Ethnically Ambigious Woman does DNA Test
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The Anglo Saxons were actually originally three Germanic tribes, not two; these were the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
@kroo07
Ай бұрын
I think there were Frisians as well.
@kudjoeadkins-battle2502
Ай бұрын
Genetically though they would all pretty much be the same.
@Liquidsback
Ай бұрын
@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502( Points Seax) Þū nimest þæt eft ongean.
@dorasmith7875
Ай бұрын
Don't forget them Frisians - that's where our language actually came from. People from farther north up the coast migrated through Frisia on their way to England. They had to have picked up more than the language on the way.
@stephanieyee9784
Ай бұрын
Yes the Jutes, from Jutland in Denmark, were the Danish tribe that arrived in Kent and integrated there. Frisians were a group of people closely associated with the Angles. Old English is very closely related to Frisian and the two languages can be understood by each other. However, apparently English grammar and sentence structure is the sane as Norwegian.
I encourage you to react to the DNA results of the mixed race community in South Africa. They are called “Coloureds”. This is not an offensive term in the South African context. South African Coloureds are the worlds most genetically diverse community in the world. I am one of them. I am 19% Germanic European, 16% Bantu, 16% Southern Indian, 15% English, 11% Khoisan, 6% Irish, 4%Danish&Swedish, 3% Baltics, and 3% Scottish and there’s more but in around 2 and 1%. So yeah very diverse.
@user-ru4gl7gu4p
Ай бұрын
Me too! But so far MyHeritage has things so sc-- up I do not figure out where I stand!or who I am. So far, my cousin is ,y uncle! And then my father (which I. Believe) but no DNA to match. Then I am my own sister. Then I am dead. Is there anyone who is reliable? Reply if you will
My husband and I are both 100% Ashkenazi, but he has blond hair blue eyes, and I have black hair and brown eyes.
@onthursday1599
Ай бұрын
I remember this being mentioned on prenatal testing... Down a rabbit hole I go.
@notyourtypicalcomment2399
Ай бұрын
No on is 100% anything
@-_YouMayFind_-
Ай бұрын
We are 100% Dutch and we all look very different XD haha also my grandmother dark hair, dark eyes and tanned skin, while I have dark blonde with blue eyes and reddish cheeks and carry red hair.
@_oaktree_
25 күн бұрын
This is probably because Ashkenazim who are 99%-100% Ashkenazi are actually a 40:60 mix between southern European and Levantine (eastern Mediterranean). And both those populations are very phenotypically diverse.
I recently found out that wild Bill brought a whole bunch of American Indians to England for a show. Turns out those indigenous people intermarried with the locals (Manchester). Apparently there is a group of Native American descendants in England now.
@jwhiskey242
Ай бұрын
Sure. Don't bet the farm on that one. Whether you call them 'American Indians", "Indigenous Americans" or whatever, they are as a group notoriously shy of supplying DNA samples for studies of this kind. Many so called "Natives" have a lot, or even a majority of European ancestry if they were willing to submit DNA for analysis. Therefore, it is pretty difficult to get a base line to work off of.
@jonahwhale9047
Ай бұрын
It was Salford, & descendants of members of the Lakota and Oglala Sioux tribes in 1887. A number of them were on the run from the US cavalry because they had been involved in the demise of General Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn & they took refuge in the UK, to keep away from US government officials. Contrary to what Whiskey wrote, I'm guessing that their blood quantum was a lot purer back then.
@azborderlands
Ай бұрын
@@jwhiskey242 the thing is is that descendants in England have nothing to gain by lying. Now when you talk about white Native Americans and the north east of the US., you may have a point. It be great if DNA tests could prove real acknowledgement , or indeed prove the phonies. many true indigenous of the south West and south of the border as having one of the highest levels indigenous DNA in the world.
@Ukhome-s4p
Ай бұрын
I do think your actual matches are more interesting than ethnicity. The fun is researching the lives of your ancestors. Ethnically is more of an estimate that changes over time.
@binaway
25 күн бұрын
From colonial times many Scots fisherman married native Canadian Indians and brought their brides back to Scotland.
