Before doing genealogy, I always assumed I was "Heinz 57" variety, probably from many things mixed together, not like my husband who had four grandparents from what is currently Croatia.
So when I got my results, my deep add-mix looks like this:
They have been taking samples from people around there world and using it as reference populations.
According to the Genographic Project, my DNA compares most closely to the British (UK) population:
and next the German population:
It appears to me that I'm closer to the German population mix and than to the British, when I look at the graphs.
Since my maternal folks that I know about came on the Mayflower to New England, or settled New Amsterdam in what is now NYC, or went to Canada in the early 1800s from Ireland (probably northern), the match of my ancestor's is not surprising here, when described above and with the yellow parts of the Heatmap below.
The Geno 2.0 project also included what they call their "Heatmap for U5B" since my Haplogroup was U5B2B. It shows the path out of Africa of my most distant ancestors and the part that is deepest red is where most of their descendants seem to have shown up:
Since this is on my mother's side, and not my father's (we can't trace my father's DNA since neither he nor my brother is alive), I was surprised to see the red -- that is what I would expect to find as red if my father's DNA were traced -- I've got my father's tree back to the 1600 and 1700s in Sweden. So I guess those folks before me in Northern Europe headed south before heading west to the north american continent.
Now, for my children who are always trying to get their mother into first the 20th and now the 21st century, here is that Neanderthal piece I mentioned:
I suppose I should remind them that if their mother is a Neanderthal, so are they!
The link to this post is: http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2012/12/contrary-to-my-kids-assumptions-im-only.html
© 2012, Erica Dakin Voolich
