DNA testing

I'd love someone to do a "who do you think you are" as they find out so much interesting stuff beyond the name and dates ... problem is I'm not famous enough. We do have some interesting pasts including, but not restricted to:

Hubby descends from convicts transported for stealing a chicken and a hanky
My gg-father was a merchant captain in the south seas
My gggg-mother came out to NZ as a maid and married the lord

 

How long did it take for the results to come back Geoff?

Coincidently my in laws just ordered the test and will open the letter on Christmas Day for a surprise.

I'd like to get the test done too.. Although the only ancestry I know of is Irish/Scottish, I have feeling I'm a mixed bag.

 

I am tempted to do one, but I would like one that sequences my entire genome. This information will be useful for medical reasons as we understand DNA more and more. Though I guess it's likely that this will become an essentially free test in the future.
Still, I'd drop a few hundred dollars now if it did that and also gave me all my risk factors as well as the heritage thing above (though I doubt I'd be surprised there).

 

I'd love to do it to find more. When my dad died I started doing a lot of research as I wanted to find out more as he didn't know (he was orphaned).

Turns out gggg grandfather is the Alfred Traeger who who invented the pedal powered radio for the first royal flying doctor service to use. As a result there's:
- a monument / memorial or him in Balaclava, SA
- a street named after him in Canberra
- an AFL stadium named after him in NT
- a picture of his design on our $20 notes.

Tracing back further, there was an itinery of traegers coming by boat departing Hamburg arriving Port Adelaide in 1860 and managed to trace all the descendents since, down to me.

 

Ive spent years, off and on, tracing my tree. ive spent many holidays traipsing through cemetaries. Even spent a month in Ireland tracing my tree.

Ancestry.com is good, but you really have to be careful with the information as people just copy other people's mistakes. always go back to the source documents and verify for yourself.

My favourite source is trove (national library digital resources). It's free, and there are all sorts of wonderful stories within old newspapers. Its where youll find much more than dates and names.

 

Am also a keen family historian who has just had a DNA result from Ancestry ... results were
10% Asian [9% Central Asia, 1% East Asia], 34% Irish, 32% British. I knew I had an ancestor born in China 1840 and had ancestors in the British Army in India early 1800's. Somewhere along the line they must have married into the local population.

 

I might not be as well off as many investors on here, but I do actually have $1,000 needed to seqence an entire genome!
It also turns out that the entire genome would be less than 1Gb and since over 99% of it is identical across humans, you need less of 10Mb to have a lossless analysis of your DNA. However, ideally I'd prefer the entire 1Gb, just in case there's any genetic mutations in the 99% (though I'd think they'd test for it and then just disregard it if there isn't and include it if there is).

 

There was significant German migration to South Australia in particular. The little towns in the hills around Adelaide had many German settlers. A branch of my family moved from Germany to Upper Sturt/Crafers in the early 1840s. Hanhdorf is quite well known for it's German origins and is just down the road from Crafers. Another branch of my family lived in Blumberg in the Adelaide hills, which was renamed Birdwood following ww1. I know of at least 4 Property Chat members who have German ancestors who moved to SA. Not sure how common it was in other states.

South Australian history is a little different to other states as we didnt have convicts. The state was built by free settlers who were encouraged to move here.

 

Haha.

There's actually an interesting article on it here, though the cost they quote is US$2,900.

 

This is one that does a lot of the health dna ... a few friends have done it, and found it fantastic for what they may be susceptible to and hence they've made some healthier life changes.

23andMe - DNA Genetic Testing & Analysis

 

Yes, but unfortunately it still doesn't do the entire genome. I'll really only consider doing it once they do that for a reasonable price, that way you won't have to repeat it again to get more information.
I foresee that you'll be able to get access to open source programs that will allow you to upload your DNA details and it will then give you all sorts of different analyses.
Another interesting thing in the article that I linked was risk factors in partners, getting both tested before having a child to see if there are any risk factors that are in common which could give a child a serious illness.

 

How do the DNA test for a religion?