99.7% European
My results from 23 & Me DNA testing arrived yesterday. Does it surprise me? Well, yes and no. 35.7% British/Irish: that doesn't surprise me at all, as my Mom's side of the family are mainly Welsh and Irish. French/German: again, to be expected, as my Dad's family is mainly German, although I have no idea about my paternal Grandmother....she died when I was about 10, and my Dad's family didn't visit often.
7.9% Scandanavian? Yeah, that surprised me. The rest of the results are less than 1%. Romeo and I did a comparison, and his DNA shows a lot more diversity than mine does. I maintain that my family were mostly peasants, and likely didn't have the where with all to hop around Europe. We laughed and decided his family were either adventurors or gypsies.
I also had fewer Neanderthal genes than 87% of people who've had their ancestry tested by 23 & Me, but Romeo has 73% more than the average. This confirms what I've always thought :-)
On the diet front, I made this salad last night:
Spinach, strawberries, blueberries, red onion, chicken, feta, walnuts. It was a recipe I saw on FB, and it was delicious.
Also from FB:
:-)
Enjoy your Sunday!
Love, 365
I did mine on ancestry. I got this whole story of migration and why I had some nationalities and it was so damn interesting. I'm sure you got that too. I sadly am mainly one thing. But due to slave trade to the boot of Italy there is a bit of African. I think it was 3%. Otherwise I am Italian and a lot of 1-3% of greece and that area and to me that is so boring. I was hoping for Scottish, Irish, anything like that. To me that would have been exotic. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, Peg, you shouldn't think your ancestry is boring! Italy is pretty exotic to me ~ I had no genes from that region, but Romeo did ~ gypsies, I'm telling you. :-)
DeleteThere's a significant Scandinavian element in the gene pool in eastern England, due to the Vikings. That may also be true in Ireland. People have been mixing genese around in Europe for a long time.
ReplyDeleteYeah, those Norsemen really got around....probably looking for nicer weather and a few acres, lol.
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