My Ancestry: European Bred, American Raised
Technology changes everything doesn’t it? Science does too. Back in the day, one might know their heritage from their grandparents stories (that originated from their grandparents). These days, take my DNA, hold my data, and tell me the easy (and paid for) way. My Ancestry is the leading DNA company for anyone not with an Asian heritage.
Here is my summary, based on what this says and my appearance, can you see any of that in me? If you ask me, I feel way more Irish than anything, but its rather lower on my list of origins:
England/Northwester Europe
As more data comes in, ones results will get more defined. This carries implications on a larger scale and smaller scale. This is great for many generations of a family to do, to see how much of each parent and grandparent made it into the child in question.
My other really cool most favorite feature is the family tree feature. Funny enough, it feeds right into the DNA feature. The tree itself is free to do, but to get help from ancestry based on data you put in, you can pay for a monthly/3 month/6 month account. There are different tiers, that allow levels of access-most expensive is going to be military data. But what is neat, is if you have anyone into genealogy, is Ancestry will connect names to heritage.
Example, My great grandmother on my (biological) paternal side of the family comes from Poland. When I put her name in, her mother and fathers name...it can trace not only my DNA story but why I would have polish DNA in my mix. It is also an interactive map.
It is kind of amazing how far they have come with DNA stuff, I can get a test to see my health...to see what breeds my cat is...to see where my ancestors came from. Amazing. One might say, why do we need that? Part of what has always bothered me, regarding me personally, is that from my complicated childhood, I don’t fully know “My Story”. I have bits of the story, but for personal reasons-I talk to neither of my birth parents. So something like this helps with abating the mystery of “Who is Ashlie?”. I recommend this highly, and I would go one step further to dare you to pair this with 23 and Me.
