Dna Human

[Suetheramble]

My husband whose family tree is littered with illegitimacy would like to have his DNA taken to find his pedigree.
Anyone out there know who is the best /reliable company to deal with?

[woofgang]

What is he hoping to find out?

[Old_Geezer]

I can not help with recommending a company, but unless I am mistaken DNA from one person is only going to tell you in vague terms where your ancestors are likely to have originated from. To get details you need DNA for everyone else and a lot of investigation matching and failing to match samples. But someone may be along to tell us otherwise.

[Smowball]

I think OG is right

[beso]

Illegitimate is a such a ridiculous term. He needs to get over this prejudice.

[Old_Geezer]

The word may not be a good choice if taken literally; but in normal use it's meaning is well known and non-prejudicial.

[Prudie]

How daft (and a bit mean) to bring over PC correctness into this query. As OG says we all know what the words means, Sue is saying there are offspring born out of wedlock (is that better???) or of unclear parentage that's all.
I fully understand as it's always been questioned who my mother's father is and whether my paternal grandmother was adopted so I can' get very far with family tree at all.

[Suetheramble]

There still is "illegitimacy" in this family but it no longer has the stigma it once had. I imagine if you trace pretty much any family tree at some point the husband will not be the father of the off spring.(Archbishop of Canterbury, Paula Yates and so on - it happens)
My husband has got no idea who some of the fathers are on his side but his children and his brothers children seem stop have an oriental appearance some people have asked my child if she had oriental blood in her. He is not looking to find the very person he is related to just "someone" from China (or wherever)
So, purely out of interest, he would like to know what blood is running through his veins.

[mikey4444]

Boris apparently has Turkish origins, but you never guess by looking at him would you ?

[Old_Geezer]

Oh, I don't know. If he'd grow a droopy moustache and maybe get a tan, I could picture him stripped to the waist, offering massages in the Turkish Baths.

[EDDIE51]

The sort of DNA testing you are talking about can only tell you things along the lines of >>>
75% North European, 15% South European, 10% South East Asian.
It can't even pin you down to say you have origins from specific countries.
To do what your Husband wants would need DNA from all the family members he is unsure about and it being cross referenced.

[jno]

a familyfinder-type test will give you some general information, eg if he's got SE Asian ancestry. As Eddie says, it won't even give you something as unspecific as China, and yet it might tell him what part of the world his forebears came from and - very roughly - how recently, which sounds like the sort of informtion he's after.

http://dna.ancestry.co.uk/?s_kwcid=ancestry+dna&gclid=CJTapo3t6c0CFU4o0wod9usHpA&o_xid=64489&o_lid=64489&o_sch=Paid+Search+%e2%80%93+Brand

If you want to know very specific things like "am I related to X" you'd need X's DNA tested as well.