Batch 147 created

[sitiv1]

Ancestors fun, but can't take too seriously

It turns out that my (according to paf; I can't count that high) 14th greatgrandfather was a fairly famous French painter in the early Renaissance. This is a guy on the direct male line; he should have the same y chromosome I do. Of course there is plenty of legend and conjecture in the paper trail that connects me to him, but it's probably as close as I will be able to come to the truth in my lifetime. Y-DNA results prove the connections back to the 5th great grandfather, and there is potential we can get back to the 7th when a couple of more cousins test.

Anyway, Jean Fouquet did a self portrait: http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/fouquet/fouquet_bio.htm

I don't look very much like him, but if you look at the number of other ancestors at that point, I am related to 2^16 other people in that generation, or 262144 other people (if I set that up in the calculator correctly). So, if I don't look very much like him, it's not surprising
I actually look more like this-->
steve

[M.O'Connor]

nice curley hair -->


No sign of results yet...of course I am on Atlantic time. It is near 12:30 pm here...probably the lab is just opening it's doors at this time.

[Stevo]

Ancestors fun, but can't take too seriously

Good point.

It's easy to get carried away with these y and mtDNA haplogroups, as if those two lines were all there is to a human being and his or her ancestry.

We're all a mixed bag, and we're all related.

[M.O'Connor]

yes..when you come down to it, we are all related..some more recently than others.

[Stevo]

yes..when you come down to it, we are all related..some more recently than others.

Yeah, we ribeyes go back a long way together.

[M.O'Connor]

Maybe all the way back to Round Sand City.?

[melissa]

Some ppl have their 37 markers back already from batch 148. Maybe the 12 marker test we've been waiting for from batch 147 will get posted tonight. I could use a bit more excitement this evening than watching the dogs sleep on the couch.

[M.O'Connor]

Some ppl have their 37 markers back already from batch 148. Maybe the 12 marker test we've been waiting for from batch 147 will get posted tonight. I could use a bit more excitement this evening than watching the dogs sleep on the couch.

(while I'm wating) hey what kind of dogs do you have.?

This is Gypsy

[M.O'Connor]

While I'm waiting...I think I'm going to paint the living so I can watch it dry..

[Stevo]

While I'm waiting...I think I'm going to paint the living so I can watch it dry..

No results yets?

You are waiting for the new extension to 66 markers, as well as the R1b1 deep clade thingee, right?

Those might take a bit longer.

I'm hoping the last 12 of my 37 markers come in this week, although my impatience has been cured by what I have received thus far.

[DMac]

While I'm waiting...I think I'm going to paint the living so I can watch it dry..

Seems a lot more fun, and a whole lot less morbid, than painting the dead.

[M.O'Connor]

I don't know?...I'm getting pretty handy with this paint brush

Reminds me of my Uncle who drowned in a barrel of Varnish...he had a beautiful finish..

[Stevo]

I don't know?...I'm getting pretty handy with this paint brush

Reminds me of my Uncle who drowned in a barrel of Varnish...he had a beautiful finish..

That was like a drive through Nebraska: pretty corny.

So, any results yet?

[M.O'Connor]

hehe


nope....i think the paint is dry..

[Stevo]

Did you see my last post in that IF YOU ARE ONE, BE ONE thread?

I was checking my numbers against Ken Nordvedt's Varieties of R1b chart (for the first 25 markers, anyway).

So far I match R1b-Frisian and R1b-Norwegian exactly on 20 out of 25 markers. No other modal haplotypes come anywhere near as close.

I have a couple of weird marker values that none of the modals match.

There is one value I have that only R1b-East matches.

Strange.

Maybe all that will change when my last 12 markers come in.