DNA testing is the new "thing" in genealogy.
I wrote this page about 2009
End of 2019 I did Ancestry autosomal DNA
Perhaps look ay my updated page on one of ancestors re what is possible with DNA
Stevens - married to KING in EAGLE line
what Henry Stevens breeches maker got up to is good story about matters you
might not want to find out about your ancestors. But DNA did enable me to find
out his home town.
And if you are on online family tree see home page check the two William EAGLE
and their families. Their descendants are my largest amount of DNA matches.
But as always I do advise that DNA is risky you may find out something you did
not expect or want to know.
DNA tags in Suffix field
fgf father line on fathers lines I need to expand on that
DNA testing strategy for Australians
MODULE 2: Grouping your AncestryDNA matches - Dotting by generations and
advanced dotting!
Genemonkey
explains....: About this blog
My original
2009 page
I thought I would provide some
information. I am not suggesting that you undertake a DNA analysis Far
from it. I have tested my yDNA at 37 markers and results are inconclusive
as matches I know about when you get to 37 are not exact and are all off by some
genetic distance which means our common ancestor is several generations ago - my
calculation was perhaps 600 years. These are people of other surnames. As far as
I can tell LANKSHEAR was a surname that took a while to get to that spelling and
was a label placed on people from Lancashire in England and they could have had
another surname before that. So DNA and surname does not come into it. Any
LANKSHEAR's reading this who are interested in DNA please contact me. I now have
more cousins but I don't think we will ever establish an actual tree linkage.
It may tell you all manner of things about your genetic makeup but it may not
help to break down brickwalls and of course the results are a new science that
you have to get your head around....... Great for anthropology.
Well I am Haplogroup R1b1b2
Place of highest frequency= Western Europe
Most prevalent ancient ethnic group = Italo-Celto-Anatolian
That is from
Eupedia : Geographic spread and ethnic origins of European haplogroups
What I gather from all the people suggesting you take part in a DNA study of a surname is that these studies are for males of that surname. I suppose it then proves that you are a male of the same line as the other males who took part in the testing. If there is a discrepancy then I am not sure about who it proves what. Except see Owsley below. But then perhaps I have not got my head around the stuff either.
This appears to a good article on what it is all about
http://www.technologyreview.com/BioTech/wtr_16421,312,p1.html
Detailed stuff about African American research http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/about.html
These people offer a free service http://www.ysearch.org/ and http://smgf.org/
http://www.jogg.info/ Journal of Genetic Genealogy
http://www.worldfamilies.net/
World
Families Network
DNA research possible for LANKSHEAR
Andrew Lancaster has asked any of us who are interested to take part in a
DNA study.
see LANCASTER surname Genealogy
however my results show I do not have ank known LANCASTER as an ancestor which
is what I expected. If any LANKSHEAR males want to test then do contact me
Some of the research coming out of DNA is interesting
Example Myths of British Ancestry by Stephen Oppenheimer
see also Numbers in Genealogy - how many ancestors do you have
and THE OWSLEY SURNAME DNA PROJECT has an example of something that folk may not want to know - one ancestor was not a biological son of his supposed father