My Ancestry

My brother Bill sent off a DNA sample to Ancestry(dot)com and shared the results with me.

For a brief moment, I wondered if I should also.

Sorry, mom.

But I know better. This is the people from which I descend. And before you tell me we're all African--obviously this test doesn't go back that far. (And I'd submit that it's highly possible that white Europeans carry Neanderthal blood, unlike the more highly evolved African strain....)

I don't offer this to make any point, or to express any kind of pride in a matter of which I had absolutely no choice.

But it is what it is and the facts dispel some family myths:

Results as follows:

100% European (damnit).
39% British Isles (damnit).
28% Irish
17% Scandinavian
5% Roman/Greek (Italian)
5% Iberian (Spanish)
4% Western Europe
<1 br="" eastern="" europe=""><1 br="" finnish="" ussian="">0% European Jewish
0% African
0% Asian
0% American Indian
I think he also said 0% Middle Eastern as well, but I failed to write it down.

Pretty much pure white trash, I suppose.

I had absolutely nothing to do with this.

I hope to rise above it.