DNA - no surprises there

My DNA results came back yesterday and there was nothing pointing to anything exotic which might have explained my B blood group.

39% is made up of Ireland/Scotland/Wales.  So far I have not come across anyone on my family tree who came from Scotland, I have an Irish great great grandfather and until I discovered him I thought that I was almost the only one in the world who had no Irish ancestry and then there are the prolific and much represented Davies family from Wales who were, and still are prone to scatter their seed in a somewhat random fashion over the known world.

Next on the list are the Vikings who represent 23%.  Also scoring 23% is the Southern England (Wales and West Midlands) contingent, followed by what are described as Low Confidence Regions:  Iberian Peninsular 4%, West Europe 4%. South Europe 3%, Finland/Northwest Russia 2% and East Europe 2%: and my Great Grandmother was so proud of her Prussian blood!  Oh dear!

Actually, I do have a Prussian ancestor, born in the 1600s who moved to England and married an English woman,  I have that family tree thanks to research (not by me) of all the Sugar Bakers in England.  Harman was a sugar baker (look it up).

I realise that only those who have had DNA samples analysed and who have connected them to their family trees are featured in the count but it lists only two of the Davies relatives and I know one of them of old; we researched our family together with amazing results although we have never actually met face to face.  There was one other Davies with whom I had contact as I have helped with his research in the past. He featured as well but I would have expected to see him as he had a specific reason for his search for his family and DNA would have been a part of it.

Other than that, the two third cousins whom I met a couple of months ago were there along with everyone in the English-speaking world whose name is Smith listed as possible matches the premise being that if you have someone named Smith on your family tree then they must be connected somewhere  -  a very false assumption when considering the number of craftsmen who were smiths of one sort or another  -  and so far I haven't found any who are remotely related to me.  And yes, I have some Smiths on my tree, but not these ones.

All a bit disappointing  -  I had at least expected a smattering of Mongolians and Chinese but my B blood group must have originated with those much travelled traders, the Vikings.

And yet another Sudoku:

First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
So beautifully.