Hello and long time no see! Things got a little busy after moving across the country and setting up a new house, but I’m back! This post won’t be too long, I just wanted to share my official ancestry results and a little bit of the “traits” results which I opted into, so here we go!
These results are about what I expected, Eastern Europe and Russia from my maternal side and Germanic Europe, Scotland, and England & Northwestern Europe from my paternal side. Let’s get into some of the regions in more detail; just for fun.
Eastern Europe & Russia
This region did surprise me a little bit, as it said my ancestors are most likely from Poland, Ukraine, and Slovakia. I traced back ancestors from my maternal grandfather to Hungary, but I believe, if I would have investigated further, that I would have seen an immigration from Ukraine at some point in the early 1900’s or late 1800’s.
Scotland & England
Scotland and England were both a surprise to me. I guessed that I had ancestors from Ireland based on my paternal grandmother’s maiden name, “Sullivan.” Although, I discovered it may be difficult to pinpoint ancestry based off of my grandmother’s ancestry after I was able to trace some family members back to early american colonies (1700’s). So, even though the Sullivan side can be traced back to Cork, Ireland, there have been a lot of marriages to women with varying ancestries since the 1700’s. My paternal great-grandmother had a last name of “Still,” which has Scottish and English origins, so that is where I suspect them to come from.
Traits
This was a fun extra part of the ancestry results that you can opt into and I REALLY wanted to know if I was doomed to having red-headed children since my mom, my husband’s mom, and my paternal grandmother all have/had red hair.
Hair Color
Turns out I might have red-headed children, especially since my husband probably also has the same gene, spooky. Although, I do already have a red-headed child named Lucie and she’s pretty cute.
Also, it’s seemingly uncommon for people of largely Eastern European ancestry to have blonde hair, neat.
SWEET SENSITIVITY & SAVORY SENSITIVITY
I was curious what this one would say since I do tend to scrape the icing off of my cakes and am not typically drawn to things that are too sweet, but I also like to salt almost anything.
Not a surprise that it was confirmed I am more sensitive to sweet flavors and less sensitive to savory flavors. I took all of these results with a grain of salt (haha) because not all genetic markers are well tested or known, but it was still fun to see what they had to say about my DNA relating to some of my traits.
This post is in no way sponsored or affiliated with ancestry.com. I wish I could get a sponsorship LOL.
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