I have 2% Middle Eastern as well. I was surprised. I also have Scotch-Irish ancestry. Maybe this is where mine comes from. I'm anxious to see what my brother's results are. My mother always told us that we likely had an Indian ancestor. It was just a family story. I have some ambrotypes (?) of some very dark children. However, my results did not come back with this. It has been very interesting and I wish my parents were still living. After tracing my lineage I learned that my parents were 8th cousins once removed. I am running into matches on both sides which confirm this. Lori I also get a small percentage of Middle Eastern and it appears to come from my Scotch-Irish side. (No fooling.) It seems that many years ago Turkish farmers settled in Ireland and Scotland and intermarried with the local lasses. Joan Young jyoung6180@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: Karen Isaacson Leverich via <roots@rootsweb.com> To: Roots mailing list <roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Jul 6, 2016 9:16 pm Subject: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry DNA I just had my aunt (98 years old and vacationing in Alaska!) submit her DNA (um, before she left on the trip) and the results are in. She's definitely my aunt! But her matches aren't the same as mine ... lots of hits in Sweden and Germany (where her parents and my grandparents were born), so I'm quite excited. Not quite sure what to make of her 2% Middle Eastern ancestry (mine was 100% European), and normally I wouldn't stress it, but I'll need to explain to her what that's about, LOL! ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It is so far back in our Ancestry that it likely wouldn't have any effect on our appearance but the DNA is there: http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/new-study-claims-that-irishmen-descended-from-turkish-farmers-83217437-237788351.html Joan Young jyoung6180@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: Lori <america4821@myactv.net> To: 'Joan Young' <jyoung6180@aol.com>; 'ROOTS-L' <ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Jul 6, 2016 10:42 pm Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry DNA I have 2% Middle Eastern as well. I was surprised. I also have Scotch-Irish ancestry. Maybe this is where mine comes from. I'm anxious to see what my brother's results are. My mother always told us that we likely had an Indian ancestor. It was just a family story. I have some ambrotypes (?) of some very dark children. However, my results did not come back with this. It has been very interesting and I wish my parents were still living. After tracing my lineage I learned that my parents were 8th cousins once removed. I am running into matches on both sides which confirm this. Lori I also get a small percentage of Middle Eastern and it appears to come from my Scotch-Irish side. (No fooling.) It seems that many years ago Turkish farmers settled in Ireland and Scotland and intermarried with the local lasses. Joan Young jyoung6180@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: Karen Isaacson Leverich via <roots@rootsweb.com> To: Roots mailing list <roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Jul 6, 2016 9:16 pm Subject: [ROOTS-L] Ancestry DNA I just had my aunt (98 years old and vacationing in Alaska!) submit her DNA (um, before she left on the trip) and the results are in. She's definitely my aunt! But her matches aren't the same as mine ... lots of hits in Sweden and Germany (where her parents and my grandparents were born), so I'm quite excited. Not quite sure what to make of her 2% Middle Eastern ancestry (mine was 100% European), and normally I wouldn't stress it, but I'll need to explain to her what that's about, LOL! ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message