OT: Definitely Germans...
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Anyone used the 23 and me our ancestry dot com? Any surprises? My sister wants me to do it, but I don’t want to be cloned.
You are catching on.
The Visual Capitalist stuff is always interesting to me so I subject SPS to about 1 in 10. Be thankful!
I did the Ancestry.com one and they nailed mine, I know a lot about my ancestors regarding where they came from and they pegged me perfectly. (I saw on the Ancestry website a day or two ago they have a 75% off sale on the DNA test kit now)
Since I did it periodically they will send me updates concerning physical traits common to people that have the DNA that I do and its crazy how accurate they are. It's just little things like "less like to have attached ear lobes", "less likely to like to dance" (I hate to), "likely to be very competitive", "not likely to have a cleft chin", "more motivated by happiness than success and riches", and weird things like whether you are double jointed, whether you can wiggle your ears, facial hair thin or thick, hair on your fingers or not, whether you like sour foods or not, man just a lot of seemingly insignificant facts but again, they have me pegged almost perfectly. My brother says man you are crazy to give your DNA to them but what the hell, they don't care about me so I did it for less than $100 and I'm still benefitting from it I think
I’m not giving them my DNA, I have relatives that probably don’t want to be found.
I've used both, and they had the same answer. I'm primarily English, with a smattering of German and other European thrown in. All that mixing likely happened before my English ancestors ever showed up here in the early 1600s.
Similarly, my uncle once told me that there was a bit of Native American ancestry in our family tree, but according to ancestry.com, it's actually from Congo.
It was common in the 1800s for a mixed-race white/black person to claim to be white/native instead, and apparently that's what one of my great-great-great-great-great (?) grandparents did.
I did both. Got about 50% agreement between the two. The other half was wildly different. When merging my own family research with the genetic results, I tend to lean towards 23&Me. The only reservation I had taking these tests is that I might find an unknown sibling, as my dad was a bit of a swinging dick back in the day...
I have some of everything except 0% Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander. It also said I had more Neanderthal DNA than 92% of all other 23 and Me customers. LOL
The thing I found that I had no clue of was that I'm 3% Italian and sure enough, several years later doing research for the Sons of the American Revolution I found an Italian patriot grandfather. Absalom Cornelius.
My aunt has always said the same about her mother’s side of the family. Their test yielded similar results to your uncle’s. My cousin said that was a fun conversation with his grandmother
. Tell an 80+ year old southern white woman that she’s part black.
Figured you would have had a little bit of Norwegian somewhere.
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