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.
