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My DNA results at ancestry.com came in. No big surprises. It considers me 61% English (plausible, considering three of my four grandparents have substantial known English ancestry) and 19% German (the other grandparent). It says 6% Ashkenazi; I would have expected maybe 9%, given that one great-great-grandfather and his father-in-law both seem to be purely Ashkenazi, but that's not far off. Only 4% each Scottish and Irish, but I think that's 500+ years back; I have a lot of more recent ancestors who lived in one or the other of those places.
And I haven't found any near "ancestors" whom the DNA says I'm not related to (as happened to at least one person I know).
DNA combined with family trees has pointed me to several second, third, and fourth cousins who are on Ancestry. One of whom I've been corresponding with for two years, and she just sent me a thick packet of genealogical stuff, including baby pictures of my paternal grandmother.
My father's mother's father did a fair amount of genealogical research, including hiring somebody in the UK to trace the UK parts of his tree. Naturally, there's a King of England in there. (I bet a lot of English genealogists made their living finding royal ancestry for Americans. Then again, if you go back 25 generations, you have close to 225 ancestors, which is about 40 million, which is a large fraction of the population of Europe at the time, so the odds of one of them actually being King of England are pretty good.) And once you find a King of England, you get another dozen well-documented Kings and Queens of England for free, along with their alleged pre-English ancestry: there's a 55-generation unbroken chain, no doubt impeccably documented, from Alfred the Great back to Adam and Eve.
And I haven't found any near "ancestors" whom the DNA says I'm not related to (as happened to at least one person I know).
DNA combined with family trees has pointed me to several second, third, and fourth cousins who are on Ancestry. One of whom I've been corresponding with for two years, and she just sent me a thick packet of genealogical stuff, including baby pictures of my paternal grandmother.
My father's mother's father did a fair amount of genealogical research, including hiring somebody in the UK to trace the UK parts of his tree. Naturally, there's a King of England in there. (I bet a lot of English genealogists made their living finding royal ancestry for Americans. Then again, if you go back 25 generations, you have close to 225 ancestors, which is about 40 million, which is a large fraction of the population of Europe at the time, so the odds of one of them actually being King of England are pretty good.) And once you find a King of England, you get another dozen well-documented Kings and Queens of England for free, along with their alleged pre-English ancestry: there's a 55-generation unbroken chain, no doubt impeccably documented, from Alfred the Great back to Adam and Eve.