I've been in a rabbit hole since I got my results of the DNA breakdown. And I wondered about something (well lots of things). When we are conceived, we are made up of things from the gene pool which is from both of our parents. So it is their gene pools combined and then we come out with pieces of it. Like if we have blue eyes, how smart we are, etc. Well turns out this is also true of the ancestry part of the DNA.
So the closer we are to the link of genetics, the more likely it will show in our DNA. Hence my Dutchness. My paternal grandfather is 100% Dutch. But to get to the 100% ancestor that is Irish I have to go many generations back. And that explains why in my personal DNA...I didn't get the markers for Ireland. Although I did get Scotland and the ancestry loop includes a good portion of Northern Ireland.
So for me that mystery is now solved. But I am still on the search to find out how I am Finnish. All my life I have never heard that.
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