The Human Ancestry Project

I so wanted to do this , thanks to a friend for telling me about the project in the first place , thanks to Sinduri for dissuading me by telling that there was a lot I could do with the 100+ dollars I’d have to spend. I was curious to find out about my ancestry, it would be my gift to my father, actually I thought I would probably actually pay for him to send his sample across, he’s really into tracing roots and building family trees and following ancient outdated rituals.

Anyway, wanted to see what the results were for desis who had tried, well it seems there weren’t any astounding finds, we all come from the same gene pool , no major differences it seems ( I hope you don’t call me prejudiced, but I’d be equally interested if I had ancestors from ancient Egypt or China or Australia or any such exciting place)….. I’d heard theories of us having Greek ancestors, based on my mother tongue

Tulu itself is known for a heavy Greek influence

I found this on a webpage on Coorg ,it's been defunct for a while , see the note on seafarers here and a reference to a script here, "the ancient form of Kannada " mentioned is actually Tulu, and the drama is a tulu-greek one ,

A Greek drama of the age records Tulu words spoken by local characters from Coastal Karnataka.

from here.

I could not find anymore links on the internet ,have to search. We even had a newspaper cut out of the news article that my father took when the story came out ,I wanted to see if there indeed was a connection, though if it was a case of invasion it would certainly not be anything to be happy about, the idea of your ancestors being oppressed by your other ancestors , also another fact- my dad doesn’t particularly like Greece, this comes from his personal experience , so I doubt he shares my “enthusiasm” to trace our roots back there, I'm not particularly fixated on Greece,i've just included links so you know what I'm talking about..but it's interesting to find out about your earliest ancestors isn't it? Especially when right now we can trace back only a few generations. I want to find out about my native ancestors ; and also the link back to the African who started it all.

I doubt this test will trace obscure parts of our ancestry, I’m sure Indians have obscure ancestors , what with invasions and coming from coastal areas , etc ,etc.

I think the way this study works is to link to the closest match that they think makes sense , so if your tribe was founded by Red Indians who caught a boat to India, they may not realize it , and may link you to a group who are genetically similar to Red Indians, who would be nearer to your geographical location and thus have a greater chance of contributing to your Gene pool ( in the case of native Americans just guessing Russians or Chinese)…so for us Indians who might have obscure ancestors (whom the annals of history and time have forgotten) , we might not yet find out who they are …
I really wanted to contribute to Science though , maybe will do so when I get a job….