During the June DNA sale at all of the testing companies I decided to take advantage of the discount offered at 23 & Me and take their DNA test. I am still processing all of the information from the reports received but I have uploaded the results to Gedmatch so I am letting that percolate for now.
About
a year ago I did the mid-level mitochondria test with FamilyTree DNA
but that test only said that my maternal haplogroup was H and to explore
that further I would need to go up to the next test. However with the test from 23 & Me I now have my maternal haplogroup as H2a2b1.
According to 23 and Me, my DNA Ancestry composition is broken down as follows:
- European 99.4%
- Northwest European 91.4%
- British & Irish 44.3%
- French & German 11.9%
- Scandinavian 4.6%
- Finnish 1.7%
- Southern European 5.2%
- Sardinian 1.6%
- Iberian 0.5%
- Italian 0.5%
- East Asia & Native American 0.4%
- Sub-Saharan Africa 0.2%
I find the last two results interesting because it is the first time I am seeing any results in Native American and African ancestry. Neither Ancestry or DNA Land show any results in these two categories. You can see my post about my Ancestry DNA results here.
With 23 and Me you also get all of kinds of reports for different things. I was surprised to find my Neanderthal Ancestry variants was so high, 291 to be exact! I am not entirely sure how I should proceed with these results because it is way above what I currently I understand about DNA. However, I am continuing my reading on DNA and hopefully I can put these results in perspective soon. I guess I am as old or older than dirt!
I was also surprised to learn that I have one variant for the CFTR gene (Cystic Fibrosis). This would have been nice to know before I had children! Thankfully, I can only presume to think that my children's father was not a carrier otherwise at least one of children could have had Cystic Fibrosis.
I
definitely need a genetic tutor but until I can find one reading and
taking online DNA classes whenever possible will have to do! I am going to be comparing results from Gedmatch, Ancestry, FamilyTree DNA and 23 & Me in future posts once I get everything pulled together and I am confident in my findings. Stay tuned!
Think we might be related?
You can check your AncestryDNA results with mine at Gedmatch, my kit #A435226.
You can also check your 23 & Me results with mine at Gedmatch, my kit # M357583.
If you have tested with Family Tree DNA you can check your DNA with mine kit #B16054. Also my mtDNA kit at FamilyTree DNA is kit #401662.
Sources:
"23 and Me personal results for Dawn Kogutkiewicz", database, 23 and Me (www.23andme.com : accessed 6 August 2016).
This week I have been working on the family of my bio-genetic (bio) maternal great grandparents, Robert Allison Baugh and his wife, Rena Maude Pleasants and their children. One of the
biggest problems I have had in researching my bio-genetic maternal lines
is that there does not seem to be anyone who is seriously researching these
families. The public trees I do find look forsaken and lonely.
With those thoughts in mind, my goal was to go over the records I had already found via Ancestry and FamilySearch and then to see if I could find any more records or records with more details.With all of the record groups being added to both sites I was sure I would find something. I hit the jackpot!
Here is a list of the records I found this week at Ancestry:
- Virginia Death Certificates, 1912-2014
- death certificate of bio maternal grandmother
- death certificate of bio great aunt's 2nd spouse
- death index for a 2nd bio great uncle
- U.S. Obituary Collection, 1930-2015 for my bio great uncle. While this was only an index it did provide me with 2 pieces of much needed information, the name of his spouse and their only child.
- Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-2014
- marriage certificate of of cousin, which led me to his wife and her information.
- marriage certificate of bio great aunt and her 2nd marriage plus this spouse's first marriage certificate
- marriage certificates for 3 additional cousins
- Virginia, Divorce Records, 1918-2014
- divorce decree for bio great aunt from 1st husband, & 2nd husband's divorce decree
- divorce decree for 1 cousin
All of these records added information to my research. For some of the deaths of these individuals I was able to restore their obituaries through Legacy.com for the small price of $2.95 for 24 hours. Well worth the cost for the clues I found in the obituaries! Once I restored the obituaries, I then printed them out for future reference.
I now have both of these great grandparents accounted for with all of the documents I can find as well as that of each of their 10 children. I still have a few death certificates to order as they are were only available in "index only" online at Ancestry.
Sources:
"Virginia Deaths, 1912-2014", database and images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed on 27 January 2016), [multiple entries, names are private].
"Virginia, Divorce Records, 1918-2014", database and images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed on 27 January 2016, [multiple entries, names are private].
"Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-2014,", database and images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed on 27 January 2016, [multiple entries, names are private].
"U.S. Obituary Collection, 1930-2015, database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 27 January 2016) [name is private].
Editor's Note: I have with held the names of Robert and Rena's children for the privacy of still living descendants. Since I am adopted these still living descendants may not know about me, however I can provide a detailed source list if necessary.
