Last month I sent away my DNA sample (about a teaspoon worth of saliva) to the Ancestry DNA people here in Australia. I received my results late Thursday afternoon.
I knew that a lot of my ancestors came from the UK. Which is exactly what my DNA shows. I was hoping that there would be some Scandinavian in there because I have traced a lot of my family tree to the north eastern part of England, areas like York, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Those are the areas where the vikings had invaded and/or settled around 1000 years ago. I didn't realise that the percentage would be as high as it was. I now have more of an affinity with the TV show vikings now (~_o)
It's all very exciting. I was hoping that it would help me find out more information on dad's side of the family. They never really talked about them much so I never had any idea about who they were. I have already made contact with a 4th cousin. Who funnily enough lived a suburb over from me when we were kids. We would never have known that we were related.
Time to go and learn some more about my family.
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