Are You Part Ashkenazi Jew, Part Iriquois?
Today's Deal at Amazon is a DNA test kit from MyHeritage -- regularly $75; today only, $56.90.
Also save on a bunch of houseplants -- summer succulents are another "Today's Deal." I recommend these as someone whose plants my mainly commit suicide on her. They seem rather hard to kill. Sale price is $12.99 (for a four-pack) to $27.99 for a pack of 20 of the cute little buggers.
Those cabbage flowery looking ones are particularly great. My landlord's gardener, who has a lot of affection for Aida and me, planted a bunch of those in pots for me after noting my ability to be the death of many other more fragile plants, and they are all going strong.
PS If you have gardeners come to your home -- and even if you are not paying for their work -- a suggestion: Give them bottles of cold water or make them coffee.
I couldn't see having people work here to make the place more beautiful without doing that.
I always come out with cold bottles of water for Alejandro and Gustavo, and I'm always toting Aida. Aida especially loves Gustavo.
I get the two of them Christmas presents (cookies and wine, usually) and give them each a bit of money at Christmas, too. The other tenants behind me have no relationship with them. They're just workers who come to their place. I prefer things the other way.
I had my ancestral DNA done, although the accuracy of these things is doubtful. Not that they would assign ethnicities that you don't actually have, but the percentages might be off.
A set of identical triplets, for instance, had theirs done, and while they all had the same ethnicities, the actual percentages varied among the sisters. And they should have been the same, obviously.
But here's mine. And it seems I'm a very, very, very white person. Barring 2% Middle Eastern, I have all of Europe thoroughly covered.
24.3% Greek
24.3% Iberian
9.3% Italian
17.2% Scandanavian
16.0% Irish, Scottish, and Welsh
3.6% North and West European
1.2% Finnish
2.1% Ashkenazi Jewish
2.0% Middle East
Patrick at July 23, 2018 7:41 AM
My father was a wandering Aramean...
Snoopy at July 23, 2018 2:31 PM
Interesting, Patrick.
Amy Alkon at July 23, 2018 3:54 PM
Patrick and others. DNA testing is a lot of guess work. And it is only as good as the data base and your own family history.
I have found that most of the testing services rely on the huge population of mezzo American indigious peoples to determine Native American DNA with almost no data on the North American tribes.
One friend of mine with a native American ancestor had his test cone back as a small percentage of north Asian.
In general the tests are much better at determining your relatives than identifying your ethnic origins.
23 and me seems to be one of the least duplicitous about this, as they will tell you it is impossible to distinguish the English from the Irish, and in many instances, also the Germans from the French. Too long and historic mixing of the gene pools.
I dont read too much into it.
Isab at July 23, 2018 9:52 PM
Irish, Scottish, and Welsh 58.8%
English 13.0%
East European 22.5%
Balkan 2.2%
Ashkenazi Jewish 1.4%
Africa 2.1%
Nigerian 1.2%
North African 0.9%
That’s me. I read that the smaller % results are usually not correct or out of nowhere. The Eastern European kind of surprises me a little. My grandmother was born out of wedlock in the 30s. Only she and her mother knew who the father was and it could totally explain why she hates the Polish and/or (depending on her mood) the Ukranians.
Kendra at July 25, 2018 4:57 AM
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