[Magdalen] Instant Pot!

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, Jay, I had actually considered that, especially knowing the large numbers of Jews in Germany in the past.  But I can’t figure out why there is no Western European DNA showing up. Of course, I know that a single saliva sample doesn’t necessarily contain the whole picture. I’ve been tempted to try this again with ancestry, just to see if the results are the same.
In the meantime, though, I’m going to subscribe to ancestry.com, at least for a short time...

> On Jan 1, 2018, at 12:22 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Grace, the Eastern European Jewish may have married into the German side
> and assimilated. Think Felix Mendelssohn.
> 
> I sent my daughter an Ancestry kit also, which she hasn't done, but we're
> now expecting that to show the same because of the "unknown great
> grandfather" who we're pretty sure she found a couple of years ago and who
> appears to be German Jewish, at least on his father's side. Not sure about
> his mother, though...her name does not appear to be Jewish. It's a long and
> possibly very sad story that none of the protagonists are here to tell.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Interesting DNA results, Chad— mine were similar and strange. I came out
>> 60% English, which wasn’t surprising on my mother’s side. But my father’s
>> side is almost entirely German for several generations, and that didn’t
>> show up at all. What did show up, though, and is totally mystifying, is
>> 20-some% Eastern Jewish!!???
>> 
>> And I would have thought they had the wrong sample, except that, when I
>> looked briefly at the ancestry website, which teases you into subscribing
>> (I haven’t yet), the very first names that popped up were a first cousin
>> and his two daughters! Blew me away...
>> 
>>> On Jan 1, 2018, at 10:58 AM, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'll see if son Thomas, who likes to cook and lives in Dorchester, would
>> like one.
>>> 
>>> I also have very high Neanderthal (nearly 4%), and have ancestors who
>> lived not all that far from the Neander Valley (Neanderthal in German). No
>> desire (nor talent) for religious artistry - my sister got that instead. My
>> DNA info came from 23&me, and my dear wife "instructed" me to get the Nat.
>> Geo. (Helix) ancestry stuff for Christmas - it arrived just a couple of
>> days ago. We'll see what that shows - 23&me claims I'm just under 50%
>> British & Irish, even tho both paternal grandparents were born in Germany,
>> and a good proportion of my maternal ancestry is also German.
>>> 
>>> Chad Wohlers
>>> Woodbury, VT USA
>>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message----- From: ME Michaud
>>> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2018 8:43 AM
>>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Instant Pot!
>>> 
>>> I bought an Instant Pot a year ago and have grown to HATE it.
>>> If you live anywhere inside 128 or on Cape Ann and want it,
>>> I’ll drop it off. Original box. Also glass lid.
>>> 
>>> Re: genetic tests, I found out I have an abnormally high amount of
>>> Neanderthal DNA.
>>> Makes sense (my father’s mother’s family came from western France).
>>> It explains so much (from the clotting problems to my intense desire to
>>> move into a seaside cave and paint all the walls with religious images).
>>> 
>>> Happy New Year. I made you a necklace of dried flowers.
>>> -M
>>