Sunday 26 September 2010

A new plot!

I submitted my relatives Decodeme data to a project which plots you onto a map, just like the map of kinship at Decodeme and the global similarity at 23andme.
The person who runs the project has revealed that my relative is situated initially at first glance within the Orkney sample cluster, but when the image is viewed three dimensionally, she also appears near Poles. Similarly, she scores highly on the project genome similarity feature with Poles, Brits and Scandinavians. I think this is reflecting the fact that she is half British by placing her with Orkney samples but the fact she is drifting towards Poles, again like Decodeme, suggests to me she has Slavic ancestry too.
If you are interested in seeing where you fit on the plot, then see the site below:
http://bga101.blogspot.com/

So results from all tests so far are:
Decodeme: Matches to Britain, Ireland, Poland, Ukraine, Russia. Map of kinship: Between East/West Europe.

HIR search: Matches to Britain, Ireland, Germany, Ukrainian Jew.

23andme: Relative finder matches: Colonial American, Hungarian/Romanian (some Jewish), possible Ashkenazi Jew-Haplogroups/surname.
Ancestry finder: British, Irish, Swedish, Swiss, German, Norwegian. A Jewish match at 4GP and several at 1GP including Polish/Israeli/Romanian, Polish/Ukrainian and relative above from Hungary/Romania.
Global similarity: In English and Irish boxes, near Germans.

Eurogenes: Plot-Orkney/Polish, genome similarity: US, Polish, Irish, Swedish, Norwegian, English.

Actual ancestry: 50% British (of which most English and about 1% Irish! Could be some more Irish but hard to verify) 50% unknown American.

I can see a trend forming....

Sunday 12 September 2010

Relatives found!

Thanks to 23andme, it appears that I have some genuine US relatives afterall! I'm still in the process of contacting them (there's over 200 and when you can only contact 5 a day you can see what a lengthly process this will be!) still, there are some who have got back to me.
A 4th cousin has ancestors around the PA area, lots of colonial British and Germans and their surnames do not match surnames in my known British ancestry so we can assume the connection really is via the US, and one 5th cousin is Hungarian!!!
Even if surnames can't be shared to find a connection, the pattern of regions that my relatives ancestors came from will hopefully give me an idea as to my own ancestry on my US side.
I'm trying not to jump the gun, but I have noticed that some 5th cousins have Jewish and Middle Eastern haplogroups, although I know that these are only two lines (Y and MtDNA) out of many within someone's tree.
It seems that from these few contacts, they do seem to tie in with Decodeme's map of kinship and their genetic affinity feature.
I'm hoping to compile a list of every relative and their origins and will put it on here soon!