Elwood P Dowd Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 6 hours ago, Carl Sagan said: My folks were childhood sweethearts in Littleover, so it was a surprise to both of them when I took a test and on the paternal line I was all celtic, mainly from Ireland, while on the maternal line I was romany, mainly from Lithuania! Had the results got mixed up? I gave them both their own test and the results were confirmed. We are a mongrel nation, the only difference between us and todays immigrants is the date we arrived. ? Mostyn6, Reggie Greenwood, sage and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritstone Ram Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 2 hours ago, Elwood P Dowd said: We are a mongrel nation, the only difference between us and todays immigrants is the date we arrived. ? Yeah but we were here first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 7 hours ago, Gritstone Ram said: Yeah but we were here first. Said the Neoliths to the Beaker People Coming over here... Taking our caves... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elwood P Dowd Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 9 hours ago, Gritstone Ram said: Yeah but we were here first. The Neanderthals were here first, many people have Neanderthal DNA in their own DNA makeup. If you take a YDNA test you can establish your Haplogroup which is best described as your "genetic tribe" you can then track the Tribes journey out of Africa and the DNA Polymorphisms which created other branches of your Haplogroup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup#:~:text=More specifically%2C a haplogroup is,a single line of descent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaaLocks Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 On 15/09/2022 at 21:11, Mostyn6 said: Well, I'll spill. I already knew the man I called Dad wasn't my biological so knew I wouldn't have any DNA from that side. However my mother refused to open up about the biological father. Anyway, last Thursday, along with being the day after I got back from Crete, the day of my Gran's first birthday since she died in June, and the day HRH Elizabeth passed away.... I found out I have 4 sisters and 2 brothers I never knew about. More trauma was discovering that one of those sisters died a few years ago and I was actually surprised how much that hurt. I have been speaking to my two younger sisters and one younger brother over the last few days. My biological father is alive and well, although I haven't yet been able to bring myself to speak with him yet. It's a bit too heavy right now. Actually, that's pretty much the reason I didn't want to go there - I already know I have two half brothers and a half sister but, for me, no thanks. All the best for it, friend of mine had something similar when his Dad died - he found three half brothers and sisters he had no knowledge of. Fortunately, on that one, it worked out quite well and they all get on so let's hope that's were you get to eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 I should also say that my family tree on my Father's side was pretty heavily researched by an Australian woman in the 1970s, so I'm not expecting too many surprises on that front. Although I guess it could disprove some of her theories or expose some mistakes I have a pretty unusual surname in the UK but there are hundreds of us in Australia, because in the 1800s one guy emigrated in the gold rush, and they had to have as many kids as possible because the aborigines would sneak into the camps and kill the babies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 On 15/09/2022 at 21:11, Mostyn6 said: Well, I'll spill. I already knew the man I called Dad wasn't my biological so knew I wouldn't have any DNA from that side. However my mother refused to open up about the biological father. Anyway, last Thursday, along with being the day after I got back from Crete, the day of my Gran's first birthday since she died in June, and the day HRH Elizabeth passed away.... I found out I have 4 sisters and 2 brothers I never knew about. More trauma was discovering that one of those sisters died a few years ago and I was actually surprised how much that hurt. I have been speaking to my two younger sisters and one younger brother over the last few days. My biological father is alive and well, although I haven't yet been able to bring myself to speak with him yet. It's a bit too heavy right now. an update cos a few of you PMd me to check things were ok. So my younger half-brother is a European champion at Bowls (the one with the little yellow/white ball, that they roll another bigger ball to get near to), and he was playing in the Home Internationals Indoor Bowling tournament over the weekend. Seeing this as an opportunity, I travelled to Rhyl on Saturday morning and met my younger brother (24), younger sister (20), her fiance and my biological father. My brother was reserve, so disappointingly never got to bowl, and it was his birthday weekend too. My biological father was literally like my dad, but with an accent. The similarities were scarily uncanny. He had lots of stories, and new my gran and older Uncles quite well. It was a nice weekend, if only a bit heavy on my brain and a