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    Quote Originally Posted by Muriel View Post
    Do it!

    There was a few surprises - my father's family heritage does not prove out in the DNA. When my husband did it, the DNA did not prove out the family stories of their DNA, either, but he has Hungarian and Czech. That was a surprise! So, I'd say, do it!
    Check out my post earlier in this thread somewhere where I found out I have a half brother in Hawaii from when my daddy (he's dead now) was there during WWII. His daughter found it and emailed me. I didn't really pay much attention to who else in the data base I was related too. It was quite a shock for the those that know so far (they haven't told everybody yet) because the mother never told him that his father wasn't his real father. So the whole family, kids, grandkids, etc, though he was their blood father/grandfather, etc.

    One more interesting thing, my daddy had a bunch of pics from Hawaii. There were only two pics with women in them, so I sent my half brother's daughter (who had contacted me) those two pics. One had two women in it standing side by side. She wrote me back and said the one on the right was her grandmother, her daddy's (my half brother) mother.

    My mother is 91 and in a nursing home and I broached the subject carefully with her and she already knew. lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Check out my post earlier in this thread somewhere where I found out I have a half brother in Hawaii from when my daddy (he's dead now) was there during WWII. His daughter found it and emailed me. I didn't really pay much attention to who else in the data base I was related too. It was quite a shock for the those that know so far (they haven't told everybody yet) because the mother never told him that his father wasn't his real father. So the whole family, kids, grandkids, etc, though he was their blood father/grandfather, etc.

    One more interesting thing, my daddy had a bunch of pics from Hawaii. There were only two pics with women in them, so I sent my half brother's daughter (who had contacted me) those two pics. One had two women in it standing side by side. She wrote me back and said the one on the right was her grandmother, her daddy's (my half brother) mother.

    My mother is 91 and in a nursing home and I broached the subject carefully with her and she already knew. lol.
    I looked through the whole thread and didn't see my post. I thought I posted about this. Maybe I started a new thread.

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    Check out my post earlier in this thread somewhere...
    You made a separate thread on that...

    My bizarre Ancestry.com story

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    Here are my results again, but not as broken down as before. A few less areas. No trace regions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    You made a separate thread on that...

    My bizarre Ancestry.com story
    Ah, thanks.

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    I wish I had known about this before my dad got dementia at about 90. I would have really liked to get the details. Now none of us will know the circumstances, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Here are my results again, but not as broken down as before. A few less areas. No trace regions.

    Ancestry.com DNA tests-screen-shot-2019-11-29-11-17-02-pm-jpg

    Ancestry.com DNA tests-screen-shot-2019-11-29-11-16-51-pm-jpg
    Do you know anything about your indicated connection to Norway or Scandinavia ? 4 percent makes it fairly recent, like 4-6 generations back. It could be 1800s immigrants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    Do you know anything about your indicated connection to Norway or Scandinavia ? 4 percent makes it fairly recent, like 4-6 generations back. It could be 1800s immigrants.
    Not a clue.

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    As a newbie, let me explain my nick before responding to this thread's DNA topic. I chose my nick for 2 reasons. (1) I used to be active on chess and card sites and I liked "Berserk" as an expression of my wild risky style of play. But on a Hearts card site, I changed my name to "The Donald" (my real name) during the last presidential election. I impersonated Trump in the games chat box to live up to my nick and would make promises like "I shall make this card site great again!" If I was playing against 3 women and the ladies started chatting about bathroom remodeling, I would comment on how Melania wanted to redecorate the White House bathrooms. What made this mind game fun was that the ladies always responded to me as if I really were Trump, so that some newbies actually believed my act and scolded me for my politics! I studied my Trumpese lingo hard, so I could remain in character.

    (2) I also chose the "Berserk" nick because the term originally referred to Viking warrior shamans and I have always been told that I'm 100% Swedish. My great grandparents emigrated from Sweden and settled in the South Dakota near Minnesota, where they remained until they were offered free farms in southern Saskatchewan. My Dad's parents are commemorated in Midale's Saskatchewan's museum as the first couple to get married in Midale. The Great Depression meant that they could no longer feed my Dad and, at age 14, he was forced to move to Winnipeg to live with an abusive alcoholic. My grandparents were forced to sell their farms and move into the newly forming town. Oil was later discovered on their farm, which was on part of the land of the latest rich oil boom in North Dakota. How sad that they couldn't keep their farms and become rich! But then Dad would never have met Mom in Winnipeg and I would never have been born!

    Now for my response to this thread's topic. DNA testing showed that I was not 100% Swedish, as I had always thought, because I'm 1 % Irish! They told me that this slim Irish lineage must have begun many centuries ago. I suspect that my Viking ancestors took an Irish maiden captive when they invaded Ireland and that gal became my foremother. When I die, I'm going to ask how she entered my family lineage. Several centuries ago, there wasn't any tourism between Scandinavia and Ireland!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Berserk View Post
    As a newbie, let me explain my nick before responding to this thread's DNA topic. I chose my nick for 2 reasons. (1) I used to be active on chess and card sites and I liked "Berserk" as an expression of my wild risky style of play. But on a Hearts card site, I changed my name to "The Donald" (my real name) during the last presidential election. I impersonated Trump in the games chat box to live up to my nick and would make promises like "I shall make this card site great again!" If I was playing against 3 women and the ladies started chatting about bathroom remodeling, I would comment on how Melania wanted to redecorate the White House bathrooms. What made this mind game fun was that the ladies always responded to me as if I really were Trump, so that some newbies actually believed my act and scolded me for my politics! I studied my Trumpese lingo hard, so I could remain in character.

    (2) I also chose the "Berserk" nick because the term originally referred to Viking warrior shamans and I have always been told that I'm 100% Swedish. My great grandparents emigrated from Sweden and settled in the South Dakota near Minnesota, where they remained until they were offered free farms in southern Saskatchewan. My Dad's parents are commemorated in Midale's Saskatchewan's museum as the first couple to get married in Midale. The Great Depression meant that they could no longer feed my Dad and, at age 14, he was forced to move to Winnipeg to live with an abusive alcoholic. My grandparents were forced to sell their farms and move into the newly forming town. Oil was later discovered on their farm, which was on part of the land of the latest rich oil boom in North Dakota. How sad that they couldn't keep their farms and become rich! But then Dad would never have met Mom in Winnipeg and I would never have been born!

    Now for my response to this thread's topic. DNA testing showed that I was not 100% Swedish, as I had always thought, because I'm 1 % Irish! They told me that this slim Irish lineage must have begun many centuries ago. I suspect that my Viking ancestors took an Irish maiden captive when they invaded Ireland and that gal became my foremother. When I die, I'm going to ask how she entered my family lineage. Several centuries ago, there wasn't any tourism between Scandinavia and Ireland!
    Okay, that's a reasonable explanation for the name, you even spelled it the Scandinavian way with an s instead of a z. The last time I saw the term used was as the name for some Norwegian's small ship. The captain liked to drink and his crew moreso, including the crew members that he picked up along the way as he traveled the world. The ship and its crew ended up being lost somewhere in Antarctica while the captain was elsewhere. It's a true story, it happened not that long ago. As for myself, I'm about 7/8 Norwegian and 1/8 Swedish but I spent part of my childhood in the US.

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