The results are in! Here are my DNA Results!!

39% Europe East
26% Europe West
24% Great Britain
7% Ireland
2% Finland/Northwest Russia
1% Italy/Greece
<1% Scandinavia

So after getting my DNA Results, Ancestry.com connects you to others who have the same DNA as you. I have 80 pages of matches!!!! Holy cow!!!!!
1-1st cousin match
5-2nd cousin matches
3-3rd cousin matches
83-4th-6 cousins 
and then 77 pages full of names of "distant cousins". WOW!!!!

It also tells me that I am a possible descendant of Sarah Hecker (b. 1811-1855). I have NO IDEA who this person is....they aren't listed in my huge tree! Guess my next mission is to find out the connection!

NO major surprises, but still very cool to see. 

Now I just have to figure out who Sarah Hecker is.....

Talk about a strong twin gene!
I just found a person in my tree, Hilda M Bender. She was a twin.

She is my 1st cousin, 4x removed. (this means my 4 times great grandfather....Thomas Kirkpatrick, who was also a twin....is her grandfather).

She had 5 children. Then after that she had 2 sets of boy/girl twins!

Crazy!

So I finally watched the episode of Finding Your Roots last night with LL Cool J. OMG!!!! The things he found out from DNA testing were crazy!

His story was pretty interesting anyways, but holy cow!

If you can watch this episode, I recommend it!

‪#‎findingyourroots‬

happy birthday dr. seuss

In honor of Dr Suess's birthday, I have added an ANCESTOR SPOTLIGHT page about his history. Check it out!