Got my Ancestry DNA back [View all]

And I'm actually fairly impressed. My husband, who's more interested in it, has tried a couple different sites and included me.

The first was the Genographic Project, which was run by the National Geographic Society before they got bought by Rupert Murdoch. The data was interesting, but didn't get into actual families.

The second was a group I don't remember the name of. The results were really odd for both of us. Very romantic details - I mean, some Tuscan?? For both of us? Really? All DH's known ancestors go way back in Ireland on his father's side and his mother was half Irish, half Polish. He's been working the genealogy and has enough hard data to confirm this. We came to suspect this was a huge pile of crap.

My ancestry is a lot more obscure and further muddled by my paternal side's tendency to change stories to suit whatever they wanted it to be at the moment. Some of what Dad said may have been made up by him, some may have been stories he was told by his parents and grandparents, and some may have actually been true. I know WWII had him denying we were all that German - he placed our family in a border area that switched ownership frequently. Not so much; DH's genealogy research puts us a little north of dead center. The genealogy did verify one story, which was that Dad's paternal great-grandfather was a foundling. Knowing him, I never believed it. When we found it was true, I was dumbfounded. And my mother's side - her father had an Irish surname. When I asked her where they were from, she said "I don't know - Iowa?" So I could be anything.

Anyway, Ancestry ran the DNA and connected it with others, some of whom had family trees. No romance, no Tuscany. DH's is consistent with his research. Mine was mostly interesting because of the family trees. They had no way of knowing who I was, and still connected me to some very unique shared surnames. That kind of backs up the results.

Anyway, it's official. I am the whitest person in any room. And the most boring. I kind of suspected it - like George Carlin said, 'I don't even try to tan, I just try to neutralize the blue." But the better part of my DNA seems to be English, so at least I'm in a mixed marriage.