Roots

At the end of October I finally took the plunge and had an Ancestry DNA test performed and apparently my roots grow deep.  The family oral tradition was rather simplistic - half German and half Irish.  According to the DNA results it's not that simple.
 

According to Ancestry DNA I am 39% Irish, 18% Great Britain, 26% Europe West, and 17% Trace Regions (7% Italy/Greece, 4% Iberian Peninsula, 3% Finland/Northwest Russia, 2% European Jewish, 1% Europe East and less than 1% Scandinavian).
 

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All of this can be explained so stay-tuned.  More on this to come as I continue digging into the family tree.