About 73% European and 27% Asian/Amerindian. Cool mix. I like that she did her research too 👍
@azborderlands
Ай бұрын
Asian isn’t synonymous with my American Indigenous.
The Celts had dark complexions and many Welsh, Scottish, Cornish, and Irish were with majority Celtic DNA have dark(er) complexions (Tom Jones, Catherine Zeta Jones, Sean Connery, Colin Farrell, etc.)
@Lily_of_the_Forest
29 күн бұрын
All good-looking people!
My husband (he was adopted as a baby with his brother who was two years old when adopted by the same parents) did a DNA test just to find out a generic idea for medical hit and to meet family just to get a better idea of his medical history. What happened was that he ended up talking to a cousin and his cousins mom. Hubby's mom and cousins mom were sisters. We found out that hubby's mom passed away over twenty years ago and his dad as well. We found out that my hubby is the middle child of seven kids. Same mom different dads with the exception of the baby brother with the same dad as my husband. Hubby has also found out that he is related to the Burden/Borden's, as in the Borden Dairy. His whole family is in the same city as where he grew up before his adopted parents moved him and his brother to Georgia and then to Florida. Now two of his brothers lives in Florida and we're in Texas.
She does look like India
@dorasmith7875
Ай бұрын
Actually, no, she doesn't look at all southeast Asian, Indian or southeast Asian. They'd have more gravity than this as well. I thought perhaps Italian, Greek or Spanish. If her people were from the Cotswolds, Ireland and Wales, that helps to account for the dark complexion.
@user-pw3uh5zn2r
Ай бұрын
She's not dark but her features look like she has India. But oh 3:05 well..she does kind of remind me of the actress in " My Big Fat Greek Wedding". But she does have India, and Greek I think she said . I have to watch the video again. Thanks for your input.
@lisadavis9535
Ай бұрын
Sri Lanka is also in South Asia, so that is why she looks "Indian" or actually south Asian
@user-fx7xv1dc5c
Ай бұрын
She looks Pakistani - Baloch to be more specific
@k.e.becquer4681
Ай бұрын
@robertolang9684 Looks very much like a good friend of mine, 100% Irish, but English, if you know what I mean.
My mother researched her ancestry back in the 60s and found a large percentage of Scots/Irish. When I first got my Ancestry results, that was confirmed. My current Ancestry report shows a much higher Scandinavian component, which just reflects the refinement of Ancestry’s testing process. Those Scots/Irish were of Viking descent.
Nan means grandmother in the UK.
She has a Indian look.
@Lily_of_the_Forest
29 күн бұрын
I thought so too. 25% India at least.
She's definitely tested with MyHeritage, based on that breakdown. And will likely lose a lot of those ethnicities in the update! She'll probably be mainly "Scottish & Welsh"
As a Londoner of Senegambian heritage, I love the history. I am 100% Senegal (Senegambian to be historically, geographically, and culturally more accurate). My mom is also 100% Senegal. My late father is also 100% Senegal. My lineage, especially on my father's side goes back centuries (they were royalty). My mother's lineage also goes back centuries but not to the same extent as my dad's. My mom's ancestors served in the court of my father's ancestors and share 2 ancestors. My dad's dad shared an ancestor with my mom's mom. My dad's mom share an ancestor with my mom's dad. When I did my dna, I found couple of African American matches with descendants of Early South Carolina African Americans. These African American relatives are mostly related to my dad's side. I manage my mom's dna, and have found that, on her side, we have relatives from Latin America.
@hannahpricekarlsson
Ай бұрын
That is so cool! As an African American, it is so frustrating to trace genealogy through the wall of slavery. I'd love to find relatives in Africa!
