Tested
Asia Central 0%
Asia East 0%
Asia South 0%

Europe 100%

Great Britain 64%
Ireland 16%
Europe West 9%
Trace Regions

11%
Scandinavia 4%
Finland/Northwest Russia 3%
Italy/Greece 1%
Europe East < 1%
Iberian Peninsula < 1%
European Jewish < 1%

Pacific Islander 0%

Other Regions Tested
Melanesia 0%
Polynesia 0%

West Asia 0%

Other Regions Tested
Caucasus 0%
Middle East 0%

This is just the basic info there are genetic links with others of similar gene pools. One person I was aware of because of my previous family diggings is My PGMs younger sister who was whisked off to Canada just after WW1 by a handsome Canadian soldier.
All of this will keep me busy.
I can certainly trace a lot of my Leicestershire East Midlands ancestors back several generations as well the the Cheshire/Liverpool based lot, who tend to have been around the Wales/Shropshire borders.
I would love to know what others have found when they get their results.