Posted By: Trail_Mystic
Ancestry - 04/14/18 03:19 AM
Just curious if anyone has ever done some research on their ancestry and had any revelations?
Due to the research of our great aunt, we've decided to scour through the available records and have DNA tests done. The results were not at all what I expected. We haven't yet received the DNA tests back, but the new records we've found made a fairly significant change to what we thought was our family heritage.
We thought we were mostly German, Austrian and a little French. Turns out that's somewhat true if you count countries that were part of the previous Austrian Empire.
For the most part, the great grandparents on both sides of the family were either Ukrainian or Romanian Jews that left for the U.S. a few years before things started getting culturally dicey (to put it mildly) in those regions. The only exception is my grandmother on my dad's side, still working to dig up records on her background. Now I have a whole different cultural heritage to explore, which is so cool, with more to come.
Due to the research of our great aunt, we've decided to scour through the available records and have DNA tests done. The results were not at all what I expected. We haven't yet received the DNA tests back, but the new records we've found made a fairly significant change to what we thought was our family heritage.
We thought we were mostly German, Austrian and a little French. Turns out that's somewhat true if you count countries that were part of the previous Austrian Empire.
For the most part, the great grandparents on both sides of the family were either Ukrainian or Romanian Jews that left for the U.S. a few years before things started getting culturally dicey (to put it mildly) in those regions. The only exception is my grandmother on my dad's side, still working to dig up records on her background. Now I have a whole different cultural heritage to explore, which is so cool, with more to come.