More DNA
I was reviewing this blog and read a title from 2011 called, "DNA." Knowing what I know now, I went back and re-read it and the entire thing is a facepalm. Here is what has happened since then: My Dad got his DNA results back in 2011 and they were weird. Middle Eastern? What? My granddaddy (his dad) was the whitest man I've ever known. My grandmother does look more European, so we thought she might be Italian, but no...that came from Dad's Y gene as well. We really didn't think much else about it at that time. In 2016 Joe and I did the whole Ancestry.com thing because we were fascinated and because our DNA is already "out" there because we were both military. Joe's came back half-Korean, half-Polish, which directly contradicted the family research his sister, Cathy, had done. Joe was supposed to be half-British, basically. Mine came back super mutty. I have 70% UK/western Europe and 30% middle eastern (specifically Lebanon and some Egypti