According to my DNA Ancestry test...

[imanangel]

I am 3.8% Italian. That explains why I felt at home the minute I stepped off the plane, and why I long to go back so bad. 

Oh, other percentages where:
48.7% Scandinavian
18.6% Iberian
14.5% Irish, Scottish, Welsh (I thought this would be higher since I was always told my dad's side was mostly Irish)
11.6% East European
3.8% Italian 
2.8% Baltic

Total= 100% European

I KNOW that these test aren't exactly accurate (I am sure I have at least 75% Italian ), but it was interesting to do and to see. I also am surprised that there wasn't any Native American ancestry according to this test.  I was always told that my dad's mom was part Crow Native. 

I know people are worried about how their DNA will be used. I am not concerned about that. I find it interesting and fun to do. I actually just ordered  one from 23 and Me to see how the results from that test differ from the MyHeritage results. 

Have you done one, and did you have any surprises? 

[Tennesseer]

Did Ancestry.  No real surprises.  Spot on regarding the French side of my family coming from Quebec.

The initial report stated I was about 2% native American.  I thought a possibility that came from the Quebec side-someone up the line married a eastern native American.  But a later update increased the French percentage and the native American disappeared after more distant relatives were found through their own DNA tests.

One of the French side relative's tree traces back one of our French ancestors back to 1520 France.  The relative was like my great-grandparent times 13 times.

I have stated before I am not so much interested so much in the nationality part but how far back the family can be traced.  1520 to me was pretty impressive.  French churches kept good records.

[haapai]

I've never done one, and I don't want to do one precisely because I fear results similar to yours. 

I could handle results that showed no perceptible trace of NA ancestry, but not results that showed that I was also lacking any perceptible Ashkenazi, African, or Iberian ancestry. 

I'm really not joking.  Despite the fact that there are no family stories claiming such ancestry, I would be devastated to find such results confirmed.  I know that this isn't logical, but it's the truth. 

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

Jan 30, 2019 17:58:59 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Did Ancestry.  No real surprises.  Spot on regarding the French side of my family coming from Quebec.

The initial report stated I was about 2% native American.  I thought a possibility that came from the Quebec side-someone up the line married a eastern native American.  But a later update increased the French percentage and the native American disappeared after more distant relatives were found through their own DNA tests.

One of the French side relative's tree traces back one of our French ancestors back to 1520 France.  The relative was like my great-grandparent times 13 times.

I have stated before I am not so much interested so much in the nationality part but how far back the family can be traced.  1520 to me was pretty impressive.  French churches kept good records.

My mom’s line through her mother’s parents has been traced back to 13th century France.

[engineerdoe]

Jan 30, 2019 17:58:59 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Did Ancestry.  No real surprises.  Spot on regarding the French side of my family coming from Quebec.

The initial report stated I was about 2% native American.  I thought a possibility that came from the Quebec side-someone up the line married a eastern native American.  But a later update increased the French percentage and the native American disappeared after more distant relatives were found through their own DNA tests.

One of the French side relative's tree traces back one of our French ancestors back to 1520 France.  The relative was like my great-grandparent times 13 times.

I have stated before I am not so much interested so much in the nationality part but how far back the family can be traced.  1520 to me was pretty impressive.  French churches kept good records.

My tree on Ancestry has 2,000 people because of the French ancestors.  Damn catholics breeding like rabbits.

[haapai]

Perhaps breeding like rabbits, but maybe something else is going on. 

I once came in contact with a family tree that a cousin or someone more distantly related had constructed. 

It was remarkably complete and waterproof.  My birth year, my name, and my brother's birth year were wrong (despite my parent being married for over five years before their first child was born) but everything else looked perfect. 

Let me make this clear, that lineage was scarily, terrifyingly perfect.  I scoured that diagram with increasing incredulity and laughed bitterly when I got to the end of it. 

