Playing with my gene's

 In 2012 I had a gene study done that covered my general migration patterns out of Africa just to see how it might fit with my family's lore. We believed that the Tittermary side (mothers genes) where Irish and English and we know that my fathers (Rebmenn) side reaches back to the 1400's in the Black Forest area of Germany (yes, I'm a recovering German) and in fact was embroiled in the whole ugly Marten Luther, 95 feces thing. We know for sure because a relative began the genealogical research years ago and I eventually inherited it and, thanks to Ancestery.com (no plug intended), was able to tie a lot of loose ends together and take it farther.
 What the gene study told me was that yes, we where related to Africans (OMG Who knew) and we migrated up into the steps of Russia and that branch ended up in the British Isles while a second branch made a direct left into what later became Germany. I call this my Deep Gene Field study (DGF). So far so good.

 I just recently received the results of what I term my Shallow Gene Field study (SGF) which is a study of my genetic ethnicity. The results where even more interesting. Seems I'm 36% Scandinavian, 28% Eastern European, 28% Central European and 8% Uncertain. Seems to be a fascinating level of agreement but I was a little surprised by the 36% Scandinavian, how the hell am I to process THAT?

I got my DGF test through Genebase.com and my SGF study done through ancestery.com. I can't vouch for either one of these studies but they do seem to be consistent with my families hand-me-down stories.

 As for the 8% Uncertain? Hell, that's my best part!

Cliff