Loke 23 and me or ancestry? Im wondering if it is a good idea. I want to find out my origins and health.
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I would do it if I can afford to. I see no downsides.
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Ive done it, its really interesting!! It was fun finding out my families orgins.
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Yes. I think that I manually erased any personally identifiable information. It has my first name, but I erased my last initial in Microsoft “Paint.”
I took an ancestry dna, my Heritage and national geographic. National geographic went back thousands of years. Most DNA tests go back 500-1000 years. They aren’t identical results, so I don’t know who is most accurate.
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I recently used Ancestry.com to examine copies of original historical documents, including census records, marriage certificates, birth certificates, death certificates, draft registrations, obituaries, gravestone pictures, boat records, etc.
I traced my heritage back 4 or 5 generations, to 16 great great grandparents or 32 great great great. 23 and me seems pretty accurate.
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I’ve done 23andMe,Ancestry DNA, Family tree DNA,Living DNA, and My heritage. As much or more for the cousin matching than for the ethnicity report.
It’s not the only aim, but the primary goal my father and I have is to link our branch of our surname to those who came from Cornwall and/or Devon. Given the rarity of our surname progress is very very slow. It’s not help by the vast number of dodgy family trees, and those that make their trees private.
Most frustrating of all for me though is a same surname y DNA of 37-2 at FTDNA. That’s a match from 2011. Even with my offering to pay for it he’s not upgraded his yDNA or done a family finder(cousin matching) test. What I do know, based on info from FTDNA is that a 37-2 match means we’re related. How far back I’m not at all sure.
Yes. I did ancestry DNA. I was surprised at my results. The family always had stories about our ancestry but the only true one was about our Irish ancestors who built and lived in a castle in Ireland that is now a tourist attraction. I gave other nationalities I didn’t know about as well as the ones I did know about. It’s very interesting.
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Yeah. I guess family goals can grow around such legends.
An uncle and I were going to set out to prove, if reasonably possible, what my mother’s mother’s mother supposedly found about our heritage: That on both sides of the family, I’m descended from an very famous group of knights. Nothing incestuous. The family seems to merge 5 generations back. 
I’m sort of like: So what? Knighthood is the lowest aristocratic title. And, as my father indicates, the current royal family doesn’t even claim some of its own members who revealed certain information.
But, I finished some basic online research to keep my word. I imagine any actual proof of such a lineage would be obtained by visiting Wales or writing letters.
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My dad did. He had our ancestry traced back to a German prince back in the 15th century including our coat of arms.
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I did the Ancestry DNA test and according to my test I have 11 different ethnicities. The top 3 most prominent are Welsh/English, Scottish, and Native American (from Mexico).
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It’s quite amazing how many matches I have that claim to have aristocratic or even royal ancestors. Probably less have such ancestry than do, or it’s very, very far back in time. I don’t come from a posh background in terms of being 6th generation county family/landed gentry, or similar . My father’s background is lower middle class, but he’s very intelligent . That helped him climb up the social ladder. Most of the boys and girls in his neighbourhood left school as soon as it was legal to do so.
For various reasons, mental illness being a primary one, my brother and I have slid down the social scale. I don’t know about my brother, but mindset and values wise I identify with the left of centre middle class. A lot of a families have had periods of upward and downward social mobility. That’s the kind of thing you find when you research your family history, and interact with others doing the same thing.
Yeah. Both my parents have worked very working-class jobs for large parts of their lives. And, I don’t believe it is offensive to say that both my grandfathers were, at one point, military “grunts.”
I’ve worked some pretty low-level jobs.
Frankly, though, even if I assert that my great grandmother was probably right, I don’t imagine that being in the most elite class of military “grunt” is far removed from the function of “knighthood.” Aren’t they supposed to be elite fighters for the higher aristocrats?
Maybe my family has actually been pretty stable, in function.
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