Anna and the M Kids Pt 9: M5 Expected

[Greendoor]

11 hours ago, Coy Koi said:

How similar were yours and your brother's results? My sister did an Ancestry.com test, so I don't know if it would be worth it for me to do one as well. She didn't really have any surprises. The Native American ancestry my dad's side pretended to have was apparently a myth, but I guess that's par for the course. The Jewish ancestry my mom's side thought they might have didn't show up either. Her results were all European except a chance of a tiny amount of Middle Eastern ancestry (which we'd never heard a word of from anyone). I always think about doing one of these tests but it would probably be more interesting to do it for my daughter, since she is multiracial and not much is known about her paternal grandfather's ancestry. He's African American but her dad claims he's part Chinese (and they do have Asian-looking eyes), but you never know. He claims a lot of questionable things as facts.

Hello,

While 23 and me can test for Ashkenazi genes it cannot test for Sephardic  genes,  Oman is where the Sephardic Jews started and then they went to Spain and into the rest of Europe (a lot went through Italy to the Netherlands and then to England).   Oman is on the north coast of Africa so it may be true on your mom's side, just not able to be pinpointed yet. 

 

[Coy Koi]

6 minutes ago, Greendoor said:

Hello,

While 23 and me can test for Ashkenazi genes it cannot test for Sephardic  genes,  Oman is where the Sephardic Jews started and then they went to Spain and into the rest of Europe (a lot went through Italy to the Netherlands and then to England).   Oman is on the north coast of Africa so it may be true on your mom's side, just not able to be pinpointed yet. 

 

Hi

Thanks for the info. Clearly I don't know a lot about how all this works. That's the other thing though, it seems like DNA testing is pretty quickly becoming more and more accurate and providing more information, so if it's going to be way better in the relatively near future, I want to wait to do it. At least with my sister having done it recently, I have a little bit to go on!

[lilwriter85]

On 3/18/2017 at 10:01 AM, luv2laugh said:

The Duggars PR team has been strategically planning on when to release all of these "special announcements", from Joy's engagement, Joe-Kendra courtship, and now a new Josh-Anna Pregnancy. They are trying to spread it all out to keep them in the news and drum up interest to get $$$. I bet ratings will be high for this next season based on how many things they are announcing. What next, Michelle Duggar expecting next week? Jana being married off? 

I hope that happens and the poor young woman can get away from TTH.

[MarcyMM]

If TLC hadn't turned this family into a money-making "business," I feel pretty confident that at least one of the kids would have broken away. Maybe someday the money will dry up and toeing the party line won't be such an anchor. Could maybe even be one of Josh's kids if they end up taking after an aunt or uncle on their mom's side.

[Galbin]

15 hours ago, Carm_88 said:

 

ET: I'm from Newfoundland. A safe assumption is verrrry Irish with a mix of Irish and a touch of Irish. I am from the Irish Loop after all. 

Oh wow, so then you actually sound Irish too! I watched "Dear Zachary" a few months back and assumed that the featured lawyer was Irish. But then others on the film also sounded Irish. I was mighty confused since I figured they all couldn't be first generation Irish. Then I googled and discovered that the Newfoundland accent is an Irish accent.  No wonder they all sounded like they hailed from my street!  

[karen77]

21 hours ago, justmy2cents said:

I read an article by a woman who took the test along with her 3 sisters and they all got different percentages of the same regions. Wonder how common it is to get the same exact results like you and your brother got? My sister will be doing hers soon so we'll be able to compare in a few months.  By the way, how can you tell how far back your dna results go?  Would you just assume that 12% goes back say 3 generations?

Here are mine:

67% Great Britian

27% Europe West

4% Ireland

1% Scandinavia

1% Europe East

Here are my Dad's: 

32% GB

22% Scaninavia

19% Ireland

19% Europe West

5% Europe East

1% Finland/NW Russia

Trace (less that 1% in both asia south and middle east)

 

MY GGfather on dad's side came from Ireland, and his mom's side went back a few more generations before Norway, but lived in a very Norweigen community.

(My GGfather on mom's side came from Denmark)

 

So, my results are interesting! Never had any NA stories though!

 

[ViolaSebastian]

Over on Tumblr, it came up that Anna has Josh saved in her contacts as "My Joshy Duggar." Ya'll are welcome for this knowledge.