@Njoofene
Ай бұрын
@hannahpricekarlsson I tested with Ancestry and have 3500+ matches. I also did African Ancestry (paternal and maternal test). I'm in regular contact with my African American cousins, especially my closest matches. My Senegalese and Gambian family (on my father's side, paternal descendants of our patriarch) hold an annual family reunion - alternating between the two countries. Last year it was held in Senegal, and later this year my Gambian family are playing host. It will be the first time I get to meet some of my African American cousins as some of them are coming over for the annual reunion. We are so looking forward to physically meeting them for the first time. We've been facetiming and WhatsApping for the past few months but never physically met. It is sad that my late paternal uncle, who has been documenting and preserving our family history and genealogy for over 60 years prior to his death, would not see it. He passed on the responsibility to me for documenting and preserving our family heritage 30 years ago (a big responsibility). There are 4000+ people in our family tree. I'm testing my elderly relatives one at a time to try and bring my family together no matter where they are in the world. One of my African American matches, in particular, has a special place in my heart. She is an elderly African American lady, and her dna is managed by her grand-niece. She was so happy to find an African match and the tribe of one of her enslaved ancestors as she thought she would never before she dies. She is in her 80s, and we are so looking forward to meeting her later this year. I want to buy test kits for when my elders are coming to visit or when I'm going on holidays. That's how I tested my mom and dad. When they came to visit, I ordered kits for them from Ancestry.
@zargonfuture4046
Ай бұрын
But not visiting home soon?
@JustMe-no8el
Ай бұрын
100% that’s almost suggestive of in breeding.
@kudjoeadkins-battle2502
Ай бұрын
@@JustMe-no8elit isn’t. Especially when one considers that that region is one of the more genetically diverse on the planet.
I got my My Heritage update the end of last week, so they're updating now.
Great piece!! Love her complex editing, too!!!
Also, because England saw a greater economic development in recent centuries, many people from other parts of the UL (Wales, Scotland, Ireland) relocated to England in search of job opportunities. So, a good chunk of what we now consider "English(wo)men" are, in fact, the descendants of relatively recent migrants.
Oh, cool, nice to see Lady Decade here. Didn't realise she had done a DNA test. And yes, if retro/vintage gaming is your thing, then you will love her channel.
Nice to see someone doing some research on why her results are what they are.
Her results video is coming up in my recommended feed. LOL. Good on her for doing her research.
I'm impressed how well informed she is about the history of Britain and Ireland plus Sri Lanka and South India. Many people who test don't really know anything of "the old country" - especially US Americans.
For some of us - like myself, a child of a deceased adoptee who didn't DNA test - merely getting a blurry idea of ancestry via DNA test results is as good as it gets (& I'm grateful for it). In this video she got a Greek & Southern Italian result (sounds like a MyHeritageDNA label). I too got that result from MyHeritageDNA; however, AncestryDNA labeled it as North Africa, & FamilyTreeDNA labeled it as Italy & also Spain with Sephardic Jewish, while CRI Genetics also pointed out Italian & Spanish. Now, I've since learned that there's many hundreds - if not thousands - of years of shared history among these areas (plus each label usually includes countries around the country or ethnicity labeled). There was much trade, agricultural exchange, invasions & occupations among these various Mediterraneans (sp?) so likewise there's a lot of shared genes making pinpoint guesstimations rather difficult. I too got Sri Lakan Tamil - but only on my Recent Ancestry Analysis results from CRI Genetics (no other company guessed this one, & it didn't show up again on my CRI Genetics Advanced Ancestry Analysis - although Gujarati, Punjabi, & Bengali did). What else I found interesting from the CRI Genetics Advanced Ancestry Analysis results was Chinese Dai, Southern Han Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Columbian, Puerto Rican Taino, Peruvian, & of the Luhya in Kenya (again, along with the possibility of other countries/tribes/peoples nearby in most cases). I already knew or suspected quite a bit about other various European ethnicities from my now late, non-adopted parent who also didn't DNA test (nor did her now late sister; &, my sister won't DNA test either; but, a maternal-side 1st cousin & her daughter have tested, which has helped me some). Now I didn't know about the Greek, but I should have had a clue as a few of the gals on my mom's side were named Helen & my mom was named Diane (I missed those clues until after getting the AncestryDNA test results 🤪). Per FamilyTreeDNA's full mtDNA analysis, my mom's haplogroup is H6a1a2b (supposedly H is common, but this particular H is a bit rare). I'm now awaiting confirmation of my dad's haplogroup (a non-professional genealogist told me it was R-BY4114, but she got too busy with other things & quit working on genealogy after handing me some sparse paperwork without my name attached to any of it, so once I got a computer of my own I retested the FamilyTreeDNA Big-Y test on my own so that I'll get the results directly & not have to wonder if my results were mixed up with someone else's results - which has happened to me multiple times: once with a physical therapist who gave me wrong exercises 😬... such is my luck sometimes 🙄). I should know by early next month if not sooner. Every little bit of information helps; however, as I learn more about history I'm realizing that there's no way I'm going to know for sure the timelines or places in which each ethnic line entered my family tree; for, even with such a wide array of races & ethnicities, there were multiple periods of interaction around the globe between many of them (& not just in one spot for each possible admix either).
