It's a very exciting day here at
The Planet D because we are going to find
out our ancestry DNA
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As you know, we
travel all around the world we visited a
ton of countries experienced a lot of
cultures but never really looked into
what our heritage is all about and what
our Ancestry is so that's what we're
going to do today. People always ask us
when we travel to places like Ireland
and Wales and the UK. They say "oh are you
from here" and we go. "I think I have a
Scottish heritage or I think I have an
Irish heritage but it's about time we
find out once and for all where we're from
So we picked up our DNA kit and
that's what we going to do today let's
open them up and see what it's all about
after AncestryDNA sent us our kits, we
activated our code online and it was so easy
Just spit into the tube release the
stabilizing fluid, shake for five seconds
and send it back in the postage-paid
envelope
I don't know whether I have
that much spit in me but we'll see
almost there
ready to go
so we're going to talk to
Ancestry today about our DNA results and
our family tree but before we did we
thought that we would actually go
through what we think because something
I think is really funny as Canadians is
a lot of us don't really know a lot
about our family tree or we tend to know
the wrong information right? Yeah
definitely I mean because you know
obviously Canada's all immigrants you
know you don't really know where people
came or you have these things that are
all assumed. I have always said I am
French and I am English and that's
pretty much I always thought it was
pretty basic and it's funny because I
thought most Canadians are from France
or England because we have French Canada
and English Canada. I know for me I'm
really looking forward to seeing if you
know my limited history of what I know
about my past which is not very much is
true I want to know whether I'm Scottish
if I am from Scotland then where am i
from there and you know maybe I can
delve a little bit deeper maybe there's
some royalty in there or something like that. I don't
know. I don't know a lot about my
mother's side because my mother is
adopted so I'm super interested to see
if they can sort of track something down
and maybe be able to dig a little bit
deeper into that and I've traced my
roots back to like Dukes in England and
I know that I'm related to Richard the
Lionheart and I always am upset that I
don't have any other royal money even
though I suppose a royal blood
so that bothers me. So we're going to be
getting on the call in a couple minutes
I'm very excited
me too we're going to know where the
heck we came from
During our meeting I found out I was not
only French in English but I have a lot
of Irish and a little bit of Scandinavia
too so that was pretty cool
what we have today. We always joke there's a
little Viking in all of us. Yeah, it is really cool
because I always get that when we're
travelling when we're in Europe people
go "Oh, do you have Scandinavian routes? yes and
I've always joked, "no I'm too short to be Scandinavian
but I guess like, my look, people
think I look a lot Scandinavian.
Well there are a few
things that really surprised me about my
AncestryDNA and family tree number one
they were able to find my mom's birth
mother and if you remember she was
adopted and what was really interesting is
how they did this they were able to do
it through the DNA. Someone else it
submitted their DNA through through the
Ancestry program and they found such a
close match they found someone who was
actually my cousin oh my gosh Wow in
this world first cousin is not related
to you through the Bouskills so it's your mom's side somewhere.
So she had an extensive
family tree. Wow
the surnames that start to show up in
this tree on this branch. Frasier, Bane,
McClean, they are all big clans,
That is so cool so your grandfather was actually
born in Scotland
oh I didn't that. There you go
I had no idea
He is part of Clan Frasier
oh neat. Now this particular clan has lived in
Nova Scotia for a few generations they came to
Canada it looks like, as part of that
highland migration. Right. Until
we get back to place called Gairloch
Scotland
Oh, I'm going there. Next week.
there you go! that is so wild.
Gairloch is actually one of the
places where the Highlanders were
allowed to come this particular
community was set up by a man who's last name
was McKenzie and he started inviting
these Highlanders to come to this community
This is so cool That's Cool
We're here at Gairloch, Scotland where I found
out I am from.
during the Highland
Clearances Gairloch was one of the few
places where the Highlanders were
allowed to come it was set up by a man
named Mackenzie another one of my
ancestors who invited the Highlanders to
settle here
it brought a whole new level to my
travels knowing that I was tracing my
ancestors roots and history.
I've gotta
say being on this trip and being in a
place where my great-grandfather's were
from really had a profound effect on me
as I was walking through Gairloch, I
felt more like I belong there like this
was my homeland rather than being a
tourist it was like there was this
connection and that's something that I
never felt before when I travelled and I
think finding out that my heritage was
Scottish and I was from this area just a
week before that I thought I actually
went there was a bit serendipitous and
sort of was meant to be so it was this
calling while I was in Scotland that I
know I'll definitely be back
now that we
know that we have ties in Scandinavia
Scotland, Ireland and even Spain, it's
motivated us to get out there and
explore our family history and we want
to give you the chance to find out about
your own heritage
so we've arranged an
exclusive Planet D discount code for
everybody out there so you can check out
where you are from
just follow the comments and the links
below to find out your own DNA and don't
forget let us know what you find out in
the comments says we'd love to know
where all of you are from