DNA test of Actress Amy Jackson reveals shocking results
Amy Jackson recently took a DNA ancestry test, the results of which are awaited. As she didn’t know her dad’s side of the family too well, the actress decided to opt for the Y chromosome test (see box). Amy reasons, “Whenever I travelled, people always asked me where I was from. When I replied, ‘England’, they would ask, ‘Okay, but what are your roots? You don’t look fully English!’ My family is the most important thing to me, and we’re very close, but the history of my kin is quite vague. So, I took it upon myself to try and make some sense of it. My dad’s family history is almost impossible to figure out.” Explaining further, she tells us, “We know that my father’s grandma was Portuguese and she landed up on the Isle of Man (where she was born) in the early 1900s. She settled there and started a new life but all of us are unsure about what happened before that.” Amy then learnt that she could find more details through the DNA ancestry test. Ask her about the whole process a...