@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts
Ай бұрын
Sometimes these admixture results are all someone can identify, but if someone has done DNA testing then there is always the possibility of uncovering that mystery. Something I would suggest to anyone in a similar case to yours is to look into finding a Search Angel - someone who volunteers to help adoptees and descendants of adoptees to identify their biological family. I used to volunteer with SearchAngels.org and I've solved adoptee cases where it was a grandchild testing, so you might be able to identify your biological family even if your parent who was an adoptee didn't test.
@michaeltaylor8501
Ай бұрын
@@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts Wow! Thank you for this info. 😎👍
The new Myheritage ethnicity update is wild. EVERY test has given me about 12 to 13% European DNA. Irish, Scottish, a little British. This update gave me 3% Portuguese and the rest Nigerian only. Never seen anything like it.
@Stephen-lx9nm
20 күн бұрын
British and scottish are the same thing
My grandmother was Cornish and had olive skin, black hair, and blue eyes. I had an aunt who said that she had to be part native American based on how she looked. I've had my DNA tested and it's entirely British and German. The phenotype of both places is very different, or at least how most North Americans envisage. Even within a country like England alone, there is so much diversity. The language/accents/dialects certainly reflect that.
23andme also gave more specific regions recently, but only if one tested with V5.
Nan is an English, Irish etc.. word for your granny. Unless you call her granny. I had one of each. Coincidentally both named Frances.😉
@CorvusLeukos
Ай бұрын
So you're half French! Just kidding
@TheSiobhan12
Ай бұрын
@@CorvusLeukos Fair play! Both were VERY Northern Irish. 😉
Not sure about DNA tests, from what I've seen, you get dramatically different results depending on which you use
Sounds like she tested with Myheritage, many people get Meso American on there, I'm curious of what their new update is going to look like.
I think she tested with Myheritage because of the name of the categories.
She did a great job!
Both of my mother's parents were from Switzerland. We have traced their families back in Switzerland to the 15th & 17th centuries. As far as we know, my father's family is British: English, Irish, & Welsh. My results from Ancestry show 35% mostly southern France (close to Switzerland), 31% Scotland, and 16% England, with the rest being Ireland, Norway, Sweden & Denmark, and Germanic Europe. It blows my mind that 63% of my DNA is not anywhere near Switzerland. By the way, my mother's sister tested hers and had 55% South Europe, West Europe, & Iberia with their areas overlapping in Switzerland. 36% Great Britain, and the last small bits from Scandinavia & Eastern Europe. My aunt's DNA was more puzzling than mine.
@jboss1073
Ай бұрын
Your results go to show that genetically and by closest genetic distances, everyone southwest of Switzerland is the same, through southern France and including all of Iberia. Those people are the actual people the Romans and Greeks called Celts, and in particular in western Iberia they actually called themselves Celti.
@fnansjy456
Ай бұрын
Ireland is not British
😮OMG! My doppelgänger!😂 I haven’t gotten any of these test done yet because honestly I keep finding more important things to spend my money on.. I know of French, German and Native American…
Good on her game collection for having 100% Japanese DNA
@JoaoVentura
Ай бұрын
There's a few Ocean games there, and those are 100% UK. But I looked at her channel, it's all about consoles, so I think she's never experienced the time between Atari creating the market and it's downfall and Nintendo and Sega wiping out home computers like the Commodore 64 or the Amiga as game platforms. Ocean started out creating games for the ZX Spectrum, and was the most known British video game publisher for quite some time.