lot to process. I'm glad I met them and will do my best to keep a relationship going with them all. I also have another sister I am really eager to meet as she's closer to my age and similar taste in music etc. Day, BucksRam, Miggins and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksRam Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Often thought of doing a DNA ancestory check. I've grown up English through and through but several years ago my Dad, whose own Dad left home when he was a baby in '39 discovered his biological Dad hailed from Wales. From that point my Dad decided he was Welsh ? We've traced our ancestors back on my Mum's side to a Captain Thomas Thrush, who captained HMS Avon and HMS Garland in the 1800s. We think he was involved in the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). Who knows what we'd find on my Dad's side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 18 minutes ago, BucksRam said: Often thought of doing a DNA ancestory check. I've grown up English through and through but several years ago my Dad, whose own Dad left home when he was a baby in '39 discovered his biological Dad hailed from Wales. From that point my Dad decided he was Welsh ? We've traced our ancestors back on my Mum's side to a Captain Thomas Thrush, who captained HMS Avon and HMS Garland in the 1800s. We think he was involved in the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). Who knows what we'd find on my Dad's side. There is a long history of Thrush on my Mum's side too. Crewton, Mostyn6, Stive Pesley and 4 others 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksRam Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 1 hour ago, sage said: There is a long history of Thrush on my Mum's side too. I did wonder who'd be the first to make a Thrush joke. Congrats ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 3 hours ago, Mostyn6 said: an update cos a few of you PMd me to check things were ok. So my younger half-brother is a European champion at Bowls (the one with the little yellow/white ball, that they roll another bigger ball to get near to), and he was playing in the Home Internationals Indoor Bowling tournament over the weekend. Seeing this as an opportunity, I travelled to Rhyl on Saturday morning and met my younger brother (24), younger sister (20), her fiance and my biological father. My brother was reserve, so disappointingly never got to bowl, and it was his birthday weekend too. My biological father was literally like my dad, but with an accent. The similarities were scarily uncanny. He had lots of stories, and new my gran and older Uncles quite well. It was a nice weekend, if only a bit heavy on my brain and a lot to process. I'm glad I met them and will do my best to keep a relationship going with them all. I also have another sister I am really eager to meet as she's closer to my age and similar taste in music etc. I did wonder why you was in Rhyl admiring the brown waters, thought it would be rude to ask Mostyn6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaltRam Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 (edited) On 15/09/2022 at 20:48, Stive Pesley said: so now i have crohns and half a colon Yay Crohns; yay ? Sorry if that offends. Thought you'd appreciate some dark punctuation based humour. Edited October 3, 2022 by Needlesh Stive Pesley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 11 minutes ago, Needlesh said: Crohns; yay ? Sorry if that offends. Thought you'd appreciate some dark punctuation based humour. Trust me, I laughed - and laughter is about the only thing I have to hang on to these days Weirdly i'd never even thought about the obvious Semi-colon joke I'm using that one and no can stop me! Reggie Greenwood, MaltRam and Mostyn6 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archied Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 3 hours ago, BucksRam said: Often thought of doing a DNA ancestory check. I've grown up English through and through but several years ago my Dad, whose own Dad left home when he was a baby in '39 discovered his biological Dad hailed from Wales. From that point my Dad decided he was Welsh ? We've traced our ancestors back on my Mum's side to a Captain Thomas Thrush, who captained HMS Avon and HMS Garland in the 1800s. We think he was involved in the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). Who knows what we'd find on my Dad's side. Ahhh there’s the downside of doing it ,,,,you could turn out to be Welsh ??♂️ Ram-Alf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archied Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 I’m quite swarthy in the summer , I’m Scottish but I do remember an Italian ice cream man ,,, don’t think I will bother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 5 minutes ago, Archied said: Ahhh there’s the downside of doing it ,,,,you could turn out to be Welsh ??♂️ more sheep to love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksRam Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 2 hours ago, Archied said: Ahhh there’s the downside of doing it ,,,,you could turn out to be Welsh ??♂️ Exactly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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