I was rather surprised at the amount of British I have in me, given that I had a German mother and Irish father. Though one of my grandmothers was British. I did my DNA through ancestry.com, because it has a Swedish site and so many of my local friends have done it this way.
that scandinavian element is actually notably low
I was surprised that I had any at all as I am South African and this is halfway across the world from that!
but there are traces of it all across northern europe though
Those Vikings!
Yeah maybe or something further back. I have a bit of a funny mix because my grandfather was Polish
It’s so amazing how finetuned the results are!!
Hey! You have less than 1% of Greek genes, high five!
No, seriously, I never thought Greek/Italians get their own subcategory, considering the French, German etc are under the “Europe West” umbrella.
This test shows so much accuracy, now I’m all the more intrigued to take it one day.
Now that you know the results, do they make more sense to you? I remember the way Brooke Shields reacted on “Who do you think you are”, when she found out her French ancestry (won’t spoil it if you haven’t seen it, but it was big). She said she now understood why she was always so attracted to the french culture.
I was surprised that I had so much British in me. I thought my Irish percentage would be higher. The other European would have been my German mother I guess.
British and Irish dna is all mixed up – however upsetting that might be to all parties. Typically GB people have about 20% Irish on this test.
bear in mind it means things in common with modern day populations of those countries – something called surf effect.