DNA means much less than heritage. An appreciation of heritage, whether it be positive, or especially one that might be negative, then you have a proper baseline. Keep in mind, however, that heritage has and must evolve…
Made me giggle cos I looked at her and she looked west and south of Ireland to me lol
You are a native of the Island! My ancestors moved to the New Wold...The U.S. in 1622 from Norfolk! I have Native British...Irish..Norse And A bit of Italian? No English? Must have had a Roman ancestor? LOL!
I should make a video about my DNA tests and my family tree that I have built with now 1969 people in it right now. I am now 100% Dutch with Flanders including in it. I have shared the DNA test alone of my channel, but no reaction to it because I was not surprised at all haha.
the South Asian was completely obvious to me & likely most of the audience
I'm an American and did my DNA with Ancestry in 2012. At first it was Ireland and "Broadly Western European". Over the years it updated and changed "British Islands" and then to what I expscted, 100% Irish. About a year or so later 10% Scotland popped up. (My paternal grandparents were from Northern Ireland so it wasn't a surprise.) Over the last few years a few %'s just switch back and forth between Ireland and Scotland; Currently it's 90% and 10%. So, just keep in mind that it updates and changes a bit here and there every year.
The very low percentages
Yeah I have greek southern italian only on My Heritage - but I know I should have all British Isles from research so I hope that is ananomally they will figure that out in the next update. Overall I think this was one of the better DNA Etnicity videos from the original presenter perspective, as always Jarret your insight on these are always educational one of the reasons I call you the KZread King of DNA
I have received my V2 MyHeritage DNA results. The new results look extremely accurate. Like the person in the video, the old results showed a high amount of Scottish, Irish, and Welsh, but with no English. Now, the English percentage is high with a strong amount of Scottish and Welsh nearly finishing off my total. This matches my genealogy.
DNA tests are fun. I know that I'm 3/4 Irish and British and I thought the ohter 1/4 was German but I found out that I'm not 1/4 German but 1/4 Jewish. It's all good and my Dad just kind of failed to mention that he was adopted by his German American Dad and that his actual dad was Jewish. He did come clean and told me all about it....
Interesting video. She was great and yes, she does look like Marina Sirtis
You were talking about Living DNA being more nuanced my mother's maternal grandmother's father was born in Flintshire and her mother was born in Brecon, with her mother born in Monmouthshire, so Living DNA had 5.7% South Wales Border; 3.4% North Wales; 2.1 South Wales; which I thought was pretty spot on, It says Great Britain and Ireland 95.8%, which then breaks down, It also has 2% Europe South (Tuscany) and 2% Europe (North and West) Scandinavia. Everything makes sense, except the only thing I do not see in here, which I may expect to see is French/German because my mom's maternal grandfather was French. 23 & me has me for French and German.7.6%.
When I did my DNA I was not expecting too many surprises. I expected a large percentage of English/Scottish and the rest split between French and Swedish. This is from what I knew about both my Dad and mom's side. I had a large percentage of British Isles(67%) and Swedish/Danish(22%) but no French. The rest were some Dutch(10%) and Polish/Ukrainian(2%). As I went down the family tree, well into the 1600s I could not find where the Ukrainian or Swedish were. Other close family members who did the same test did not have either or a small amount of mostly Swedish. I need to take a different test to see what that comes up with.
I've seen this before, and, way to bury the lead.
7:55 - Before the Romans, the English, Irish, Welsh, etc, were Britons, not Celts. No one ever called anyone in those islands "Celts" until linguists in 1582 AD.
ambigious? okay lol
I wonder what John Lennon and Ringo Star are. They never looked fully European to me.
Please react to the updates of My Heritage DNA results, when the update is complete! I still haven't got mine but I'm excited to see how they will change. I'm from Bulgaria and my current results are a mix of Balkan, Greek, South Asian, Italian, Finnish and Arabic.
I think that a lot of people get surprised because they don't know world history. I saw one video with all these people from the middle east and they were surprised to find out they had African, Irish south asian, etc. I mean, the middle east has been the crossroads of history, especially the silk road going back and forth trading through asia. The russians were there the british were there the french were there, americans were there, etc. (Genghis Kahn was there....)
My mom's side is English and Welsh with some Irish and Scottish ancestors when you go back 4 generations. MyHeritage gave me 0 English 😱 I havent received the new update though, so maybe my English will pop up finally.
