tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740924465958245224.post3431646972982575333..comments2024-03-10T00:44:49.280-05:00Comments on This & That: DNA results are in!Susannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03115294023069458287noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740924465958245224.post-6723499141235010462016-08-21T19:56:20.898-05:002016-08-21T19:56:20.898-05:00Stephanie, I enjoyed reading about "your"...Stephanie, I enjoyed reading about "your" last names. I hope one day you take the test and post your results so I can see where your ancestors are from! I appreciate your feedback!<br /><br /><br />Amber, I know...I wish more people would do it and share results. Yeah, no Jewishness in me, I guess. At least none that got passed down. I realize you can get absolutely no DNA from a certain grandparent even though you'd think *something* would transfer. Hmmm. I enjoyed reading your results and what was surprising to you. You definitely made me more interested in doing it. And you were one of the first I contacted by FB private message since I enjoy discussing this stuff with you. It would be neat if your mom or sister could do it - to see how they differ from you.<br /><br /><br />Niki, posting your results also made me very interested in this test. Thanks to you for sharing those with us. Interesting stuff! Yes, it would be nice if your mom and brother could test, too, to see if any American Indian or African DNA showed up. :)Susannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03115294023069458287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740924465958245224.post-26256760711225348832016-08-18T17:07:58.688-05:002016-08-18T17:07:58.688-05:00Oh, and Amber, I love your avatar. :-)Oh, and Amber, I love your avatar. :-)Nikihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936343470015553888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740924465958245224.post-74871517350769799142016-08-18T17:07:36.311-05:002016-08-18T17:07:36.311-05:00The biggest surprise for me was that no African or...The biggest surprise for me was that no African or Native American showed up in my DNA. I have ancestors just a few generations back who are "mulatto" on census records. This could either mean they were descended from slaves or, considering where they lived, were Lumbee Indians. But I learned that just because a certain ethnicity doesn't show up in your DNA doesn't mean you don't have ancestors from where you were expecting. It could be that if my brother or my mom took the DNA test, the Native American and/or African would show up in their DNA.<br /><br />I was also surprised by the small amount of Great Britain that showed up in my DNA (4%). The vast majority of my ancestors were from/born in England. Yet I only have 4% Great Britain? But then I remembered how English royalty married people from other countries in Europe and that many of my ancestors were Vikings and French who eventually made their way to England. I do have quite a bit of French in my DNA and my ancestry.Nikihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936343470015553888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740924465958245224.post-39265693111208697932016-08-17T11:47:07.048-05:002016-08-17T11:47:07.048-05:00I'm really glad you decided to share your resu...I'm really glad you decided to share your results. :) <br /><br />And Sommer's genetic breakdown actually *feels* more right, so I vote that we go with that one. <br /><br />I remember getting mine and the two biggest surprises being that I was Irish and not Scottish as I'd always been told and that there was a smidge of Jewish ancestry back in there somewhere. I'd kind of convinced myself that pretty much everyone would have that who was European of some stripe, but apparently not, if I'm judging by your results. <br /><br />I need to know more people who've done this. It's so interesting. :)Amberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09002997517784638068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740924465958245224.post-53204357742023818692016-08-17T09:15:59.630-05:002016-08-17T09:15:59.630-05:00That reasoning makes sense. When I do this for mys...That reasoning makes sense. When I do this for myself, I expect to see Germanic/Scandinavian/whatever-they-call-it highest up on the list. That's partly because I <b>want</b> that to be the case because I really wish I lived there. But also because even though I don't know of any ancestors from there, the last names and history of the area make it seem likely. <br /><br />We know my maternal grandmother had ancestors in Great Britain, and my grandfather's last name is French. But it's not <b>just</b> French, when I looked it up I found it's actually Norman, which is apparently Viking-French. :D Both grandmothers have British-y names that when I researched them turn out to be Anglo-Saxon. <br /><br />Tracking down my dad's last name has been <b>really</b> tricky but some sort of Germanic origin seems likely, probably the spelling and later pronunciation got screwed up when they came to the US. (My best but still totally uneducated guess is that it's supposed to be "Seibel." This may be wishful thinking like the Scandinavian ancestry, but it matches the way people tend to mispronounce the name and my mom's best guess was that he had German ancestry anyway. But I do like this pronunciation better, my last name always sounded clunky and weird to me.)<br /><br />Thanks for sharing your results! Always interesting to see, and I like the joke response!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07382787889525110718noreply@blogger.com