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The population from Alsace severely suffered from the 30 years war (1618-1648) and once the region taken by the French, it had been offered that catholic Swiss people could populate the empty spaces. I know all my Alsacian branches of the genealogy tree and nearly all point to Switzerland.

So from a genetic mix, it’s logical that the genes are the South German/Swiss ones.

Added some Polish (Prussia) and West Ukrainian (Galicia) that I already knew in my tree, and a complete surprise with some Scottish/Irish genes.

Finally I’m a French guy with no “French genes”

Hello,

As I pretty good know my genealogy for the last 250 years, there’s no surprise about the Germanic and Polish and Ukrainian pourcentages.

I’ve done the test for the minor regions. I was expecting something Hungary or Yugoslavia, eventually a trace of Italy would have been a new direction to look deeply for the end of the XVIII century.

Instead of that, it looks like I have to look more in the north direction of Czech Republic.

And what a surprise to find traces of British genes! It could correspond to a time I theoretically know in the genealogical tree. Never thought about that possibility and I will have to look how that’s possible. Many many hypotheses.

In the same time, I’m matching these Scottish and English traces with people I know where there are in the tree. It makes them even better traceable.

So I’m really happy. It invalidates some Italian hypothesis, makes the Yugoslavian hypothesis further in the north, and brings new storms in my brain.