I am so very whitebread lol

[missdiane]

The first of my DNA tests are done. Oddly, I didn't get an email and it's not showing matches so it must still be processing but there is a map that according to their FAQ gives me a rough combination of 50% from each parent. How not a shock that I'm 100% European lol

One thing that I am surprised about is that the percentage of British Isles is so low since most of my work on fleshing out Dad's side shows that most of the ancestors go back to the UK. I'm interested in the 7% Sothern Europe and WOW at 26% Scandinavian with another 5% in Finland and Northern SIberia?

Hopefully ancestry.com comes through with their testing so I can compare the two.

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[missdiane.livejournal.com]

I have traced the relation to Catherine Howard and some other fun relations. Some other names I've come across are FitzRandolph, Horton (that's my Dad's middle name and Grandmother's maiden name), McCullough, and interestingly, O'Hara even though my family blob barely nicks Ireland lol

Mom's side is the mystery that I've been looking to solve. She didn't know her Dad had German roots and I found those and my Great great grandmother is Czech and seemed to move around the US kind of oddly which made me wonder about possible Roma roots.

I didn't build my tree much on the FamilyTreeDNA site so I'm wondering if I add folks, if I'll start to link to actual live people.

[bluemeanybeany.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea! I did that in the hope of having living long lost cousins living in exotic places I could go and stay with on holiday, but no they're all from rainy Britain or occasionally even more rainy Ireland and usually not that far from where I live now damnit.