Comments on: WDYTYA Reveals More Information About Ancestry.com’s New Autosomal DNA Testing

By: The Legal Genealogist Discusses Ancestry.com’s New Autosomal Testing | familygoss.com

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:35:15 +0000

[...] I noted in a recent blog post (see “WDYTYA Reveals More Information About Ancestry.com’s New Autosomal DNA Testing“), autosomal DNA testing was featured in the recent episode of Who Do You Think You Are with [...]

By: antony

antony — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:04:53 +0000

It is good they did not have hom do 23andme’s test and he came up 3%-7% “Asian” and they pretended it was Native American.

By: The Legal Genealogist Discusses Ancestry.com’s New Autosomal Testing « « BountyLands BountyLands

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:12:51 +0000

By: The Legal Genealogist Discusses Ancestry.com’s New Autosomal Testing

The Legal Genealogist Discusses Ancestry.com’s New Autosomal Testing — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:01:08 +0000

By: MMaddi

MMaddi — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:37:06 +0000

I agree with A Martin that it’s quite likely that Blair Underwood and Eric Sonjowoh were matched as 10th cousins by yDNA testing, not autosomal. I base this on a couple of factors.

First, Eric says that someone came to him in 2005 and asked him to take a DNA test. There was no commercial company testing autosomal at that point. I think it’s possible that he was tested through SMGF. According to the demographics of their yDNA database, they have 1,372 samples from Cameroon. It would be no big feat for Ancestry.com to compare Underwood’s yDNA results (assuming they did this) to SMGF’s database and find Sonjowoh as a close match.

Also, the Ancestry.com DNA person is definite in saying that Sonjowoh is related to Underwood through Underwood’s paternal side. Unless Ancestry also tested Underwood’s father and Sonjowoh turned up as a cousin to his father too, how could Ancestry be so certain that the common ancestor was on Underwood’s paternal side? If the match was based on yDNA, not autosomal, then it would have to be a paternal side match.

By: Blair Underwood, Who Do You Think You Are? | tracingthetree

Blair Underwood, Who Do You Think You Are? | tracingthetree — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:50:29 +0000

[...] testing. If you are interested in the specifics of how Underwood was tested, start your search here. It appears that Underwood used Ancestry’s new autosomal DNA test (autosomes are [...]

By: A Martin

A Martin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:38:41 +0000

He probably did the paternal DNA swab test.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:50:34 +0000

Thanks for the update. I was watching it and as an African American who has tested with Family Tree DNA and 23 and Me I was blown out of the water by the exactness of the new autosomal test by Ancestry.com. I wonder how they knew it was from his paternal line too.