#4341740 - 03/03/17 01:36 PM
Ancestry.com and other similar sites
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PanzerMeyer
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How many of you here have done the DNA background test at Ancestry.com or some other similar geneaology site? I did the one at Ancestry about a year ago and my top 3 DNA areas of origin were,
Iberian Peninsula 31%
Western Europe 22%
Italy/Greece 18%
Last edited by PanzerMeyer; 03/03/17 01:46 PM.
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#4341750 - 03/03/17 02:17 PM
Re: Ancestry.com and other similar sites
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PanzerMeyer
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Pretty much what you expected?
. Yup! My dad's ancestry is from northern Italy and my mom's ancestry is from Spain so my results were not surprising at all.
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#4341762 - 03/03/17 02:59 PM
Re: Ancestry.com and other similar sites
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Not even interested. My mother even pushed us to try it. We are, who we are, I am good with that. Have enough other stuff on the plate to keep me going.
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#4341780 - 03/03/17 03:30 PM
Re: Ancestry.com and other similar sites
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I am confirmed 95% Alpha Centaurian.
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#4341789 - 03/03/17 03:49 PM
Re: Ancestry.com and other similar sites
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Arthonon
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Not even interested. My mother even pushed us to try it. We are, who we are, I am good with that. Have enough other stuff on the plate to keep me going. That's pretty much the way I look at that, and ancestry in general. Who I am and what I am now is they way it is, and learning about my distant ancestors isn't likely to change that. Unless I find out I'm heir to a throne with a ton of money coming to me, it's not worth the effort. When I see the ads where the woman starts out, "I thought I married an Italian," it sounds like that was her goal, and now that he's not Italian, she's disappointed. I'm wondering if she's going to leave him after that, so I'm not sure it's a good way to sell people on the idea.
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#4341859 - 03/03/17 07:19 PM
Re: Ancestry.com and other similar sites
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I went 'next door' to bring my parents some grub, asked them what I was made up of (old people love trying to figure this stuff out). They said I would probably be: 40% French (Cajun) 30% German 10% Irish 10% Spanish 10% Native American (Indian) Damn, I always wanted to be Russian!
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#4341884 - 03/03/17 08:22 PM
Re: Ancestry.com and other similar sites
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Dart
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Oh, hell, let's see.
Loads of Swabian, so that means stuff from below the Black Sea in the distant past.
Oh, and Dutch, since they tended to bring back a Dutch wife or two when working as mercenaries.
Plus Germans and Bavarians. And some French, though we don't talk about that too much.
And naturally the Black Forest part of the family, which is either a bit of French or a genetic branch that looks like a telephone pole. Marrying from two villages over was really venturing forth for them.*
* In fairness, genealogy matters in the Black Forest part of the family, and things are carefully drawn out to prevent inbreeding. The rule there is no closer than third cousin!
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#4341916 - 03/03/17 09:40 PM
Re: Ancestry.com and other similar sites
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I'm 50% Polish, 50% Italian, 50% British, and 75% math major.
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The anteater is wearing the bagel because he's a reindeer princess. -- my 4 yr old daughter
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#4341930 - 03/03/17 10:23 PM
Re: Ancestry.com and other similar sites
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I always found it funny that one woman found out she was 20% native American and part a bunch of other nationalities all of a sudden changed her decor to Native American,,I know my heritage American for lots of generations and fly my flag daily..I'm not hyphenated anything Casino money, baby!
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