Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.
Yes, my first day knowing my new ethnicity estimate from 23andMe DNA-test. That kind of sound a bit strange but I’m writing about it now.
I woke up and look at my app and I immediately noticed something was different. It turns out they updated the ethnicity estimates so I went in depth about it. It made a lot more sense than the previous version because I could see a more realistic Finnish connection at 21% rather than 16% and just to mention I’m culturally Finnish influenced as well.
I remember sending my grandmother the updated results and her reaction to this message. It’s honestly very empowering knowing where my roots are, where I come from.
So in the smaller amounts I learned a lot also, I’m a very European person with strong Sámi and Reisende heritage in addition to traditional Scandinavian and Finnish ethnicity.
And it makes sense also that certain ethnic groups are suggested strongly by my DNA-tests I already suspected being of Reisende origins on my grandfathers side and this results with the Danish, German, Dutch, Belgian, Balkan and even slight South Asian Indian traces made it clear it had some substance to it.
I love genealogy research and learning new things, and this helps guide my research. And the avatar is based on me, just a bit younger. And blonde with light colour eyes! (I’m darker in real life, especially my hair that’s also straight and with thick coarse texture).
And hear this message, loud and clear:
No matter where you come from, you always belong on Earth.
Thanks for reading my blogs ❤
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