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Re: tracing your roots through DNA
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 05 July 09 11:02 UTC (UK) »
Many thanks for that.   Smiley
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Re: tracing your roots through DNA
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 05 July 09 11:58 UTC (UK) »
If you want to learn something about your recent ancestry, then you have to be proactive. And if you are proactive you can learn a lot with dna.

I have done my own DNA project. Having researched my GRANT family in Ireland, there were a lot of branches that I thought, but could not prove, were connected.

I have had my own dna tested, but none of the other Grants on my trees had. So I went out and got dna tests done for particular ones (I paid for it, they just had to agree to do the test)

I have got the tests in now, and so was for example able to prove the postulated common root to a man shipped to Australia as a convict in 1811, by getting a swab from a known descendant in Australia.

You do need to know what you are doing with dna, or could could waste a lot of money!.

The reason you have to be proactive is that by and large the people doing the tests have little idea as to their roots beyond a few generation (for example Americans) and who are looking for dna to be an answer. And on the other hand those whose family have lived in the same place for years (say in a small town in Ireland for generations) have no need for dna tests as they know their roots. That in short is what you have to overcome

It needs some perseverance to find subjects. For example I have failed to find a living male Grant descendant of a Jasper Grant who was a pirate in Ireland in the 1680s. If I could get a known descendant then I could see if the link existed or not.

Before anyone adds it, there is a small chance each generation of what is known as a "non paternal event" (second marriage, illegitimacy, adoption, etc) so surnames can change.
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