[MsSaylor]

Thats just weird. Why not just Joshy or i guess (barf) my joshy. Dont get why she needs reminded of the last name. 

[nausicaa]

13 hours ago, Greendoor said:

...  Oman is on the north coast of Africa so it may be true on your mom's side, just not able to be pinpointed yet. 

 

Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but Oman is on the southeastern edge of the Arabian peninsula, not the north coast of Africa. 

21 hours ago, MargaretElliott said:

Whenever I hear about a Cherokee princess, I'm skeptical, because if everyone who said that was telling the truth, that's a lot of princesses. My great-grandmother was a grumpy Mi'kmaq woman in a homemade wheelchair. My grandmother brought all her kids back to the reservation once every year. No princesses. No warriors. Just a bunch of heavy-drinking Catholics. If your family is boring and unromantic, it's more likely to be true sometimes 

The "Cherokee princess" thing drives me up a wall. And it's always a Cherokee princess or a Comanche chieftain--no one is ever the descendant of some Shoshone schlub. 

The "Cherokee princess" stories always seem to come from white people who know nothing about native culture and just want to sound "exotic" to people. I find it really condescending.

[ViolaSebastian]

14 minutes ago, MsSaylor said:

Thats just weird. Why not just Joshy or i guess (barf) my joshy. Dont get why she needs reminded of the last name. 

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure why, but this just repulsed me. Maybe because it seems like something a teenager, and not a mother of five, would do? 

[Mela99]

21 minutes ago, ViolaSebastian said:

Over on Tumblr, it came up that Anna has Josh saved in her contacts as "My Joshy Duggar." Ya'll are welcome for this knowledge.

Gag me. I wonder if she had him in her phone as that as soon as Pa Keller told her God wanted them to marry.

[CreationMuseumSeasonPass]

10 minutes ago, nausicaa said:

Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but Oman is on the southeastern edge of the Arabian peninsula, not the north coast of Africa. 

The "Cherokee princess" thing drives me up a wall. And it's always a Cherokee princess or a Comanche chieftain--no one is ever the descendant of some Shoshone schlub. 

The "Cherokee princess" stories always seem to come from white people who know nothing about native culture and just want to sound "exotic" to people. I find it really condescending.

Sitting here at my desk at work quietly laughing to Shoshone schlub

[Stormy]

41 minutes ago, MsSaylor said:

Thats just weird. Why not just Joshy or i guess (barf) my joshy. Dont get why she needs reminded of the last name. 

I think maybe she put him in as My Joshy (first name) Duggar (last name). He might have been Josh Duggar for a while if her contacts came in through Facebook or something else that's automatically put everyone in by their full names, and then she added her own...flare, I guess.

[jerkit]

I'm 100% certain I did stupid shit like that as a teenager.

[Rachel333]

For those who took a genetic test, did anyone get results you know are inaccurate? I know I'm at least 50% Dutch and it's recent enough that there's not really a chance that I'm mistaken about that, but the MyHeritage test I did showed 0% from that region, though I do have a DNA match with a distant cousin from the Netherlands. Maybe it can't distinguish well among European locations, but it still seems odd and makes me wonder about the rest of the test.

[BabyBottlePop]

31 minutes ago, jerkit said:

I'm 100% certain I did stupid shit like that as a teenager.

They're not allowed to be a lovesick teen until they're actually marrying the guy so I can get it. 

Ugh if I had to marry the first guy I had a crush on...in Anna's case allowed to have a crush on. 

[Pasta]

I thought she only referred to him as Joshua?  Why would he be My Joshy in her phone but full name out loud? 

[Million Children For Jesus]

1 hour ago, ViolaSebastian said:

Over on Tumblr, it came up that Anna has Josh saved in her contacts as "My Joshy Duggar." Ya'll are welcome for this knowledge.

So much Barf. All of the Barf. 

[MoonFace]

On 3/18/2017 at 11:03 AM, CorbinsMommy said:

I still can't believe Josh managed to get someone else to sleep with him... sometimes I think no one could possibly do that with him and they consider the porn addiction to be the cheating.... but I doubt it.

I can't believe another baby is going to be born into this catastrophe.

Maybe someone taught him a few tricks so that it be more fun for Anna.   

With both couples totally in the dark as far as sex  (and who knows how much they can figure out on their own other than insert prong A into slot A) it could take a few years to figure out what to do to make it fun and lasting more than Wham, Bam, Thank you, Ma'm.   

