Great news! Your AncestryDNA results are in.
Posted by
CovingtonCat
Sep 17 '12, 13:41
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Your genetic ethnicity reveals where your ancestors lived hundreds�perhaps even thousands�of years ago.
Central European 63%
Scandinavian 37%
Central European is defined as Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein.
Scandinavian is Norway, Sweden, Denmark.
They're also telling me I'm 4th cousins with some other ancestry.com members, based solely on DNA. There are many others also listed who are more distantly related.
The results pretty much match up against what I've put together in my tree. Even though I have very little info on my mother's family it appears that they have been firmly established in Central Europe (she's from Bavaria) for quite a while. The Scandinavian comes from my finding ancestors who came from Sweden into Norway into Normandy then into England.
The links to the cousins tell me which surnames we have in common. When I have time I'll research to see if I can find the common ancestor.
I still have over 3000 hints to follow-up on in my tree which now has a little over 3000 people in it, nearly all on my father's side.
I also joined the New England Historic Genealogical Society and I'm working through their earliest records. I found a record of a non-relative hitting an ancestor with the "swingel of a flail". It was a totally out-of-context record not directly about my ancestor but still pretty cool to find.
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