Autosomal & genetic research: a few conversation questions

[ScandinavianCelt]

Please feel free to answer any or all of these questions and you can be as long-winded or as short as you would like but I just would like to have a little more conversation about these topics than just posting results. For example what are some of the techniques that you utilize to understand your genetics the most which companies do you trust the most which calculators do you trust the most etc etc

1. What got you into genetic researching and interests?
2. Why do you think genetic research is so interesting for some people and not for others at all?
3. What have you learned or what can you derive from your research about yourself?
4. What is your faith level on a scale of 1 to 10 of your calculator results for both ancient scaled tests and modern scaled tests based on the knowledge you have of your family background?
5. Do you think your genetics influence your personality and if you do how do you think it does?
6. Do you think you can feel your genetics for example can You feel the different backgrounds that you have?
7. How do you view the minor components of your DNA both modern and ancient?
8. Do you have any funny stories about uncovering something genetically that you didn't expect that made you laugh?

Feel free to add some questions if you want but I was hoping to just get some answers to some of these questions and I hope you all have a nice day we are entering spring here on the seacoast North of Boston in the United States. It's fascinating to me how my genetics are rooted where a lot of you people are living and yet they've migrated for different reasons all the way over here to the Americas where we face some very extreme weather patterns both in the summer and in the winter which is probably quite different from most of Europe except in the mountains or in the North we get a lot of extreme temperatures here.

[JerryS.]

1. Just found it interesting
2. Different strokes for different folks
3. G25 shows my North German as Danish and my Scotch-Irish/English as Irish when using modern averages.
4. For my atypical ancestry using modern averages is less accurate than modeling with modern individuals. Ancient seems fairly close.
5. No.
6. No.
7. Same as the majority, it's just part of the mix.
8. No.

[ScandinavianCelt]

1. Just found it interesting
2. Different strokes for different folks
3. G25 shows my North German as Danish and my Scotch-Irish/English as Irish when using modern averages.
4. For my atypical ancestry using modern averages is less accurate than modeling with modern individuals. Ancient seems fairly close.
5. No.
6. No.
7. Same as the majority, it's just part of the mix.
8. No.

Cool stuff. I'll try the modern individuals. Scaled raw?

[JerryS.]

Yes scaled G25 coordinates.

[ScandinavianCelt]

Yes scaled G25 coordinates.

It looks good to me but I don't know which distance calculator to use because the top two pieces flip-flop from a quarter distance to a half a distance Irish is like 50% at a quarter distance and Scandinavian maybe 25% and then it flip-flops at half a distance and both genetic distances are quite miniscule. I tried the G25 58 sample populations I guess it scaled on explore your dna.com it's for like modern individuals it says can you recommend a particular test if not that one it looks good to me I just don't know which distance calculator to use if anything and should I limit the population sample to 3, 4, or 5?

[Jingle Bell]

1: Some guys in Quora and Pirulla a brazilian youtuber.

2: No idea, but maybe bcs its a kinda repetitive thing, u know just run g25/qpAdm models or read a article, can be boring asf for some ppl, also not everyone cares for their ancestry.

3- A extra Morisco/Jewish ancestry

4- Accurate, i always score Levant/Arab, but with my know ancestry ik its just Serfadi residual

5- idk, may dont

6- feel? I mean identity with my ancestry? Yes for sure, but in first place im brazilian, in second im Portuguese, Nigerian, Tupi etc. . .

7- Possible erros so i dont rly take that seriuosly, unless its have proof or a good reason to that

8- Yep, i always called a friend of mine "little jew", and like 2 months after that i got my first results and. . . 6% Jew xd

[ScandinavianCelt]

1: Some guys in Quora and Pirulla a brazilian youtuber.

2: No idea, but maybe bcs its a kinda repetitive thing, u know just run g25/qpAdm models or read a article, can be boring asf for some ppl, also not everyone cares for their ancestry.

3- A extra Morisco/Jewish ancestry

4- Accurate, i always score Levant/Arab, but with my know ancestry ik its just Serfadi residual

5- idk, may dont

6- feel? I mean identity with my ancestry? Yes for sure, but in first place im brazilian, in second im Portuguese, Nigerian, Tupi etc. . .

7- Possible erros so i dont rly take that seriuosly, unless its have proof or a good reason to that

8- Yep, i always called a friend of mine "little jew", and like 2 months after that i got my first results and. . . 6% Jew xd

Thanks for sharing. Funny, too. My mother's mother spent her whole life basking in her Swedish heritage and in their heritage they like to poke fun at the Norwegians and my grandmother died she was almost 90 and about 20 years later I found out my grandmother was about 75% Norwegian. Genetically speaking. She told me a funny story of her aunt many years ago when Sammy Davis Jr a black man married Ingrid Bergman the famous Swedish heartthrob and actress and all the swedes were sitting around talking about it because that whole side of my family was Swedish and the old Swedish lady in the room finally got looked at by everyone for her opinion and she raised her voice and said at least he's not Norwegian.

You know I guess it was quite shocking for someone in the '50s or 60s to marry a black man especially of her reputation and the only thing my great aunt no great great aunt was worried about was that she didn't marry a Norwegian. So I can just imagine if I told them you know you all are about 75 to 100% Norwegian and you don't even know it they might have died from shock.

[Figaro]

Please feel free to answer any or all of these questions and you can be as long-winded or as short as you would like but I just would like to have a little more conversation about these topics than just posting results. For example what are some of the techniques that you utilize to understand your genetics the most which companies do you trust the most which calculators do you trust the most etc etc
To pick and choose a few-
1. What got you into genetic researching and interests?
2. Why do you think genetic research is so interesting for some people and not for others at all?
3. What have you learned or what can you derive from your research about yourself?
4. What is your faith level on a scale of 1 to 10 of your calculator results for both ancient scaled tests and modern scaled tests based on the knowledge you have of your family background?
5. Do you think your genetics influence your personality and if you do how do you think it does?
6. Do you think you can feel your genetics for example can You feel the different backgrounds that you have?
7. How do you view the minor components of your DNA both modern and ancient?
8. Do you have any funny stories about uncovering something genetically that you didn't expect that made you laugh?

Feel free to add some questions if you want but I was hoping to just get some answers to some of these questions and I hope you all have a nice day we are entering spring here on the seacoast North of Boston in the United States. It's fascinating to me how my genetics are rooted where a lot of you people are living and yet they've migrated for different reasons all the way over here to the Americas where we face some very extreme weather patterns both in the summer and in the winter which is probably quite different from most of Europe except in the mountains or in the North we get a lot of extreme temperatures here.

1) Not sure of any one singular event, but I recall the beginnings of interest in it during my early teen years, with more serious attempts by late teens. I remember being 18 and being fascinated by the Tarim Basin mummies of China after watching a documentary, for one example, lol.

3) The great majority of my family knowledge Is basically backed up by my genetic research...I grew up being told that I was principally of Danish, German, and Polish descent (actually Polish-Belarusian remembered as “Russian”), plus “a little Jewish from somebody from Bohemia” all of which is demonstrably correct.

5) I do. I believe that the concept of genetic memory influences more than many are willing to admit.

6) well, yes, to some extent...there is a saying, “a man knows what he is”...however I don’t think that we feel the same racial instincts for all parts of our genome. I guess it depends.

8) Not really. Although on tests and calculators my father has a little bit of some potential recent-ish MENA of some kind that I can’t entirely put my finger on. This doesn’t make me laugh, however....hee hee, har har.