'But I'm Swedish, not Norwegian'
DAVID WRITES:
I have a DNA query which I don’t know whether you can help me with.
I have a tree of over 6,000 people on Ancestry and am quite happy with this. My greatgrandfather was from Sweden, Carl Johan Nilsson (anglicised to Nelson), a merchant seaman, and with the help of register. slatdata.org – which has what looks like parish register info – I have gone well back on this side.
I tested with Ancestry DNA and the results say that I am 23% Norwegian not Swedish and I wondered why this is like this.
I have printed the trees from the 4 highest Norwegian cM matches that have trees, 2 at 55 cM, 1 at 42 cM and 1 at 40 cM and can’t find anyone from my tree or names that match on any of their trees either. Ancestry claims 4th – 6th cousins with this number of cM. Am I doing something wrong or is this just a false positive?
I have no DNA links showing on my Swedish side but I do on my grandmother’s side.
Any help you can give would be very much appreciated.
KAREN REPLIES:
David’s question was a very interesting one because it used his ethnicity