The only children whose birth date indicated that their conception predated the marriage of their parents had mothers who had been recently widowed.   The family tree went back to the 16th or 17th century and only three ostensibly posthumous children appeared in dozens of pages of densely coded text. 

I don't have whole lot of confidence in that family tree.  I do hope that you are similarly skeptical of your own.  That urge to fill in gaps with whatever looks good is quite strong. 

[alabamagal]

DH and I did it. He was supposedly 1/16 Cherokee according to his family oral history. He was 0% Nativeamerican and 0.2% from Congo 🤭. His mom is still mad at him for taking the test. We had a pretty good laugh. Now his (evil) sister is doing “research” to show their family has been in US forever and feeding the BS to his mother. Always drama there.

Mine was exactly like I expected. 50% Polish and the rest Irish and other waters European. Actually was surprised that the 50% from my Dad was all Polish given the history of Poland.

[Tennesseer]

Jan 30, 2019 19:44:35 GMT -5 engineerdoe said:

Jan 30, 2019 17:58:59 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Did Ancestry.  No real surprises.  Spot on regarding the French side of my family coming from Quebec.

The initial report stated I was about 2% native American.  I thought a possibility that came from the Quebec side-someone up the line married a eastern native American.  But a later update increased the French percentage and the native American disappeared after more distant relatives were found through their own DNA tests.

One of the French side relative's tree traces back one of our French ancestors back to 1520 France.  The relative was like my great-grandparent times 13 times.

I have stated before I am not so much interested so much in the nationality part but how far back the family can be traced.  1520 to me was pretty impressive.  French churches kept good records.

My tree on Ancestry has 2,000 people because of the French ancestors.  Damn catholics breeding like rabbits.

My dad's ancestors are the Catholic French side. Between his parents, there were like 18 siblings. Few had children of their own My mom was Irish and German. Between her parents (non-Catholic), there were probably 8 siblings total.

The first high school reunion I attended was my 30th. I was looking forward to seeing a good childhood friend who I had known since first grade. I knew all of her eight siblings. So when I saw her at the reunion, I rattled off all her siblings' names asking about them. When I was done, Kathy laughed and told me there was a #10 sibling. I asked her when that happened, she told me it happened about four years after we graduated.

Irish Catholic family. Her dad was also struck by polio when young. But it sure as heck didn't stop him from fathering quite the team.

[Value Buy]

Jan 30, 2019 19:33:35 GMT -5 Cheesy FL-Vol said:

Jan 30, 2019 17:58:59 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Did Ancestry.  No real surprises.  Spot on regarding the French side of my family coming from Quebec.

The initial report stated I was about 2% native American.  I thought a possibility that came from the Quebec side-someone up the line married a eastern native American.  But a later update increased the French percentage and the native American disappeared after more distant relatives were found through their own DNA tests.

One of the French side relative's tree traces back one of our French ancestors back to 1520 France.  The relative was like my great-grandparent times 13 times.

I have stated before I am not so much interested so much in the nationality part but how far back the family can be traced.  1520 to me was pretty impressive.  French churches kept good records.

My mom’s line through her mother’s parents has been traced back to 13th century France.

Eventually, they will trace it all the way back to Africa and the fossil, Eve

[engineerdoe]

Jan 30, 2019 20:31:07 GMT -5 alabamagal said:

DH and I did it. He was supposedly 1/16 Cherokee according to his family oral history. He was 0% Nativeamerican and 0.2% from Congo 🤭. His mom is still mad at him for taking the test. We had a pretty good laugh. Now his (evil) sister is doing “research” to show their family has been in US forever and feeding the BS to his mother. Always drama there.

Mine was exactly like I expected. 50% Polish and the rest Irish and other waters European. Actually was surprised that the 50% from my Dad was all Polish given the history of Poland.

Well, there is very little North American Natives submitting DNA in the system so most tests that show any percentage of Native American is going by matching with South American Natives. 

