A few observations about DNA testing. I am finding very interesting information via DNA. Here is a little overview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I did the Ancestry DNA test. Ancestry tests your Autosomal DNA which is pairs of 22 X and Y-Chromosome’s and one Sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I may do the Y-DNA (Y-Chromosome) at some point, Ancestry does not do Y. Males pass down the Y-Chromosome in it’s entirety from generation to generation. Mitochondrial DNA tests trace people\u2019s matrilineal (mother-line) through their mitochondria, which are passed from mothers to their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You will get thousands of DNA matches. And Ancestry & My Heritage will show you how much Chromosones are matched. The higher the percentage the greater the match. For instance for mom there is this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shared DNA: 3,470 cM<\/strong> across 32 segments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Unweighted shared DNA: 3,470 cM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Longest segment: 203 cM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A centimorgan (abbreviated cM) is a unit of measure for the frequency of genetic recombination. 1 cM = 1% chance of a split\/match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t get me wrong you can get matches on the Paternal side as well. For instance I have a match for a cousin that was adopted out. Born an Ackerman and was adopted out in the first year. I didn’t know about this cousin until 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shared DNA: 493 cM<\/strong> across 23 segments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Unweighted shared DNA: 493 cM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Longest segment: 55 cM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is pretty definitive that he is my 1st Cousin 1x removed (my cousin’s son) whom we recently discovered. However I am unable to research him any further without knowing his birth father. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It is said that any match with less than 20 cM is unreliable. So tread lightly on those as possible. The key would be supporting source documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are many things you can gleen from DNA and I encourage you to go ahead and do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few observations about DNA testing. I am finding very interesting information via DNA. Here is a little overview. I did the Ancestry DNA test. Ancestry tests your Autosomal DNA which is pairs of 22 X and Y-Chromosome’s and one Sex. I may do the Y-DNA (Y-Chromosome) at some point, Ancestry does not do Y. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackerman-family.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackerman-family.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackerman-family.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackerman-family.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackerman-family.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackerman-family.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackerman-family.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackerman-family.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackerman-family.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackerman-family.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}