After much urging from some of my kids, I spit in a tube but the results of this simple DNA test are no big surprise since I have been tracing my roots for much of my adult life and know wherewith I descend. The 59% "England, Wales and Northwestern Europe" comes from my mother's side (she was a Bradford, after all) and my paternal grandpa (Harry Dexter Henion) who was of Dutch ancestry. The 20% is definitely my paternal grandmother's line (Else Marie Werner Henion), though I'm not sure where the Irish, Scot, Swedish and "other" come from ... probably some of the wives who are, to date, untraced. Looks like there is still plenty of work to be done ... in the millennium to come!
But, I'm pretty sure I'll get a lot of help from my youngest son Michael who has the genealogy bug
in a very big way, spending - by his estimation - at least an hour a day searching Ancestry.com and has found hundreds of names, photos and source documents. Thanks, dear son!
The truth is ... my family (except for the Werner line) has been in this country for more than 400 years so I'm always a little bit surprised I don't have any Native American or African in my DNA (although I have a picture which I am sure proves I am a whole lot of Guyanese).
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I've often wondered why I haven't the urge to do genealogy. I want to want to but I think it's like Facebook. Just pictures and names: no true connections.
You're very much wrong. It is so much fun with LOTS of connections.
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