By Carl-Richard
in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun,
I ordered one from MyHeritage (the best one for those with European ancestry if you mainly care about finding out your ancestry), and I got 97.3% Scandinavian, 1.8% Finnish, and 0.9% Greek/South-Italian. I'm Norwegian by the way ?
What is really funny is that I predicted basically all of those three (I predicted Finnish from my father's side and South-European from my mother's side). My mom comes from West in the country and my father is from the East. The West of Norway has been a highly trafficked place for sea trade since the Viking Age, and there are many stories of Portuguese ships capsizing and the survivors washing up at the coast and settling among the native population.
My father has always said that my great-grandfather looked like Nikola Tesla (a Greek inventor), and if my estimations are correct, he could've been up to 7.2% Greek (if we assume that he had an ancestor who was 100% greek and that this person and their descendants only had children with 100% Scandinavian people). Given these assumptions, this person could've lived as close as 7-8 generations ago in the 1700s-1800s. However, my mom told me that her grandmother on her dad's side (not the same side as Nikola Tesla lookalike) had brown eyes and a darker complexion than average, so for all I know, the Greek genes might be all from her ?
The reason I predicted my dad's side to have Finnish genes is because my grandmother on that side had particularly distinct hooded eyes, which is more prevalent in the Finnish population due to more East-Asian influence (e.g. the Sámi people). The East of Norway is also next to Sweden, which is next to Finland, and we know that Finnish people have settled in those parts of Norway. Besides, my cousin from my dad's side also took the same DNA test, and he got 2.5% Finnish ancestry (and no South-European ancestry), which makes sense.
I ordered the DNA test mostly because people in school always thought I was Spanish (lol), and my skin tans really easily (and Norway is very white). Anyways, curious to hear if any of you guys have taken a DNA test and why you chose to take it. Did you have any unexpected results, or did you predict everything like I did? ?