I Love Genealogy

What A Shock...... I have always been interested in my geneology, maybe because I was a history major and what better way than to research your own family history. Anyway, I have been told that I am related to Pete Rose and Stonewall Jackson. I am proud of both-opposite ends of the spectrum but we don't choose our family.

I was told that I was from Wales, Ireland, France and my great grandfather was full blooded Cherokee, hence the heritage I chose on EP.

Groupon was offering a special with ConnectmyDNA so I did it. For 29.00, I believe, they sent me two cotton swabs to swish in my cheeks.

Imagine my disbelief when it came back that my DNA was almost 100% in Austrailia, then Sweden, Poland, Croatia, , 5th was Ireland, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Italy, Belgium and Belarus.. 10 countries in all!

But the shock of all times is when they said that my mother and father shared 3 loci that were identical...now what does that mean? I am not sure...but my children were born with a very rare genetic disease..my sisters and brothers never had children so I can't say.

More research is needed I think!

RavenDelcor

Searching the past, past relationships is very interesting. Some walls are hit in searches. Connections need to be made over and over to make sense of them. Then, when you find a name, and google it, you find that people with that name have done interesting things. My GG grandfather may have been a composer, but no one in my family remembers him as ever being musical. I'm not sure how many Haydn Bakers were around in the late ninteenth century, living in NYC. There may have been two, one a composer and one my GG Grandfather.