I knew it! Irish for sure.
Finally I found the channel who is expert on this genealogy things. Can you or someone please help me understand if my DNA matches are valid? I noticed that the names of the matches are not ethnically similar to mine; they seem to come from different parts of the world, based on their surnames. I did an ancestry test because I was curious about why our family has different features and even skin color. I did my test at MyHeritage but was confused by the results when I uploaded them to GEDmatch. The percentages of ethnicity were a bit different compared to the results I got from MyHeritage, and it was more diverse. We only know our lineage history up to our 2nd great-grandparents where there is no mixed but maybe intermarried from our close neighbors countries which is ethnically almost the same group with me.
@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts
Ай бұрын
Most DNA matches are valid, but there is a possibility to have false matches, although false matches mostly happen with matches that have small amounts of shared DNA. Maybe 35cM (~.5%) or less, but even then it is still rare (except in cases of endogamy). Each website will give you a different ethnicity admixture for a variety of reasons, but each site is only giving an estimate, so basing the validity of DNA matches off ethnicity is not a good technique. When you have matches who have a seemingly completely different ancestry than you, it usually means one of two things; either you come from an ancestry you do not know about it or they may come from an ancestry they don't know about. If you have known cousins who have also tested, see if any are matching these mystery matches, because if they are then that will tell you which side it comes from.
@nurashikinrahman192
Ай бұрын
@@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts thank you for your time to reply I really appreciate it :) yeah i do think it must be from long generation of great grandparents who intermarried with the local and came to our land for trades/colonization period. As for the test to make a comparison I could not get other family members, they seem not interested for the dna test of ancestry things at the moment maybe in the future will see.
The Welsh are often quite dark skinned.
I was surprised to learn that roughly half of Norwegians are dark haired and eyed and the other half are blonde and blue eyed. Archeo-genetic research, wow!
This was really helpful for me. I'm 50% Ashkenazi Jewish, so that part was easy for me to understand (though I've heard that the latest research suggests that Ashkenazi Jews are about 70% Middle Eastern and about 30% Italian and I'd love to learn more about that). But I expected to show up as about 12% German and about 38% British, since one of my maternal great-grandparents was German, while the other three descended from very early, British, colonial settlers in New York and New England. But I was confused when some tests came back saying my "goy" half was mostly Scandinavian. Now I get it! (P.S. it's fun to see two of my husband's charts on your wall Jarett.)
@susanstein6604
Ай бұрын
Italian Jews immigrated to what is now Germany, mostly to towns around the Rhine River in around 500 BCE.
The Greek/Roman could be due to any number reasons other than the Romans (although that is the most likely). Prior to the Anglo Saxon invasion, the Britons had trade links with many Mediterranean areas, going back centuries.
I’m starting to think everyone has some Irish DNA.
Hey Bud, Im 62% South Asian, 18% West Asian, and 12% Scotish, Irish, Welsh, what does this mean in terms of the Generation Breakdown?
My last name is English, from Lancaster but I don't have any English DNA. My 4th Great Grandfather moved to Aberdeen 1847. I'm 86% Scottish, 13% Irish, 1% Sweden/Demark.
There's no way that 2% of So. Italian/Greek DNA dates back to the Roman Empire more than 1500 years ago. That must represent something in her Ancestry much, much more recent.
I could tell before she did... that it was MyHeritage. Now I wonder when she recorded that video as their ethnicity updates is being rolled out. A lot of people with Scandinavian... all gone now, for example.
hence her brown eyes
Correction to the info in the video. the Vikings who invaded England were mostly Danish and their DNA is indistinguishable from that of the Anglo Saxons. The Norwegian Vikings invaded Scotland and came down the Western coast and into Ireland, the Isle of Man and North Wales. They were the founders of Dublin. My results. England & Northwestern Europe 67% Sweden & Denmark 16% Scotland 9% Wales 7% Norway 1% Yet my family tree, with shared matches so I know there was no adultery, going back on all lines to ggg grandparents (late 1700s) and some lines back to Tudor times are ALL born in England. I'm thinking the Scandinavian is multiple centuries of inbreeding in Norfolk/Lincolnshire (Viking) and West Berkshire (Anglo Saxon), where they always married a girl from the next village. God knows where the Welsh and Scots comes from, perhaps the original Britons from the same populations.
