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Ancestry/Genealogy

Spider Jerusalem

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9. That's a bit old now, Ancestry's updated estimates seem to be a *little* better

Reply to CountAllVotes (Original post)

Tue Mar 5, 2019, 05:30 AM

Mar 2019

although both of my parents still have mystery percentages of "Sweden" and "Norway" respectively (neither has any known Scandinavian ancestry whatever; mostly British Isles). The "Scandinavian" in people of British Isles ancestry seems to be picking up on very old admixture events involving Danes/Vikings and possibly Anglo-Saxons (some of whom were north Germanic).

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DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy [View all] CountAllVotes Feb 2019 OP

Interesting.. luvs2sing Feb 2019 #1

I know quite a bit via family lore (paternal) CountAllVotes Feb 2019 #2

For what it's worth, each one of the companies that tests DNA PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #3

What are your thoughts on 23andMe on privacy for their data? Sylvere Feb 2019 #5

I'm under the impression they don't share their information. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #6

I pretty much disregard this part of the results The Genealogist Feb 2019 #4

When I first got my results radical noodle Mar 2019 #7

Maybe so! CountAllVotes Mar 2019 #8

That's a bit old now, Ancestry's updated estimates seem to be a *little* better Spider Jerusalem Mar 2019 #9