To those of you familiar with Ancestry DNA, you will recognize the above as my ethnicity estimate. It has always intrigues me because a fair share of my ancestry is unknown to me. I have traced a fair amount of my family to England and Germany but most of my branches end in the early 1800's or late 1700's somewhere in the original 13 colonies. I have never traced someone back to Norway though some of that could be the Viking influence on England. I know of one person in my family tree that was born in Sweden though where or if others were, is unknown still. The biggest surprise to me is my 51% Scottish estimate as I have not been able to trace anyone to Scotland. I have one potential candidate who according to records immigrated to the U.S. from Canada and has a very Scottish last name but that is it and certainly nowhere near half of my DNA's worth. So where my Scottish roots come from has been a mystery... but is much closer to being solved thanks to Ancestry DNA new Sideview technology.
Sideview splits your DNA in half and tells you which parent your ethnicity is coming from. Most of my lines I have traced overseas belongs on my mom's side of the family and they definitely contain Germanic roots. So I know that "Parent 2" labeled up above is my mom and "Parent 1" is my father. So now it becomes very clear that my Scottish ancestry is coming from my father's side of my DNA.
From the detailed chart above, you can see that nearly 45% of the 50% of DNA given from my father is in fact, from Scottish origins and 0% comes from the area of Germany. I find this very interesting because common lore of those researching my surname says it comes from some pretty famous people in Germany though I have never seen proof. Based off of what I learned just this morning, I would probably wager money that my paternal line comes from Scotland instead.
This was just rolled out recently and from what I have read since, this is just the tip of the iceberg on where this is heading. Soon they will be able to tie this information to specific lines of your family tree to narrow things down even more than just which parent this ethnicity came from. Eventually we may know which third great grandparents this ethnicity came from.
But there is a big caveat to all this. As you know, we only inherit 50% of our DNA from each parent. So although my father passed on 90% Scottish genes of the 50% I got from him, he very well may have not donated his 50% of African genes. I'm joking about the African genes as I have never had any tests show any, but it theoretically is possible. Just because the slice of homemade sour cherry pie didn't have a pit in it doesn't mean there aren't pits in the rest of the pie. I have proven that time and again every early summer.
So I found this all very intriguing and thought I would past it on as an extra in-between my regularly scheduled Grand Canyon boating series of posts.
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