So my sister, her two sons and I had DNA profiles done. The surprise for me, was to be 39% Scandinavian. Maybe that explains why I felt so at home in Iceland. I knew Great Britain would play a major role. There was a family legend that my mother's mother was half native American, nothing in the DNA of the four of us shows that to be true. My sister has been in contact with third cousins, from my grand-mother's, father's side of the family. Immigration and a century of time, and we know so little about from whence we came.
Have you done a DNA test yet?
I know for certain that I'm nearly 100 per cent Hungarian - - but I'm afraid that if I have a DNA test I'll discover I'm a Cantonese woman with East Indian roots....
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Yes. I was surprised by the results, too. Also, I just received email from a 3rd-5th cousin (according to our matches) trying to find his family. Don't know what help I can be, but it's interesting. I'm not so sure I WANT to find more relatives.
ReplyDeletenot yet for either spouse or myself.
ReplyDeleteTake your results with a grain of salt. DNA recombines in siblings at different parts on the chains, hence why you and your sister(and her sons too)don't match up with the same numbers(she has 3% and you have 39% Scandinavian). These tests give you a basic guideline only. Likewise how my brother showed Iberian results and I didn't.
ReplyDeleteWell put. That's always been my problem with the way the advertise the results. They really probabilities, esp. when you get into the small numbers. The most recent ads that have people finding specific historical ancestors is pretty fetched.
DeleteDo I really want to find out that my great, great, great, great grandfather was a bloodthirsty Mongolian warlord with good taste in opera?
ReplyDeleteI would love that!
DeleteOne of my sisters had this done (sounds like a medical procedure). Mostly African and European. This we already knew. Lot's of Irish, Frenchy creole stuff on Our father's side. African and some German on Mother's. The surprise was that dash of Mid-eastern blood. So much for Navajo. I think if I wasn't so lazy, I would do this just to see the percentages. I have a picture of me and my five sisters. It looks like we all have different daddies of different localities. I don't use race because we all belong to one, human. I had a Chinese lady ask me if I was half Black and half Chinese. I love the variety in human features.
ReplyDeleteWow, that is a lot of messed up grammar and such! Eyes are still fuzzy from the injections yesterday. Yep, I'm going with that.
DeleteMade sense to me. A couple of slips in punctuation, but not ungrammatical.
DeleteI have no need for I have genealogists on both sides who have everything down pat. When you are born in my family you get a sort of owners manual of data.
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