My 1st cousin and I had autosomal DNA tests processed by AncestryDNA.
Here's my geographic report from Ancestry:
Here's my geographic report from Ancestry:
Central European 85%
Eastern Euro 15%
Here's John's:Eastern Euro 15%
British Isles 64%
Scandinavian 16%
Finish/Volga-Ural 10%
Southern Euro 9%
Unknown 1%
I'm male. My mother and his father were siblings. My mother married a Stephens and his father married a Tuttle. Using traditional geneology, we've traced our common ancestry back to Norman English, Alsace-Lorraine and Germany, with those last two being among the most recent immigrants. The English lines go back into the 1600s.
If autosomal DNA is looking way back to our origins, how can two living 1st cousins have such different geographic profiles?
I've only been able to trace my Stephens line back into the 1800s and he's only been able to trace his Tuttle line back a couple of generations, both lines hit dead ends in the USA.
By the way, we have seemingly valid birth certificates for his father and my mother, showing the same parents, just in case some are wondering. Oh, AncestryDNA correctly identified us as likely 1st cousins with a 99% confidence level.
Scandinavian 16%
Finish/Volga-Ural 10%
Southern Euro 9%
Unknown 1%
I'm male. My mother and his father were siblings. My mother married a Stephens and his father married a Tuttle. Using traditional geneology, we've traced our common ancestry back to Norman English, Alsace-Lorraine and Germany, with those last two being among the most recent immigrants. The English lines go back into the 1600s.
If autosomal DNA is looking way back to our origins, how can two living 1st cousins have such different geographic profiles?
I've only been able to trace my Stephens line back into the 1800s and he's only been able to trace his Tuttle line back a couple of generations, both lines hit dead ends in the USA.
By the way, we have seemingly valid birth certificates for his father and my mother, showing the same parents, just in case some are wondering. Oh, AncestryDNA correctly identified us as likely 1st cousins with a 99% confidence level.