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23 & Me

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I wanted to give you the whole lowdown of the DNA results I got from 23&Me. Its so interesting. Southern European 50.9%, of this 48.7% is Spanish and Portuguese, the rest is Broadly European Ashkenazi Jewish 0.9% French and German 0.7% Native American 39.1% Broadly East Asian 0.8% West African 3.2% (this includes Senegambian and Guinean, Nigerian, Ghanian, Liberian, and Sierra Leonian) African Hunter-Gatherer 0.7% (such as San, Pygmy, and Bantu) Angolan and Congolese 0.5% Indian and Pakistani (trace 0.3%) Arab, Egyptian and Levantine (trace 0.1%) Coptic Egyptian (trace 0.1%) North African (Moroccan Arabic 0.1%) The rest is mixed or unassigned. This is what the photo looks like and the colors match the countries in the photo above.

Spain

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There has always been a story that some of our family from Grandma Sally's side is from Spain, which was why we had the light skin and Sally had blue eyes. But I looked for a long time and could not find the person who was rumored to be the Spaniard, Maria Something-German, who was Sally's grandmother. So to bring you up to date, I had my DNA done at 23 & Me about a year ago. I wanted to know what my genetic makeup was, and how much was going to be Spanish. So I turned out to be about 53% European (the Spanish would make sense here), 40% Native American and East Asian (Mexicans are Europeans mixed with Native Americans), and 4.8% Sub-saharan African! Yes, that is why I am such a good dancer! Anyway, 53% European is high for a one-relative Spanish ancestor, even with the Mexican Mix. So there must be more European, right? I went back to Ancestry.com (23&Me and Ancestry.com do not speak to each other. Each wants to make money on their products so in order to enter m...