National DNA Day

[Davey Do]

National DNA Day is celebrated on April 25 each year and commemorates both the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, and the description of DNA's double helix by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953.

 The goal of National DNA Day is to offer students, teachers and the public an opportunity to learn about and celebrate the latest advances in genomic research and explore how those advances might impact their lives.

How will you celebrate National DNA Day?

 

[DavidFR, BSN, MSN, RN]

59 minutes ago, TriciaJ said:

I have a Ukrainian mom and an English dad and I've considered taking a DNA test.  It sounds like the DNA tests provide some pretty specific information.  Is there one you would recommend?

 

The company I used was called MyHeritage

https://www.myheritage.com/dna

They are based in the US. I can only seem to find the page with the pricing in Euros but I'm sure that's because I'm usung a French search engine. I'm sure if you search you'll find the pricing in US dollars. Let us know what you find!

Out of interest what region is your mom from? My dad was from the Ternopil Oblast in Galicia, Western Ukraine. 

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I think it would be impossible for anyone to not have some mixture based on what I've read over the years, unless it's a truly isolated population. My mom took one of those tests and found out that she has 7% North Indian blood probably from the gypsies that came out of India. She's like Irish and Scottish with strawberry blond hair and blue eyes. That would account for her watching Indian movies and feeding us Indian food growing up. She's from Northern England, the Doncaster area and there's lots of Indians up there, so we automatically assumed that's where her influences came from. Also Indian influences in the UK are quite heavy.

My oldest sister is married to an Indian man except he doesn't actually look Indian which if you visit the UK often, is actually common. They are as white as you or I. You would swear he was French or something because you can't tell from skin color since many Indians are really actually white. He doesn't even tan in Summer. I said French because he has one of those hooked, Roman, French haughty noses. And his family does tend to look down on us as peasants. We are quite well off, but when they visit, they need luxurious hotels etc. Small rooms in American houses and no staff to wait on them, just won't do. My father being a bit of snob loves being looked down upon apparently, because he's more proud of his son in law and his family since he shows them off like a trophy. 

So yeah, I think it's important that we are all mixed for health reasons anyway. 

[TriciaJ, RN]

1 hour ago, DavidFR said:

The company I used was called MyHeritage

https://www.myheritage.com/dna

They are based in the US. I can only seem to find the page with the pricing in Euros but I'm sure that's because I'm usung a French search engine. I'm sure if you search you'll find the pricing in US dollars. Let us know what you find!

Out of interest what region is your mom from? My dad was from the Ternopil Oblast in Galicia, Western Ukraine. 

That is interesting.  My baba's family was from Yablunivka, in Ternopil Oblast.  The family had already emigrated to Canada when she was born.  My dida was born somewhere around Lviv, probably actually in the Carpathians.

[DavidFR, BSN, MSN, RN]

3 hours ago, TriciaJ said:

That is interesting.  My baba's family was from Yablunivka, in Ternopil Oblast.  The family had already emigrated to Canada when she was born.  My dida was born somewhere around Lviv, probably actually in the Carpathians.

Found Yablunivka on the map. My dad was from further north, a village called Szybalyn very close to Berezhany. He fled at the beginning of the war as a 19 year old nationalist and wasn't allowed home during the days of the USSR. After independence we had a very emotional reunion in Szybalyn with his sister after 49 years. The Ukrainians all have very interesting and often tragic stories to tell.

[TriciaJ, RN]

3 hours ago, DavidFR said:

Found Yablunivka on the map. My dad was from further north, a village called Szybalyn very close to Berezhany. He fled at the beginning of the war as a 19 year old nationalist and wasn't allowed home during the days of the USSR. After independence we had a very emotional reunion in Szybalyn with his sister after 49 years. The Ukrainians all have very interesting and often tragic stories to tell.

Unfortunately things don't seem to be improving there at the moment.

[Hannahbanana, BSN, MSN]

In the town where my family has lived for five hundred years there are many, many families who have intermarried. While my mother was “from away” and had immediate ancestors from Germany and Mexico and my father’s father’s family was from New York State and likely Jewish from England, the rest of the family pretty much stayed in the area since the seventeenth century. 
My husband’s grandmother and my great-grandmother were sisters, so we are second cousins once removed. They lived in that same small town and through them we are both related to about half of the people in the 1620s - 1860s churchyards there. There are lots of first- and second-cousin marriages going back centuries (which we can find with ease).  Reading the history books from that era is reading about people we have known about all our lives. It has only been in the last two or three generations that life, wars, college, and the like offered opportunities to travel and marry outside a comparatively small pool. 
One thing you learn in nursing, though, is that no matter somebody’s  heritage of record, we are all people c the same basic needs and concerns. There really is more that we have in common than that divide us. 

[Emergent, RN]

Probably 95% of my ancestry is from England, Wales, Scotland. Throw in a little Dutch, German, and French. The DNA said 4% Norwegian which I'm sure is because of the Viking presence in England, Scotland and Wales.

Pretty much my entire ancestry is from the colonial era of the United States. I don't think anybody in my family tree came to the new world after 1850.

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3 hours ago, Emergent said:

Probably 95% of my ancestry is from England, Wales, Scotland. Throw in a little Dutch, German, and French. The DNA said 4% Norwegian which I'm sure is because of the Viking presence in England, Scotland and Wales.

Pretty much my entire ancestry is from the colonial era of the United States. I don't think anybody in my family tree came to the new world after 1850.

Phew. Me and my siblings are first generation. Lots of catching up to do especially as 75% of the family want to go to British Columbia. My parents have a house in Coquitlam, just outside of Vancouver and we spend a lot of time there. It's incredibly beautiful. 

[Davey Do]

On 4/26/2021 at 3:25 AM, DavidFR said:

On the fun side, who else has done one of those DNA tests to chart their ethnic background?

[Daisy4RN]

10 minutes ago, Davey Do said:

Uh oh, looks like you got a false positive, or is it a false negative?‍♀️

[guest1163268]

6 hours ago, Davey Do said:

I knew that there was a lot of hot air in there somewhere ?♨️??????

[Davey Do]

8 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

I knew that there was a lot of hot air in there somewhere

Hey Curious-

The universe called and is looking for someone to revolve around.