I did not realize when I asked for opinions on the various DNA tests that the question would evoke such strong feelings on the part of some of the readers. But, I am not sorry because I, and perhaps many others, have receive some valuable information with which to base our decisions. I don't believe that there is a need to be negative to any of them and was a bit surprised at the usually courteous group. I thank all of you and hope that you will continue to contribute pertinent information on the topic. I found the last entry from Lois most interesting. Thank you. Jeanne from CA Researching in Kerry: Lynch, Manning Kevane, Dunleavy in Ventry On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Lois Casson <lcasson@cox.net> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am forwarding this message from the Swedish list because I think there > may be answers here as to what the best place to have DNA testing done > would be. Many different sites have been mentioned as part of this list > ongoing discusson. I've looked at the site and feel a lot more > confidence in the products they offer. > > Lois Casson > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SWEDEN] DNA--my family's choice for DNA tests and our > surprising results > Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:18:40 -0400 (GMT-04:00) > From: <gwendaelin@mindspring.com> > Reply-To: gwendaelin@mindspring.com, sweden@rootsweb.com > To: sweden@rootsweb.com > > > I have been reading your posts about DNA and thought I might add my > family's DNA experience to the list. > > My brother is a doctor and he is very interested in reading and > researching about DNA. He choose genebase.com to test our DNA. > http://www.genebase.com/. (I know that there are other good sites as > well.) You can do a family tree online with it but it is more for yourself > than anyone else. My father is pure Swedish. My brother tested, himself, > for our mDNA and our Swedish yDNA and our father to get our Swedish > grandmother's mDNA. He wanted to see if our grandmother's ancestors were > hunter-gatherers or farmers when they first came to Sweden. Our yDNA > established us right in the central part of Sweden which was correct for > our heritage. They then told us who else matched with our yDNA, especially > some famous people such as Henning Mankell and a coworker's ancestor. I > knew who he was because I had done her genealogy tree for her on > ancestry.com. Because our Swedish surname changed every generation there > was very little chance of matching to others according to surname. > > My brother tested his French wife's brother and found that their yDNA is > Minoan. This was quite a surprise but it makes sense since their father > came from the lower Atlantic coast of France. The Minoans would have sailed > across the Mediterranean Sea and below Spain and Portugal and up the French > coast to settle. Their mDNA was typical for females of central Europe. > > Below is my mDNA story that is very interesting and might encourage > someone to get their DNA done. It really proves that one never really > knows all the genealogical answers. I thought my mDNA was going to be > middle European/German but I could not have been more wrong. It did help > for me to know our family history so when we did not get the answer we > expected I knew why. > > My brother went back did the most expensive test for us, after the first > initial test, because our mDNA turned out to be very different and more > difficult to figure out than most. It is very rare because there are very > few matches. When he did the extended test we found out that our maternal > ancestors came from the Hebrides Islands off Scotland where the > Irish/Scottish monks were doing illuminated writing. This was very strange > news because my maternal line goes straight back to Germany. The amazing > thing is that my maternal great grandmother came from Schotten, Germany and > Schotten means Scotland in German. It was settled, by invitation of > Charlemagne, in 1279 by Ionian/Hebrides monks. This means that my maternal > ancestors were part of the entourage that traveled with the monks from the > Hebrides Islands to Schotten, Germany and they never left the town until my > maternal great grandmother left in the 1880's. There were very few matches > to us probably because people livi! > ng on the Hebrides Islands or in the highlands of Scotland are not very > busy worrying about their DNA. It is just too bad that we didn't do this > before my mother died, a few years ago, because she would have been > fascinated with our discovery. Now we have to plan a family trip to the > Hebrides and Scotland. > > Hopefully some of you will want to see if you have any surprise DNA > stories and try it yourselves. 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