Are people afraid of DNA tests, in general?

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2. I did the autosomal DNA testing too.

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It indicated mostly English/Scottish and NW European ancestry, like I expected.

A surprise was "Ashkenazi Jewish" and "Eastern European".

There's one surname in my family tree that's very unusual. I corresponded with a woman who descended from that family and she insisted it was Germanic in origin, like all of her other German-American ancestors. I was lazy and took her word for it.

After the DNA test, I investigated that surname again. It's indeed a Jewish surname found in Eastern Europe! Later immigrants to America (through Ellis Island) with that surname were Jewish.

That woman is surely dead now. Her genealogy claiming it was "Germanic" has been repeated by many others, though, so I guess that's one of her legacies. Lol!