| BLOOD |
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QUEST |
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Table
of Content (TOC) - 5/26/2010 |
| DNA Usage in Genealogy |
| About the Human Genome Project // Denisovans // DNA Ancestry Project // DNA Fingerprint // DNA Heritage // GENEX // Neanderthals // Y-DNA Heritage |
| General News TOC | Ten Pages, but one is empty. |
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Genographic Project* |
National Geographic web site - National Geographic and
IBM's Genographic Project Atlas of the Human Journey explores early
human migration routes and describes the highlights along that journey. Allows direct access to the Time Line Eras, Journey Highlights, and
Genetic Markers or Haplogroups that interest you most. Go there to learn
more about ancient human migration through detailed text, photographs,
maps, time lines, videos, and more. Oct, 2008: I have
learned that these folks base all their output on 12 markers - It seems
that 12 markers is all it takes to place a person into an ancestry group
determined to have a specific geographic beginning. |
| Geographic News* | News from the National Geographic. |
| Glossary of DNA Terms | A fairly good assembly of DNA terms |
| Haplogroup Matches | Contains a chart showing some of my Haplogroup matches
(y-DNA), and where the mutation level of those matches are found.
The higher the mutation level the more remote the relationship.
This page also contains a description of some Haplogroups. |
| Migration Maps for all Y-DNA | Trails and Tribulations of Mankind. Historic
migration maps and trace info |
| Migration Maps my Y-DNA | Migration maps and trace info for my Y-DNA. I have only the European Haplogroups mapped at this time.
New map added 10/2/2007 |
| Migration Maps my mtDNA | An mtDNA journey showing my mothers mtDNA of J2 and the "J" track is mapped.
Includes comments from the book Seven Daughters of Eve. Tracing a mothers mtDNA gets lost quickly in history because mtDNA does not follow a sir-name bloodline. The mtDNA is passed to all immediate children of a specific mother. That means half sisters and half brothers of the same mother will carry the mothers mtDNA. Regards the tracing factor, a son cannot pass his mothers DNA, whereas a daughter does. Your mtDNA can be traced back 100,000 years - or to be realistic, can be traced back as far as there is other DNA to test against. Lost female cousins can indeed find each other IF they each test their mtDNA and that data is available in comparing databases. If a match is made there may be a table to approximate the date of a common ancestor. Female cousins may be 10 generations apart, but that mtDNA will be a huge flag saying here I am cousin. However and there is always a "however", unless there is a paper trail back 10 generations, you may not be able to identify all the grandmothers in the line. |
| mtDNA Results for Ed | The mitochondrial Haplogroup J contains
several sub-lineages. The original Haplogroup J originated in the Near
East approximately 50,000 years ago. The Haplogroup J2 is
particularly interesting because it has been detected in Turkey, Italy,
Sardinia, Iberia, and Iceland. |
| mtDNA Results for Rene | The mitochondrial Haplogroup H contains
several sub-lineages. The original Haplogroup H originated in the
western Europe approximately 30,000 years ago. |
| Niall (of the nine hostages) |
In 2006,
a group of researchers explored the frequency of haplogroup R1b and the
Western Atlantic Modal Haplotype (WAMH) in Ireland. They showed that
haplogroup R1b accounts for 85.4% of the lineages in Ireland, but that a
distinctive Haplotype is found there at a frequency of 8.2 to 21.5%. The
authors attribute this Y-chromosome signature to Niall of the Nine Hostages,
a medieval warlord. |
| Oghgul Project* | This project is best for mtDNA testing because it is not
restricted to a specific family Surname. |
| Ogle Project* | Sign up, help us finally discover our Ogle Ancestors,
restricted to the Ogle bloodline. |
| OOFA's Ogle Family DNA Project | Sign up, help us finally discover our Ogle Ancestors. |
| Project Pricing advantage | FTDNA provides a discount for purchasing through a Project
as opposed to buying direct from FTDNA. Please select from the Ogle or the Oghgul project for your discount. |
| Project Page2 | Working e-mail from FTDNA, and information that came with the DNA kit from FamilytreeDNA.
Gives an idea of what to expect |
| RAO
(MRCA) for Ed RAO (MRCA) for Rene |
The results here show the recent ancestral
origin of those you match or nearly match in the RAO. The
ancestral
origin information is provided by each testee, and is only as
accurate as the testee's knowledge. The testee is instructed to
answer "Unknown Origin" when their ancestor's origin is uncertain
or not known. (Most recient common ancestor (MRCA) |
| Soothe Your Worries* | A while ago a customer sent FTDNA a copy of the reply she
received from someone that she was trying to bring into her family
project. It had so many misconceptions that we thought: "we need to
publicize this and respond one by one to that person's claims".
Click on "Soothe your worries" at left to read the facts. |
| y-DNA Haplogroups | Here I have attempted to cross-reference the different
labs codes - It is as accurate as I can make it - any help would be
appreciated. For the latest on R1b1a2a1a1b go here |
| y-DNA Results | Comparison charts -- My
Y-DNA analyzed by
Family Tree DNA |
| Your Genetic Test are back | Now What? - New
report from FTDNA - posted 2/7/2012 |
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