Over the next few weeks I hope to post a regular blog on my personal DNA experience from a complete novice perspective. From choosing the test, the test itself, the results and what to do next.

Hopefully if you new like me this might help you with choices, interpreting your results and ultimately what to do with them

Some good advice about DNA testing in a section of the Lost Cousins Newsletter as per the Related Link.
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I took a DNA test years ago and what I found out is that the results are quite misleading.

Remember, the results are based on the number of people that have actually supplied DNA in each country, so if 500 people in Ireland supplied DNA and 5000 supplied DNA in England, the results will probably give you a higher percentage of matches in England even though your family may have originated in Ireland. So you can't say "Yea I'm English". You're really Irish.

Remember, the migration of people has a lot to do with your results also. If your family originates in Ireland and the majority migrates to England, and prospers there, but the remaining Irish dwindle, your results will show you're English when in fact you are Irish.

So your results do not show you your original nationality only where the majority of your DNA now lives.

Also out of the hundreds of possible relatives they found for me, only one had a last name of Burns.