Beth (my) DNA:
Okay we are all three first cousins. Tricia's Mom, my Mom, and Jeremy's Dad are all siblings.
We are all 100% European, no surprise. Our top 4 are virtually all the same. However the percentages vary, which is to be expected. Percentages can even vary between siblings. Also even though we are ALL Scandinavian, there is no Scandinavian in our common heritage. Jeremy's Mom and my Dad have Danish ancestors, so pretty sure that's our Scandinavian. With Tricia's maiden name, her Dad surely has Swedish ancestors (or possibly Norwegian).
Our common countries should be Ireland, Germany, France and England. So the Europe West could be Germany and France. We all have Irish, and all close to the same percentage 17-23%. The Irish is from our great-grandmother (our grandmother's mother was pretty much 100% Irish). We also all have a tiny bit of Iberian Peninsula, which I'm thinking could be related to our French ancestors. I haven't found any Spanish or Portuguese, so maybe our French were further south.
Some things stand out. Jeremy is the only one with Finland/Northwest Russia which must be from his Mom. Maybe her Danes dabbled in Finland. Tricia is the only one with European Jewish which must be from her Dad's side. Tricia and I have Italy/Greece but not Jeremy, and I have not found any Italian or Greek ancestors yet, but notice my percentage is tiny.
Anyway, this was all very interesting to me. Feel free to leave any comments below or on social media.
Hi Beth,
ReplyDeleteSeggerman cousin Ralph Anderson here. I have also had concerns about these DNA issues. First almost all Europeans and especially Scandinavians have Iberian Peninsula in their DNA because during the Ice Age the Iberian Peninsula was an area of refuge from the glaciers when the Scandinavians moved south. Now about the West European in our DNA, (I'm 62% Scandinavian) remember that the Vikings went a pillaging and a plundering all over Great Britain and Europe, along the Volga River all the way to Turkey. They brought back with them to Scandinavia wives and thralls (slaves) from those areas. So their DNA has mixed with that of the Scandinavians.