Morgan, the relentless bargain hunter, found a two for one deal for Ancestry’s DNA test. Morgan’s husband had previously had his DNA tested, but frugal Morgan declined to do so as he didn’t want to pay $99. Morgan asked me if I wanted test my DNA. I’d been thinking about it for a while so I agreed.
I got my test results on Saturday. Morgan’s has yet to be processed, which is strange given we mailed our kits on the same day from the same mailbox. I even mailed mine six hours later than Morgan.
Growing up, I always thought I was mostly of German descent. All of my relatives on my dad’s side of the family have German surnames. My mother always insisted she was French with a little bit of English thrown in. My mother has very French surname and insisted all her children take French in high school.
The results didn’t agree with my parents. I’m a true mutt. My DNA is 48% English and Welsh, 24% German, 16% Irish and Scottish, 10% French and 2% Norwegian. I called my father to share the results. He was surprised by the findings. I asked if he wanted to do a DNA test. He quickly declined my offer to pay for the test. I found his reluctance surprising. Is he hiding something?
The Corporate Slave 
I think we all are mutts for the most part here in the USA. I never had my DNA tested but my son did. It came back 1/4 Scandinavian, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 English/Welch and the last 1/4 was a mixture.
Brother!!! Cousin??? Oi Da. They latter is Norwegian for Oh my.
JP
JP – Can I get a family discount on your design services since we are probably distant cousins.?
oh phooey these things are not as accurate as we assume.
Interesting… folks down herr’ are doing that…. most have a lil bit of the African Continent in them…. its amazing when they start to tell you… then they say.. “and there is about 2% on a lil African. Sub Shara .. ya’ kno’ “
Tommy – I was hoping for a lil bit of African so I could ask my racist father about it. He would probably blame my mother.
You are not just a mutt. You are a Euro-mutt!
OL – At least you didn’t call me Eurotrash.
I wouldn’t pay too much attention to the results, there was a story about identical triplets (sisters) taking the test and all three were given different results. Anyway it’s just another way for the coming new world order to catalog you! Muahaha!
I’ve heard that these tests can result in some very unexpected results….like the person you thought is your father really isn’t