Many thanks, everyone! Jill, you recommended getting my myDNA tested. I have, it's V15a. However, my furthest back known maternal line ancestress - my great-grandmother's great-grandmother - was from

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How exactly is "Pennsylvania Dutch" defined in the case of the Pennsylvania Dutch migrant? Does it mean someone who was supposedly of the Anabaptist faith? Or does it mean someone who emigrated from t

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Oh, duh, I meant to say it adds up to 50%, i.e., implying 100% for my father.

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I had my genes tested by FamilyTreeDNA. I already knew I had two very different lines of ancestry. My father's Ashkenazi Jewish (Belarus, Ukraine). My mother's of Irish and German descent. My results

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