[countrygirl2]

Mine was pretty much what I thought on dads side Irish and some English.

Somewhere Neanderthal,  But I thought my maternal grandmother was 100% French though dark
as she was some Indian.  I found one side the Joyces or joices was actually English??  I had no idea.  Then I'm thinking she was French Canadian and have seen some of that name there.  One said a bit of native American.  I need to look further.

[sesfw]

I had mine done through Ancestry and no real surprises.  I'm 55% western Europe and 45% mix of the Scandinavian countries.  It does show the most recent immigrant was 1850-1875 from Germany.

What I found interesting was tracing the Mormon migration across the middle states of the US. 

DD had hers done and she was shocked that she had no Native American in her DNA ……. but she does in her ancestral line.   Her paternal g-pa was 1/16 Cherokee as traced through ancestral lines.

DNA is so diluted by the time we check that in MHO the only ones I trust are within 2 generations of me.

[countrygirl2]

This is from 23 and Me

99.9% European

Mine says 44.1 british irish

German French 36.4

Scandinavian 2.6

Broadly NW European 15.3
Broadly S European  .1
Broadly European 1.4
East Asian and Native American .1
Native American .1

The Scandinavian has to be from my maternal grandfather he was dutch
Oh and the 280 neanderathal part

[imanangel]

countrygirl2  I have the 23 and Me kit, I just haven't done it yet. Between working every day, and dying of the plague, I just haven't had time. Did you like how that kit worked?  I have only done the MyHeritage one, and it was pretty cool. 

[countrygirl2]

It's ok, I haven't done anyothers, I may just to see what they say.  You can go through and fill out all kinds of questions in it.  I wonder how much is based on actual DNA or weighted from the questions.

I said check for parkisons and alzheimers and other things.  I have no markers for parkisons, have one for alz.  But like it says that does not mean you will get it, still there is one marker on mine of a chance of late onset alzheimers.  I'm not really concerned as no one I know of in dad or moms family had it and they lived to ripe old ages.  But it goes over and over they do not predict getting or not getting disesases like that just what markers are there.


In hubs we worry about alzheimers, he has not done these and doubt he would, I tried to get son to do it.  May give them kits for he and his wife, I bet she has an interesting DNA, grandson should represent the world, LOL!.  My surprise is the even tiny fraction of Asian, the Asian for sure, and native American.  Had to be in there from grandmas family coming through Canada I would think.  But I'm not sure where her parents came from, they are French mostly, but, like I said before she was darker skinned, black hair except for one white streak  until she died in her 80's.  Small woman 5'2".

I need to dig and find her parents and their parents, may be in the info at the very old town south of us.  It was settled back in the 1700's which surprised me.  

[Tennesseer]

[countrygirl2]

I know I can find my maternal grandmothers parents information in the old town south of us.  I don't know about my maternal grandfather.

[NoNamePerson]

61% Great Britain and Northwestern Europe
25% Middle East
7% Ireland and Scotland
4% Italy
3% Other Regions

[toomuchreality]

100% Me! 

(I haven't done one. My sister did, and she gave me a copy, but I don't know what I did with it, or what it said.) 

[Tennesseer]

Mar 31, 2019 0:10:23 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

100% Me! 

(I haven't done one. My sister did, and she gave me a copy, but I don't know what I did with it, or what it said.) 

It said your sister is an only child. Congratulations - you're adopted!

[NoNamePerson]

Mar 31, 2019 9:30:38 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Mar 31, 2019 0:10:23 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

100% Me! 

(I haven't done one. My sister did, and she gave me a copy, but I don't know what I did with it, or what it said.) 

It said your sister is an only child. Congratulations - you're adopted!

Back when I got mine I called son to let him know it had arrived since it was gift to me. Two weeks later he said he thought he was going to order kit since he was sure his dad was not his dad!! I hated to burst his bubble and told him that unless they switched babies at birth he was stuck with both of us and we were stuck with him!