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Oxford Ancestors DNA
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Stephen | Report | 12 Dec 2004 13:14 |
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If it's free: do it. It is easy and painless: swab inside of mouth with a cotton tip (but not after eating a ham sandwich) and send it off. It's fun: link to one of the semi-mythical tribes. However it's not really family history - for that you'd currently need a Y-chromsome paternal, (rather than mtDNA maternal) study, and OA's currently have too few markers. Family historians should bequeath DNA samples to their relatives so that in 100 years time they can do autosomal DNA tests! |
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Peter | Report | 7 Dec 2004 03:59 |
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I had mine done at Oxford Ancesters ("OA") and was very pleased to find out my maternal origin and that the male line is Celtic. The only difficulty is that you need to have more than the OA ten markers tested - I had DNA Heritage do a 43 markers test and this will give better comparisons. The next thing is get your markers on the various data bases so others can find you bot OA and DNA Heritage have data bases as well as the following: http://www.ybase.org/ or http://smgf.org:8081/pubgen/site0.jsp The next step after getting the test and getting on the various data bases is to set up a name project or get your info on one see the Bynum project that I have signed up for at http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/b/bynum/ Now I wait with patience to see what happens. I am stuck at 1533 with nowhere to go except two main tantalising options that my family name Bayman comes from either Baynham (originates from ap Eynon from Gloucestershire) or Beaumont (originates from Bellomonte a cousin of William the Conqueror and a Norman) - or some other yet to be found source (such as the recently discovered Bemonde I found in 1400s in Suffolk) - the point is if other get DNA tested then with these comparisions my research can be focused and much time and money saved on chasing trails that willlead nowhere. |
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Daniel | Report | 27 Jun 2004 11:11 |
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Arrrr, You brought the mag especially because i was in it. Thanks, ha ha |
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Daniel | Report | 26 Jun 2004 22:44 |
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Yes i was in the Magazine a few months back. It was worth £190 so i was really lucky to be chosen out of the hundreds even thousands that entered. I am of the clan Velda. I have put the details on my site at: www.thelongmanfamily.freeservers .com under DNA Analysis. I hope to find out were my paternal roots lie one day soon, so i'm looking forward to ordering that. |
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Dame | Report | 26 Jun 2004 21:39 |
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I find this to be a very fasinating subject...checked out the site sounds really interesting but expensive...The head honcho Dr.Hammer is supposed to be at U of A here in Arizona where I live...going to do some checking and maybe read some of his findings... |
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Devon Dweller | Report | 26 Jun 2004 20:53 |
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I've only manage to find one site that has a price list on it www.familytreedna(.)com Sheila |
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Unknown | Report | 26 Jun 2004 19:48 |
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I would like it done. How much does it cost and how does one go about it? |
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Daniel | Report | 26 Jun 2004 18:44 |
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Has anyone had their DNA tested by Oxford Ancestors? I won a free maternal line test from Your Family Tree Magazine a while back and its intresting to see where your true roots lie. Anyone else had it done? What did you think? Dan |
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