Sunday, September 20, 2026

Druidic Cat Nap

 

Icelandic DNA

 

  Looks like Grandma Fawcett was correct about Grandpap who she referred to as Chief Sit and Bull. The Icelandic DNA most likely is from the Vikings, and now I know too, more about my little Dutch sister, Adinda, a college roommate who we used to joke could stay up all night due to her Viking blood, unaware of our shared Dutch and Viking ancestry. She will always be a little sister to me. I have only just begun nebbing... TTYL...


Revelation #1: The first Irish were northern European, so why not Icelandic and more Irish? 🍀



Saturday, September 19, 2026

I'm a Big Old Limey Druid Celt

   No idea why my Ancestry DNA results came as such a surprise this morning. I know I was channeling Mummy due to the cussing. I was giddy all day at the cave working through the results. My brother and I are a whopping 86% English and Irish. We are 56% English. I expected as much German, but we are more Dutch than German, 3%! In fact, we are as much Icelandic as German, 2%. Does this explain Mummy's "Native American"? If so, it predates the Iroquois. Daddy always did say that his grandfather's family was Austrian as far as he knew, but 5% means that Great-Grand-Pap Andres couldn't have been all "German". 43% of my English comes from the southeast, including Belgium and Brussels, so some of Mummy's "German" relatives were possibly Flemish and Dutch. The 86% includes: the southeast, west midlands, Devon, Somerset, Connacht, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Munster, and Leinster. Glenn and I are as much Druid Celt as anybody ever was considering they now believe that the Druids were more of a religion than a race. The fact that the voices in my head know all of the answers is proof that everything was committed to memory and some things are never really forgotten. Here I thought I was what we call Heinz 57 in Pittsburgh, and I've been Boudicca all along. 

Immigrant Song