I did one of those ancestry DNA tests a little while ago, and the results come as an absolute…lack of surprise.
German father (the green area), Croatian mother (the blue one), and my paternal grandmother was from East Prussia (the very top of the western part of the pink area.) No idea where or when the 2% Norwegian component came into the family tree, but I suspect that the 2% Baltic bit came from someone in my grandmother’s ancestry because East Prussia is adjacent to that area.
Interesting stuff, but I don’t read too much into it. Our family history is a part of our identity, but we choose our own paths in the end.
Hello good fellows and well met,
Those DTC (direct to consumer) are mostly inaccurate. During my Junior year at university, we had to do a study. As in real scientific type study with hypothesis, results, and mathematics for proof for or against. And using a family unit of three 1 mom, 2 children there was ridiculously low probabilities that were found. Because of the genetics a chi square math was used for mathematic validity. I used ancestry, 23and me, and not geo. And on 1 subject the majority of the geographic area was up to 50.1 percent off.
All that to say don’t put too much stock in DTC and go with family history.
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Dear Marko, I just finished reading Orders of Battle, which I really enjoyed and plan to read Terms of Enlistment again. Anyway my Ancestry DNA analysis shows I’m roughly 2/3 Scottish, English and Swedish and 1/3 West African, including Cameroon, Congo, Nigeria and Senegal. Also, I am a fountain pen collector, so there’s that. Best regards, Richard Sims
I’d thought about getting one of those run, but I’ve been put off by reports of wildly inaccurate results. However, your evaluation of your results puts that fear more or less to rest for me. I may pull the trigger on getting one done.
Actually, I’d be more interested in getting one on our adorable rescue pup!