My Living DNA results!

Hello, folks!

It's been awhile and I guess people can change from month to month. Of course, a constant in my personality is my fascination with genealogy, both genetic and written. I did Living DNA as my most recent DNA company to test with. It's a company based in the United Kingdom and is really quite unlike any of the tests I have taken before. Here's a link to illustrate my point: https://my.livingdna.com/share/97bcc...6-0a3d0dc18df0. As you see, like 23 and me, they go into ethnicity, fatherline and motherline. Unlike 23 and Me, they do not go into Health and Wellness. It costs about $100.00, but the attention to detail makes it worth it, in my opinion, anyway.

Nice to see you back, sir.

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Originally Posted by CordedWhelp

Nice to see you back, sir.

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I thank you kindly, Corded! How have you been?

Very nice results gooding. I might consider doing this test. How long did it takes to get your results?

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Originally Posted by LePrieur

Very nice results gooding. I might consider doing this test. How long did it takes to get your results?

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Thank you, LePrieur. It took around five weeks, so there will be a wait. I liked the fact that they broke down the I1 to I- Z63 on my Fatherline. They're a bit more detailed in Y and mt DNA than 23andMe.

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Originally Posted by Gooding

Thank you, LePrieur. It took around five weeks, so there will be a wait. I liked the fact that they broke down the I1 to I- Z63 on my Fatherline. They're a bit more detailed in Y and mt DNA than 23andMe.

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Yeah that's the part that interests me the most here, and the regional breakdown is interesting as well. It's quite an impressive result for a reasonably priced test. :thumb001:

Hello Gooding, I'm also I1- Z63 and still banned from that fb group ;)

Cool results and interesting haplogroups :thumb001:. I agree, for the price the test it definitely worth it - the regional breakdowns have been very helpful for me and are surprisingly accurate, though I get 1.1% Chechen for some reason :confused:.
Are you opted in for the Family Networks beta?

Wow such great detail on the British part!

You don't have actual known Greek ancestry, or do you?

So nice to see you post again. When I opened the thread I said OMG. So happy. :kiss2001:

You even got a bit of Ireland. :)

I've done the Living DNA test and Ireland was 47% and my next highest result was Northwest Scotland. My daughter only got 11% Ireland in this test because of the lack of Irish samples. They are getting a lot of Irish, German and Swedish samples and plan on getting a lot more worldwide but will concentrate on Europe first.

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Originally Posted by waam

You don't have actual known Greek ancestry, or do you?

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Not that I know of by any paper trail, no.

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Originally Posted by Grace O'Malley

So nice to see you post again. When I opened the thread I said OMG. So happy. :kiss2001:

You even got a bit of Ireland. :)

I've done the Living DNA test and Ireland was 47% and my next highest result was Northwest Scotland. My daughter only got 11% Ireland in this test because of the lack of Irish samples. They are getting a lot of Irish, German and Swedish samples and plan on getting a lot more worldwide but will concentrate on Europe first.

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Thanks, Grace, it's awesome to hear from you again, as well. :)

You self-describe as Cajun French but have no ancestry showing in France at all. Do you find that accurate?

And are you aware of any southern Italian or Greek ancestry?

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Originally Posted by Inquizzzitor

You self-describe as Cajun French but have no ancestry showing in France at all. Do you find that accurate?

And are you aware of any southern Italian or Greek ancestry?

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My great- grandmother, Marie Elodie Pecot, was the Cajun. From what I've studied, bits and pieces of DNA drop off ( although I would think that 1/8 is a pretty big chunk to fall) from generation to generation. If there is any kind of ethnic Greek or Hellenic Italian blood in me, it hasn't been preserved culturally.

Ive been thinking of doing Living DNA and this was cool that I could browse your results and see how it displays them when you get it. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Grace O'Malley

So nice to see you post again. When I opened the thread I said OMG. So happy. :kiss2001:

You even got a bit of Ireland. :)

I've done the Living DNA test and Ireland was 47% and my next highest result was Northwest Scotland. My daughter only got 11% Ireland in this test because of the lack of Irish samples. They are getting a lot of Irish, German and Swedish samples and plan on getting a lot more worldwide but will concentrate on Europe first.

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I do have a bit of Ireland, indeed! :) I found that somewhat ironic, as I also was a bit puzzled by the lack of French readings ( other users on FB have shared their results and France figured quite prominently in some) and that my Southeast England was 35.7%, to drop drastically to my 8.6% Ireland ( were my French and even smaller German percentages absorbed by SE England?). I'm glad that they are getting more samples from continental Europe and I will be interested in seeing how my Ireland regions would get subdivided. Having ancestors from Appalachia, I always included Scots- Irish in my self- identification and yet I have no Southern Scotland/ Northern Ireland in my reading. I do have that huge chunk of Ireland and 2.4% Northwestern Scotland, 2% Orkney ( islands off Scotland's Northern Coast) and 1.6% Aberdeenshire. I pay more attention to the Standard because that includes the admittedly unknown percentage ( around 11% in my case). It seems that my Scots- Irish might be simply a mingling of Gaelic Irish with Highland Scots ( which itself might be considered extraordinary) rather than Scottish Lowlanders migrating to Ulster. How that can be with my thoroughly Protestant Appalachian family, I don't know. I'm sure there are several explanations that could offer themselves.

I've thought about using LivingDNA. Thanks for sharing.

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Originally Posted by Dick

Hello Gooding, I'm also I1- Z63 and still banned from that fb group ;)

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Hey, Dick. Yeah, I still don't understand why they'd do that.

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Originally Posted by Inquizzzitor

You self-describe as Cajun French but have no ancestry showing in France at all. Do you find that accurate?

And are you aware of any southern Italian or Greek ancestry?

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Maybe the DNA from my great- grandmother dropped off, or maybe there's something else I don't know anything about. If I did have Southern Italian or Greek ancestry, it might be on my father's side, where there are a lot of unanswered questions and dead ends, or if my great- grandmother wasn't French Cajun but ethnically Greek or Southern Italian, which could be a possibility ( if one of her grandparents had a dalliance with a Greek or Southern Italian- of which there were communities in Southern Louisiana- my estimate even in the Cautious mode is 4.7%, which isn't really that much, I guess I could have inherited some of that), but I simply don't know.

Thank you for sharing with us, helped to me to get an idea about commercial DNA tests.

I wouldn't think your grandmother's DNA dropped off, it's more due to the fact LivingDNA is very british-centric so anything that might resemble british ancestry will just get grouped together under English. I've seen a few LivingDNA reports ovet at Anthrogenica and many have been experiencing the same issue.
I wouldn't be surprised if you scored Greek only to even out your results since the French are more southeren shifted.

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Originally Posted by waam

I wouldn't think your grandmother's DNA dropped off, it's more due to the fact LivingDNA is very british-centric so anything that might resemble british ancestry will just get grouped together under English. I've seen a few LivingDNA reports ovet at Anthrogenica and many have been experiencing the same issue.
I wouldn't be surprised if you scored Greek only to even out your results since the French are more southeren shifted.

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Excellent point. I am looking forward to their updates, also.