I’m adopted. I did one of those kits and actually ended up finding my birth mother, and it’s 100% her. her side of the family is 50% germanic and 50% english. my test results show me as german, romanian, polish, and ukrainian.
I guess what I’m asking is, how can I not have any english in my dna results? mathematically I can see it possible but it seems pretty crazy.
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There was a notorious case a little while ago where a set of identical triplets sent their DNA data to 3 different companies, and while their DNA was the same, they each got slightly different results in terms of where their ancestry is from. Like one might be 50% Germanic, 2% French, 8% Irish, etc., and another might be 42% german, 9% French, 24% Irish, etc. ( [https://www.today.com/health/are-home-dna-kits-accurate-identical-triplets-try-3-them-t119472](https://www.today.com/health/are-home-dna-kits-accurate-identical-triplets-try-3-them-t119472) )
These percentages can’t be trusted, there are too many variables. But bigger picture, they do have validity. Like there was a woman who was 100% Irish and her results came back 50% Irish, 50% Ashkenazi Jewish. She thought they were full of crap and the test was worthless, but then did *years* of research and found that her father was switched at birth in the hospital in 1913 by accident, and a kid from a Jewish family was raised in an Irish family and vice versa. And all of the genealogy tests done by her family and the other family in an effort to unravel this mystery told the same story in terms of the general outline–it correctly identified relationships and ancestry even when the people themselves had bad information. ( [https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/alice-collins-plebuch-dna-test](https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/alice-collins-plebuch-dna-test) )
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