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DNA results brings unexpected experience for our family
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Euguene Kenneth Walker
Mo Nguyen Vo
As someone who has taken the Ancestry.com DNA test, the first Over the weekend, our family thing it tells you is your "Ethnicity experienced something Estimate" which for me is 43 overwhelmingly emotional. We percent Ireland/Scotland/Whales were introduced to a cousin of ours along with 30 percent Scandinavia. that we never knew of. Not a There are six other "trace" regions distant cousin, but my dad’s first which are Europe West at 15 cousin. Without DNA testing, we percent, Europe South (5 percent), would have never known that we Finland/North Russia (4 percent), have a Vietnamese-born cousin and Africa North (1 percent). from a relationship that took place between an Air Force Sergeant and Another thing the test does is match a Vietnamese med student. This is you with other test-takers and the story of my grandfather’s identify them as people that share a brother Eugene Kenneth Walker. certain ancestor and formulate the closeness of the relationship Many years ago, before everything through the DNA strand. The test was online including this itself is easy to take - just spitting newspaper and before DNA kits in a tube. Creating an ethnicity became widely available for estimate based on your DNA purchase, I researched the history sample is a complex process, of our family and connected some however, based on probability, dots. But a certain dot could have statistics shared DNA, and ongoing never have been connected without research and science. Ancestry.com the readily available DNA testing DNA calculates your ethnicity that exists today. estimate by comparing your DNA by Monte Walker
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