DNA Testing for genealogy

[Amy K]

I think I would. If it became cheaper and it could actually tell me something useful...

[Ticker]

Definitely would without hesitation!

[Hackstaple]

Definitely not! I might find I am related to the Osbournes.
I think there was a big DNA genealogical exercise in Cheshire recently. It cost only about as much as 3 new hospitals or 219 extra bobbies on the beat. It showed that quite a lot of people in the North of England have Scandinavian blood in them [or some such] and that quite a lot of them hadn't.
My vagueness on this subject is caused by the scope of their research being unbelievably irrelevant or, in plain words, "Who cares"?

[Kazza]

DNA testing may be the only way I can prove my Norwegian Roots.   

Kazza.

[Fitty]

I would!   I think that would be quite exciting!


Wheres the swab?

[Geoff of Devon]

Given the fact that my mother and I have blonde hair and blue eyes I would LOVE to know if I am of Scandinavian origin.
If we look at other projects that tax-payer money is given to, a study in Scandinavian genetics is by no means a waste. As much as anything that study was done to see how far back genetics can actually trace. The male Y chromosome is a very good marker. Looking at the advantages that genetics has yielded to say forensics and disease combatant drugs/ immunology then surely any research can only be a good thing?

Geoff.

[criggy]

My husbands part Irish, my daughter-in-laws part Welsh & my gt niece half Shri Lankan but I can only claim English ancestry although the name Everitt is supposed to be Germanic in origin & Purcell French but that's way back when.

Nothing wrong with English ancestry but would love to find someone exotic on my side so count me in.

There again aren't we all supposed to be descended from one woman in Africa?

[PaulineJ]

As I currently understood genetic testing can tell us from which of seven unique women our Mother's, mother's mother's (you get the drift) mother was.

It can also reveal our father's father's father's .... father.
(mitochondial DNA- not passed down the female line)

Apart from that the mix in the middle is just about anyone's guess?.
Although there was a TV programme on (last night?) where they were attempting to identify a murdered child and had analysed DNA to indicate whereabouts in the globe he was most likely to have been born. I think it is that different 'Populations'/geographical areas of the globe have different rates of mutations in particular genes.

Pauline

[paulalou]

Not meaning to be a spod, or rude, but its the other way round. Mitochondrial DNA is inherited maternally, the Y chromosome is used to find your fathers fathers fathers fathers......etc (assuming you are a boy).

Paula