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Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,003 Send Message	nameslessone	Report	18 Apr 2022 20:24
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,003 Send Message	Of course. With myself and the OH the father seems to be Parent 1.
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 432 Send Message	hotchoc	Report	18 Apr 2022 19:49
	Paren 1 and parent 2 will be different for all of us - its up to each one of us to work out who that might be x
	Researching: Whitmore
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,003 Send Message	nameslessone	Report	18 Apr 2022 14:52
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,003 Send Message	Even more confused now as 6 months ago Ancestry only had me at 3% Swedish/Danish.
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,003 Send Message	nameslessone	Report	17 Apr 2022 17:40
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,003 Send Message	Could be :-D
Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 714 Send Message	Inky1	Report	17 Apr 2022 16:16
Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 714 Send Message	Vikings?
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,003 Send Message	nameslessone	Report	17 Apr 2022 10:54
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,003 Send Message	Great new thing on ancestry DNA. They have now split your DNA showing which belongs to Parent 1 & 2. Doesn't tell you which is which but I can work mine out. Should make things easier - But where did Mum get all that Swedish/Danish DNA from?