Gene Hawkins
Retired & a Veteran
Texas
My Ancestry
DNA-first summary
Deep Time → Today DNA-first
Archaic humans: Neanderthal DNA is normal for West Eurasians; Denisovan is trace-level and usually indirect.
Small percentages: Tiny “ancient” components are often shared deep ancestry (very old signals), not proof of a recent ancestor from that region.
Ethnicity
Recent vs. Ancient (model-dependent)
Pre-History - Current
This is a visualization of what DNA services report as “recent ancestry” versus deeper, older shared ancestry signals. The big story for me is not one celebrity ancestor—it’s ancient land-based mixing across Eurasia and long-term continuity.
Deep-time migration overview (conceptual; not a literal family tree).
Recent Ancestry |
Ancient / Deep Signals |
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| Europe | Europe (deep layers) | The Americas (deep/shared) |
| English
48.7%
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Northern European
30.0%
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Columbian (signal)
1.3%
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| German
14.6%
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NW European
21.1%
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Peruvian (signal)
1.3%
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| Polish
9.2%
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British Isles
18.0%
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Puerto Rican (signal)
1.0%
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| Eastern Slavic
8.4%
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Iberian
11.3%
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Mexican (signal)
0.2%
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| Irish
8.2%
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Toscani Italian
9.7%
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| Spaniard
2.8%
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East Asian (deep/shared) | |
| Scottish
2.2%
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South Asian (deep/shared) | Southern Han Chinese
0.6%
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| Punjabi
1.7%
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Northern Han Chinese
0.3%
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| Middle Eastern (deep/shared) | Gujarati Indian
1.5%
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Kinh Vietnamese
0.2%
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| Armenian
5.9%
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Sri Lankan Tamil
0.8%
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Chinese Dai
0.1%
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| Bengali
0.7%
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Japanese
0.1%
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My earliest known ancestry origins
Claims & corrections
Genealogical connections do not imply admiration, agreement, or responsibility.
My famous kinfolk (paper-trail curiosities)
Maternal Ancestry |
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Eva Longoria (b. 1975) Born Eva Jacqueline Bastón Longoria, Eva Longoria is an American actress, producer, director, activist, and businesswoman. She’s known for her role as Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives and for a long track record of philanthropy. |
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Momia Juanita (c. 1450) This is included because it was presented to me as a “direct relation” claim by a DNA service. The honest framing: I may share very old ancestry components that also appear in Indigenous American populations, but consumer SNP tests do not reliably establish direct genealogical descent from a specific pre-Columbian individual. Juanita remains historically significant in her own right, and her discovery expanded our understanding of Incan ritual life. |
Paternal Ancestry |
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The Ottoman dynasty ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 to 1922. |
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Francis Drake (1540–1596) was an English sea captain and navigator of the Elizabethan era. |
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Somerled of Argyll (1100–1164) was a Norse-Gaelic leader in the Scottish Isles. |
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Mikolaj "the Red" Radziwill (1512–1584) was a major figure in Lithuanian-Polish history. |
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David Hume (1711–1776) was a key Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and empiricist. |
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Max von Sydow (1929–2020) was a Swedish actor with a long film and television career. |
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Benjamin Netanyahu (b. 1949) is an Israeli politician. |
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Tom Hanks (b. 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. |
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King Willem-Alexander (b. 1967) is the King of the Netherlands.
I asked for a “Cuz” picture once I learned these results. The monarchy replied with royal silence.
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Anderson Cooper (b. 1967) is an American journalist and television personality. |