Something About Me Saturday: My First Baby Picture
On the outside of the card that holds my first baby picture.
And here's me.
Halloween 2018
My favorite narwhal and skeleton in the world.
"Say Cheese!"
"Say Cheese!"
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Screenshot of my DNA results page on Ancestry.com
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According to the oral history I had been…
Screenshot of my DNA results page on Ancestry.com
Hmmm. Now the 70% West African matches up perfectly with the result from my first admixture test through AfricanAncestry. If you missed the results from that test from earlier in the year, here's the link to that post My DNA Admixture Results Are In! In my head I already had it figured that most of my European ancestry if not all was going to be from England and Ireland. My paternal grandfather was from Barbados so I thought immediately, west African and English. My mother's people I thought had possible Irish ancestry due to the white families that they were associated with during slavery. My DNA from the British Isles came out to be 10%. Okay, I thought that would be higher...moving on.
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Who knew what lay ahead for that little newborn baby? I don't have any of myself until I was older. They didn't do hospital photos when I was born.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean Kristin. :)
DeleteThat's a shame you don't have any from when you were born. You are blessed to have so many beautiful photos though.
DeleteOh, my. Precious. Our daughter and her husband are expecting their first child in August. This picture makes we want to call my daughter and chat. Thank you for this photo!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! What an exciting time this must be for you. I hope you were able to catch up with your daughter.
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