The Goat Pen

LIttle Asian Andy Gibbs running laps over in Mindoro.

Damn, some of Logan's offspring will probably be showing up at eCat's fambly Christmas gatherings in the near future...

hedge wrote:Damn, some of Logan's offspring will probably be showing up at eCat's fambly Christmas gatherings in the near future...

the 'kid' would be 70 years old now

Yeah, but his progeny are still fambly. And Logan has likely had carnal relations with some of his grandchildren, i.e., your great nieces...

I am waiting in court for a hearing and busted out laughing due to this string of posts...

Thought you guys might be interested in this. On Ancestry.com, you can spend $99 for a DNA tracing test that will tell you your heritage.

I didn't think much of it but I did it . How it works is they send you a kit and you spit into a test tube, put a solution in it and ship it back to them. About 4 weeks later they tell you the results.

My results came back today and I was impressed with the clarity they got from it. I am basically a mutt, an enscripted roman soldier that's a mixed bag of German, French, Scandanavian and Iberian Penisula (Portuguese) . Always thought we had some American Indian in us but that didn't show up so I'm disappointed in that.

I know its accurate though because it linked me to 105 people who share the same known DNA with me and from that list we found my grandfather listed on there - this was a man who I never met - was shot and killed when my dad was 6 years old and we've lost touch with the family for probably 3 decades. And this ancestry.com ends up showing me a picture of my grandmother when she was in her 40s - I never saw a picture of her where she wasn't a decrepit old woman.

I'm pretty impressed with it so far. Definitely worth the $99.

Cool. I may do that myself. Interesting.

I just ordered one...

I think I'll try it, too.

My mother was a bastard child in the 30's. My grandma was knocked up in high school and the culprit had to flee from the wrath of my great grandfather out to California. He settled down and started his own family. My mother never had any interest in looking them up so I didn't pursue it myself, but now that she's passed I am very curious to see who these cousins are.

Logan...

I guess I should say that ancestry.com didn't show me a picture of my grandmother - someone created a family tree on ancestry.com with pictures of relatives and ancestry.com, thru the DNA testing, linked me to them and I was able to dig around and find it.

from that bit of information however, I was able to locate the town where he was shot and know the approximate years, contacted the local paper and found out they have all the papers on microfiche going back to 1902 at the local library - they also have a genealogy room, Its about a 7 hour drive from here but I think I'll make the trip after Xmas. Spend a day pouring over microfiche and maybe find out some stuff about him.

Picked up a boy just south of Mobile
Gave him a ride, filled him with a hot meal
I was sixteen, he was twenty-one
Rode with us to Memphis
And papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done

Microfiche!

My mother's brother has done extensive research on that side of the family. Her name was Miller and he's traced that back to Germans from the Rhineland setting in upstate NY in the 1600s. From there, it's a mix of English, Irish, Welsh and even Cherokee (saw a photo of a great-whatever grandmother named Mary Hill who was full-blooded).

I've seen other photos from the late 1800s pioneer stock as the family moved westward from NY to Illinois to Missouri, where my mother was born. Eerie seeing a photo of someone who looks pretty much like my mother's sister wearing a pioneer outfit.

Also, discovered Mormonism ran thick through that side of the family until my great-great grandmother, a stern old Baptist from Wales, put a halt to it.

I saw my great, great, great, great, great grandfather's (John Sevier) statue in Statuary Hall.

I can go back with confidence on 4 sets of great great grandparents.

Unfortunately for us, two groups married with the same last name and everything got haywire after that.

Also, my uncle had two children with his wife and her daughter (his stepchild) so ...you know...we got that going for us...so word of caution - you may not like what you find doing this ancestry shit.

(cue Stan on south park saying "Dude, that's pretty fucked up there)

So far the biggest help for us has been looking at the census from 1920,30 and 40.

here is the dna map from my test

forgot where it was maybe on this site but somebody was talking that they did it for pets and it wasnt very reliable

wonder how they got your grandfather's DNA if he was shot and killed in 1906

I mean I would think they would have definitive DNA on all 106 people in order to say those 106 were linked to you

crashcourse wrote:forgot where it was maybe on this site but somebody was talking that they did it for pets and it wasnt very reliable

wonder how they got your grandfather's DNA if he was shot and killed in 1906

I mean I would think they would have definitive DNA on all 106 people in order to say those 106 were linked to you

they got DNA from one of his descendents who put up a family tree with pics and such - they just connected me with them

so there could be a small margin of error if the descendant they got DNA from wasnt really related

easy way for 99 dollars to prove paternity I imagine