Testing
My daughter was curious about her ancestry--her Mom was adopted and little is known from that side of the ladder-- and I know a lot about my ancestors. So we both did the DNA testing and my results were finished this last week. I thought I was mostly from the UK and a bit of France, but it was a little different from that. But my ancestry is 37% Great Britain, 29% Scandinavia, 14% Ireland, 9% Greece, Italy, 6% Iberian Peninsula---99% Europe. The Vikings invaded Scotland, Ireland and England and that explains most of the DNA. Ancestry.com had some interesting maps that indicated the folks with similar DNA settled a narrow belt from Pittsburgh. PA to Indianapolis, IN. I broke out of this range years ago, but the vast majority of my kin is still in that area. This mapping was interesting info about how the immigration of the US was actually done as the West opened up to the settlers. ...