Have you ever done a dna ancestry test and were surprised by the results?

"awww hell ... well I reckon we'll always have Paris ... Tennessee, sis ..."

@Blondily

@BlueGreenGrey Hopefully therepy will help too 🙏

@Blondily thank you for BC :)

@windinhishair Same for me except the French.

@Sojournersoul Must have been from a distant ancestor!

@Blondily It was. I had to go check it all out.

How far back@Sojournersoul?
I was surprised when I found out I had Finnish ancestry. I dont think my parents knew that either or my grandparents because it was always passed down where our ancestors came from.

@Confined Bingo

@JohnRing Im 4% Scottish too. Maybe we have a common ancestor🤔

@Blondily the thing I'm a direct descendant of at least 4 Mayflower passengers yet the 2% left is vague. English, Welsh or any Northern European lol.

@JohnRing sweet!

Nice!@Northwest
I have mostly Scandinavian ancestry too.

@caPnAhab So did I thru my mom but I did find out more info doing the test.

@Colonelmustardseed If you don't mind my asking, where did your ancestors come from?

@Blondily My mom is from the Philippines. I’d suggested to her that there might be some Spanish ancestry. She said there wasn’t, and she was right. From her side, it’s all Filipino.
From my dad’s side, Austria and Poland like he said.

@Colonelmustardseed I think its rare these days for anyone to only have a single ancestral background like your mother. Or in your case only 3. Most people like me are mixed!

@Dino11 Ill bet you're fun at get togethers. 😆

@DownTheStreet Those kits dont lie!

@bijouxbroussard Which dna site do you feel is the most accurate?

@Blondily For me, the most detailed was 23 & Me, in terms of my SubSaharan African ancestry. It gave me some info that Ancestry.com and MyHeritage didn’t. Ancestry.com, however, found family members who still live in Marseille, and they reached out. My mother actually got to meet some of them before her death.

Sorry about your mother's passing@bijouxbroussard

I have heard 23 & Me is more detailed. Im happy for you that you found more detailed info on your ancestry. It must have been thrilling for you to find out plus meeting relatives.

@TexChik whoa! Thats fascinating!

@FreeSpirit1 🤭😆🤣

@hippyjoe1955 Amazing what you find out from the dna kits!

@Blondily I have never had a dna test done and never will.