Has anyone had their genetic journey mapped out??

[JoeSchmoe]

Very cool!! https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/journey.html

For all you "the Earth is 6,000 years old" crazies, please ignore this message and move along. :lol:

Anyone participated? It looks interesting.... 100 bucks though.... they should be paying me for my DNA!!

 

[I think not]

That cool, I think I will sign up for it.

 

[triedit]

My mom and dad have both done thier via the University of Arizona for genealogy purposes. I am haplogroup R1b

 

[Tonington]

I remember reading that in the magazine. I think it started as a program to trace aboriginal movements and how they populated the earth, then expanded into what they have now.

I haven't, but I'd like to. See how far removed I am from Vlad the Impaler, if at all

 

[Curiosity]

I think I would probably opt out of this for reasons of time limitations but I need to ask a question...

I have three family members who would love this....would it be a stupid thing for me to buy them their DNA kit .... (telling them ahead of time of course)..... so they could begin to track their own
journey...

They are separated within the family (different branches) so it would be interesting for each of them.

What a wonderful project.....Thanks Joe.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

I am haplogroup R1b

Very common in people of northern European origin. We've had our maternal line traced through analysis of mitochondrial DNA--we bought it for one of my sisters' daughters as a 21st birthday gift--and we contain a gene complex that originated in what is now Tuscany about 40,000 years ago, migrated around the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe and ended up in Ireland. 40,000 years ago there was a lot of ice all over Europe, so the coastal route was really the only one available. My niece was a little disappointed in the results. I don't what she expected, but knowing her I think she wanted to find out that she descends from the High Priestess of some Celtic snake cult, or something dramatically romantic like that. If anyone wants to know more about this stuff, read The Journey of Man by Spencer Wells and The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes. Theirs is the original work in the field, and it was Syke's test and data that gave us our maternal roots in Tuscany. You get the paternal line through Wells' work tracing the Y chromosome.

I've been trying to convince my brothers that we should all kick in a few bucks and get the analysis done for the male line, but nobody seems interested but me. Pikers. So maybe I'll get it done myself and not tell them the results... ;-)

 

[triedit]

You and your brothers share the same Y information--no need for all of you to be tested. You got it from your dad who got it from his dad. Sometimes there is a small mutation but it's not enough to change the results. In fact, even you and an Uncle would have the same Y dna.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Yeah I know, I meant we should all share the cost of having it done for one of us because the result would be the same for all of us, same as we did for my sister's daughter, but they won't even go that far. I don't get it how anyone can not be interested in something like this and it'd be pretty cheap if we split the cost four ways, but we've got the family genealogy back to the 17th century and that seems to satisfy them. We know the male line descends from an Irish crofter who lived near Londonderry in 1680, and there have been Scots, English, German, and French additions to the family tree since, but I'd like to know where that Irish guy's Y chromosome was 40,000 years ago and how it got to Ireland. My brothers seem content to know that we're Irish in some sense.