Interesting Genes

 My sister had a DNA heritage test, and we're European, of course, but apparently we have 11% Iberian DNA. The earliest settlers of Ireland were related to the people of Northern Spain, (the Basques?) Some Irish still retain these early genetic markers, and both my parents heritage seem to have this ancient European DNA.

http://whoareyoumadeof.com/blog/2017/05/08/what-is-the-iberian-peninsula-dna-ethnicity/

Some of the Iberian heritage may have also have come from a French surname ancestor that emigrated from the Isle of Jersey.

DNA Connection

 My sister's DNA also matched an early settler of New Amsterdam (New York)

Stillwell Avenue, a major two-way north/south thoroughfare in southern Brooklyn and the central section of Coney Island, and begun in 1926, was named after settler Nicholas Stillwell (1603-1671), who had a farm in the area and became the progenitor of an influential Brooklyn family by the same name.<sup>[50]o

Oneof thirty-nine people who received grants of land from Lady Moody in 1643, and one purchased a plantation, thus becoming the owner of a portion of Coney Island. His father was Jacques R. Stillwell and his grandfather was Richard I. Stillwell. The former was born at Gravesend. Representatives of the family have long been associated with things which have formed the history of this portion of the Empire state, for the family was founded on Long Island in 1638 and has been identified with Gravesend since 1643,</sup>