My DNA results came back this week. Best Christmas gift. Thanks Deni.
Anyway, at first glance, some of the results were surprising. But then looking into it more deeply, there were no real surprises, though I was expecting higher than a 5% for Great Britain.
http://dna.ancestry.com/public/ethnicity/e5a34c0a-7afe-48d8-b431-39e2f0dc18b7/b7c8d9ae-fdba-4d98-aa8b-0ee7bd01b7fe
100% European. The surprising part was "Ireland" as I am not aware of any Irish roots. But, when you look at the area covered by "Ireland," it includes Wales and Scotland. And I do have Welsh and Scottish roots on my dad's maternal side.
So, on my dad's side, I am aware of England, Wales, Scotland, Germany, Netherlands, with a touch of Norway.
On my mom's side it's Germany, France, and Switzerland.
The breakdown goes like this (with countries that I have known ancestors underlined):
Europe West 66%
Primarily located in: Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein
Also found in: England, Denmark, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic
Ireland 13%
Primarily located in: Ireland, Wales, Scotland
Also found in: France, England
Scandinavia 10%
Primarily located in: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Also found in: Great Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, the Baltic States, Finland
Great Britain 5%
Primarily located in: England, Scotland, Wales
Also found in: Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Italy
Iberian Peninsula 5%
Primarily located in: Spain, Portugal
Also found in: France, Morocco, Algeria, Italy
European Jewish 1%
Primarily located in: Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Israel
Also found in: Germany, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, Bosnia, Serbia, Estonia
The report from Ancestry also gives you a list of DNA matches in their database. It gives it to you as who might be your 1st cousin, 2nd cousin, etc. They gave me 2 people who may be 1st or 2nd cousins and 2 who may be 2nd or 3rd cousins, and a bunch that may be 4th or more cousins. Of course the closest match to me has a private tree and I will have to send a message to see if they will open their tree to me. It's possible I already know this person. I have had contact with one of my 2nd-3rd cousins they list.
Anyway, I don't know what it really means or how it helps me in my family history yet, but it's great fun and I am enjoying looking around at my report.
In other news, on Wednesday, Glen and some of his students participated in the emergency mock disaster again. This time they were held hostage at the Fallon Municipal Airport until they were rescued by the combined Churchill County and City of Fallon SWAT team. Some years they post lots of photos with Glen's students in it. This year they only posted 2.
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| the freed hostages are walking toward the rescuers |
And congratulations to my brother, Kyle, who will graduate summa cum laude on the 25th from a medical program back east. He will be an operating room technician (yikes! I actually don't know the exact title of his new career). Awesome.