Saturday, January 06, 2018
Well I decided to send away for the 23andme DNA test kit. I have previously done the Ancestry DNA kit and I was curious to see how the two compared. For the 23andme you spit into a test tube and put it in the mail. It took maybe a month for the results to show up on my email.
First the Ancestry DNA results:
Ancestry results.
I am very European. The family story that we had a Native American ancestor on the Clawson side was not true.
Similar, although not identical results from 23andme.
First the Ancestry DNA results:
Ancestry results.
I am very European. The family story that we had a Native American ancestor on the Clawson side was not true.
Similar, although not identical results from 23andme.
23andme
23andme did not detect the Jewish, Greek/Italian, or Caucasus genes picked up by Ancestry.
Both companies provide a list of likely relatives. Ancestry lets you look at family trees, if the person has posted one. 23andme allows a list of surnames (searchable) to be examined.
I looked through them and saw Ransom, Chandler, Rollenhagen, Faunce, Coburn, and Oberholtzer. These are names from my my father's father, and both my maternal grandparents sides of the family.
Interesting that none of the surnames or relatives from my paternal grandmother's side have shown up. Perhaps relatives on this side haven't taken either DNA test. It does make me wonder as to whether Grandma T was adopted. She was born nine years after her parents married. She used to claim one man was a relative, who wasn't, and denied that another man was her relative, when he was. Would be curious to figure out whether this was the case or not.
