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DNA of the Bourbons

Started by David Widerberg Howden on Wednesday, October 9, 2013
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I could be descendent of Bourbons, could you help me to verified that with DNA?

Well it depends on how you are descended, autosomal DNA (the DNA that you have inherited from all your grandparents) is hard to use as any evidence beyond 7-8 generations, but if there is a paternal lineage (fathers-fathers-father) you can reach as far back as needed.

As far as DNA goes on the Bourbon this is what 23 and me sent to me on my DNA:

You share a paternal-line ancestor with King Louis XVI. Do they end this to everyone?

I got the same match on my test.

Probably goes back to Louis XIV or XV, both of whom were Tireless Tomcats. ;-)

Joel: They send it to everyone who shares the same haplogroup, doesnt mean anything else than you sharing a paternal ancestor 10.000 years ago.. You need a much deeper Y-DNA test like Familytreedna provides to narrow down how close related you could be to others.

On 23andme, my father and brother received a Y-DNA Haplogroup R-M405 (R-U106) and father's 1st paternal cousin is R-Z156. I checked my brother's raw dna file and see that he also has the R-Z381 marker and R-Z156 so the Y-DNA Haplogroup path for us is R-M405 > R-Z381 > R-Z156. We also DNA match Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVII (son) but do not know our line. I look similar to the son when I was young. Our family apparently came from Germany to America 1784-1797, about the same time as King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were beheaded. We do not know our surname in Europe. It is a mystery.

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