Day 19 brings...Ancestry.com results...

I finally caved and took one of those ancestry DNA tests, the kind that promises to reveal family origins, and maybe even connect you with a surprise cousin or two. After waiting weeks for the results, I finally received them
My ancestry breakdown is about as vanilla as it gets: British Isles, a bit German, a hint of Nordic. The kind of profile that settled half the Midwest, where I live. It didn’t specify when my family exactly came to the Midwest, but it hints that they may have come to North America with the early colonists in the late 1700s.
What was interesting, though, was seeing how my DNA lines up with the migration patterns of my family. The maps showed clusters in Eastern Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and early New York/Connecticut.
Most of the “cool” features: deeper dives, the historical timelines, migration stories, and parental bloodlines are locked behind expensive subscription tiers. You get a taste of your heritage, and then the Ancestry says, “Want the rest? That’ll be $29.99 a month for this and $39.99 a month for that.”
The test didn’t reveal anything shocking or rewrite my understanding of my ancestry (my surname is English after all). Still, it’s kind of nice to see the map see where I come from and the paths my ancestors walked.