Well, I have been enjoying figuring out how to optimize my ancestral research on Family Finder. I have also uploaded my GEDCOM on Gedmatch, as well as beginning a family tree here through extrapolation of the tree that I created on Ancestry.
With that said, I am puzzled by several things...
*my Eurogenes K12 Admixture on Gedmatch comes up with significant North Sea, Western European, South Baltic and Mediterranean ethnicity. In fact, both Ancestry and FTDNA also point to Finnish/Russian, Greek/Italian ancestry. This was totally unsuspected, as I always heard from family sources that our heritage was almost completely English, Scots/Irish, with perhaps a bit of French Huguenot and Dutch thrown in. Not one iota of Mediterranean ancestry was ever mentioned. It certainly makes me very curious to determine what the source of that unusual (for me) ancestry is. I also understand that it is possible that I may never know.
The other thing that has me greatly puzzled is my inability to determine almost *no* DNA matches on my mother's paternal line. I have also done the comparison of GEDCOM files on Gedmatch and nothing is appearing. It could be that I am not doing this correctly, or I am missing something. Or...as I heard rumors growing up, there may be a family connection out there who was never revealed.
For those who have greater genealogist/detective skills and know-how than I, here is my DNA Kit #B107209, and my DNA Resource # is A092440 on Gedmatch. My GEDCOM file # is 8755467. Any and all insight is greatly appreciated!
I have also been making use of the many tutorials available, however, I am still not quite sure how to look at the chromosome browser, the cM matches and to look at the segments to determine which ones may be particularly relevant and worth diving in to further.
Again, thanks for any and all help!
With that said, I am puzzled by several things...
*my Eurogenes K12 Admixture on Gedmatch comes up with significant North Sea, Western European, South Baltic and Mediterranean ethnicity. In fact, both Ancestry and FTDNA also point to Finnish/Russian, Greek/Italian ancestry. This was totally unsuspected, as I always heard from family sources that our heritage was almost completely English, Scots/Irish, with perhaps a bit of French Huguenot and Dutch thrown in. Not one iota of Mediterranean ancestry was ever mentioned. It certainly makes me very curious to determine what the source of that unusual (for me) ancestry is. I also understand that it is possible that I may never know.
The other thing that has me greatly puzzled is my inability to determine almost *no* DNA matches on my mother's paternal line. I have also done the comparison of GEDCOM files on Gedmatch and nothing is appearing. It could be that I am not doing this correctly, or I am missing something. Or...as I heard rumors growing up, there may be a family connection out there who was never revealed.
For those who have greater genealogist/detective skills and know-how than I, here is my DNA Kit #B107209, and my DNA Resource # is A092440 on Gedmatch. My GEDCOM file # is 8755467. Any and all insight is greatly appreciated!
I have also been making use of the many tutorials available, however, I am still not quite sure how to look at the chromosome browser, the cM matches and to look at the segments to determine which ones may be particularly relevant and worth diving in to further.
Again, thanks for any and all help!

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