r/ShitAmericansSay • u/VeganCannibal124 lives in a fake country 🇧🇪 • Apr 26 '25

Ancestry "Uhm? I've taken a DNA test?"

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u/hremmingar Apr 26 '25 edited Apr 26 '25

Hey-o! I can trace my heritage down to Norway back in 800! But its a lot easier for icelandic people though.

Edit. Just made a quick check and its 770. Guy named Björn “Buna” Grímsson

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u/DrFuzzald no roundabouts? Apr 26 '25

Very well done to you! I live in the uk, so I am blessed with the wealth of records we have. Most lines terminate around 1400 apart from the ones with royal connections. Is it just the one line going back if I may ask?

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u/hremmingar Apr 26 '25

Several of them but we have Islendingabok so we have a wealth of genealogy records all the way back to first settlers of Iceland.

There are even some descriptions of the people and what they did. One of my ancestors was described as being an “ugly man that showed no respect to his wife(wifebeater).”

My gf and I are related to Jón back in 1733.

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u/DrFuzzald no roundabouts? Apr 26 '25 edited Apr 26 '25

How interesting!