Recent content by msmajoribanks

How thoroughly does 23 and Me test? I am in the K project at FTDNA, and some people find that they are in more specific subgroups than they tested at with 23 and Me. For example, someone testing K1a1b1 at 23 and Me, but getting K1a1b1e at FTDNA with the full sequence. I'm K2b2, but with just...

For me, anyway, My Origins overstates British Isles and understates the rest of western Europe. It splits me between 83% British Isles and 14% Eastern Europe, with the rest trace Central Asia and Asia Minor. Paper ancestry gives me somewhat less British Isles (roughly 67-75%), and also some...

Agreed, and contrary to what I think "liberalism" actually is.

I think that's definitely part of it. In my own family no one knew our ethnicity and that never struck me as weird until I went to college and met people who knew theirs and asked about mine. I vaguely recalled that my grandfather said his mother was Swedish and asked my mother about it, and...