In October, my mother purchase a DNA kit from Ancestry.com and had my grandmother take it. The test took a little bit over a month to get the results. The results were very interesting and I learned new information about where my family came from. I did not know a few things like we are 6% Scandinavian. I have not looked at my family tree since I was in junior high school and had to do a project on it.
When I received the results from the DNA they also sent me possible family members. We had one to my mother 2 or 3 third cousin contact us. I started mid-day on Friday and just finished today Saturday Dec. 10th around 11pm. I was told to stop and my head just could not take any more names.
I could go all the way back to the 1700 and never thought I would be able to do that. It was hard to find information because back then. everyone named their kids the same names. Wives died and the husbands remarried and had more kids. Husbands died and the wives remarried and had more kids. I have a lot more to research to do on the family and I’m going to have fun doing it. I will let you know what I find out when I get everything lined up correctly.
