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All of them have me as predominantly Northwestern European, which matches my paper trail.Īt the speculative level, 23andMe tries to assign even DNA it isn’t sure about. 23andMeĢ3andMe has three levels of predictions: conservative, standard and speculative. The trace regions could be explained by the medieval noble lines, although they are so low they could easily be noise. AncestryĪncestry’s ethnicity estimate is spot on, showing I’m 100% European, and 94% from Western Europe. So what do the DNA testing companies make of this? I had autosomal tests done by three different companies, who all provide their ethnicity predictions. On her Brabant lines, she has some bastards of nobles, which tie into the royal families of medieval Europe, but these are all at least fifteen generations back.Īll in all, I think I’m pretty Dutch! Admixture predictions by DNA companies My mom’s family is a bit more mobile, with ancestors from Noord-Brabant and Zeeland. On her Zeeland lines, she has some Huguenot ancestors from northern France. That may well have been the last period when large groups of new people settled there. All 2,000+ ancestors of his that I have traced so far were born within a few miles of the house where he was born in Winterswijk. Based on naming patterns and archaeology, it is known that many farms in this area have been around since about 800 AD. I have some unknown ancestors, including three unknown fathers of illegitimate children on my mom’s side, which show as blanks. Most of my German ancestors are from Suderwick, just across the border from the Achterhoek area where the rest of my paternal ancestors came from.
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The blue lines represent people born in Germany. As you can see from all of the orange, I am quite Dutch. Here is my pedigree chart, showing the countries of birth of ten generations of my ancestors. Pedigree chart of Yvette Hoitink with ethnicity