As I go into day 3 of my DNA journey, I start to look at my test results in more detail.
Now, I'm an historian, not a scientist and all this is ground-breaking technology for me. This is difficult, a little like a five year old child getting a book on nuclear physics as a birthday gift. But..... I progress in understanding a little every day.
I uploaded my raw file to Gedmatch and the results that come back are amazing. I had a very private fear, for more than ten years, and in 1.4 seconds that fear was allayed, just by clicking one (of many) applications within the website.
It gives several ancient origin predictors, that was fascinating. The original chart from Ancestry gives a prediction for the last thousand years or so, but the Gedmatch shows percentages of things like neolithic group predictors. (I'm probably using the wrong scientific language to explain this, but like I mentioned, I am new to it, and not yet au fait with the vagaries or terminology).
I have thousands of distant cousin matches, and that will increase as more and more people take DNA tests for genealogical purposes.
I hope lots of people will contact me. The jigsaw of my life, that was missing both the outline and core pieces should slowly start to fill up. It feels like I have the four corners now.
It's one of the most fascinating paths I've ever taken, and it is a joy to walk it.
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