DNA of the Bourbons

Started by David Widerberg Howden on Wednesday, October 9, 2013
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Private User
6/28/2020 at 2:01 PM

I could be descendent of Bourbons, could you help me to verified that with DNA?

7/12/2020 at 2:51 PM

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.

9/10/2020 at 4:57 AM

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?

2/19/2021 at 4:41 PM

I got the same match on my test.

Private User
7/9/2021 at 1:19 AM

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

7/9/2021 at 6:01 PM

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.

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7/8/2023 at 4:01 PM

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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