u/AlterEgoAmazonB

I follow this sub:

https://oldhousesunder50k.com/

For those of you looking to move somewhere you can afford, this sub it so fun. I am not associated with it at all and yes, a lot of the homes they feature are not necessarily in the most popular places...obv.

But if you work remotely and you want a sweet, quite place to live and don't care about politics, you should follow this. Not living in a blue state is a must for that...... but I do get it, because I want to live in a place where I feel at home, too. But I do live in a rural area that is not aligned with my politics because I love living rural. Not only that, but you could help change the politics somewhere! Nobody ever talks about that!

I need help to solve a mystery. I am working on a family tree of someone close to me who has a complicated family history. But here are the facts related to my question:

• Both his mother and his father descend from German fathers. (Their main, namesake family line)
• Many of his grandmother's related to those German fathers in the main lines are also German.
• The rest of the tree that I have researched is a lot of Irish, English

YET.................his DNA shows only 4% German.

He "should" technically have as much German as he does all of the others.

I have rechecked those tree lines, re-looked at documents, and I am relatively certain that the parents involved are biological parents (although it would NOT be out of the question...but I did look at this first).

Is there something I don't know about German genealogy that would impact the amount of German DNA he has? I need to go back further to see if they moved to Germany from elsewhere, I guess. He does have a lot of Southeaster England/Northwestern Europe (46%).

Thanks!

EDIT: Thanks for all of your really valuable input. I have everything I need on this now and have worked on proving lineage by DNA that works. While there is still a dead end for one ancestor, I have what I need to explain the rest. Great community!

Hello fellow genealogy lovers!

I am seeking step-by-step instructions about how to allow someone else to manage your DNA results on Ancestry.com.

Someone close to me took an Ancestry DNA test several years ago. The intent was for me to manage his DNA. I have done this before with 2 other people.

For whatever reason, when he got his results, he couldn't completely follow through with making me the manager of his DNA results (which again, 2 other people have done). I suspect it is because he is a stroke victim and things became harder for him to do. I talked with him about this yesterday because I have started his family tree but I really need his DNA results to confirm some things because his family tree is very complicated.

Can ANYONE provide me with step-by-step instructions on how to NOW make someone an admin of your DNA? He did this several years ago and he does NOT have a paid Ancestry account now.

Thank you for your help!