A Child Of Atom

While I'm waiting for the results of my DNA test my uncle, (my mother's brother) who would also have been informed by the test my sister took, has forwarded me a bit of family lore that I was unaware of. I hope he doesn't mind if I reprint it here (edited with the family names removed).

You are part Dutch.

I got this from my mom's cousin. His name was Jim *****. Your great-grandmother on my mom's side was Anna Mae *****. One of Jim's relatives traced the family back to The Netherlands. It's kinda fuzzy, but from what I remember, there were four brothers of minor royalty. Everything was left to the oldest brother. The other three emigrated to the U.S. with stops in England and or Ireland, where they may have married. Not sure. They came to the U.S. One settled in New Jersey I believe. Another in NC and the other got in trouble and was hanged.

So, to sum it up, you are probably part French, Dutch, Irish, English and Scottish from your mom's side.

Sounds about right based on the information that I have so far. Of course we don't know which of these 3 brothers we may be descended from at this point, but at least it gives me an idea. The family is seemingly from NC so that makes sense. The name that was followed to get this info was of course one of many names that could be chosen to follow such information, but it does follow the path that the genetic test would have followed interestingly enough.

I'm still waiting on my Y chromosome test results to see what can be discovered about my dad's family. The more I get into this the more I think that I may need to start researching actual genealogy information, though a few of my relatives have tried that in the past and failed, so I'm not sure where I'd do much better.