It's fascinating to see what 23andMe comes back with. Yes, we know - don't use it as a medical guide. Yes, we know, it's not hard and fast as daily more information comes out - new markers are found, new genes are untangled.
It's no surprise that we're both over 99% European descent. Ian is 85% northwestern European and 46% of that comes from Britain/Ireland, which makes sense - his Ancestry.com research has pegged his first American ancestor as a boy on a boat from England in the 1600s. I am 47% from northwestern Europe (minus the boy on the boat, that side came over with the French to Canada, my paternal grandfather crossed the river into Madawaska, Maine and stayed there), but no surprise that I'm also 32% Eastern European. My maternal grandmother came over from Poland and my maternal grandfather was from the former Czechoslovakia.
Ian and I shared our data and we have no identical DNA segments. Woohoo!
It's no surprise that we're both over 99% European descent. Ian is 85% northwestern European and 46% of that comes from Britain/Ireland, which makes sense - his Ancestry.com research has pegged his first American ancestor as a boy on a boat from England in the 1600s. I am 47% from northwestern Europe (minus the boy on the boat, that side came over with the French to Canada, my paternal grandfather crossed the river into Madawaska, Maine and stayed there), but no surprise that I'm also 32% Eastern European. My maternal grandmother came over from Poland and my maternal grandfather was from the former Czechoslovakia.
Ian and I shared our data and we have no identical DNA segments. Woohoo!
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