Genealogy Question!!?

Question

find the percentages of your bloodline? Is there a blood test you could take and if yea what is the cost and where can you get it at? Im curious becaouse i dont kno my fathers family background...

Answer 1

If your father & mom were actually married(no offense) you could check with the bureau of vital stastics in the town where they got married. It will cost only a few dollars for the certificate.  After you get his name you can then go to the Mormon church or ancestry.com...good luck. You will need much patience. Keep trying it will pay off.  I should mention that if you are of Latin ancestry the last name would not be his last name necessarilly. Latin people usually use their mothers name on the end & the fathers name second to the end.  For instance if your name is mr......Louis Rodrigues.  Your fathers last name would be Louis......good luck.

Answer 2

very creative question....you like to think outside the box. Unfortunately....I have no answers....maybe if you knew a vampire??????

Answer 3

There are DNA tests. They don't require blood.   Most have you swab the inside of your cheek with a 'q' tip type device.  You have to understand the word "blood" defining relationship is only figurative expression.  You are related to others by your DNA.  Your blood contains DNA but so does your hair, your skin, your saliva, your bones etc.

However, they are not going to give you nationalities or ethnicities.  They will give you a vague description like Northern European, West African etc.  They usually go back before a lot of nations were even thought of.  All of our ancestors were nomads at one time.

Edit:  Y DNA is passed from father to son only.

Mitchondrial DNA is passed from mother to both sons and daughters but only the daughters pass it on to their children

Most of your DNA is autosomal.  You get it 50-50 from both parents.  It is the only DNA that relates a female to her father or the spouses of your direct male and direct female line ancestors.

FamilyTreeDNA is the oldest. Put it in your search engine.

SMGF (put it in your search engine) does DNA tests for free.  They don't send you a report.  It will take them about 6 months before it will show up online. Still you won't be able to make heads or tails of it.  HOwever, they have contracted with GeneTree to interpret the results.  You will need a signon for GeneTree which is free and they will charge you $19.50 to interpret the results.

Answer 4

www.familytree.com  Y chromosome test runs at about $100 for a 12 alliel series, however that is vague at best and most find that they have to go a bit further to find that.  The tests are upgradeable.  You can also get the Mitochrondial RNA test done for the Maternal side of your family and that runs about $300-a more difficult test.  One thing that family tree does is if you are willing to send you matches on your DNA from other people.  If the person has the same surname, then it is likely to be a close relative (or at least related within the last 200 years or so).  I am a partcipant in a surname project there and am finding it to be interesting-having more success finding out about my father's line not by DNA, but by the old fashoned method of researching tons of papers and sorting out what applies and what doesn't.

The thing is all these tests will do is show you what the direct lines were and not what other lines exist in your ancestory.  In order for these tests to be valid for genealogy purposes they have to be verifiable across populations and that means that they have to run unchanged along family lines-this usually means direct family lines.  The Y chromosome is non recombinant-means that it doesn't exchange any genetic material with any other chromosome and so it is one of the chromosomes that is valid for these tests-it is passed intact from father to son-it does mutate over time and the mutation rate is pretty well documented and so you can determine how long ago a relationship occurred.  It will not tell you what bloodline your Mother's Father was-his genetic material isn't present in either the Y chromosome or in the mitachrondial RNA (which is passed intact from the mother to her children).  It also won't tell you anything about your Father's Mother either.