October 8, 2017

In an earlier post, I discussed my family tree with 18,665 names and my DNA results:

((4/25/2013: I just recently received DNA results from ancestry.com as I was curious.  According to their DNA testing, I am 72 % Scandinavian and 28 % Central European).

(10/20/2013-Ancestry.com redid my DNA  ethnicity estimate and I am now: 100% European:
Scandinavian-30%;  Western European-26%;  Great Britain-24%;  Ireland-17%; and others-

Finnish/Northern Russia region, Iberian Peninsula- 3%.:This seems more realistic since it is closer to my family tree.)

And as of now, my ancestry.com family tree has over 10,000 entries of which according to ancestry.com, my common ancestors are from the following countries:

USA 44%: England 40%; Sweden 10%; Ireland/Other 6%:  (I have also common ancestors, all European nobility from over a thousand  years ago who were from  France/ Normandy/Brittany/Paris (a majority), Wales, Ireland,  Scotland, Belgium, Flanders, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Russia.)

The discrepancies are explained by ancestry.com which I will discuss in a later post.)

I just found a new branch of my tree that takes me to Twelth Century and earlier Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Armenia.  This was based on a marriage of a Byzantine princess, Irene Angela, Irini Maria Angelalina of Byzantium, Eirene Angelica, Ange, Comnene, (1181-1208) to Philip of Swabia, King of Germany, prince of the House of Hohenstaufen, (1177-1208) (my 24th GG Parents)

So vast majority of countries in my family tree matches the countries in my DNA.  It is this last group of countries I have found, and I had found some of them before that do not show up in my DNA.

Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Armenia, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary. Why is that? and how many are there?

Turkey- 37

Bulgaria- 5

Greece- 8

Armenia-10

Poland- 6

Czech Republic

Hungary- 1

Journey for Roots:

In April, 2017, my wife and I traveled with member's of her mother's family to the home town of her  grandmother.  It was very interesting.  It was the first time for everyone to visit Xochiltepec, Puebla, Mexico.  The people were very nice and friendly .  A few townspeople helped us find the house.  The lady who owned it let us visit her and showed it to us.  The area is very rural with many sugar cane fields and other farms and ranches..  It is close to a large lake.
Anamaria's 2nd and 3rd cousins at Xochiltepec, Puebla, Mexico.

Grandmother's, Cecilia Briseno, home.  People remembered her. 

Town's church

On the lake

Restaurant by Lake

This happened very near where we were.
The  2017 Central Mexico earthquake struck at 13:14 CDT (18:14 UTC) on 19 September 2017 with an estimated magnitude of M_w 7.1 and strong shaking for about 20 seconds. Its epicenter was about 55 km (34 mi) south of the city of Puebla. The earthquake caused damage in the Mexican states of Puebla and Morelos and in the Greater Mexico City area, including the collapse of more than 40 buildings.

It destroyed my wife's family house in Atlixco, Puebla, Mexico.