I had my DNA done and I wish my four siblings would. My dad only had one brother that never married and my mom is an only child so I don’t have any first cousins. My DNA is Scottish, Welsh, Dane, and Irish and highly concentrated in those areas with a tiny bit from my mom’s German/French/English side so obviously some of her ancestry is from the same area as Dad’s. Mom is from a very small family.
Dad had traced the family tree the old way and traced it back to Scottish immigrants that came to North Carolina during the Scottish clearances, sort of like with the show Outlander. My original ancestor from Scotland came here in the 1700’s and fought in the Revolution. As far as I can tell none of my family is still in Scotland. I traced them all the way back to Normans that fought with King David of Scotland and were awarded land in Scotland.
It gets more interesting when more people in the family do it. The thing that surprised me the most is that my DNA showed no Native American (Cherokee) and no African ancestry.
So sorry you never had any cousins. Cousins can be such fun during childhood!
My husband has done lots of genealogy stuff in his family, going back hundreds of years. One of his sons is Mormon, so that son’s wife also has documented tons of tracing back for generations.
“The thing that surprised me the most is that my DNA showed no Native American (Cherokee) and no African ancestry.”
A lot of the ancestors on my Dad’s side of the family settled in the Tenn./N. Carolina area. Rumor was that my dad’s mother who died at a young age was part Cherokee.
No Cherokee DNA or African has showed up on my Dad’s side of the family as of yet.
On the other side of my family, my mothers’s. In the early 1800’s a female “free negro” show’s up with no surname. Most of her ancestors were not poor and were English and Scottish. She may have married an Indian, Cherokee/possible.
Indian descendants were tracked down on paper from the late 1700’s to 1800’s until close to a hundred Cherokee ancestors show up via the old fashioned way, birth, marriages, military service and death via (paper) documentation. Yet, there is zero DNA documentation of any Cherokee DNA in my mother’s family or my DNA and siblings.
Also, my mother’s maiden surname came from a wealthy British sea captain in the Brit Navy and later with his own ship. He settled in S. Carolina and had a slew of kids with what was supposedly a Greek Slave girl, he had purchased and then married brought to S Carolina.
Some of us wonder if “Greek” was code for African.
My DNA shows African DNA, Benin/Togo 3%. A sibling has African DNA but not Benin/Togo. Yet her children and grand kids have African DNA, Benin/Togo.
The “documented” Cherokee and other Indian blood appeared a a Cherokee woman marring my 4th great grand father on my mother’s side of the family.
Close to a hundred Cherokee ancestors show up via the old fashioned genealogy way, birth, marriages, military service and death documentation.
Damn I’m sorry
Your victimhood ticket just evaporated didn’t it?