11 days agoTry 23andme and Ancestry, then do a paper trail to confirm. DNA tests are a bit messy with German, and tend to understate
25 days agoMy mom's maternal side is recent immigrants my great-grandmother was from Puerto Rico the person she married his grandparents were from Italy my great-grandmother's maternal grandfather was from austrius Spain and migrated to Puerto Rico her dad's side is mainly Louisiana Creole with some German Czech Irish and English and my dad's side is English Scottish welsh Irish proven native American not just myth dna test showed it and polish
a month agoAnd when you add counties to ethnicity… this is a such cocktail you can get. You can be Turkmenian, Russian, Ukrainian and Polish in the same time, phphphp. And don’t let people judge you based on HECKING piece of land your or,(usually), not even your relatives are from!
a month agoI wanna take a dna test but I’m afraid that it might just come out as 100% chinese with a 2% margin of error of being chinese
a month agoI haven't taken a DNA test, but my family tree is documented enough to where surprises would be minimal. Heck some branches have been documented for 1000 years
a month agoDad confused about how my siblings and I look more like Mom compared to him. Me and my brother resemble our mom's brothers. My sisters resemble my mom and the rest of the ladies in her family.
a month agoAncestry stuff is pretty fuzzy science imo. As another commenter mentioned its totally random what genes genes are expressed in your DNA as it is initially combined. While its an accurate understanding of what genes are being expressed by a common group of people. Its not exactly a hard confirmation as to the specifics of one's familial lineage.
a month agoGenetics are a funny thing. While you take half of each of your parents’ genes, which parts of those genes are always random. So you could easily have one genetic background be stronger than the others.
a month agoI thought I was ukrainian with russian roots cuz of my grandfather... I'm more Baltic than slavic
