DNA is it worth it?

[msallen]

Just as a case in point, if you look at msallen's web site (see this thread, p1) you will find that one of his 5xg's is also his 6xg following the other line back (father/mother). My sister has already told me that I am my own cousin, several times over 

Hey, I'm famous  

You're right of course. We are all related, all descended from paupers, all descended from royalty, and those of us with all or primarily British ancestry will carry some DNA of every group that ever lived in these islands whether English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Celt, Norman, Briton, Dane or whatever. The pleasure is in finding these links.

By the way falcybe, I'm descended from this chap three times - http://www.genealogy.mallen.org.uk/520-JamesMycock.html, and once you find a link into the aristocracy or royalty you can see dozens of lines converging on a single ancestor.

[Redroger]

As a result of the village of Lode Cambs being almost completely related to itself in the 19th century I am my own 4th cousin!

[coombs]

I have a Scottish ancestor born in Selkirk. He may have had distant Irish ancestors.

[Skoosh]

Edward I in particular, psycho, mass murderer etc' nasty piece of work....Skoosh.

[Keitht]

I asked exactly this question of a forensic scientist and received a very definite "NO."

He reckoned that they generally test only mitochondrial rather than nuclear DNA, meaning that the result would provide pnly a general, tribal, result.

[coombs]

I dont think DNA works for a mothers paternal ancestors unless they have sons who in turn had sons who are alive today.

[Skoosh]

coombs,  you can have your M DNA tested for, a long line of long suffering mothers, back to the dim & distant!.....Skoosh.

[coombs]

My fathers paternal line goes from me born in Norfolk to my dad and grandad born in Essex then my grandads dad born in Suffolk to all his paternal lines before him. I will have that yDNA. My grandads cousin is aged 96 and I will have the same YDNA as him as he is my paternal grandads fathers brothers son.

My mums DNA stretches from Essex to Durham, London then back to Sussex.