OT: Anyone try AncestryDNA yet?

[purplefaithful]

Wife and I are trying it...

[Guest]

No but I've traced my last name to a family in Kent that held a family seat there.   They were granted land by William the Conqueror for their distinguished assistance in the Battle of Hastings.  William the Conqueror was a descendant of Rollo... you know that traitor brother of Ragnar on the show Vikings.   :p

And by "traced" I mean looked it up on the interwebs =) .... maybe someday I'll get over there and really look into it.  

What brought on the "wanting to know" for you guys.... for me it was the death of my Dad.  

[Guest]

Id love to hear how it goes.

I've traced my dad's family all the way to the Lusitania arriving at Ellis Island in 1901 from Norway (great, great Grandpa), and i was even able to find his dad in Norweigan records. 

It gets reaaaaaaaallly complicated from there... about 1850s.

[Guest]

Yes I have. It was interesting to see the results. But I want to try 23andMe. It is supposedly better.

[Guest]

Here are my 23andme results:

https://you.23andme.com/published/report...cbfdb440f2

[Guest]

Yes I have and I plan to go back to Europe and reclaim the family farmland that the Huns stole when they invaded from the east.

[Guest]

@Bezerker88 said:
No but I've traced my last name to a family in Kent that held a family seat there.   They were granted land by William the Conqueror for their distinguished assistance in the Battle of Hastings.  William the Conqueror was a descendant of Rollo... you know that traitor brother of Ragnar on the show Vikings.   :p

And by "traced" I mean looked it up on the interwebs =) .... maybe someday I'll get over there and really look into it.  

What brought on the "wanting to know" for you guys.... for me it was the death of my Dad.  

Good question...I'm banking one cause wife wanted to do it. That and I have a little curiosity too, will give our kid some sense of his past too.

[Guest]

wife and daughters have done it.   All this time she thought she was hispanic and it turns out she is 51 percent Native American.

[Guest]

@SDCAVIKESFAN said:
wife and daughters have done it.   All this time she thought she was hispanic and it turns out she is 51 percent Native American.

So you have payments coming your way if your tribe has a casino - as well as other gov't benefits.

[Guest]

P@twgerber said:

@SDCAVIKESFAN said:
wife and daughters have done it.   All this time she thought she was hispanic and it turns out she is 51 percent Native American.

So you have payments coming your way if your tribe has a casino - as well as other gov't benefits.

Depending  on the tribe she may have oil money coming!  I have a buddy whos gg grandfather was a medicine man and in that tribe the higher elders decendents get more of a cut so he does quite well when oil is up.  Not crazy money, like 15 Indians in Shakopee own a casino,  but ice castle fish house or fancy elk hunting trip type money.