re: What were your DNA Test Results

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whats a trace region

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Basically means the times mom stepped out and got some BBC.

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If you've had an ancestry test what were your results?

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I've done autosomal DNA testing with both 23andMe and Family Tree DNA (FTDNA.com). The results are a little different with respect to how the European numbers are divvied up.

23andme:
99.7% European
60.5% British & Irish
11.0% French & German
1.4% Scandinavian
24.7% Broadly Northwestern European
2.1% Broadly European
0.3% Sub-Saharan African

By the way, I have 251 of the 2872 Neanderthal genetic variants that 23andMe tests for. That's fewer than 83% of the 23andMe customers. Whoopee, no brow ridge for me.

FTDNA:
99% European
52% British Isles
27% West and Central Europe
16% Scandinavia
4% Southeast Europe

By the way, I have zero desire (and thankfully no need) to do DNA testing with Ancestry.com. I use Ancestry.com for family tree tracing (and like them a LOT). I also DISLIKE them a lot for the crap they pulled with their previous DNA testing. I personally am most interested in DNA testing for family tree purposes (so tracing the paternal Y DNA which barring an occasional mutation doesn't change). I've tested with FTDNA (and later added the autosomal testing out of curiosity). Ancestry.com offered Y DNA (male) and mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA for direct maternal line) testing starting in 2007. Users could set up surname/DNA groups (like forums) to compare DNA results and discuss ancestry. Well, Ancestry.com pulled the plug on the testing in 2014 and shortly thereafter shut down the groups and deleted all of the content. I'm glad I hadn't tested with them but I was a member of a surname group that disappeared.