I’m a sucker when it comes to history—especially family history. Recently while perusing the “maps” and migration section of Ancestry DNA, I checked out County Dorset, the area in southwestern England where some of my ancestors originated. That’s what my DNA test claims, and my paper trail confirms it: Dorchester, England and nearby Weymouth were where my fishermen—Thomas Gardiner, John …
My DNA results are in
If you follow me on Facebook, you saw the big Union Jack I posted recently to honor my British ancestors. I took a DNA test through ancestry.com and the results came back as I expected, more or less. It came as no shock to me that I’m a white European, more than ¾ from the British Isles. That came as …