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-The second surprising result is I have no Native American at all. Strange :/
Yeah I wonder if that's true. My grandma on my mom's side is from Oklahoma was almost purely Native American. At least that's what I was told. But random genes are passed on, so my sister might've gotten most of the Native genes where I got Scandinavian? I do look different from my family. I'm the only one with brown/green-hazel eyes that change color. I'm the tallest in my family by several inches.
I could be wrong, but that's how I thought it works out. By the time we go back 10 generations, that our 8x great grandparents. That means there are 1,024 people who have passed genes down to us in those 10 generations. By the 17th generation, it's 131,072 people. We don't carry all those genes. Some get lost in the family pool. Your siblings will have different results when taking the same test because not all the genes pass on the same way.
Hmm interesting. I guess I have more studying to do
Saucy, the Vikings raided the British Isles back in the day. Some of them stayed. In fact, English (the language) seems to be a variant of Norwegian (the language). Probably most of us who have ancestors from that geographic region have some Scandinavian genes.Saucy said:Reading a book now on the history of the Vikings ever since finding out I was Scandinavian.
Meh, I read somewhere we share 30% of DNA with dandelions. I've worked with a couple guys for whom I think the count went higher, if you get my drift.MehGuy said:Yeah, we share like 96% of our DNA with apes.
Yes they did a lot of raiding and stuck around in several places. I know they founded Normandy in France and they also founded Dublin in Ireland, York in England, Kiev in Russia, a lot of Scotland, Iceland, over to Canada, and around into the Mediterranean. Definitely southern Italy. There's some evidence they landed in Egypt and Jerusalem.Saucy, the Vikings raided the British Isles back in the day. Some of them stayed. In fact, English (the language) seems to be a variant of Norwegian (the language). Probably most of us who have ancestors from that geographic region have some Scandinavian genes.
Yes they did a lot of raiding and stuck around in several places. I know they founded Normandy in France and they also founded Dublin in Ireland, York in England, Kiev in Russia, a lot of Scotland, Iceland, over to Canada, and around into the Mediterranean. Definitely southern Italy. There's some evidence they landed in Egypt and Jerusalem.
Some historians say it was actually the Vikings who discovered America first, but they didn't stay very long. There's legends of them finding their way to Minnesota, but historians don't agree if it was true or not.
haha true.My immediate family and myself are all European mutts heh heh, we have German, English, Dutch, Irish, etc. If we focused on such ancestry to celebrate, we wouldn't even know where to begin.
Fellow Euromutt, here. I honestly don't know what part to celebrate if any at all. I'm all of them, yet none of them at the same time.My immediate family and myself are all European mutts heh heh, we have German, English, Dutch, Irish, etc. If we focused on such ancestry to celebrate, we wouldn't even know where to begin.
Miss Anne of the Turtle, I don't know if you imbibe; but all those groups have pretty decent beer. It might serve as a starting point.TurtleAnne said:My immediate family and myself are all European mutts heh heh, we have German, English, Dutch, Irish, etc. If we focused on such ancestry to celebrate, we wouldn't even know where to begin.
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