The William Owen Family Tree -- Pedigree View
This snapshot image displays a pedigree view of the direct ancestors of my sister and me, back to our 2nd great grandparents. To view all of the more than 3,000 relatives on our tree, living and deceased, some living as far back in time as the 1400s, you should do the AncestryDNA test and/or join Ancestry.com as a member.
Where my ancestors came from
My ethnicity estimate derived from my AncestryDNA is surprisingly close to what I have determined from the William Owen Family Tree. After our biological maternal grandfather's Eastern European ethnicity was revealed by DNA testing, and we began building out our family tree, we hypothesized that we were approximately ¼ Slovak-Polish, ¼ Irish, ¼ Welsh-English, and ¼ German-French-Swiss. As more and more people do AncestryDNA testing, the algorithms will become more accurate and refined, pinpointing specific regions and places of origin within countries, as they already do in some of our own heritage countries.
So, what comes next in Ancestry DNA research?
We expect to see full genome sequencing in the not-too-distant future. The technology is already here to do complete genomic analysis but the cost of performing such testing is currently too prohibitive to be commercially viable at this time.
One company is offering mitochondrial DNA testing (mtDNA), a test that is available to women and men, which looks for clues about origins on the maternal side of your family going back many generations. They are also offering advanced Y-chromosome tests, only available to men, which also looks at correlations between paternal line surnames and places of origin from hundreds of years ago.
I'm awaiting the results of my Y-chromosome "Big Y-700" test and will report back if I find any interesting or unexpected findings.
Our maternal mtDNA test results are back and they placed my sister and me in Haplogroup H1. The testing company put together an interesting and humorous cartoon that shows our common heritage with other H1 descendants (including Queen Victoria!), and reminds us that our original first mother of all humans lived in Africa, and that our ancestors were all immigrants, sometimes fleeing from climate change, and at other times searching for a better future for themselves and their children. Sound familiar?
We expect to see full genome sequencing in the not-too-distant future. The technology is already here to do complete genomic analysis but the cost of performing such testing is currently too prohibitive to be commercially viable at this time.
One company is offering mitochondrial DNA testing (mtDNA), a test that is available to women and men, which looks for clues about origins on the maternal side of your family going back many generations. They are also offering advanced Y-chromosome tests, only available to men, which also looks at correlations between paternal line surnames and places of origin from hundreds of years ago.
I'm awaiting the results of my Y-chromosome "Big Y-700" test and will report back if I find any interesting or unexpected findings.
Our maternal mtDNA test results are back and they placed my sister and me in Haplogroup H1. The testing company put together an interesting and humorous cartoon that shows our common heritage with other H1 descendants (including Queen Victoria!), and reminds us that our original first mother of all humans lived in Africa, and that our ancestors were all immigrants, sometimes fleeing from climate change, and at other times searching for a better future for themselves and their children. Sound familiar?
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