DNA testing

I don't think I am going to post anything more about dna on the neighbors facebook page yet. I need to think about it for a while.

Here is the what I think at the moment.

1. the Ancestry DNA test is incredibly accurate as far as it goes.
a. I know of only 4 relatives of mine that have, for sure, taken this test: (1) my first cousin Fred Neighbors,  (2) my first cousin once removed, Lisa Dunham,  (3) Lisa's daughter, my first cousin twice removed, Rosalie and  Joyce Duncans husband, my fourth or fi cousin, Hugh Duncan. Hugh Duncan's great grandfather and my great grandfather were the same man: John Ledford Monroe Neighbors. The fact that this test was able to verify that information is absolutely amazing.
b. My test results, in fact, matched and  found all four relatives and precisely identified their relationship to me.

2. Why didn't the test show that Mark Neighbors (for example) is my cousin.
a. He hasn't taken the test, therefore his data is not in the computer and the test could not indicate that we were related.

3. Why didn't the test show my indian DNA.
a. Same reason as #2.
b. No indian relative of mine is in the data base.
c. There are only about 2 million people in ancestry's data base.
d. The population of earth is about 7 Billion people.
e. Ancestry's data base contains information on about (700000000 divided by 2000000 X100)                0.028% percent of the worlds population.
f. Finding that indian is harder than finding a needle in a haystack. In fact...that particular needle             is likely not even IN the haystack.

Ancestry DNA test results for Dean Neighbors

Okay.....my Ancestry DNA results are in:.

So....as it turns out, my results say that I am 46% descended from western Europeans, 41% from the Irish, 8% from Scandinavia, 4% Great Britain and 1% Finland/Northwest Russia.

Some of you Neighbors (most of you) are going to be disappointed because it doesn't indicate any american indian ancestors in my DNA. This may be simply because a particular Gene skipped me (I DO look like my Mom)...or because there aren't many American Indian DNA samples in the database yet. Personally, I believe the family stories.

The DNA data also connected me to 1518 (wow) 4th cousins and above (4th to 1st) who have had the DNA test. I have looked at a few of them and HAVE SEEN some american indian in some of the Faughn descendants. I am going to look at this over the next few weeks and I will report back to you on what my conclusions are.

I will also try to figure out how to make my Ancestry Family tree public so that anyone can look at it. I think you will have to join Ancestry to view it...but there is a free membership level available if all you want to do is look.

Stay tuned.

For the Austian ( Rebecca Austian ) and Kimbleys ( Penny Armstrong-Frizzell )... I am, obviously, just as much Austian as I am Neighbors and what I have looked at so far indicates that I got the Irish and western european from both Austian and Neighbors ancestors.