Genealogy (23 and me, Ancestry etc)

Seano said:
So if my grandfather has no living male children, this won't work to find more about him, right?
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Sorry - Are you male or female? Is this your grandfather on your mom or dad's side? For instance, both my dad and his father are still alive but I could test myself and would have the same Y marker. If it was my mother's side, I would need a male relative to test.
 
Found out that my dad's bachelor uncle was the unacknowledged father of my friend's mother. We call each other "cuz" now.
 
Senzo Tanaka said:
Sorry - Are you male or female? Is this your grandfather on your mom or dad's side? For instance, both my dad and his father are still alive but I could test myself and would have the same Y marker. If it was my mother's side, I would need a male relative to test.
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I'm male looking at my mothers father.
 
Seano said:
I'm male looking at my mothers father.
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Yeah, unfortunately you'd need a male relative on the mother's side. Your best bet is ancestry.com and checking family trees. There's a lot of bad data out there but chances are someone out there or documents you can find.
 
Senzo Tanaka said:
Yeah, unfortunately you'd need a male relative on the mother's side. Your best bet is ancestry.com and checking family trees. There's a lot of bad data out there but chances are someone out there or documents you can find.
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I've used 23 and me in conjunction with ancestry and have done quite well, actually. We know more about my grandfather than he ever did.
 
I will not get a genealogy test for a couple of reasons. One of them is that I likely have some kids out there that I don’t want to know about.
 
odog said:
I will not get a genealogy test for a couple of reasons. One of them is that I likely have some kids out there that I don’t want to know about.
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I mentioned earlier about helping a girl on 23 and me find her father and it turned out to be my cousin. I didn't really think when I started helping her that I'd be telling someone they have a whole family they don't know about.
Luckily he was a happy about it.
 
That’s great he was happy about it. Personally...I don’t want to know.
 
Not that interesting when all your family is descendent from poor farmers but i would like to do it<Fedor23>
 
The DNA test is very appealing to me, but both my grandparents were from very small and remote places in the country... I doubt it would add anything interesting beyond knowing I'm a successful result of plenty of cousin-to-cousin marriages that only got better after the XIX century rolled in.
 
Marfa said:
The DNA test is very appealing to me, but both my grandparents were from very small and remote places in the country... I doubt it would add anything interesting beyond knowing I'm a successful result of plenty of cousin-to-cousin marriages that only got better after the XIX century rolled in.
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But seriously, cousins marrying each other really wasn't taboo not too many generations ago.
 
I paid for my parents to have theirs done.

Nothing too shocking but I did find that my dad has a 4th cousin here in the remote town where I live. I googled the guys name and it turns out he owns one of the local weed shops. So, that’s alright.
 
Seano said:
<{jackyeah}>

But seriously, cousins marrying each other really wasn't taboo not too many generations ago.
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Not joking, I has the hottest 2nd cousin growing up. If they were into me, I would’ve been down.
 
I found out my grandfather was half swiss. What are swiss people? They yodel and wear clogs?
 
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