Ancestral DNA

[Churchill]

So was my grandfather. He was a cabinet maker and ran his own business. We even have a stamp with our family name on it which was stamped on the things he built. One wonders if any of these cabinets still exist!

You may find him on line if he had any sales catalogues produced or even his work up for sale attributed to him

[papasmurf]

So was my grandfather. He was a cabinet maker and ran his own business. We even have a stamp with our family name on it which was stamped on the things he built. One wonders if any of these cabinets still exist!

I expect some of those cabinets do exist. Unfortunately the only way I could identify anything made buy my father and my Uncle is I have the tools that made them, and there would be distinctive tool marks.

My wooden armchair made by my father is probably worth a lot of money now.

[Baron von Lotsov]

My family used to be charcoal burners and rustic furniture makers. That involved connections with the Hampden estate which goes back before the Norman invasion.

So was my grandfather. He was a cabinet maker and ran his own business. We even have a stamp with our family name on it which was stamped on the things he built. One wonders if any of these cabinets still exist!

[Borchester]

Doesn't bother me in the least.  I was amused when a rabid female BNP supporter tried to sue the company who did a DNA test at her request and she turned out not to be the member of the  "Aryan Race" she thought.

Clearly the lass is not into the history of the abolitionist movement.



In 1772 Granville Sharp won a court case that meant that a black slave could not returned to the West Indies. Due to a splendid legal cock up it was believed that the judgement meant that all black slaves in the UK were thus free. Unfortunately it also meant that if they left the UK they would be once again enslaved, which meant that possibly tens of thousands of blacks were stranded in the UK.



Scroll forward a couple of hundred years and the UK does not have any sizeable coloured communities until the mass migrations of the 1950s.



So what happened to the black population? My belief is that two hundred years of cheerful inter racial rumpy pumpy removed the melanin, but not the DNA.



   

[Churchill]

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[papasmurf]

Which company is that?

I am not telling you.

[Nalaar]

There was no such agreement with the company I am using. The only way I will be able to access the result is online with a reference number.

My name is nowhere on the sample container or on the box I posted it in.

Which company is that?

[papasmurf]

Only got back to the 16th century,found a few skeletons in the cupboard along the way bit of fun and I suspect foreign blood    but who cares?

Not me

One of my ancestors on my mothers side was involved in a big financial scandal in America in the 1800s and had to leave America before he was tarred and feathered and/or lynched. He went to the Bahamas and set up a bank currently much used by tax-evaders.

There is a suspicion one of my (now dead,) uncles beheaded some Japanese soldiers in Burma, but I have as yet not found the photos.

[Churchill]

Companies are great having security breaches/data stolen for a start.



Also the law is very grey on where ownership of the data lies, popular company ancestry.com requires that you license your DNA to them, which they can share with 3rd parties etc.

There is no 100% guarantees on any security system being it a Bank Vault or Computerised Data Base, if you chose to authorise a Ancestry Companies to pass on your DNA problem that is your decision

[papasmurf]

Companies are great having security breaches/data stolen for a start.



Also the law is very grey on where ownership of the data lies, popular company ancestry.com requires that you license your DNA to them, which they can share with 3rd parties etc.

There was no such agreement with the company I am using. The only way I will be able to access the result is online with a reference number.

My name is nowhere on the sample container or on the box I posted it in.

[Nalaar]

Companies are great having security breaches/data stolen for a start.



Also the law is very grey on where ownership of the data lies, popular company ancestry.com requires that you license your DNA to them, which they can share with 3rd parties etc.

[Churchill]

Exactly one cannot change history good or bad or our individual past

[cromwell]

Only got back to the 16th century,found a few skeletons in the cupboard along the way bit of fun and I suspect foreign blood    but who cares?

Not me

[Churchill]

It is a  slim possibilty but anyone who did sell on your DNA Profile would be committing an offence for very little return

[papasmurf]

Why what can they do with it ?

A medical or life insurance company could refuse cover.