Ancestry

[MehGuy]

Idk.. I got like 97% Western European (mainly from the UK), with trace amounts being.. 2% Southern European and 1% Northern African.

 

[MehGuy]

-The second surprising result is I have no Native American at all. Strange :/

Me too. Seems like a lot of families fabricate this myth.

 

[MehGuy]

Honestly surprised about the Northern African thing. Although I guess Europe and Northern Africa has had some fights, lol.

 

[Saucy]

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.

 

[MehGuy]

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 don't think it works that way.

Most families just make up the Indian princess story. Probably to feel like they have real ties to this land. You know, cause we like.. stole it..

 

[Saucy]

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.

 

[MehGuy]

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.

I really don't think that's true.

We still possess our Neanderthal genes. Most of our genes are junk/inactive I believe.

 

[Saucy]

Hmm interesting. I guess I have more studying to do

 

[MehGuy]

Hmm interesting. I guess I have more studying to do

Yeah, we share like 96% of our DNA with apes.

 

[Archie the Preacher]

Reading a book now on the history of the Vikings ever since finding out I was Scandinavian.

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.

 

[Archie the Preacher]

Yeah, we share like 96% of our DNA with apes.

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.

 

[Saucy]

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.

 

[Saucy]

 

[MehGuy]

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.

It would be cool if the Apollo astronauts who landed on the moon found a battle axe there in the middle of nowhere.

 

[TurtleAnne]

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.

 

[Saucy]

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.

haha true.

 

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[leothelioness]

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.

 

[Archie the Preacher]

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.

 

[Saucy]

I betray my Irish and Viking ancestors by not liking beer lol. Maybe I haven't tried the right kind of something