Sep '17
So, recently my parents did that Ancestry.com thing, and got the results, earlier. After decades of being told I'm 1/4 Cherokee, I find out I'm not Native American at all. Possibly a fraction of a percent, if anything. However, it's come to my knowledge that I'm 1% African. Also around half English, too, which was also surprising. If I'm not Cherokee, then, why the fuck do I look like this?
Anyone else ever send Ancestry.com their spit? Anyone ever get any similar surprises?
Anyone else ever send Ancestry.com their spit? Anyone ever get any similar surprises?
Seriously, I would like to do Ancestry.com, but have not yet. I know that it will show that I'm mostly Irish and Italian, with a tiny bit of Scottish and English. My ancestors haven't been on this continent for long enough for there to be much cofusion about anything like that... if I were part black or Native American or whatever, I would definitely have already heard about it. The only interesting thing that might show up is that I could have a little Balkan ancestry. The village next to the village where two of my great-grandparents were born, in Italy, was sort of a refugee colony for Albanians who settled there after fleeing from the encroachments of the Ottoman Empire, back in the 1400's. They have never really assimilated to become Italians, they still speak a dialect of Albanian in that village. So, that will be interesting if I turn out to have an ancestor or two from there, but otherwise I'm basically an Irish/Italian mutt... a very common type of mutt in the northeastern USA.