I was most excited to get my results from the most recent DNA test. Infact, I had spent all of my money on it, and that means it was how I chose to spend what little Christmas money I had.
Previously, I was speculating on how on earth I could have DNA matches in Iceland and Greenland, so I decided that it had to come from my Scottish and Norwegian/Swedish/Danish ancestry. but, while I was researching, I stumbled on a video that commented about mysteries and how they were solved when determining ethnicity results. One comment was that when your results do not have a clear match it is assumed that they are of a type they have little to no knowledge of... I felt so much relief that at east mine was an educated guess and easy to believe. Though, as I studied more I discovered that Greenlanders often crossed path with "Scrawlings" and because my haplogroups were clearly traceable to everwhere but Greenland, perhaps that match was from some native American.
But, I self-concluded after study of RAW DNA files that the website had been correct in so many "assumptions" because archeomatches had been so close in genetic distance (Centimorgans) that those matches were more that my ethnicity they were my direct ancestors. But, how could I have descended from an island way far away? Likewise, why did I have so many matches here in Utah? my intellectual side decided that it was more likely that a name was found on records and appropriated as a common ancestor, so I decided to get to the bottom of this, and not simply accept that I was right because my paper trail said so. I took another DNA test.
This new test did not say I was from Iceland or Greenland, but from America (Aztec to be precise). Ok, I knew that was likely, and almost everything I had known prior was supported, and this testing company had no way of knowing what to conclude. Uh, so why Aztec? with minor bits of Asian and Finland. That old comment came back to mind about how when results were undefinable, they were given a category that the tester knows little to nothing of. Perhaps this is the case.
I was watching a video where the explorer was trying to find out if some claims in Wisconsin were false that claimed to be a previous Aztec home, and the video was quite persuasive that the Aztec origin came from Canada and the US. One way was the word Michigan. Where I was born and raised was highly Um, Native American, our school was the Red Skins. The town where I lived had an Indian name, and we went on an elementary school field trip to the Picture rocks in Pitoski, or somewhere. The female bathroom said "Squaws", (not really evidence of anything, just a funny memory I wanted to include).
My mother had a more easy solution for how I would have this Aztec heritage, when they came to America, Spouses were taken back to the nobility and married off in Spain. The Iberian/Basque/French heritage is definite and found in each and every sibling, and easy to comprehend.
Maybe I ought to do an advertisement for CRI Genetics, because they have supported the veracity even in things that are not identical to previous tests. I feel like they are probably correct even though I do not actually know how they determined that I had Aztec Roots, and I have not yet figured it out, myself, but I will and I conclude that because of the results of this recent DNA test, I have one more piece to a puzzle that I have nothing but expectations will be solved.
