DNA Test

[Ronald Zeeman]

Given that you're scientifically/mathematically inclined, I'm assuming you're confident that the accuracy of the results is legitimate? The skeptic in me wonders about that with the home genealogy related DNA tests.

Contacting a few of my cousins and knowing family history makes it hard to doubt. even a fourth Everything correlates the basis of science. If science is in doubt, we would not be contacting each other. If you do not trust science. Wave from the cave.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Noticed a couple of patterns in my family Nature likes symmetry and fractals. chromosome 8 and 12. one end of the bell curve intellectually challenged, other intellectually gifted.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I share DNA with Peter Zeeman, I am seeking Pieter Zeeman, Peter is close to my age looked at his family tree he has a bit of a tree for his mothers side fathers side goes no farther than grand father Why? He lives in Netherlands, why the unusual spelling dropping the i. Either way he is my third cousin. I have found fourteen Pieter Zeeman's so far.
A month ago his tree was private, now he has a partial tree. I guess he is aware I'm looking dropping a hint without being to blatant. I guess his dad did not want are you related too. I get it from STEM educated people who meet me, I just answer I have no idea.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

The most common surname in my family is Minderhoud I did a comparison of the females who had this families DNA and found one interesting pattern most of them they all shared chromosome 12, with the centimorgans grouped together this did not exist with the men most who would have died prematurely. looks like I am a carrier of this my brother and sons are not is this in some way related to me being an Aspie.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Just added another Pieter Zeeman to my family tree fourteen now So close but so far. Lots of other interesting stuff.
having fun connecting with my cousins, One swears I'M some sort of genius, not the case brighter than typical, good at connecting dots. Still not sure what genius is, why I started a thread, its more than IQ. I think my one cousin is on the spectrum, maybe both. 2nd cousin is university lecturer, fourth cousin is a air line stewardess.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Observing and interacting with my grand daughter at 18 months, see signs of a gifted child, how gifted too early to tell. Some stuff she currently does stuns me very quick learner. Thank God her mother has a PHD in education and experience in teaching gifted kids. My learning disabled son made a good choice in finding her, his fiancee

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Watching lots of u-tube videos on gifted kids have to get up to speed fast, lots of misinformation I'm learning fast.
my brother and sister may also have gifted grandchildren It appears gifted kids are like us Aspies brain wired differently more than just IQ if boat missed kid screwed. It is not the kid who answers questions right but rather the kid who confronts the teacher and says you are wrong and here is why. My older brother was like this he would argue with the math teacher knew the subject better than the teacher in high school.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

LInda Silverman is a good lecturer on giftedness. seeing myself in lots of her stuff, not what I was looking for content, just be the student.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Woman from Texas reached out to me via myheritage she was adopted parents died she has no idea who her biological family is. getting details from her is a bit disjointed she has names from ancestory.com looks like a maze of details mentioned 7 and 8th cousins told her this no use DNA is only significant to maybe 4th cousin. apparently she has been trying to find her family for 38 years. I suspect her natural mother was married or had a one night stand in the 1970's and she was given up for adoption so lots of secrecy. Adoptive parents now deceased and the maze of names confusing her DNA test led her to me. Me being autistic and her NT causing confusion I like to ask direct questions and expect direct specific answers. She tends to give bunch of names back like adoptive parents names which unless it was an interfamily adoption is not helpful. I like puzzles or in this case a maze knowing sexual mores
in the seventies "free love" will help me figure this out. Some of the names she has given me connect to 4th cousins.
which I found out later were names of some of her adopted relatives. Only significant name was a second cousin
no relation to me so she having DNA matches and genealogical info is causing the confusion.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Last night I resolved this ladies adoption puzzle neat just needed enough information she spent 38 years on it took me a few days but that is my superpower connecting dots Now she is going to think I'M some sort of genius. Do I tell her I'M on the spectrum?

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

The more I observe my grand daughter The more I realize she is gifted in some way. My son and his fiancee also noticing. My parents raised 6 gifted kids no body recognized this at the time, real trick is to make sure she gets properly socialized always a chance of profoundly gifted. 6 months will tell.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

My distant cousin just told me her birth day was january, 7. 1970 which would make her conception date April 1969

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Just connected her to lady Roelse through Ronald Jay Zeemans son. David Zeeman 4th cousin. Why does everything connect at the 4th cousin level.

 

[717]

I did my test, and have build up my family tree all the way up to the 1600s.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Getting close to ten generations on all significant surnames with our trees solved a few anomalies. Even helped a distant relative who was adopted. Interesting picture sent to us a few years ago contains my wife's dad head down two of her aunts sitting, just left behind her dad and another good looking lady sitting at the end of the second row who has the same surname as my wife's grandmother. Obviously passing, great back story we resolved. wife's second or third cousin. Lots of confusion on her ethnicity, aunt states bad pic, uncle swears she is Caucasian. Her family came from Alabama, moved north. I told my wife's her family they have rose coloured glasses, would love to hear opinions. I know black and white pics can be misleading. The family surname from this branch of the family is German from Switzerland, came to USA for religious reasons. Her paternal aunt and this lady have very close family resemblance both very good looking like my wife.