Comments by "Ponto" (@Ponto-zv9vf) on "Why You DON’T Descend From All Your Ancestors…" video.

  1. I don't know how he worked that one out. Considering that the ancestos of indigenous Australians have been on the continent of Australia for tens of thousands of years, it seems unlikely. I don't like Mr. Rutherford.
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  2. You do believe in a lot of bull. Good luck to you, and commiserations to your spouse.
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  3. I've built my family tree, it wasn't that difficult once you work out your recent relatives I mean grandparents, great grandparents. It might sound odd but many people don't know their grandparents, and definitely don't know their great grandparents. I was born in Malta, and as I said once you get through the recent relatives it's easy to go further via church records that a Mr. Adami recorded by copying church records from each church. The problem of course is missing records, and with Maltese people the habit of naming children after Joseph and Mary, and the many very common surnames. So far, my ancestors are holding up by dna testing. As far as the ethnicity of my ancestors, it's not important to me, and anyway I use G25 coordinates and Yahaduo to work out my ancient ancestry from Neolithic farmers, Steppe herders, HGs ....
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  4. The Vikings were Northern Europeans, they cannot be distinguished from other Northerne Europeans in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. I was told I was 12% Viking of the Scandinavian type for free. I thought it was BS, but then I couldn't of cared either way.
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  5. Hemochromatosis is something that comes from the Steppe herder ancestry which unfortunately got passed on almost exclusively to the Celts of Britain and Ireland.
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  6. Ha. I have never heard a Scots accent like that before. Maybe I am too used to my brother in law from Edinburgh. It's not irritating, you have to get used to it.
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  7.  @philandrews2860  Well its been in Western Europe a long time, from the Bronze Age. It's a Western Steppe Herder haplogroup. R1b exists in Africa as well, among sub Saharan Africans that live around Lake Chad.
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  8. All people are common, it's just a few that get the fickle finger of fate that makes them artificially ennobled. Realistically what does King Charlie have to do with Alfred the great or King Canute. I'll tell you, nothing.
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  9. Sometimes it's the result of an unlikely mutation. Most people have about 100 differences to their parents, spot mutations. Also older parents produce defective dna particularly older men in their sperm.
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  10. Yes. That is why my tree stops at my 5th great grandparents. I could go further back but there is no way I could prove real relatedness or just chance because of coming from a certain ethnic group.
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  11. Well, they should have kept their legs together.
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  12. That is the problem of coming from closely related ethnic groups. On AncestryDNA my ethnic group can be distinguished from others by greater than 90% accuracy.
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  13. Okay, I don't understand what you are trying to say. How do you know what your ancestors 30 generations ago looked like? I have never met or seen my grandparents. I wouldn't have a clue whether they looked like me or Joe Blow down the road.
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  14. That's interesting. I see results in mixed Australian Aborigines and they can vary wildly. I once saw a photograph of a Mestizo couple, one pink skinned, the other quite yellow, they had 6 children, the eldest 2 looked black African, the middle 2 Mestizo, and the last light Europeans.
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  15. What I have found is that on Ancestry most of my cousins have no tree or a very simple tree, both useless for me. I prefer to ignore predications.
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  16. That's odd. Irish people have Irish surnames. AncestryDNA said I was 100% Malta, there is nothing but Maltese surnames in my family.
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  17. I am not British but I am probably related to those monarchs and so are many other Europeans.
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  18. I don't think anyone said you don't descend from your paper trail ancestors or that you may not inherit any dna from them. It is just genealogical ancestors and genetic ancestors. At least with genetic ancestors there is no doubt you descend from them, but with genealogical ancestors there is always doubt.
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  19. Well that is normal. I have 7 siblings, I am the only one dna tested, so I don't have what you have received from dna testing. What I have learnt is that I have a 1st cousin on my father's side and a 2nd cousin on my mother's side. Sounds strange but I don't know either, my parents didn't have anything to do with their families due to immigration.
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  20.  @TotalFreedomTTT-pk9st  Eye color is more complex than just the SNPs in OCA2 and HERC2, there are other SNPs that effect eye color, so that someone with the main SNPs for blue eyes can have brown eyes, and two blue eyed parents can have a child with another color. It isn't simple Mendelian dominance. Blond hair is really overexaggerated, most people born with blond hair end up with brown hair as adults, and to be blond haired you would have to have all the light pigmentation alleles of the light pigmentation SNPs which is why blond hair in adults is not as common as you think on seeing a crowd of British people and seeing a lot of blonds. Many of them are faux blonds.
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  21. Pistachio.
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  22. The point is you can say Michale O'Faherty is your 5th great grand father but saying so doesn't mean he is. If you cannot prove a dna connection to the man then it can be seen as conjecture no matter what your paper trail shows.
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  23. Sorry for the cancer diagnosis of your sister. Dna just tells you of your probability but not whether you will get some nasty disease or disorder. I have seen the dna results of many Northern Europeans and phenotypically they are not blond and often not blue eyed.
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  24. I don't know. Someone could look like your Fridjof Nansen and be 100% Greek. It is just the luck of the gun.
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