DNA Roots

[Zinjanthropos]

My ancestry.com results came in. No surprise I'm 49% Ukrainian from my mom's side. 24% English, 14% Scottish, 3% Irish. Always thought I was more Irish than that so that was a suprise but not as big as finding out I'm 9% Swedish/Danish . The last 1% was Jewish tribes of Northern Europe. What would Third Reich have done to me knowing that?

They pretty much nailed my closest relatives who are in their data base. Dead on with my sister. They sent me a length list of names of 2nd to 5th cousins but only recognized a couple of them.

My wife who is 81% Dutch also has 11% Sweden Denmark and we're both trying to figure that one out. Interesting stuff. Not sure of Jewish onnection as I've heard contamination could occur in these labs but not bothered by it because I have several Jewish friends. It's a talking point.

Anyone else ?

[Syne]

I don't really care, and I'm not sure why others do. I know my family names are English, some German heritage, and my family has been in the US since the Revolutionary War.

I don't think any amount of African, Jewish, Native American, etc. blood would either surprise or bother me...nor even be a point of pride or note.

Sometimes I think DNA results are tapping into the impetus for ancestor worship.

[Secular Sanity]

I enjoy the history. It’s interesting.

One odd thing that came up on mine is a guy that showed up as my second cousin, but nobody knew who he was. The links in his family tree should have put him as a fourth or fifth cousin. I think I finally figured it out though. He came up as more closely related than he should have because two sisters married two brothers making their children double cousins.

[ellisael]

Just very excited about DNA concepts that are gathered here!

[stryder]

My ancestry.com results came in. No surprise I'm 49% Ukrainian from my mom's side. 24% English, 14% Scottish, 3% Irish. Always thought I was more Irish than that so that was a suprise but not as big as finding out I'm 9% Swedish/Danish . The last 1% was Jewish tribes of Northern Europe. What would Third Reich have done to me knowing that?

They pretty much nailed my closest relatives who are in their data base. Dead on with my sister. They sent me a length list of names of 2nd to 5th cousins but only recognized a couple of them.

My wife who is 81% Dutch also has 11% Sweden Denmark and we're both trying to figure that one out. Interesting stuff. Not sure of Jewish onnection as I've heard contamination could occur in these labs but not bothered by it because I have several Jewish friends. It's a talking point.

Anyone else ?

We had a postal strike early in the year in the UK, so I'd been waiting for some results before I could mention any of them.

My results came back:

• 30% England and Northwest Europe (Kind of funny Zin's nearly as English as I am and I've lived here my whole life... haha!)
  
• 19% Sweden & Denmark
  
• 17% Ireland
  
• 15% Germanic Europe
  
• 11% Norway
  
• 4% Eastern Europe and Russia
  
• 4% Scotland
  

The weird bit is...
I didn't inherit any Irish DNA from my fathers side (who by surname should have some) but my mother had some that we didn't know she had which did get passed on. My Mothers missing Scottish DNA shes suppose to have, but I got some passed on from my father than we didn't know he had.

As for my tree itself... Lets just say my family tree is literally a celtic knot, there are so many branches that entwine and circle back round connecting different branches together it's mind boggling.

[Zinjanthropos]

We had a postal strike early in the year in the UK, so I'd been waiting for some results before I could mention any of them.

My results came back:

• 30% England and Northwest Europe (Kind of funny Zin's nearly as English as I am and I've lived here my whole life... haha!)
  
• 19% Sweden & Denmark
  
• 17% Ireland
  
• 15% Germanic Europe
  
• 11% Norway
  
• 4% Eastern Europe and Russia
  
• 4% Scotland
  

The weird bit is...
I didn't inherit any Irish DNA from my fathers side (who by surname should have some) but my mother had some that we didn't know she had which did get passed on. My Mothers missing Scottish DNA shes suppose to have, but I got some passed on from my father than we didn't know he had.

As for my tree itself... Lets just say my family tree is literally a celtic knot, there are so many branches that entwine and circle back round connecting different branches together it's mind boggling.

Well I don’t think we’re related. I’m sure there’s a few ghosts in many family closets and I’m still trying to figure out where my Danish/Swedish connection is. I’ve always been told my one grandmother on my dads side was of German descent but nothing turned up in my dna. I was wondering, of the millions of sperm that have a go at the egg, would each carry different % of genetic information and perhaps change results or does the ancestral origins info remain the same for each? I imagine all females eggs, even though not in the millions, carry a variety of genetic info.

I do know my great grandmother on my fathers side had a very British maiden name….Hood. I found this out just this morning. I do know that her husband, my GG, surname likely was a derivative of a German spelling. My suspicions are that the Scandinavian connection is from his side and his family possibly had a short stay in Germany. Maybe someone was adopted back then or milkman’s kid, idk. Fun to speculate.

[stryder]

Well I don’t think we’re related. I’m sure there’s a few ghosts in many family closets and I’m still trying to figure out where my Danish/Swedish connection is. I’ve always been told my one grandmother on my dads side was of German descent but nothing turned up in my dna. I was wondering, of the millions of sperm that have a go at the egg, would each carry different % of genetic information and perhaps change results or does the ancestral origins info remain the same for each? I imagine all females eggs, even though not in the millions, carry a variety of genetic info.

I do know my great grandmother on my fathers side had a very British maiden name….Hood. I found this out just this morning. I do know that her husband, my GG, surname likely was a derivative of a German spelling. My suspicions are that the Scandinavian connection is from his side and his family possibly had a short stay in Germany. Maybe someone was adopted back then or milkman’s kid, idk. Fun to speculate.

The history of Ireland and UK in general has a number of instances where Vikings and descendants of Vikings (Normans) ended up living here. So it's possible to have various countries DNA displaced (which is why the percentages they give can be inaccurate to a degree) Therefore a Swedish and Danish connection could be from the myriad of family interactions in the UK and Ireland.

It did get me thinking about various genetic traits however, for instance the ability to fold (the width) or roll (the length) of ones tongue. Some people can do one or the other, I can do both. Not really much of a party trick, but I guess it's down to inheriting DNA from countries that speak different languages that create different sounds in speech.