Hi All,
I have a complicated family tree involving both my paternal and maternal line, but the focus of this post will be my Mother's family and our DNA test results.
My Mother was adopted immediately after she was born. She knows who her biological Mother is and has spoken to her, but I never met her as we were in two separate countries. She knew about her ancestry on biological Father's side, which is fairly standard Welsh. She has no interest in doing a DNA test, so I did mine.
I've attached the results in snipped form to this post.
The North Atlantic stuff is obviously standard for a person of English descent. What was a surprise, however, was quite a large percentage of Baltic Heritage, 22 percent, which as far as I know indicates a Grandparent or Great Grandparent. Even discounting the rest with the exception of Western Mediterranean as statistical noise presents quite a different ethnic background than I was expecting.
Part of the difficulty of having almost no information to go on about the Maternal side of my family tree means there's little I can do with these test results. I've researched my Father's parents and their backgrounds extensively, and there's no reason to think the West Med or the Baltic comes from them, as I've traced them back many generations.
I think DNA tests like these are very different to people who come from essentially broken family backgrounds.
What do all of you think?