Genealogy

[Ken]

My daughter recently got interested in genealogy and genetics. We have older relatives on both sides of the family who have done extensive family trees and genealogy research going back centuries so not a lot of new ground to plough there. Swiss/German Mennonite on my side and Basque/Spanish and German on my wife's side.

So we decided to do 23andMe to see if all of our ancestors have been telling the truth or if there are hidden secrets in the family tree. Doesn't look like it. My results came back and look to comport almost exactly with what one would expect from Swiss/South German Mennonite immigrants to PA in the 17th and 18th centuries. So apparently no hidden affairs or illegitimate children there in the family tree. Or at least not from outside the Mennonite clan And apparently very little mixing outside the menno community here in the US over the past 3 centuries. My daughter was disappointed not to find any Native American or African slave ancestry in our tree:

EUROPEAN 99.6%

• French, Swiss & German 82.2%
  British & Irish 4.4%
  Scandinavian 1.2%
  Broadly Northwestern European 6%
  Southern European 3%

The 82.2% French, Swiss & German portion broke down as

SWISS

• Bern
  Grisons
  Fribourg
  Lucerne
  Aargau
  Valais
  Zurich

FRENCH

• Grand Est.
  Bourgogne-Franche-Compte

GERMAN

• Bavaria
  Baden-Wurttemberg

I expect that is pretty similar to others with old PA and Ohio Mennonite roots.