[Slyfox]

I did the spit test and got back my results:

Nearly half Eastern EU (Polish, Slovac, German) and nearly half Western EU (English, Scottish, Irish) with 2% Bantu.

My daughter got back the same 2% Bantu.

Don't know what to think about that, not that I mind but we can't figure out where the ancestors are in our line and why would both of us have the same percentage.

On another note - I am cousins to both Patton and the guy who played him in the movie.

[madison10]

Interesting about Patton! You could have the same % if her father had some Bantu, also, right?

[Albion Wilde]

Nearly half Eastern EU (Polish, Slovac, German) and nearly half Western EU (English, Scottish, Irish) with 2% Bantu. My daughter got back the same 2% Bantu.

Rounded yours down, rounded hers up?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I am cousins to both Patton and the guy who played him in the movie.

You magnificent b*st*rd!

[ladyjane]

You have to take some of the Ancestry reports with a grain of salt. They are based on statistics and probable match with people living in that country now.

I did the Ancestry thing and it has been interesting to find matches who have the same ancestors in their trees as mine going back hundreds of years.

There was an article on the internet about identical triplets who did the Ancestry test and their results were all different. Fairly close but different. They interviewed some ‘expert’ who said the tests were good for entertainment value - whatever that means.

[exDemMom]

Nearly half Eastern EU (Polish, Slovac, German) and nearly half Western EU (English, Scottish, Irish) with 2% Bantu.

My daughter got back the same 2% Bantu.

Bantu would be the tribe from which the largest number of slaves were taken to the US. For you to have Bantu, it most likely means that there were slaves in your US ancestry.

I also have some Bantu.

The majority of my genetic background is British, Irish, Scandanavian, Iberian, the "-stan" area of Eurasia, and a bit from India.

I'd always heard that we are part Indian... but we always thought it was Native American, and not actual Indian.

I'd like to do the 23andme test for comparison.

My genealogy is interesting, too. The majority of my ancestors came here as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Some ancestors were part of the Connecticut colony. Either way, the American part of my family tree goes back to the mid 1600s, and there are no immigrants for the last couple of hundred years. So I can call my husband one of those danged newcomers, since his ancestors immigrated in the 1800s.