I know not many people on nebulous or really anywhere actually take these tests, but if you've taken an ancestry test with Ancestry or 23andMe, feel free to post your results here. Lots of people from Europe probably already know what they are without having to take a test, but us amerimutts need something to do.
For the record, I don't expect this thread to get very many if any replies, but I have nothing better to do, so whatever.
I'll start with my results:
I'm fairly surprised at the most likely match being London. Then again, that could be because London is probably one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the UK, even though it is minority British at the moment.
My British ancestry is all likely Old Stock/Pioneer Stock, from the initial British settlers who colonized North America in the 17th and 18th centuries. More recent estimates put the American free population on the eve of revolution as roughly 60% English, 85% British, and 98% Protestant.
From 1776 to about 1920 people of British descent made up over 50% of the American population, dropping below that around the time of the great depression. Today, they still comprise a plurality of the white American population.
The Italian ancestry is self explanatory. North-east Metropolitan areas of the US were hot spots for Southern and Eastern European immigration. Sicily is relatively interesting to me, however. I'd assume thats where the North African came from as well.
y'know what my favorite result is, though?
im sure you all know what this means
i can finally say it
see you in the next post my