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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Anything else I can do?
« on: Monday 30 December 19 20:50 GMT (UK) »
I am trying to discover the identity of my father. Around 50% of my DNA seems to be from 'Eastern' Europe and my birth mother's family have a long history in UK/Ireland only.
I was born illegitimate in 1948 near York, England. My father was not named on my birth certificate and (if she was telling the truth) in my adoption papers the only clues my unmarried teenage mother left as to his identity was that he was 5'11", fair, 21 and a farmer / farm worker. Her pregnancy was hidden from the rest of the family and I was adopted a few weeks after my birth.
Ancestry where I originally submitted my DNA suggested my Eastern Europe roots were most likely to be from Pomerania, an area including parts of modern day Poland, Lithuania, and Northern Germany. MyHeritage.com where I also uploaded my DNA suggests my East Europe roots are broadly in both Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Former Prisoners of War and workers from Eastern Europe who had fled from there (from fascism or later from communism) or fought in the Second World War for the Allies were employed on farms in North Yorkshire near where my mother lived for some years after the war ended. This has made me wonder if my father could have been one of these workers especially as my DNA is shared with a number of 3/4/5th cousins of Polish/German ancestry on Ancestry/Myheritage
So I'm guessing (and it is all guessing) my father was from 'Eastern Europe' or was a descendant of someone from Eastern Europe and was in the North of England at least in late 1947/early 1948. People pooh-pooh deductions based on ethnicity and the assumptions made from it but I have so little to go on, am I wasting my time? Any suggestions?
I was born illegitimate in 1948 near York, England. My father was not named on my birth certificate and (if she was telling the truth) in my adoption papers the only clues my unmarried teenage mother left as to his identity was that he was 5'11", fair, 21 and a farmer / farm worker. Her pregnancy was hidden from the rest of the family and I was adopted a few weeks after my birth.
Ancestry where I originally submitted my DNA suggested my Eastern Europe roots were most likely to be from Pomerania, an area including parts of modern day Poland, Lithuania, and Northern Germany. MyHeritage.com where I also uploaded my DNA suggests my East Europe roots are broadly in both Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Former Prisoners of War and workers from Eastern Europe who had fled from there (from fascism or later from communism) or fought in the Second World War for the Allies were employed on farms in North Yorkshire near where my mother lived for some years after the war ended. This has made me wonder if my father could have been one of these workers especially as my DNA is shared with a number of 3/4/5th cousins of Polish/German ancestry on Ancestry/Myheritage
So I'm guessing (and it is all guessing) my father was from 'Eastern Europe' or was a descendant of someone from Eastern Europe and was in the North of England at least in late 1947/early 1948. People pooh-pooh deductions based on ethnicity and the assumptions made from it but I have so little to go on, am I wasting my time? Any suggestions?