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Oxford Uni DNA Project

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Rachel

Rachel Report 15 Jun 2006 18:45

On page 14 of the June issue of Your Family Tree magazine is details about a project being undertaken by Oxford Uni & the Wellcome Foundation to use DNA testing to establish common British Ancestries back to the Saxons, Normans & Vikings. A Channel 4 programme has been commissioned to follow this project & the producers - Wag TV - are looking for volunteers who know that they have roots (at least two generations) in Cornwall, Devon, Pembrokeshire, Oxon, Kent, Sussex, Northumberland, Cumbria & Orkney. I have mainly Sussex ancestry and would love to be involved in this project. I have sent an email to the address given, and have left my details on the telephone answering system and have yet to get a response. Has anybody else been able to get a response or has any more information on this project???

Unknown

Unknown Report 15 Jun 2006 18:54

I have a feeling this is old news. There have definitely been programmes about people whose ancestry is Viking already.

Heather

Heather Report 15 Jun 2006 19:26

My dads side goes back to 1550 in Sussex but they will want people still living there, wont they - like the Norfolk UEA project. How annoying.

Jools

Jools Report 15 Jun 2006 19:31

There was a posting on all ancestry's yorkshire message boards about a similar thing a couple of months ago. I seem to recall you had to be able to say something like your ancestry was at least 4 generations in the same place.

Rachel

Rachel Report 15 Jun 2006 21:02

Thank you for your responses everyone. It looks like I've missed the boat on this one. Perhaps they had all the volunteers they needed even when the magazine was published. :-((( I still won't mind my DNA tested. I think that I'll wait for the price to come down first though. Rachelxx