How far can DNA tests go back in history? There is one DNA company that claims they can tell if you have Neanderthal DNA but I’m pretty sure my family is Ashkenazi Jewish but I want to go back before my family immigrated to Europe.
@jonahwhale9047
Ай бұрын
Fun fact, 40% of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from just four “founding mothers”, who were all European.
there is a link between Native Americans and NE / Central Asians. Not South Asian like Indians though
I was born in Newfoundland and don't need a DNA test.My ancestors Native American Norwegian Scottish English Irish Basque Anglo Norman and French .. My mother's father was a Forestall Angol Norman and her mother native American and Basque .. You would think Mullaly would be a Irish name and it is but they moved to France to fight in the French military and came to Newfoundland when France still controlled Newfoundland.. Nobody cared who married who as long as you were Catholic..I married a Scottish orangemans granddaughter and had children..It really did piss off old Donald that I was named after the aid decamp of Bonnie Prince Charlie Feild Marshall Thomas Comte du Lally aka Thomas Mullaly..He was a good sport about it he left our children all his wealth.Peerage blood is still peerage blood..
The idea that a certain percentage means it came from a certain generation is very generalized. I scored 45% Scotland on Ancestry. If you look at my tree, the Scots are like buckshot thru out, on both sides, especially my Dad's. Also, no one should assume that they will get every ethnicity. I expected Germanic, having a lot of German, Dutch, and most recent immigrant German Swiss. I got goose eggs... nada... my brother got 27%.
@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts
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It may be generalized, but it is a commonly used technique in genetic genealogy because it actually is helpful. This is also why I always say "assuming that it is coming from one recent ancestor", often with follow-up statements expanding on how it is much more complex than that.
These are fun but mean little. Not all the markers drop the same. In addition the models are based on what people said they were - so if the base line is wrong - so are the results. She looks about as British as the Mayor of London.
.....adding into the complexity of the mix....only certain Vikings raided certain regions.....
The Andean thing could indeed be that there was someone who went back into Britain from North America. Native American DNA is not exactly thoroughly mapped for several reasons. I myself knew that I had ancestry from the Americas, but family lore and indeed location of the family was more Southeastern United States, but what shows in my DNA is Mexico and South America. And as a history buff, I am aware of Amerindians actually settling in Europe and/or being shipped there as slaves or servants. And there is even a line of spanish nobility from the house of Moctezuma. One can only assume that other influential families from the new world have connections in Europe even if they didn't get integrated into the noble families in Europe.
@lisadavis9535
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You can imagine that indigenous slaves had children in Spain, just like many black Americans are mixed blood as well (sometimes not voluntarily.)
Without knowing, I'd say Greek or Cypriot
ha. raised as polish, irish, german. DNA = 45% swiss (from a specific town!), 25/25 irish and ukranian! my parents dont believe it. my kids think its funny. used 23 n me.
Sounds like MyHeritage. I had no English in my MyHeritage results, on Ancestry I had a a little more than a third and my father had more than 80%. I did have their Irish, Scottish, Welsh mix though. The updated MH results removed by Balkan (my Slavic is actually Czech), Scandinavian and Irish all together and just made me Germanic and English. I'm a bit disappointed with their update.
I you are of Asian, Indigenous ancestry do not bother with LivingDNA. It is pretty much geared towards people of European ancestry. The new MyHeritage update is a Disaster for people of Full or Part Asian, Indigenous American, African, East European ancestry. MH regressed/reverted to the old, "Congratulations, you are 100% East Asian, Native, Russian etc" of the early 2000s. It is really really bad for Eurasians and Afro-Euros from the results I have seen on Reddit. Quora. A Senegalese/Norwegian became 90% Nigerian and a Korean/Irish became 70% CHINESE! the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas are now ALL 100% Native American! It is though Better and much more Accurate for North, Western Europeans
She just look yt regular
I like a smart lady. 😍
These are money grifters .They are a con 😂
the irish and british celts, the gall, originated and migrated from central europe where the first celts appeared, especially the hallstätter celts are one of the celtic tribe that left traces. the celts settled in a region whats known to be the southern part of germany today and spread from there between ireland, britain, central europe and up to cetral anatolia in turkiye. celts are part of germanic tribe. celts are mentioned in the bible as well.
