If you have spare time, it's a lot of fun to do it yourself. Start with a template of what you know and as many of the details as possible and work back from there. My father did a lot of work, but I've managed to do quite a bit more because of the resources available (free and pay) online. It's pretty amazing what can be discovered.
My brother did this for our family. He'd call me every few months with the latest boring scoop on our ancestors. When he told me I was related to Edward I (Longshanks), I told to call me when he discovered we related to someone cool, like El Cid. Six months later he called to announce that Edward's wife was 5x great grandaughter of El Cid.
RJ, are you a Sunni or a Shiite ?
My brother did this for our family. He'd call me every few months with the latest boring scoop on our ancestors. When he told me I was related to Edward I (Longshanks), I told to call me when he discovered we related to someone cool, like El Cid. Six months later he called to announce that Edward's wife was 5x great grandaughter of El Cid.
Please tip your bartenders waitresses...
man, this thread got weird
LolzThanks to Mullah RJ.
Looks like ancestry has revamped its categories and tweeked its algorithms a bit.
If you don't mind sharing, what kind of information did you learn about your ancestry - similar stuff to what others have posted? How did you find the half-brother?
My father was adopted, and I know literally nothing about his biological ancestry (aside from him visibly being a white guy). I'm interested in these tests because I just don't know anything.