I Am Irish

Finding your roots is an amazing journey. I am part Irish, as well, but in my family it was a carefully concealed fact. I am 13% Irish and/or Scottish, and 11% German and 3% Swedish! They are getting very accurate with that DNA!

My father was very focused on being entirely English. He loved his British ancestry because it was his own grandfather who immigrated to the USA, and he spent tons of time working on his genealogy, trying to prove that his family were distant cousins to the Tudor Kings.

He was such an anglophile that he made my mother learn how to make Yorkshire pudding! Unfortunately, he also adopted a hatred toward the Irish, (believing that was part of being British), and ignored his own mother's Irish ancestry and his own Irish heritage.

I was both shocked and amazed to discover our "Irish bits" when I began to do genealogy myself...perhaps more accurately that my father did.

Congratulations on discovering your ancestry! If you want a more complete analysis, I had my DNA tested on ancestry.com, and the test goes on sale for $59.99 periodically. They actually zero in on areas where your ancestors may have lived.

I just recently learned I am much more Irish than I ever thought. Thanks for sharing:)