I did an Ancestry DNA last year and surprisingly no trace of Scottish, but I'm 8th generation English so it has been diluted to 'undetectable'. Still surprising though:
53% England and Northwestern Europe
9% Denmark
9% Ireland (Munros originally came from Ireland so that could be it).
4% Wales
1% Sardinia!!
and
24% German!
My youngest responded to that by saying "look on the bright side, we've just won another 4 World Cups!"
and a European Championship.
Oh yes - another four actually as Germany have won three!
I did an Ancestry DNA last year and surprisingly no trace of Scottish, but I'm 8th generation English so it has been diluted to 'undetectable'. Still surprising though:
53% England and Northwestern Europe
9% Denmark
9% Ireland (Munros originally came from Ireland so that could be it).
4% Wales
1% Sardinia!!
and
24% German!
My youngest responded to that by saying "look on the bright side, we've just won another 4 World Cups!"
and a European Championship.
Oh yes - another four actually as Germany have won three!
Dredging this up to say I finally got mine done and results back. I wanted to do it as my late nan was convinced we had Spanish heritage (for no other reason than she liked Spain when she went there - nutter). She was wrong, obviously. But we do have Scottish which I didn't know about (nan's grandparents most likely). So I'll be drinking more scotch than sangria this summer.
Everything else in there we knew about (dad with his 100% Welsh DNA, I guess his ancestors weren't lookers). The Norway element would be those cheeky Vikings I'd guess?
Anyone had any weird/unknown results back?
Not sure how you only got 48% Welsh from you dad if he was 100%. Ewe need to look into that.
I think that's her overall result not just her dad.
Yeah it says:
"You may not have inherited certain DNA because
DNA inheritance is random, so you don't inherit 50% of your parents' ethnicities
at most, only half of someone’s DNA can be passed down
beyond your parents, the amount of DNA you inherit from ancestors is not necessarily 25% from each grandparent, 12.5% from each great-grandparent, and so forth
your DNA may also look more like DNA from regions near your ancestors' homelands than it does like DNA from their country."
Plus my dad did his DNA with them too and he got 100% Welsh, boring bugger.
Not sure if I’m being thick, does this mean two siblings (with the same parents) could have different DNA results?
Was wondering the same: would the ancestry DNA results for my brother be identical to mine?
If not, and yet we both have the same biological mother and father, how reliable are the results?
For example, if my results indicate that I am 20% Iberian, but his results say 40% Iberian, how much of my ancestry is Iberian?
Refer to my earlier post. You have the Same DNA heritage but different combinations/mix thus you can have different ‘quantities’ of Iberian DNA for example. It’s how nature ensures we have a resilient population. Diversity of DNA between even siblings ensures as a population some of us will always survive a plague or supporting Charlton …
Thanks KiwiValley, yes I follow you.
I just wondered how much to trust the actual percentages you get from those analyses.
I guess they tell you that for sure you have that ancestry, but cannot guarantee you don't have others, which may show up in your siblings' results.
All the main DNA sites update their estimates as the technology and science improves, and the pool of testers grows.
There’s no doubt truth in it, but it shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Ancestry picked out a tiny area in Ireland for some of my relatives results, exactly where one pair of my great x 3 grandparents married in around 1840 before they later emigrated to England.
I did an Ancestry DNA last year and surprisingly no trace of Scottish, but I'm 8th generation English so it has been diluted to 'undetectable'. Still surprising though:
53% England and Northwestern Europe
9% Denmark
9% Ireland (Munros originally came from Ireland so that could be it).
4% Wales
1% Sardinia!!
and
24% German!
My youngest responded to that by saying "look on the bright side, we've just won another 4 World Cups!"
and a European Championship.
Oh yes - another four actually as Germany have won three!
Ancestry DNA tests are on sale for the next couple of days, cheapest I’ve seen at £30 plus £10 postage. You should get a bit more off using a cashback site too.
wow all these rellies that people are finding, think I'll keep away from it and continue in the belief that I have no living family, it's cheaper that way
It's what you didn't know and what you find out that can be fascinating. Started doing ancestry research some time ago when my parents were still alive. My dad was quite chuffed to discover he had an illegitimate step brother only a few years older than him. Will never know if his mother knew.
