My Scottish and English percentages were about what I expected. My Polish was a little higher than I expected, but it turns out my great grandmother immigrated around 1910 with her parents. My trace wasn’t opened when I took the screenshot, but it is 0.3% Nigerian.
I’ve recently gotten into fossil hunting, and I live in Harrison county, Ohio where there’s huge deposits and chunks of shale in my creek. I do have hammers and chisels, but they aren’t really ones meant for delicately opening up rocks. What should I look to get?
I found these a few years ago on the beach in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina after they dredged the ocean.
This is my collection of incandescent and halogen bulbs I’ve gotten the past few months. These all still function and none have burned out yet. The wattages of these bulbs vary from 40-200 watts.
These are some sandstone and shale coves I have feet away from my creek on my property. I’ve found some arrowheads on my property, but I’ve never thought to look in these. If there is a possibility, I will look. My only concern would be snakes in these.
I recently went on a path in my creek/woods I don’t normally walk, and I realized I have some pretty big coves made of thick sandstone layers with shale underneath. This is in Southeastern Ohio. I like things like this because it makes you think what it would have looked like millions of years ago for these rocks to form.
This is my creek located in Southeastern Ohio, which has massive chunks of sandstone with shale layers below it. I’ve recently realized these stones probably have some things in them. If I open some shale up, is there a probability I would find any imprints?
For context, my house is a very rural farmhouse built in the 1860s in Ohio. I frequently find intact bottles while digging out my creek bank, but this is by far the coolest. When it was made, it would have held some formaldehyde or embalming fluid.
This tree is up in my woods, which used to be farmland and fields from the 1860s-1970s. I’m assuming this tree is old growth which wasn’t cut down along with a few others I have. The image doesn’t do it justice, it’s probably 4-5 feet in diameter in person.
This is a bottle I found in my creek bank. My house was built in the 1860s, but based off the plastic cap I’d say the earliest it could be from is from the 40-50s. I think it’s some sort of prescription bottle. The stuff inside is like blue crystals/rocks now.
This is a sugar maple if I’m correct. My woods all used to be fields and farmland from the 1860s-1960s. This tree seems to be around 2-3 feet in diameter.
This is back on my property in some woods which used to be farmland and fields up until the 50-60s. Probably 2-3 feet in diameter I’d say.
Found it up in the woods under some leaves.
I personally prefer using CFLs in my room, as they feel softer than even my Philips ultra definition LEDs. I doubt it’s too possible because the phosphor and glass blocks the majority of UV, but could they technically fade colors and materials over time? I’ve seen things saying they can, but I’ve never noticed any fading.
A big majority of my father’s family is from Tennessee, while my mother’s family is from Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. I had a lot more French than I expected. My great grandmother immigrated from Poland around 1915, which explains my percentage.
I’m a guy who was born in Tennessee, but currently live in Ohio with some of my family. My French was pretty surprising, didn’t know too much other than my dad telling me when I was little that some of my ancestors came from French Canada. My Polish percentage was also higher than I expected, but I discovered my great grandmother immigrated from Poland around 1912.
It seems on my ancestry test, my French was merged with my British. I have family members from French Canada so it didn’t make much sense. It seems my Polish stayed about the same. In my opinion, with my results, my 23andme results are more accurate. I am from Ohio.
On my historical matches, I seem to have a decent bit from the St. Brice’s Day Massacre. My first one says I share more DNA with them than 96% of people so that’s something. Just thought it was kinda interesting.
For context, I was born in Ohio but currently live in Tennessee where most of my father’s family is from. I was really surprised by my amount of French, but it makes sense as I have family from French Canada. I also didn’t expect my Polish to be that high.
For me, my 23andme results were more accurate. They properly identified my French better, which makes sense I have more than ancestry says because I have multiple ancestors from French Canada. My Polish seemed to stay about the same. I feel like 23andme also found smaller regions ancestry didn’t.