Sunday, March 03, 2019

DNA - My Heritage

So about a year ago, Em and I did our DNA tests and got the results, which to me were a bit of a shock as I always thought that I had Scottish and Irish DNA and a lot of French from my mothers side.   I still don't know how these things work but it turned out I have:

English                                                     71% (No Irish, Scottish or Welsh, just English)
North and Western Europe                    10.1% Includes French, German, Dutch
Italian                                                      9.4% 
Ashkenazi Jewish                                      4% Who even knew that was a thing
North African                                          3.6%
West African                                            1.9%  And no they didn't know I was born in South Africa

The best comment I got from People was - "So you don't have ANY South African DNA" (Ugghhh Facepalm emoticon here) .... lol

Among my mothers stuff from when she passed away, were a lot of family photographs, which I have managed to find out who the people in the photos were, which is absolutely amazing, I will include that in a new post. 

I do recommend getting your DNA done because it is amazing how much you find out about yourself and your family! 


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