My wife's father would never talk about his family in Clonmel Ireland, and joked about where he came from. We knew he had never returned to see his mother after joining the British Army at 17, he lied about his age, but no one was certain why he had no relationship with his mother. As he had married the Protestant daughter of a Northern Ireland RUC Chief of Police, it was assumed nothing more needed to be explained.
He was as tough as nails, had been a Commando fighting Japanese in Burma, was mentioned in dispatches for bravery and was one of the last off the beach at Dunkirk being in one of the regiments that formed the inland rearguard for the retreat.
When my wife got his birth certificate he had been born in the workhouse in Clonmel with father "Unknown". We later discovered he had not been raised by his mother. When he learned what we had discovered he broke down and said he would understand if we never wanted to see him again - an extraordinary reaction, but his shame obviously never left him.
This was a man not only exceptionally brave, but as generous as anyone you could meet. He worked all hours at Woolwich Arsenal after the war, slept in an Anderson shelter to save money, and managed to save enough to buy a house and bring over his wife and son from Ireland together with his wife's mother and three siblings whom he supported until they found their own accommodation.
Out of respect we never dug any further but after his death did visit Clonmel and found relatives who knew him and shed light on the story, but who never knew he was a relative of theirs, and through a third party, found that his two step sisters did not want to talk about it.
Been researching my family tree now for about 16 years or so. The best advice I can give anyone is to talk to relatives and find out as much as you can. They’re the best resource you can have and once they’re gone then so are the stories.
Been researching my family tree now for about 16 years or so. The best advice I can give anyone is to talk to relatives and find out as much as you can. They’re the best resource you can have and once they’re gone then so are the stories.
But treat their stories with a degree of skepticism. I was told my great grandmother was born in Athlone, and married my great grandfather while he was stationed there.
It turns out she was born in Plumstead, her father’s surname was Kelly, but he was born around Paddington. My great grandfather was born in Ireland, while his father was stationed there.
But it is fascinating - you find all sorts of odd things, although a lot of them are a reminder of how brutal life was for ordinary people just a few generations ago.
And that’s why I’m too scared to do mine. There was so much shame in Ireland back in the day. All the while I still have living relatives of my parents, I really don’t want to go upsetting anyone just out of curiosity.
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Oh yes - another four actually as Germany have won three!
There’s no doubt truth in it, but it shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Ancestry picked out a tiny area in Ireland for some of my relatives results, exactly where one pair of my great x 3 grandparents married in around 1840 before they later emigrated to England.
But he's also lost two world wars.
My wife's father would never talk about his family in Clonmel Ireland, and joked about where he came from. We knew he had never returned to see his mother after joining the British Army at 17, he lied about his age, but no one was certain why he had no relationship with his mother. As he had married the Protestant daughter of a Northern Ireland RUC Chief of Police, it was assumed nothing more needed to be explained.
He was as tough as nails, had been a Commando fighting Japanese in Burma, was mentioned in dispatches for bravery and was one of the last off the beach at Dunkirk being in one of the regiments that formed the inland rearguard for the retreat.
When my wife got his birth certificate he had been born in the workhouse in Clonmel with father "Unknown". We later discovered he had not been raised by his mother. When he learned what we had discovered he broke down and said he would understand if we never wanted to see him again - an extraordinary reaction, but his shame obviously never left him.
This was a man not only exceptionally brave, but as generous as anyone you could meet. He worked all hours at Woolwich Arsenal after the war, slept in an Anderson shelter to save money, and managed to save enough to buy a house and bring over his wife and son from Ireland together with his wife's mother and three siblings whom he supported until they found their own accommodation.
Out of respect we never dug any further but after his death did visit Clonmel and found relatives who knew him and shed light on the story, but who never knew he was a relative of theirs, and through a third party, found that his two step sisters did not want to talk about it.
There was so much shame in Ireland back in the day.
All the while I still have living relatives of my parents, I really don’t want to go upsetting anyone just out of curiosity.