My grandmother in the late 1900s.
Me in the 1980s.
Me in the past few years.
Hmmm ... This appears to me to be an extremely enhanced photo-shopped version of me but I can see for the first time a slight resemblance to my mostly Norwegian grandmother whose grandfather didn't marry her grandmother and remains a mystery except that he may have had a German father and an English mother. The animated me from the 1980s does not appear to me to be the same person as the animated me in recent years.
According to 23andMe, I am:
69.3% Scandinavian
15.9% British and Irish
6.7% French and German
0.4% Central Asian, North Indian and Pakistani
23andMe has determined that my only nephew is:
35.4% Scandinavian
15.2% French and German
7.5% British and Irish
30.8% East Asian and Native American
0.2% Central Asian, Northern Indian, and Pakistani
Although I no longer subscribe to MyHeritage, I received an email from them recently giving me this brief opportunity to try out their animation function. I was able to animate about 10 photos before the MyHeritage website no longer allowed me to continue animating photos and began asking me to subscribe.
Genealogy fascinates me. I continue to search for clues about my great great grandfather on my father's side and my great grandfather on my mother's side, both of whom disappeared mysteriously, leaving two of my female ancestors to raise their children without fathers.
Here is one of the two times that my grandmother saw me in person. My grandfather had died during the previous winter. She saw me again when I was 3 years old. She died when I was 7 years old. Both of my mother's parents died before I was born.
