just got my Geno 2.0 kit from National Geographic

[arely staircase]

Can't wait to see if I am part Neanderthal. Anyone else done this?

[arcane1]

1. I haven't heard of this, it sounds fascinating!!

Is it expensive?

[arely staircase]

2. it was a gift

But I think they cost a couple hundred bucks or more.

[arcane1]

3. I may have to check that out some day.

How long will it take to get your results?

[arely staircase]

4. six to eight weeks from the time the lab receives the samples

Then the results are posted online with your ID number not name.

[Xipe Totec]

5. I'm interested in doing it. Can you post instructions? nt

[arely staircase]

6. my kit was a gift

But you can order it at www.genographic.com

[Xipe Totec]

8. Love the video!

[tigervalentine]

12. You might also want to check out

23andme.com

$99. Will also answer the Neanderthal thing. And link you to relatives.

[dorkzilla]

18. My best friend did 23andme and had her father do it too. They found out....

...that he fathered a son back in the 40's when he was in college. They broke up, the girl never told him she was carrying his child, and put the baby up for adoption. While he was thrilled to find he had a son (he's got 2 daughters), he is haunted by the fact that the poor girl never told him, and went through it all on her own. He said he would have married her, and was sad to find out the woman remained unmarried and poor (both are in their 80s).

On the other hand, my BFF now has a half brother and a niece and nephew. They're all getting to know each other and they're all thrilled that they finally found each other.

I'm doing this with my father too (women must have a male relative also submit a swab if they want a complete picture of their DNA). I know all the skeletons in his closet though!

[haikugal]

7. Let us know the results...

I like to do that one day.

[grasswire]

9. there has been discussion over in the genealogy forum

I notice that ancestry.com has a $99 special price, with some new advanced features. Also, the ancestry platform will link you up with cousins who are members there, once you get the genome test done.

I haven't decided which source to use for the test.

[arely staircase]

14. absolutely nt

[kestrel91316]

10. As our family genealogist, I've traced every single branch of the family tree back to

western Europe. But there is one thing this test could help with: there is a persistent rumor in multiple branches of my mom's side of the family that a particular ancestor we have in common was part native American. Given where she lived and the time when she lived, I can see a possible link to the Cherokee or some other tribe in the Midwest. But the only photo of her in existence shows her with blue eyes.

So this would be interesting. And it would settle the question for once and for all.

[Cleita]

11. I think there is in my ancestry too although no one

who knows probably would have admitted it back then. My mother however has a resemblance to pictures of a native people who live in the same area of South America where she was born. I too would be curious to know.

[arely staircase]

15. my great grandmother was a cherokee

But since she was my granddads mom on my father's side I dont think it will show u p since it will trace all the Y chroms back in my dads line and the Xs on my moms. Unfortunately my grandad is dead because the test on him would show it.

[grasswire]

16. even tracing to Western Europe may not give you the whole story

Example, many "Brits" are of Scandinavian ancestry by virtue of Viking marauders and settlers.

I never ever thought of my family as having any Scandinavian heritage, but sure enough, there are Swedes and Finns and Danes way back amid the native Brits and Scots.

My interest in the geno project is this: One line has stumped me, although every other line has been traceable at least to the 1600s. This line stops with my great grandfather in Ontario who has a name that might be Jewish. If Jewish, he would be my only ancestor of that heritage.

So I'm going to get my older brother to do the swab.

And we will also see, of course, if there is a Native American somewhere, perchance. Lots of Canadians in my fam since the 1700s.

[kestrel91316]

17. Well we do also go back to Scandinavians. I consider them Western European.

Point being, we're not Asian or Pacific Islander or African or Native American or Middle Eastern or even Mediterranean anywhere on paper. A teensy bit of Spanish and French and Russian WAAAAAYYYYY back via European nobility is all.

[warrior1]

13. I did the original geno testing

I was from Haplogroup - U5

http://www.familytreedna.com/pdf-docs/mt_migrationmap.pdf

[Thirties Child]

19. 18 members of our family have done 23andMe

23andMe tells you where your ancestors likely lived in the last 500 years, also gives Neanderthal percentages - 2.6% for me, which is on the low end. Mr. Thirties is .1% sub-Saharan African, which might answer a question about a possible AA paternal ancestor. A 5-great grandmother in 1750s Connecticut claimed that she many times she had lain with the slave named Lot. Many of the villagers testified in the subsequent divorce hearings, and several thought that the youngest child, a boy, Mr. Thirties 4g grandfather, was a mulatto. The story was NOT part of family lore, turned up in the 1950s when a genealogist uncovered it in court records. As I see it, the DNA supports the story.

[arely staircase]

20. I think people of pure subsaharan lineage

have no neanderthal genes because homo sapiens encountered them in south asia after leaving affrica. Your story is great. I am really hoping I have a relatively recent African American ancestor. Our family never owned slaves but it could still be possible. Im guessing itbwill all be N European and native American - of thebnorth american and mexican variety.