02/02/2006: The Genographics Project
National Geographic is sponsoring a project mapping human migration paths based on DNA samples. For $99 they'll send you a test kit.
Cousin Carol told me about it and I signed up at Genographic.
A few days later, the test kit arrived. It contained two numbered vials with sterile cotton swabs. The instructions said to swab inside a cheek, put the swab tips into the vials and mail them in.
Progress can be checked via an anonymous kit number. Although it took several weeks to pass through analysis, the results were available via the Genographic site.
My results:
And they give the ancestrial migration route as:
No earth-shattering revelations but it does coincide with known ancestry through our William's wife's side of the family. Laura Jane Hayes' GGGrandfather, John Hayes, b1680-d1750, was "of Scottish ancestry and born in Ireland. He immigrated to America, VA Colony in 1740."
The Genographics info did say that Haplogroup R1b was Cro-Magnon and displaced the Neandertals in Europe. www.atlantisquest.com shows a map of Cro-Magnon archeologival sites, noting that they're were centered around rivers and on the favored the Atlantic side:
Cro-Magnon was thought to look like:
Cousin Carol told me about it and I signed up at Genographic.
A few days later, the test kit arrived. It contained two numbered vials with sterile cotton swabs. The instructions said to swab inside a cheek, put the swab tips into the vials and mail them in.
Progress can be checked via an anonymous kit number. Although it took several weeks to pass through analysis, the results were available via the Genographic site.
My results:
And they give the ancestrial migration route as:
No earth-shattering revelations but it does coincide with known ancestry through our William's wife's side of the family. Laura Jane Hayes' GGGrandfather, John Hayes, b1680-d1750, was "of Scottish ancestry and born in Ireland. He immigrated to America, VA Colony in 1740."
The Genographics info did say that Haplogroup R1b was Cro-Magnon and displaced the Neandertals in Europe. www.atlantisquest.com shows a map of Cro-Magnon archeologival sites, noting that they're were centered around rivers and on the favored the Atlantic side:
Cro-Magnon was thought to look like:
uggs outlet wrote: