Anyone find something funny in their DNA test?

Quote: Pacomartin

I understand. Many of the earlier settlers of Pennsylvania, including some of my ancestors, came from the Palatinate region which is now considered Germany, but iwhose inhabitants cannot be distinguished from French.

Don't tell the French, but the dominant population in the region from late antiquity onward were Germanic tribes, namely the Franks, who largely displaced the native Gallic tribes (those that hadn't been displaced by Latin tribes when Rome conquered the area anyway).

The odd thing is they adopted Latin rather than impose their own language, so France wound up with a Romance language rather then a Germanic one.

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But Scandinavian is quite distinct ethnically from French/German.

Scandinavians got around, too, though later in recorded history. They just didn't settle as widely, and two of their famous settlements, Vinland and Greenland, eventually collapsed.

Quote: Nareed

Scandinavians got around, too, though later in recorded history. They just didn't settle as widely,

If you've ever been to Europe,
it's amazing how small it is
compared to the US. You have
all these countries with common
borders. Like Germany, France,
Spain, Italy, and so many more,
and they all speak an entirely
different language. This means
that for a very very long time
people didn't travel at all, they
lived in isolation long enough
to invent an entirely different
language for themselves. This
is incomprehensible to me, and
fascinating.

Quote: Nareed

Scandinavians got around, too, though later in recorded history. They just didn't settle as widely, and two of their famous settlements, Vinland and Greenland, eventually collapsed.

They had impact though. Book of Common Praryer :Save us o Lord from the wrath of the Norsemen.
Viking construction techniques in Canada and Britanny.

The other branches are Spanish, Hungarian, and French/West German. The suspicion falls on the Arab side because their sisters had fair skin and light colored hair.


My grandfather told me that he was sometimes confused with Boris Karloff.

Quote: Evenbob

People's egos love this
kind of stuff. I remember in the
70's my mothers 2nd husband paid
a couple thousand for research into
his geneology and most of it was just
ego stroking BS to try and get even
more money out of him. He lapped
it all up like starving dog, it was really
a sight to see.

You would be amazed how much research is now public in places like ancestry.com. People love doing this research. I can't tell you how much I have found in my job. Once I found an entire will transcribed from handwriting to typed. Saved me lots of guesswork. Another guy I could not find his will, reason was he died in a CSA POW camp. These were guys with some kind of prominence but they were not at all famous. And it all came from people searching public records.

If we were really teaching students how to "think" in college, we might teach some of this. It is how historians write the history.

Quote: AZDuffman

You would be amazed how much research is now public in places like ancestry.com. .

On an ep of Frasier, they thought they
had Russian royalty in the past and it
turned out their maternal great grandma
was a Russian whore. I have no interest
in geneology, it's always a disappointment.

Quote: Pacomartin

That is their first cousin in the middle

Their cousin was a mob boss? Isn't
that Guido Caropone?

Quote: Pacomartin

This family is Syrian, not Italian.

He has mob boss hair. I think
I saw him on The Soprano's..

Quote: Evenbob

He has mob boss hair. I think
I saw him on The Soprano's..

I'm not saying my family didn't have connections, I'm just saying they weren't Italian.

Quote: Pacomartin

I'm not saying my family didn't have connections, I'm just saying they weren't Italian.

Is that the Butcher of Belgrave, or
just the village butcher..