Have you had your DNA tested to determine your ancestry?

[Thor_MN]

150. Yes. I found unexpected Finnish ancestry.

My test said 9% Finland/NW Russia, which surprised as I had already traced all my immigrant to the US ancestors as from Norway or Sweden. That prompted my dad to do a test and he got 18% Finland/NW Russia. Some more research showed that his dad's mother from Sweden had substantial Finnish ancestry. Turns out that there was a wave of migration from Finland to Sweden.

Nothing really related to DNA testing other than talking about it at work lead me into helping the guy that sits next to me at work with his tree. Turns out that his 5th great grandmother married my 1st cousin 8 times removed in 1758. There's a chance that we are related by blood as that was in a small rural area of Norway. He hasn't done a DNA test, which would prove it one way or the other. As it stands our respective families have owned several of the same farms, at different points in time.