Is there a DNA test that can be done?

Question

I was wondering if there is a type of genetic or DNA test that can be done and what would it be called that would answer a genealogy question.
I recently discovered what is possibly my paternal grandmothers siblings grandchildren. Problem is, my great grandparents have passed and so have all of their children. They seem to doubt that my grandmother is actually a child of both parents and not just our great grandmothers from another relationship.
Is there a test that can be done on we surviving great grandchildren that would answer the question as to whether we are all descendants of this couple?

Answer 1

For your paternal grandmother's mother, find a cousin who is a female grandchild of hers maternally to compare with them. It would have to be in the direct female line coming down from her.



Y DNA goes from father to son only. In other words you get it from your father, his father, his father etc



Mitochondrial DNA goes from mother to both sons and daughters but only the daughters pass it on to their children. In other words you get it from your mother, her mother, her mother etc.



I wanted to get my paternal grandmother's Mitochondrial DNA and I had a cousin whose mother was her daughter to take the test. Since she was my paternal grandmother I don't have her Mitochondrial even though my father did.



You have 23 chromosomes from each parent and Y & Mitochondrial come from the one each that determines your sex. They are used in genealogy as they both go back in a straight line virtually unchanged.



The other 22 chromosomes each are made of your Autosomal DNA which you get 50-50 from both parents but it is too complicated to use to determine most relationships. It is used for paternity testing of a female.



This company is the oldest and has the largest database for Y & Mitochondrial testing. If you get a "we're sorry" message just click on "Home." If you want to email them and ask question just click on "feedback."



http://www.familytreedna.com/Default.aspx?c=1



This website gives a good explanation of DNA



http://www.smgf.org/pages/how_it_works.jspx



Edit: Another thing you can do is to prove ancestry from your great grandfather. A direct male line descendant from a brother of your grandmother and compare it with a direct male line descendant they have from their great grandfather.



Back many years ago adoptions weren't recorded like they are today. A woman might have had a husband desert her or leave her widowed and when she married any children she had by her previous marriage might have taken the name of her new husband.

Answer 2

I am not sure what is being said...if gr grandma supposedly had grandma "secretly" (as in extramarital), or are they just saying that Gr Grandma was married before??

An alternate means to search this.. is to identify WHO great grandma was (name/place/date), and depending on the DATES..you should be able to locate the family in the census. In the US, 1930 is the latest one open for research. It would list all the children in the home, with approx dates of birth, but other info as well. SOME census years are available at different locations online..the ONE that has all of them is ancestry.com. You also can access ancestry from your local library in many cases.

DEPENDING on the details of what you find.. the census and related documents MIGHT answer this. Especially if (for example) grandma was born in 1919, you find gr grandma living with baby and parents in 1920, and she does not have more children until 1922. (that is just a best case example, not that it will necessarily work that easy). You also may be able to locate her marriage record for the husband, and compare it to known birth for grandma.

I am not as familiar as many here with dna..but you might consider looking for the standard records, before worrying. It may simply be a case of she was married first, and original husband died soon after the marriage.

Answer 3

making use of what little i be conscious of approximately DNA sorting out and the courtroom gadget...i might wager that they do no longer want your husbands permission and if this different guy is attempting to get some custody, definite you may could desire to undergo a DNA try. look on the extreme area in spite of the indisputable fact that, while it comes returned adverse it's going to all be over with.

Answer 4

Yes, yes my dear.....person, there is a way. If you wish, go on to this website and find the answer you are looking for. But, you need to know your blood types to get your answer.