DNA Test

[Ronald Zeeman]

I'm using my heritage no surprises so far they use European data which is why I picked them. One thing I have learned as a quality engineer data quality matters including sample size and what you sample basically like in polling your sample is determined by people letting themselves get sampled, So far in my case only two first cousins have taken the test, none of my wife's cousins have, probably none have a reason too What I am noticing is no reason no test. One of my first cousins was given up for adoption by my aunt 65 years ago. My mother had told me about him before she passed away. I joined to sort out a few mysteries. discovered even bigger mysteries.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Other issues are sampling and Asia is most likely poor, so sampling in USA for African or Asian is a bad sample.
not representative of the populations, nor is using only part or the DNA rather than the whole genome. The more I look the more holes I see.

 

[AmberOpalite]

I personally never have. My biological dad is of Italian/Hungarian descent (my great grandpa was from Budapest and my paternal grandmother was born in Sicily). My Mom is of Irish descent.

 

[Cyber]

there's some incredible stories of people finding out they are adopted in addition to finding long lost family connections. the whole 6 degrees of separation also certainly plays out. We did a DNA profile for our daughter and found we had long lost distant 2nd and 3rd cousins scattered all over the world. the platform did give us the option of reaching out and making connections with these people. tempting as it is, I don't have the motivation to say hello to these folks.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

My great grand mothers surname is Glas, which means glass in Dutch, finding some of my relatives is the USA with names like Glass and Gass told me they tried spelling mistakes are why they have so few relatives on their tree. So I actually contacted a few to let them know.

 

[Mary Terry]

I just read an article about a woman who had her ancestry mapped, revealing that she is closely related to a much younger man from another state whom no one in her family had ever heard of. Long story short, she had received an anonymous stranger's umbilical cord blood during her childhood to treat her non-Hodkins lymphoma. She recovered from the cancer. The donated cord-blood DNA is now part of her DNA. The donor's mother had donated her son's cord-blood to a cord-blood bank when he was born, and the woman received that blood.

Does that make the woman and the donor man "relatives" or "family"?

 

[Aspychata]

They should formulate something for AB blood types to thin blood. Can you take blood thinners?

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Put on blood thinners after the stroke. I see blood as a mechanical mixture like paint, not a solution. AB blood is unique the merging of east and west only recently entered Europe, less than 2000 years ago.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Still seeing patterns in my DNA and unusual connections, latest revelation to another puzzle I was working on is how common the surname Mason is on my mothers side. My wife just reminded me my mother told my sister years ago do not forget the Masons they are important. Now I just connected just checked Verhulst family web site riddled with Mason's my grand mothers family still missing from site not sure why are we being hidden. Masons are good at keeping secrets and the templars had a big secret as they were being decimated, by the church and monarchy. This is one big maze as big as the physics maze I spent my life working on. Just stumbled on this one after DNA test to solve another puzzle am I related to Pieter Zeeman. Incidentally, my dad was agnostic my mother came from a unusual religious sect that does not exist here in Canada, that do not believe in leadership in the church no ministers priests, congregation lead each service by who ever wants to lead that service. She engrained in us everyone is equal. something I lived my life with sex life's station or intellectual ability does not matter. Either way time to visit my sister had to cancel going to my brothers birthday party as I caught covid again after I came home from party previous night.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I guess I missed this clue as I was not aware until recently the endogamy in my family as Mason is on my mothers side. Over a hundred years ago a woman from my mothers dads side married a Verhulst which is probably what introduced the AB positive blood type into my mothers family.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I know I have family Verhults in Ontario cannot find any of them my dads cousin was a psychiatrist can find no record of him. strange or his kids. My brother why was vice president of hospital workers union found out which hospital he worked out of, We know he went to university of Toronto.my second cousins name was Martin. Why does none of my branch of family exist on huge Verhulst web site recognize other members on my tree, my branch missing,

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I agree more to this than meets the eye.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Visited my sister yesterday, she confirmed what my wife told me, our mother before she passed away had told her cryptically that mason was an important surname in her family. Nothing else, I did not even know it was in her family until I did the dna test. Just hit me while brushing my teeth yesterday morning. The free masons and knights templar are connected. Masons were known for keeping secrets.

 

[Mary Terry]

My family had many freemasons. Virtually every gravestone for male ancestors at our ancient family cemetery in Kentucky has the square and compass mason symbol.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I guess we could be related. I suspect the templars to protect their secrets and wealth partnered with masons.
calling them selves free masons biggest secret was Christ had been married had a child who were smuggled out of the middle east to a distant part of the roman empire in France. Holy grail was just a euphemism for a woman's uterus.

 

[Mary Terry]

I guess we could be related. I suspect the templars to protect their secrets and wealth partnered with masons.
calling them selves free masons biggest secret was Christ had been married had a child who were smuggled out of the middle east to a distant part of the roman empire in France. Holy grail was just a euphemism for a woman's uterus.

We might be related if you subscribe to the seven degrees of separation theory. My ancestry is primarily from Austria, Germany and Scandinavia. Some may have been from Transylvania so I might be a vampire. Freemasons were a dime a dozen and very common in the US. I don't believe any of the Holy Grail stories or those fictional books about it. That's just more conspiracy stuff, IMHO. Entertaining but fictional.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I'm not into conspiracies, I agree most books are fictional especially the Brown books I take the book holy grail blood holy grail more seriously actually bought a second hand copy think they got some stuff wrong well researched. Either way I'm agnostic and like maze style puzzles even large complex ones. Did not expect to get involved in this one stumbled into it. Like covid thread, got into it because a friend told me what he thought was a joke about Neanderthals, having a genetic connection sorted that out that puzzle this is no different. IF their is something to it I will get to the bottom of it. I trust my ability to sort this out have life time of success. large or small. Most people are linear thinkers i am a curvilinear thinker. Works for me easy for a visual thinker like me.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I case your wondering I very rarely second guess myself when on the trail. Surprised a lot of people over the years. Talking to my wife I found their is alternative spellings of mason spelling in my mothers family Metzon, spelling was not standardized hundreds of years ago. as a lot of people were illiterate.