Americans Only?

We are hiding from the scary americans
(jk)

I guess it is natural for a forum based in the US to have predominantly US members,
if there had been a CC.UK or similar (that looked active) I'd probably have signed up there as well.

I found a Norwegian forum, but it had been dead for years and years ....
(Maybe all the talkactive Norwegians are already here?)

Where is the rest of the world?

I'd like to take one of those ancestry DNA test, just out of curiosity.

Curiosity is what finally drove me to paying the money to have a test done. There had been all kinds of talk within my family about ancestry, and for the most part, I figured it was a bunch of malarkey. I knew for sure my Dad's side of the family was Irish because I had the records of them landing in New York and almost immediately Anglicizing their last name to try and blend in because of the dislike for the Irish at that point. Some of the other makeup in my line though was a surprise.

I had been told there was Native American, but I figured it was a minuscule percentage - nope. 12.5%. I thought there might be a surprise or two in there as well, and there was. Overall, the test was kind of neat to read through.

How long to walk it west to east? (Your shorter-than section is a harder-to-walk section. lol)

Personally, I think "mountains" take up "large spaces" by default.

But you are already overseas so why do you want to go anywhere else?

That's really neat. My Mom is from Sweden and my Dads parents were from Sicily and Italy, I also know that I'm German and Dutch. My Mother in law had her DNA tested and she's been able to connect some dots, which is really cool. She had told me she years ago that her Dad was Canadian. Somehow my Husband didn't know, when I told him he didn't believe me, I don't know why, if I'm going to lie to you it won't be about you being Canadian. When she got the results back I got do a , told ya so.

He thinks because I'm Sicilian I probably have African roots. I understand the two are close in proximity and it's possible, it would be pretty interesting to know.

My Mom was able to track back my Father's side of the family to the year 704 in Italy. I am guessing it was during that period of time and in that particular region of the world is where some of the "surprises" in my DNA came from. I would never have guessed my DNA included haplotypes from central Africa or Hebrew lines, but they are in there in large enough quantities to be in the top 5. While I think it's interesting to know I have all these different genetic lines in my makeup, what is more interesting to me is to think about where these lines got introduced into the mix. There must be some fascinating stories, but as time passes, these stories are lost to history.

Curiosity is what finally drove me to paying the money to have a test done. There had been all kinds of talk within my family about ancestry, and for the most part, I figured it was a bunch of malarkey. I knew for sure my Dad's side of the family was Irish because I had the records of them landing in New York and almost immediately Anglicizing their last name to try and blend in because of the dislike for the Irish at that point. Some of the other makeup in my line though was a surprise.

I had been told there was Native American, but I figured it was a minuscule percentage - nope. 12.5%. I thought there might be a surprise or two in there as well, and there was. Overall, the test was kind of neat to read through.

Furthest point west to east is at the bottom of the country. Probably at this point it is similar to north and south, but the roads are better so will be a couple of hours quicker to travel (All the wide roads concentrate on getting to London. If one wants to travel by car north to south good luck! (It is leisurely due to the windy narrow roads...) Railways west to east are not too bad. However yet again, because they go towards London. North to south there is no connection any more like there once was unless one goes miles into England and back.
The very middle of Wales is narrow. It is sparsely populated except near the coast. South Wales near the coastline is densely populated, especially in the big cities and towns of Carmarthen, Llanelli, SWANSEA, Neath, Port Talbot, Bridgend, CARDIFF and Newport. (Cities in capitals).
The very top of the North Wales coastline has high population as well but not as high as the south.

Hey Lynn, I wrote a response to this post but I'm unsure if the full thing came up. I'm currently using my phone and maybe a glitch occurred

Czech, Filipino, Indian, Kiwis, Brazilian, Burma, Finland, Sweden,...

American here, so excuse my questions if they sounds as dumb as I fear it does, but do you consider NZ "overseas?" And all those countries in the Indian Ocean "overseas?"

In America, if we want to consider ourselves "well-traveled," when, in reality we're just home-bodies, we count going to Canada/Mexico as a big adventure or going to the Caribbeans as a grand adventures. I always thought Ozzies did the same thing with NZ. Just hop on over to say "I've traveled the world."

I've been flipping through quite a few threads, and almost every thread is dominated by Americans. A few Brits and Canadians, yeah, but overall mainly Americans.

Where is the rest of the world?

American here, so excuse my questions if they sounds as dumb as I fear it does, but do you consider NZ "overseas?" And all those countries in the Indian Ocean "overseas?"

In America, if we want to consider ourselves "well-traveled," when, in reality we're just home-bodies, we count going to Canada/Mexico as a big adventure or going to the Caribbeans as a grand adventures. I always thought Ozzies did the same thing with NZ. Just hop on over to say "I've traveled the world."

Although the us doesn't require passports to go state to state, each state has a lot of its own laws and customs that make each one unique. I live in Pennsylvania and a couple of years ago I flew west to Oregon. Although it's America and I didn't need different money it language there were differences that I liked a lot. They seem more accepting and open there and more environmentally friendly. I like Pennsylvania too, we are short distances away from forests and beaches and I love that.