@jboss1073
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None of this is true nor considered serious in current academia. The "Hallstatt = Celts" formula has been refuted by the current President of the International Congress for Celtic Studies, Dr. Patrick Sims-Williams, in his pivotal paper "An alternative to Celtic from the East and Celtic from the West".
Rabling!!
Tere really isn't any such thing as "English" ethnicity.
If you think about it, especially coming from the 1800s on an even early 1800s a lot of people from Scotland and Ireland immigrated to England because that’s where the wealth was when the English came and eviscerated Scotland, Ireland and Wales for their wealth in many plate cases people had to come to England for industrial jobs or apprenticeships or to serve the military or various other kinds of professions and then they stayed, and then they became culturally English, losing whatever connection they had other parts of The British Isles So there may be a genetic predisposition and identity to other parts of the British Isles, but there is no culture or even memory or family stories of where they’re from On top of that who are the English? Yes, there are people of England who can trace their DNA to Scandinavia, which would be Denmark where the Netherlands are located even Sweden in the Norway that is being occupied right now and many of them live in East Anglia or Yorkshire, but many of the English were the descendents of Celtic people that were there in Romano Britton times or times before these people didn’t disappear genetically they just simply were absorbed by the dominant German language Culture that took over in the 500s and beyond and again they have no memory of any kind of Celtic culture that would’ve been in southern Britain Go back far enough and we’re all mixed I read an obscure journal at one time where they talked about some places in southern Scotland, where occasionally people are born with very dark skin and blue eyes and they’re wondering, are they from South Asia or some other parts of the world they hit the genetic lottery and re-created enough genetics to express what were the gather people prior to the lighter skin people that develops in what is now Britain
@michaelchen8643
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I’m looking at her face, especially her nose and other features of her face that look more like the Celtic people that have been living in the British Isles for thousands of years based on drawings and carving a relief that I’ve seen from archaeologist and even more recent things like Lynne Types
@jonahwhale9047
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Just as an aside, there are places in southern Scotland that have pockets of Roman DNA, or DNA that the Roman's brought with them. Various explanations for it.
Her attributing those ~2% greek/southern italian to romon ancestry makes no sense right?
@jonahwhale9047
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She probably meant "Roman Empire" rather than actual Roman but 2% DNA would be about 5 or 6 generations ago or 100 to 200 years ago.
There must be some deeper DNA overlap, because this guy (professional genealogist) looks like a lot of Irish people.
She's annoying.
These ancestry things are a con 😂.Like having your fortune read or tarot cards 😂
LivingDNA is crap for Irish as it just gives you 100% Ireland no GCs or anything like that.
@jonahwhale9047
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That's because they're all interrelated. Cousins doing a lot more than just kissing, etc. Have you spoken to Dr Tyrone Bowles at IrishOrigenes? It's his specialist area. He also uses names to help define it.
Are you sitting in the garage? Not professional.bad shirt too!
I don’t think she looks ethnically ambiguous lol
her intro is too long, 12min... should be shorter
May I make a request? Instead of using a term like "ethnically", ( *granted you are quoting someone* ) why not use a less loaded term? Instead of "ethnically ambiguous woman" (which itself is a hot button phrase if you just take off the first word), perhaps try _complex ancestry_ , or _complex DNA ancestors_ , or something similar. This may seem extra pedantic of me, but words do matter and "ethnicity" is too often used as an euphemism for those who don't want to use the word "race" but want to keep the same idea.
@kudjoeadkins-battle2502
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Well said.
@jboss1073
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This was the original title of the video being commented on. If he changed it, people would not be able to find it as easily. Also, be more respectful of European culture and its focus on race and ethnicity.
@jwhiskey242
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Oh for God's sake what a flaming leftist.
LOL, Lady Decade is so, so awful. There is an infinity of better video game channels.
😮OMG! My doppelgänger!😂 I haven’t gotten any of these test done yet because honestly I keep finding more important things to spend my money on.. I know of French, German and Native American…