Tuesday, 5 April 2016

And the DNA results are in..........

All my ancestry research so far has quite firmly kept my roots in Somerset. Not that I've minded that, as Somerset is one of the most beautiful, diverse areas in the world. Many of my direct ancestors came from The Quantocks which was the first area of outstanding natural beauty in the country. I love Somerset with a passion. 
If you'd have asked what I expected to find before I took the test, I'd have said "Cut me in half and Somerset would be stamped through me like a stick of rock". I thought my percentage of GB would have been slightly higher with the rest made up from West Europe and the Iberian Peninsular (which are the two trace regions I have with 4% and 5% respectively).

The Scandinavian and Irish ancestry were the areas that surprised me the most. Not that they aren't welcome! They are, I am thrilled. I've looked at DNA maps of the British Isles and it seems quite unusual for the Scandinavian element to appear in the West Country (although not unknown, or even extremely rare).
I am yet to find a direct ancestor who wasn't from England, and I have over a hundred direct ancestors in my tree. 
I feel like a child in a sweetshop this morning, not knowing where to start, which bit to unwrap first, in regards to my results. The ethnicity pie chart was the first thing I saw, thus the first thing to excite me. It wasn't the reason for me taking the DNA test though, just an interesting aside. 

Here are the full results 


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