The GeneTree Challenge

[Hershey]

I recently signed up on this very interesting website called GeneTree.com. It was on some primetime tv news special; I think 20/20. So basically the idea is to order a package from there where they'll send u a DNA test kit which you send back after collecting the sample. Upon receiving it, they'll analyze the sample to determine what your DNA background says about you. The supposedly have the largest DNA database in the world with samples from almost all of the world's countries.

So who, other than Naga Tuma (whom I am sure would definitely be interested lol) wants to take this challenge and learn about your blood line...your roots?...(this might interest you especially, Mr. Oromummaa). If all goes well, we should all be related to eachother and the site has an interactive tool that shows you a graphical tree of all the people are related to, closely and remotely.

If any of you go through with it, post your results

anyway, Here's the SITE

[oromia001]

I don't wanna be related to Dick Cheney but i will try it. If it is the Queen, she will have to answer some questions I will have.

[VLake]

I think I am gonna take this test. I dont mind who I am related to infact I hope I am related to as many people as it is possible. Unlike many people I dont mind if I find out I am price mongrel .

[Oromantic]

A while back, on another forum that I visit sometime, these two African Americans were talking about ordering the kit but I didn't hear about their findings. When I heard about it for the first time, I was very skeptical. But Oprah did it and found out her ancestors hailed from Liberia and not from where she wanted to be - South Africa. lol

I just signed up and I'm expecting for my DNA to point to somewhere between Nubia and Somalia. But I'm sure I'm from OROMIA.

[Welkayit]

But I'm sure I'm from OROMIA.

j/k What does Oromia state and your DNA/blood roots has to do?

I agree with you all. Its a brilliant idea. A sibling of mine did in the US paying 150 dollars. The result was similar to Oprah where what we thought and what he found out was far apart, but still within the route and direction of movement and direction.

We are eligible to do Aliyah to Israel, according to what he was given. lol

Thanx Hershey for the info. I am sending it to a few people.

[kumsaa]

I believe in genesis and do not worry about my origin: I know I am a descendant of Adam.So I will use the $150 for a useful purpose! Ahahahaah! l

[Oromantic]

j/k What does Oromia state and your DNA/blood roots has to do?

Welkayit, the joke is on you. I assure you, these ppl will trace your origin to somewhere in Yemen. No j/k!

w00t, w00t!

[Welkayit]

Welkayit, the joke is on you. I assure you, these ppl will trace your origin to somewhere in Yemen. No j/k!

w00t, w00t!

Good one, but no shock there for us, we have been there by creative history or real history. I don't know how old you are, but there was a text book called Amharic 101 the same as the course. The Yemen Sabean...etc was its whole story.

I think you missed the Oromia, Oromo and DNA connections. Political, national, and biological.

[Hershey]

The only thing that disappoints me a lil is the fact that it's mitochondrial DNA that they use to trace back your roots...which means the lineage is your mother's mother's mother's mother's mother, etc .....which I think would probably produce a much different result/picture than one would expect. This would essentially mean that if my father took the test and I took the test, he would probably get a somewhat different result than my mother and I would have....since it wouldn't recognize that side of the relationship, it would be akin to comparing my result with another random oromo guy, although I recon whatever result he gets could probably be fully attributed to me as another form of my lineage.

[Oromantic]

I am from Haplogroup L3 subclade L3f which is an East African origin.


The rest of you, where is your result?