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[nickinSTL]

39. Update

I got the results from the 2nd round from the Genographic Project.

Nothing new on my mtDNA, but the autosomal DNA was kind of interesting.

The results show what percentage of your DNA is from various groups. Northern European, Southeast Asian, Mediterranean, etc.

Then, they compare your percentages to modern reference populations.

My results were an exact match to the percentages of the German reference population, which is interesting. I've figured out, based on genealogical research, that I'm about 56% Norwegian, 25% German, 12% Swedish, 6% English, nearly 1% Scottish, and then tiny amounts of Sami, Irish and Breton.

I would have expected a closer match to Norwegian than to German, though to be fair, as they didn't actually have a Norwegian (or Swedish) reference population, I don't really know for sure what those percentages would be, although based on the Danish and British populations, I'd expect them to be a little different from the German.