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It said that, "
Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day", which falls today this year. But, some of us may be a little bit more Irish than others, due to actual ancestry. That could include me. I'm really not sure how much Irish is in my family tree, if any.
Family lore maintained that we had Irish heritage. The belief is that my maternal great-grandfather,
Newton Isaac Collins was biracial. His mother was a slave and his father was her master, an Irishman. However, my DNA analysis indicates that he may have been more
Scotch than Irish.
However, I do like to observe this day by eating
soda bread, and perhaps having a sip of whiskey or Irish Stout.
Note:
I tend to take much of DNA analysis with a grain of salt. Is someone with whom I share just 0.42% of DNA really a relative, or is it merely statistical noise?
But,
23andMe says that I have a great-grandparent who was 100% French. This totally jibes with another of my family's stories. So, there is that. And, it is a good excuse to go all out on
Bastille Day.
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