She lived near me with her parents and her elderly grandfather. This was back when Vanessa L Williams became the first African-American Miss America.
We were watching her on tv, when my friend’s grandfather, who rarely spoke, said, "She looks like a nice Finnish girl." (He was originally from Finland.) My friend and I looked at each other and she said, "’Ukki’(Grandpa), she’s black.” He replied, "I know she’s black too, but I can always spot another Finn."
I didn’t think about that for literally decades, until I recently saw her posted DNA results under ethnicelebs.com:
There’s a lot there, but Finnish is included. He called it.
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I did the Ancestry.Com DNA thing. My results surprised me, showed way more Scandanavian blood than I anticipated. (I thought I was 25% Norwegian they said 45% Scandinavian. It seems the Vikings took more than one kind of Booty when they took the British Isles by storm.)
What bothers me is every few months they send updated background information. I didn't change, what the hell changed from the first 3 or 4 results they sent me? The percentages change slightly with each update.
@bowman81 Yes, I noticed that, too. My initial results were a large percentage of French and SubSaharan African (mostly Nigerian), but now there is also North African, especially on my mother’s results. The explanation is that the results were there, with updated tests now they’re finding it.
