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My Dad researched our heritage and found we may have roots in France !
So he stopped right there and we all promised never to talk about it again ....
Maybe that's why I can cook so well though ?
Soooo, you're French, eh? I wonder how we can use this to our advantage...
....and I have some French wine, so that you'll lose your concentration...
Before the internet came along my aunt traced our history so take this for what it's worth as I was quite young and she just highlighted it. The family was rooted around Edinburgh, Scotland and during the last England-Scotland tiff, we sided with the British. We won....yea us!. My aunt said this act entitled the family to be hereditary standard bearers to the British monarchy but no one has offered me the job. While I was in Edinburgh in '77 I had a dinner with family members who's descendants fought on both sides and this is still a bitter subject centuries later. I just sat there stunned. She also said our surname was one of the oldest in Scotland and originated in Scandinavia from minor nobility. As I said, take it for what it is. Good luck on your search FBJ.
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Interested in the DNA analysis. What are they going to test? Is it an SSR research or SNP? Who's going to do that?
700,000 SFP's that should tellyou somethingThey'll probably be able to build a phylogenetic tree out of that.
Wondering if you'll find any Djengis Kahn DNA in your Y-chromosome. A large percentage of European males seem to have that
Interesting stuff. All I can remember from a trace my sister did, back about 40 years ago, is that the family name originated in Ireland, then re-surfaced in Leicestershire back in around the 1400's (where I once had a fairly wealthy uncle), and then moved back to Ireland, and back to England via Scotland! There is some very distant relationship to minor royalty way back, but nobody has offered me a King's job yet, so I'm keeping an open mind on that point!
So I see that it should be Karl, Marquis de Rochford then ?
That explains a lot ..............................
It's amazing what you can find when you start looking. Although... My father once started searching (before the internet) and he did not get further than an unmarried nurse who seems to have fled from a little poor farmer's village in Drenthe to the more anonymous City of Groningen, after her unholy pregnancy. She covered her tracks so well that my father got stuck there. So the only thing I can say about my tree is that come from a bastard son somewhere late 1700...
If you get those results of the DNA test, keep in the back of your head that the results can be misleading. Although they have a database of 850,000 people, it doesn't tell you how balanced and diverse this population is. Things can be biased if populations are not thoroughly randomized. They'll probably compensate for this, but keep an eye on that. Most of our calculation powers are used to compensate for bias in a population structure when doing association studies. And still our results are not 100% reliable. But at least they should tell you the margin of error.