The Genographic Project

[Midnyte_Sun]

Have any of you partaken in the Genographic Project or Family Tree studies to see where your ancestors came from?

 

[tzarinna]

At the last family reunion I attended in Atlanta, the Callahan family, I think it was as far back to one ancestor was a slave and the other was a freed slave. But I can't recall what side was which.

The Smith family, hmm, I'm sure I could get a hold of that with a simple email. I've never tried to trace it. I did go to Cork County in Ireland, Callahan clan is from there.

 

[cerealkiller182]

ive looked at the internet sites but I think they cost money. There was a specific reason why i didnt go through with it

 

[November Rain]

i don't thik anything was properly documented back then, i'd be wasting my time trying to find things out.

 

[Lemon]

I did a 14 day free trial with one site, so I could see what records and what not they had without ending up paying membership fees.
I found a distant relation of mine (son of my direct ancestors brother or summat) died at the Battle of Champion Hill in the US Civil War. One relation also got shipped to Australia as a criminal. Other than that I come from a long line of plebs.

 

[The Squirrel]

My aunt and uncle are into this type of stuff. I know a lot about my ancestors.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Well this is going beyond just names and direct ancestors, the Genographic project takes either your Paternal Y-chromosome , or your Maternal haplogroup and then catologs the journey of your ancestors on this earth using the different genetic mutations in your Genes.

I did this a while back and my results were god-damn surprising. Apparently I'm a Kurgan.

I'll post my results soon.

 

[tzarinna]

That **** sounds expensive.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I know my family is from Holland. Could go over there one day and say are you my grand daddy?

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

The results are in:

My Y-Chromosome Haplogroup: R1a1 (M17)

OK here are the results of my Y-chromosome study:

Your Y-chromosome results identify you as a member of haplogroup R1a1. The genetic markers that define your ancestral history reach back roughly 60,000 years to the first common marker of all non-African men, M168, and follow your lineage to present day, ending with M17, the defining marker of haplogroup R1a1.

If you look at the map highlighting your ancestors' route, you will see that members of haplogroup R1a1 carry the following Y-chromosome markers:

M168 > M89 > M9 > M45 > M207 > M173 > M17

R1a1 (M17)

The current distribution of the M17 haplotype is likely to represent traces of an ancient population migration originating in southern Russia/Ukraine, where M17 is found at high frequency (>50%). It is possible that the domestication of the horse in this region around 3,000 B.C. may have driven the migration . The distribution and age of M17 in Europe and Central Asia, and South Asia is consistent with the inferred movements of these people, who left a clear pattern of archaeological remains known as the Kurgan culture.

M17 is the marker associated with the nomadic steppe dwellers who eventually spread as far afield as Iceland. Descendants of the Indo-European Clan may be responsible for the birth and spread of Indo-European languages. The world's most widely spoken language family, Indo-European tongues include English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Persian, Pashto, Several Indian languages such as Hindi, and numerous others. Many of the Indo-European languages share similar words for animals, plants, tools, and weapons.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

That **** sounds expensive.

$100 bucks for 60,000 years of history? I dunno, I thought it was worth it. The results were more than I expected. Maybe I should change my nick to The Kurgan.

 

[tzarinna]

I said it sounded expensive, you never gave the cost. Anyway, not bad.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

I have a family tree and it goes back to about 480 AD. We can go back further but there is some controvery as to know who the father of this person was.

 

[ComicChick]

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=301191

www.myheritage.com is free and you can download their software to start your own family tree. best of all, when there's someone in their database, they send you matches and you can compare and stuff.

i've already found a couple distant relatives. i'm at bout 6200 people thus far, i think the furthest back is the 1500s so far.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Thanks for the links. I'm going to make one of those family trees, but I'm not that comfortable entering all that first and last name stuff. There is also the problem that some last names are the exact same, but spelled different ways. Does this website account for this issue?

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

I have a family tree and it goes back to about 480 AD. We can go back further but there is some controvery as to know who the father of this person was.

Damn, 480 AD? Wasnt that during the Dark Age? How did you guys create this family tree and keep it for all these years? Who did all the work?