Has anyone ever done a DNA test for ancestry.com or 23andme, etc.? Here are my results from Ancestry.com. I have all European ancestors. I’m heavily Scottish and German.

My family came to the USA between the 1750s and 1800s. The Scottish on my dad’s side came in through Philadelphia and migrated south to West Virginia and the Carolinas. The German on my mom’s side came in through New Orleans and went up the Mississippi River to settle in St. Louis.

I've got no idea what I am, my (now dead) grandpa came from Yugoslavia, specifically the Croatia area, he came to Australia in the 60s. My gran is 2nd or third gen Australia (her family is from Scandinavia). My other side of the family is probably English but have been in Australia for a few generations.

That’s really interesting! There is a lot of English ancestry in Australia from colonial times. Interesting to hear of your heritage from continental Europe too.

In the USA, it’s a really diverse mixed bag of different ancestry origins throughout the country. However, there are different concentrations in various regions, influenced by historical immigration paths and colonial times.

I already had my DNA test through ancestry.com and I have been researching my family tree since the death of my paternal grandmother about 40 years ago.  I have branches from Canada, England, France, Ireland and Germany.

Call me a paranoid but I'm bit sceptical about those companies that do this kind of services. Especially about where all the data they collect ends up over the time.

Your skepticism is warranted: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/tech/23andme-bankruptcy-how-to-delete-data

I would not use those services in countries where health insurance companies are allowed to use your biological data to adjust the insurance prices.

My family tree is known to the year 1500 or 1600 or so, at least on my father's paternal side and my mother's side. My dad and his family are from Friesland, my mom's side from Noord Holland.
My dad's maternal side is a different story, we don't actually know where my grandma (dad's mom) was born because she lived on a boat for the majority of her childhood. But we do know where she first went to school, which is also Friesland.

Yeah not gonna give a private owned company a sample of my blood, or whatever they want.

I'm from the Komi peoples, but I live in the opposite side of the world, history says my 3x-great-grandparents moved throughout all of Europe right after Nikolai II became Tzar, all the way from Mezen to France, the UK, across the Atlantic and later on to South America, took them 3 years.

I've always been wary of those DNA ancestry companies, and with recent developments it seems like my concerns were well founded.

I'm mostly Irish, Italian and random Scandinavian, but I did learn some of my ancestors were Italian Jews who bought a local family name and converted to Christianity in the Middle Ages to avoid persecution. And one of my great-great-grandparents was the illegitimate offspring of an Irish nobleman and a gypsy woman. Otherwise there's nothing really exciting about my heritage - I'm a mutt like most Americans.

I did date a girl who was a direct descendant of Jesse James once, but that's about the most interesting historical connection I have.