Now, it’s important to note that there are a lot of DNA test options out there, and AncestryDNA focuses on ethnicity and genealogy —
* Matches: People you might be related to based on your DNA sample (and, if you’ve filled out your family tree, that information is taken into account as well).
I’ve got a 40 percent match with Germanic Europe, indicating that many of my ancestors were located in and around Germany (and possibly Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, and Denmark), but I’ve got a 17 percent match with Eastern Europe and Russia (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, and more), a 15 percent match with England, Wales and Northwestern Europe, and a 13 percent match with Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania).
’s not hard to spend a lot of time reading through it all, maybe taking a break here and there to imagine what life was like in 300 A. D. and how the lives of my ancestors led to who I’ve become today.