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Most of my family were originally from Great Britain, Germany or Ireland.
Received dna match back from Ancestry today and it was pretty much as expected (except for the last two - the low confidence ones).
Great Britain 44 percent
West Europe 42 percent
Ireland 9 percent
Low confidence regions
Finland/NW Russia 4 percent
Scandinavia 1 percent
I get eastern euro results in all tests,I have no known Eastern European ancestry but German ancestry.A lot of areas of Germany use to be Poland.Im pretty sure it's polish ancestry.
I had a dream related to it long before I took the tests,I was in a German village of my ancestors and they told me if I caught the plane back in time I'd be in Poland.
See our ancestors communicate with us through dreams and not just DNA tests.
I can't explain it but I agree. DNA memory is real.
I had a DNA relative at 23andMe who was happy to find me as a black person. Her daughter only played with black dolls and insisted that she, herself, was black.
We didn't find a common African connection until we got results for the mom's racist father. OOPS! And it was on X Chromosome for the father and daughter. Granddaughter knew her stuff and her people.
You never know what you will find with these tests.
My ancestors from Pomerania were German in every possible way except DNA which was a mix but largely Eastern European with a little bit of Scandinavian. The home area was a little west of Gdansk, or Danzig as they knew it. This was part of the Hanseatic League's trading network so all sorts of people were coming and going...adding to the mix. German-ness transcends DNA. A lot of people were Germanized even though they were Slavic or Balkan or whatever. My surname comes from western Germany close to the Netherlands but not much of that DNA persists.
Yes in Africa the idea that we are the reincarnation of certain ancestors is really strong,within my own tribe.But there is the idea of epigenetics and genetic memory.
That's an interesting story about the little girl who liked black things,for me it was always Russian things even studied russian studies at uni,and I had no known Russian ancestry at all, but it showed up in my DNA tests.
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Originally Posted by CMichele
I can't explain it but I agree. DNA memory is real.
I had a DNA relative at 23andMe who was happy to find me as a black person. Her daughter only played with black dolls and insisted that she, herself, was black.
We didn't find a common African connection until we got results for the mom's racist father. OOPS! And it was on X Chromosome for the father and daughter. Granddaughter knew her stuff and her people.
You never know what you will find with these tests.
Yes in Africa the idea that we are the reincarnation of certain ancestors is really strong,within my own tribe.But there is the idea of epigenetics and genetic memory.
That's an interesting story about the little girl who liked black things,for me it was always Russian things even studied russian studies at uni,and I had no known Russian ancestry at all, but it showed up in my DNA tests.
I have memories of some things that I found the source after doing DNA testing. It's very interesting.
My 23andMe cousin did the test just because she was curious about her young daughter's fascination with black and African theme ideas. She found the African on her X Chromosome, thinking that it was her mother.
It was so funny to both of us to find her racist father was the source, which means his mother had some African ancestry. Imagine that? And these people were not long ago slaveholders. They were second generation in here in the US.
I have memories of some things that I found the source after doing DNA testing. It's very interesting.
My 23andMe cousin did the test just because she was curious about her young daughter's fascination with black and African theme ideas. She found the African on her X Chromosome, thinking that it was her mother.
It was so funny to both of us to find her racist father was the source, which means his mother had some African ancestry. Imagine that? And these people were not long ago slaveholders. They were second generation in here in the US.
Have you seen Liv Tyler's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? If not, I suggest you watch it. Her father Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) wasn't always a singer, he was a drummer 1st. He said he's always had a connection to African American people but didn't know why. It turns out his mixed few times great grandfather was a very important drummer.
Liv Tyler and her famous father Steven traced their surprising ancestry on the ninth season finale of TLC's Who Do You Think You Are? airing this Monday.
In the minute-long preview, the 39-year-old SAG Award winner said she was on the genealogy series to uncover the mystery of her paternal grandmother Susan Blancha's maternal line.
When the Lord of the Rings alum found out she had a half African-American relative, the 69-year-old rocker gave her a high five and said: 'Haha, I knew it! I'm so loving this. It explains it.'
Liv focuses on her father’s family line. Her father is Steve Tyler of Aerosmith. Liv’s family has been immersed in music as far back as she knows.
Liv begins her journey with a genealogist who was able to extend her family back several generations, to her great-great-great-grandfather, Robert Elliott who they found on the 1860 census in New York as a shoemaker.
Coming forward another decade to the 1870 census, Liv discovered something in the race column of the 1870 census that did not match the 1860 census – spawning questions that many of us have experienced as well....
....Liv discovers that Robert served in the War of 1812, as a drummer boy.
I had absolutely no idea about the role that drummers played in early wars, the War of 1812 as well as the Civil War.
Last edited by Roselvr; 07-22-2017 at 07:52 AM..
Reason: Added George Washington Elliott's find a grave
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