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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 2522777, member: 81887&quot;]I recently had my DNA ancestry checked.&nbsp; From family history, I knew that my mother&#039;s family was Sicilian on both sides (with possibly a bit of French), while my father&#039;s side was half Calabrian (the &quot;boot-tip&quot; of Italy), a quarter Irish, and a quarter English.</p><p><br /></p><p>The results were mostly what I expected.&nbsp; I got 60% Italian/Greek (they can&#039;t tell the difference between those two populations), 7% Irish, 7% English, 7% Scandinavian (maybe from Vikings who raided the British Isles?), a bit of Western European that couldn&#039;t be more specifically identified, and 1% North African (which is pretty common for Sicilians- everyone in the Mediterranean spent some time in Sicily).&nbsp; The big surprise, though: I am about 11% Middle Eastern.&nbsp; This was really puzzling, until I connected it to some family folklore that one of my maternal great-grandfathers was actually an orphan who was adopted into the family.&nbsp; Why a Middle Eastern orphan baby was in Sicily c.1870 is still a mystery, and probably has a fascinating story behind it, but unfortunately those details are probably not the sort that can be found in old census/birth/marriage records.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, here&#039;s a coin assemblage to roughly show my ancestry:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]538124[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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