Twilight
Regular Member
- Messages
- 956
- Reaction score
- 91
- Points
- 28
- Location
- Clinton, Washington
- Ethnic group
- 15/32 British, 5/32 German, 9/64 Irish, 1/8 Scots Gaelic, 5/64 French, 1/32 Welsh
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b-U152-Z56-BY3957
- mtDNA haplogroup
- J1c7a
The testing companies can get the data and they should all get the same data if they test the same things.
The differences result from interpretations of the data. They might say "Italian" but what does that mean? Italy has a diverse historical background with Greek colonies, Etruscans, Italo-Celts, etc.
The companies will also develop "reference" populations that are different. They determine a broad percentage of "British" ancestry based on their reference populations. Well, British people are usually a mix of North/West europeans of all types, including different Celts. Being "British" genetically means you match the "British" melting pot based on recent history.
Ancient DNA is limited so they all make their best guesses and different companies use different methods.
That's okay, LivingDNA is only about 8 months old. LivingDNA is more than welcome to take their time in collecting ancient DNA. Anyways, I just bought my LivingDNA kit yesterday for the Memorial Day discount and I was wondering if any Colonial American descendants have gotten their results yet, if so is the British results accurate for those immigrating to the colonies from 17th-18th century England? Seems like my results are going to be a Thanksgiving present if it's a 6 month wait.