No Two Snowflakes ...

Almost exactly a year ago, I bought Ancestry DNA kits on an Amazon sale for Jay and me. That meant a bit of a rush for their labs and it took a few extra days to get results. I was not going to start creating family trees or search for old family documentation. I simply thought it'd be fun to see if my results were the same as my expectations. Also, increasing the number of individuals in Ancestry's datasets helps them refine and isolate new information. 

In fact, an interesting thing is that one's results can change over time. One's DNA is not different, rather an increased number of profiles allows for the inclusion of updated data. Today, I received an email notification of updates to my Ancestral Regions. The category called, England & Northwestern Europe dropped a lot because of the addition of additional European regions to my data.

We are all extremely unique and these DNA results are simply best-guess ranges.  That new 1% from Sardinia probably doesn't mean anything.  Yet, I find it amazing that the science is developing at such a rapid pace.