Doctor Grandma

Different DNA test find this for me:

ANCESTRY:

78% England, Wales, NW Europe

13% Germanic Europe (i.e. the Dutch)

6% Norway, Iceland

3% Ireland, Scotland (BIG WHOOP).

FAMILY TREE DNA:

78% British Isles

15% Scandinavian (Norway, Sweden)

4% Southeastern Europe (Italy, Greece…)

<1% Ashkenazi Jew

23ANDME:

35% French & German (the Dutch are here)

30.6% British & Irish

• areas where my ancestors probably lived in the past 200 years: London, Glasgow (northern Scotland), Donegal Ireland (up north near Larne, home of some Agnews who are Irish), a couple other areas of southern Ireland.

9.7% Scandinavian

.5% Southern Europe

.1% Italian

.1% West Asian & Northern African

I think I inherited the Agnew Norman DNA (Scandinavian) from way back. A lot of the relatives I’ve traced (Owens, Hunter, & others) from my dad’s side go back to Welsh or English, so that makes sense. Where our Agnew line falls, I still don’t know.

The Dutch are great. They kept birth records in the 1600s. They have very interesting names. 🙂

So my grandmother Cena was the 5th daughter and 5th child born to Martin and Trena Brink. Except Trena’s name was actually Trijntje in Holland, the homeland.

Trena’s parents were Henry and Flora Van Shepen. Except their real names were Hendrik Van Shepen (1822-1915) and Froukje Koov (1820-1902). (Some report it as Kooy). I remember my grandparents (Cena and George) making the “v” sound so I use Koov.

Just discovered Hendrik’s parents were:

Feike Hendriks Van Shepen

Trijntje Peters Hak

so it appears that Hendrik and Froukje named their first daughter (and 3rd child) after Hendrik’s mother Trijntje…… which is impossible to pronounce as written. I hear it as “Traintjay”).   Trijntje Brink, my great-grandmother.