And....the Ancestry Test came back.
Guess what?
I should have trusted my adoption papers.
62% Ireland
29% Great Britain
5% Scandinavian
The remainder :
Trace regions.
The weird thing is, my parents were told I was
Irish and Welsh. They were spot on.
The five percent Scandinavian, according to
Ancestry, is the influence of the Vikings.
But the really, really fascinating thing about the whole
test is the fact that my DNA brought up
334 fourth cousins or closer!
This fascinates me.
You see, these are REAL cousins, people
who are related to me by blood.
However, I still have to contact Ancestry to find out
how I build a separate tree for blood relatives while
building my tree for my "real" family.
Some of the DNA relations (I don't know
what else to call them right now) are as close as
3rd cousins, and they have pages and NAMES.
I would show you the pie chart, but Ancestry has it
blocked to copying.
I'm glad I did it, but I need to call them in the next
few days to see how to rectify this whole thing.
Fascinating!
I'm glad I did it.
Wow..how very cool to find out all this info about your DNA family!!
ReplyDeleteI know how exciting it is to get back those results. I had my dna tested about a year ago and have actually had matches that identify 2 cousins who share my 3x great grandparents, The funny thing is, this is a side of my family that I knew nothing about. My grandfather's father left the family when my grandfather was a child and he was raised and loved by his mother's second husband. You can easily have more than one tree on Ancestry. When you open your account home page, at the top of the page are tabs. Click on Trees and there's a drop down box and you can choose create and manage trees. Good luck with your search...
ReplyDeleteGenealogy is very interesting, I got into at about age ten and kept at it for several years. I finally got to where it was going to start costing me serious money, so I said good enough.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it exciting!!!! We're related…..somewhere!
ReplyDeleteLoves and licky kisses
Princess Leah
Good to know. Lilly Ann looks happy looking out over her domain.
ReplyDeleteThis is very much Exciting news fur you. Even if it isn't eggs actly NEW News to you.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome to find out. Mom was thinking of doing that test too
ReplyDeleteLily & Edward
fascinating! how cool to find this all out!
ReplyDeleteYes, that would be fascinating! Ancestry even blocks you from doing a print screen? If so then you can take a picture of the screen with your cell phone, just angle to reduce glare. We would be really interested in what all they tell you!
ReplyDeleteYour Pals,
Murphy & Stanley
It would be exciting to have that done and to know some names of blood relatives would be fascinating too. I'm going to have to do that someday too!
ReplyDeleteVery fun!
ReplyDeleteM : )
Wow, I didn't even know such a thing could be done, very interesting!
ReplyDelete