Well, if her father is from Spain, that would explain the scandinavian blood, no?

That explains the Iberian blood but wouldn't it take someone from Denmark having a wild weekend in Spain for some Scandinavian blood. I want to send one off to a different company and see how close they match up.

It is possible that her sample was contaminated. But it is also possible that Scandinavians ended up in Honduras or the Iberian peninsula. Plus, how do they come up with those percentages? Do they tell you?

Turns out that perhaps ancestry checks are not very accurarte:

http://www.medicaldaily.com/dna-ance...-search-244586

I was just looking for a DNA thread the other day.

My dad signed up for 23andMe and his DNA done. You can connect the results to FamilySearch or Ancestry.com or something like that and it will show you other people who are likely relations based on their DNA profiles. Obviously, it came up with a bunch of people from the Heber valley, which is where he's from. But it also included one random person from Pennsylvania that he didn't know. He doesn't have any family out there or family history in that area. But based on the results, the website said there was a 99% chance they were closely related. The website didn't list the person's name (kind of like linkedin, you could only see connections to a certain degree or something), but the person's husband or something was there. My dad sent a quick email to this person, saying just saying that his DNA profile says they must be related, but he can't figure out how. He didn't get a response.

Fast forward several months, and my dad was on the phone with his mom up in Heber. There's a bit of an uproar in the family, My dad's uncle's family is going crazy because some woman from Pennsylvania contacted him and said she's his daughter. Turns out the uncle had a child out of wedlock when he was 18 and not yet married, the child was adopted out of state, The uncle got married and had a family, grand kids, etc. and never told anyone, not even his wife about the kid. Now his 80-something-year old wife and their kids are pissed at him because he has a kid they never told him about. No one knows that my dad basically stated it all with his DNA profile.

Why couldn't someone from Scandinavia just move to Spain, marry a spanish person, and have kids? There's certainly no lack of that sort of thing happening in the U.S. (I'm looking at you, Swenson!)

Interesting story. Be careful what you ask for, I guess. Just as a note, however, the connection at the base of your story is very difference from the sort of cultural/ethnic background conclusion given to RC's wife. Easy to see that any two individuals must be closely related. Much more difficult to say your background is some percentage of some ethnic group.

Historically Scandinavian DNA was sprinkled liberally, if you know what I mean, all over coastal communities of Europe.

Rape and pillage!

Yeah, I get the difference. I just wanted to share the story.

My FIL had his DNA checked a while back. He's as white and as English as they come. Except for the fact that the test said he had a certain percentage of Caribbean blood. Now he says he's part black.

marriage and kids?

Yes. That, too.

still being sprinkled pretty liberally at our house

I have a good chuck of Iberian DNA as well. No known ancestors there. Lots of my ancestry goes back through England, but my DNA is only 10% English. I do have a darker skin tone, so the Iberian makes a little sense.

When my dad first did the DNA test several years ago, it had some origins in Italy (Europe South), but that later moved to the Iberian peninsula. So they are definitely refining the results.

Here's my breakdown:

Ireland/Scotland/Wales 40%
Scandinavia 21%
Iberian Peninsula 17%
Great Britain 10%
Europe East 6%

I also thought I'd have more German ancestry because my grandmother has a German maiden name. My Europe West is only 4% (low confidence).

The biggest revelation is that I fall under the "Mountain West Mormon Pioneers" "Migration".

Interestingly, I have Portuguese listed on my birth certificate. My grandmother's maiden name is Coelho. And I have less than 1% Iberian.

My parents purchased tests for all my siblings for Christmas. I'm curious to see how we differ.