[Carm_88]

3 hours ago, Galbin said:

Oh wow, so then you actually sound Irish too! I watched "Dear Zachary" a few months back and assumed that the featured lawyer was Irish. But then others on the film also sounded Irish. I was mighty confused since I figured they all couldn't be first generation Irish. Then I googled and discovered that the Newfoundland accent is an Irish accent.  No wonder they all sounded like they hailed from my street!  

Haha I do.  It's pretty fun! 

[send*the*ferrets]

Forgive me if I just haven't gone down the right rabbit hole yet- I was looking up the original "sin in the camp" accusations, and they seem to link to razing Ruth? But then she was fake- and then I don't know who concernedmom is because I haven't gotten to the right rabbit hole. Did razing Ruth somehow find this info out from concernedmom? I'm so confused and it's a deep dark hole- I searched "sin in the camp" and wound up on the Ruth threads and then those linked to old blogs and on and on... 

edit- never mind- I seem to have found the answer- RR used that rumor she stumbled upon to give herseld credibility 

[unicorncastle]

10 hours ago, Rachel333 said:

For those who took a genetic test, did anyone get results you know are inaccurate? I know I'm at least 50% Dutch and it's recent enough that there's not really a chance that I'm mistaken about that, but the MyHeritage test I did showed 0% from that region, though I do have a DNA match with a distant cousin from the Netherlands. Maybe it can't distinguish well among European locations, but it still seems odd and makes me wonder about the rest of the test.

 

I took an ancestry test and I was really surprised at my results. My grandmother and the 3 generations before her were all born in the same house in Germany, however, I have 0% German in me. I was expecting at least 25% because she claims to be 100%, but who knows? I want to take a 23 and me test to see what it says because I don't understand how that's possible. 

[VeganCupcake]

4 hours ago, send*the*ferrets said:

Forgive me if I just haven't gone down the right rabbit hole yet- I was looking up the original "sin in the camp" accusations, and they seem to link to razing Ruth? But then she was fake- and then I don't know who concernedmom is because I haven't gotten to the right rabbit hole. Did razing Ruth somehow find this info out from concernedmom? I'm so confused and it's a deep dark hole- I searched "sin in the camp" and wound up on the Ruth threads and then those linked to old blogs and on and on... 

edit- never mind- I seem to have found the answer- RR used that rumor she stumbled upon to give herseld credibility 

Interesting. Where did "Alice" originally post the story? Were they a yuku member, or was it another forum? I wonder who Alice is and why they decided to post the story online. 

@ViolaSebastian Lol at the phone name. Remember the infamous "Joshy Girl" bag Anna had in an early episode. Just crazy. 

[HarleyQuinn]

17 hours ago, ViolaSebastian said:

Over on Tumblr, it came up that Anna has Josh saved in her contacts as "My Joshy Duggar." Ya'll are welcome for this knowledge.

Cringe.  How old is this? That's a very teenager thing to do. I had nick names for my friends in my phone in high school.

[Jaedzia]

6 hours ago, unicorncastle said:

I took an ancestry test and I was really surprised at my results. My grandmother and the 3 generations before her were all born in the same house in Germany, however, I have 0% German in me. I was expecting at least 25% because she claims to be 100%, but who knows? I want to take a 23 and me test to see what it says because I don't understand how that's possible. 

I wonder if this is at all linked to what I read in a scientific journal. I hope I can explain it well. Each person is 50% of their mother and 50% of their father. What most people do not realize is that we are not always 25% of each grandparent. The reason is because your mother and father can not pass on both your grandma and grandfather DNA. They pass on one or the other for each gene so you can have more of one grandparent in you than the other from that side of your family. Its possible to have nothing at all from your maternal grandfather or paternal grandparents if you are a woman. Its possible for you have nothing from your maternal grandfather or your paternal grandmother if you are a male. Now if your Grandma was 100% German it would be strange that you had nothing at all from her but not impossible. If this Grandma was your mother's mother then you should have at least the mitochondrial dna from her. The mitochondrial dna and the father dna(I cant remember the fancy scientific term and only sons have it), are not part of what I stated above. 

Now I may be totally off base here and someone who understands this better can correct me if I am. Maybe someone explain it better, too. lol