Genea-mapping

The recent announcement that Ancestry‘s DNA genealogy testing service is expanding to Australia is one I am kind of excited about.

I have been contemplating genetic genealogy for a while and I will admit to a significant amount of curiosity and a desire to share my ‘genea-map’ with my ‘genetic map.’ Although there are websites that will create a map of ancestors for you from your gedcom files, I have been using Google maps’ custom maps function to create my own. Below is a rough map of the earliest spots I have traced family lines.

Genetic genealogy may be able to tell me whether the overwhelming Englishness is as it seems. I can’t wait to pester everyone for cheek swabs.