But, as I was looking at a totally (interesting choice of my next word) unrelated records, I read in a little blurb that had not yet been overwritten, that some dude and his pregnant wife were among the first settlers of the Netherlands. I believe it ought to have said New Netherlands. Still, this fella had the moniker of "The Norwegian". Although, my family had him recorded as being Dutch, as I am finding quite often. Often enough to cause this wacky new theory that Holland had been settled by Norwegians. After all, they settled Iceland, and Greenland and well, who knows where else we have not yet uncovered. Which is curious that niw that my Ethnicities have become more focused I have a significant amount of lingering DNA in common with Norwegians all through my father, though. When. I had assumed it all came through my mother's Scottish side but, another very confusing thing my son explained it as that though I have inherited traits from my one parent's lineage, it is possible that both patents share that lineage. Wouldn't be unheard of..."The Wilkes' always marry their cousins"(GWTW). I also found an interesting family tree of which I skeptical because I would not have just stumbled upon it on my own.This family tree had several DNA matches along each branch. It was Native American, yeah, weird. I end up being skeptical again of my DNA.
When I shared my doubts with my son, he quickly made sense of it through a random recombination that happened to match all of these people. But due to the matches, and their proximity I think more of time travel, maybe I am their ancestor or something... but the most troubling of my rants is that one site matches.genetic fingerprint in East Asia in around 1700. No real explanation for that one yet, listed confidence of accuracy is 99%.
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