Hello everyone could someone please tell me how to go about doing a DNA test ? Now I want to find out about my mothers moms side of the house in Northern Ireland but my mom had no brothers and there is no male line of the Orr's here and there are gone now .How do I do this? Thanks Diane

Hi Diane,one option is mitochondrial DNA. That is DNA that is inherited only from the mother. Her sons' inherit hers. Daughters pass theirs on down to all their children. But only daughters pass it on. The children of sons inherit the Mitochondrial DNA of their mothers. So you have the mitochondrial DNA of your mother's mother (and her mother and her mother etc, back to ... Eve?). The usual companies test: www.familytreedna.com, www.23andme.com, etc, etc, etc. It's not possible to explain it well to you. If you visit either site or www.isogg.org you can find a lot of educational materials put together by professionals that will hopefully make some sense. There are also lists to ask questions on and get answers from experts. The mitochondrial DNA is much more interesting than the male. It seems our ancestors gave daughters to men who were not living close, or maybe it was a lot of raiding. Who knows. My mito line is from Germany. 25% of Arab women have the same DNA as me. Only 10% of the Germans. It probably came to Europe with Neolithic farmers. Hope this helps! Linda Merle ----- Original Message ----- From: "A & D Warren" <adwarren@sasktel.net> To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 7:25:46 PM Subject: [S-I] DNA Questions! Hello everyone could someone please tell me how to go about doing a DNA test ? Now I want to find out about my mothers moms side of the house in Northern Ireland but my mom had no brothers and there is no male line of the Orr's here and there are gone now .How do I do this? Thanks Diane ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Linda Thank You very much for the info I will look into this ! Thanks again Diane On 12/3/2011 6:47 PM, lmerle@comcast.net wrote: > Hi Diane,one option is mitochondrial DNA. That is DNA that is inherited only from the mother. Her sons' inherit hers. Daughters pass theirs on down to all their children. But only daughters pass it on. The children of sons inherit the Mitochondrial DNA of their mothers. So you have the mitochondrial DNA of your mother's mother (and her mother and her mother etc, back to ... Eve?). > > The usual companies test: www.familytreedna.com, www.23andme.com, etc, etc, etc. > > It's not possible to explain it well to you. If you visit either site or www.isogg.org you can find a lot of educational materials put together by professionals that will hopefully make some sense. There are also lists to ask questions on and get answers from experts. > > The mitochondrial DNA is much more interesting than the male. It seems our ancestors gave daughters to men who were not living close, or maybe it was a lot of raiding. Who knows. My mito line is from Germany. 25% of Arab women have the same DNA as me. Only 10% of the Germans. It probably came to Europe with Neolithic farmers. > > Hope this helps! > > Linda Merle > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "A& D Warren"<adwarren@sasktel.net> > To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 7:25:46 PM > Subject: [S-I] DNA Questions! > > Hello everyone could someone please tell me how to go about doing a DNA > test ? > Now I want to find out about my mothers moms side of the house in > Northern Ireland but my > mom had no brothers and there is no male line of the Orr's here and > there are gone now .How do I do this? > Thanks > Diane > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >