A few months ago, over six months to be sure, I finally did and submitted my DNA test kit to Ancestry.
As it turns out, I am most definitely Polish and Ukrainian by a large percentage. With some other smaller percentages in other Eastern European groups. And 1-2% in Jewish Ancestry on my mother's side, which was rather a surprise. I really thought if there was any, it would have been on my father's.
I can't determine at this time just where exactly in my mother's tree this would come from.
I have found/connected with a couple of 2nd-3rd cousins on Ancestry. One in particular has helped me uncover the names of my Great-Great-Grandparents. But now we've both hit a brick wall to go beyond that.
I am still hitting brick wall after brick wall with my father's side.
How I wish I took notes back when my paternal grandmother was alive. A name with a photo was about all I did. And now I wish I could ask her so many questions. I always that I would have time for that. Seventeen years later, I know now how wrong I was.
I have one remain aunt, my mother's youngest sister, but we pretty much have the same information. So I can't ask her for anything I don't already know.
I really thought, after all these years, that searching for your ancestors in another country would be easier by now. With all the technology we have these days.
I thought that doing the DNA kit would give me more answers, instead it just gave me more questions.
