Immigration into the U. S. is a hot political topic right now, but, unless you’re Native American, pretty much everyone here has a family history involving..
Immigration into the U. S. is a hot political topic right now, but, unless you’re Native American, pretty much everyone here has a family history involving some sort of immigration story.
Now AncestryDNA , a consumer genetics subsidiary of the genealogy research site Ancestry.com , wants to help you know more about your family’s immigration journey. To do so, the research team spooled through 500 million points of genetic data, then connected the genetic dots for 770,000 genotyped individuals from the U. S. and linked them up with 20 million genealogical records and collective migration patterns in North America during the last several hundred years — so, a LOT of data.
And what they found was pretty interesting — many networks of families have followed each other, intermarrying and settling near one another for centuries
For instance, there’s a good vein of Louisianian’s of French descent with cousins in Maine, a cluster of New Englanders headed West to Utah and there are even trace genetic differences in Irish Americans who settled in the Northern versus Southern states, divvied up right along political lines.
