Scottish DNA: What’s The Genetic (DNA) History of Scotland?

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Scottish DNA: What’s The Genetic (DNA) History of Scotland?
A 2019 study managed to group Scotland into 6 genetic clusters: the northeast, the southwest, the Borders, the Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetland. More broadly, Scotland is defined by a southwest versus northeast division near the River Forth, a division that reflects the historical territories of the Gaels versus the Picts. This 2019 study managed to group The Isle of Man with the southwestern Scottish individuals, and also found that the Hebrides is genetically distinct from the rest of mainland Scotland, a genetic island so to speak.
A 2012 study led by Edinburgh University found that 1% of all Scotsmen are direct descendants of the Berber and Tuareg tribesmen of the Sahara, a lineage which is around 5600 years old. This study also found that 15% of male participants in the study with the Stewart surname are directly descended from the royal line of kings.
A 2013 study also found an Irn Bru gene in the Scottish population which means we burn easy. Just joking, I’m just making sure you’re still paying attention.
In Orkney, there is a remarkable Viking genetic legacy. The population in Orkney is the most genetically distinct across Britain according to various studies. The People of British Isles study found that 25% of DNA from the people of Orkney comes from Norwegian ancestors, corresponding to the existence of a Norse Viking Earldom in Orkney from 875 to 1472.
This shows that the Norse Viking invasion (9th century) did not simply replace the indigenous Orkney population however, but intermarried with the indigenous Pictish population. More broadly, there was a notable Norwegian signal in all Scottish samples, the genetic footprint of the Vikings. Unsurprisingly, Shetland also has a large influence from the Vikings, with Norwegian ancestry of around 20 to 25%. Norwegian markers are higher in people whose ancestry is from the north of both of Orkney and Shetland. Norwegian ancestry is lower in the Hebrides (7%), and is substantially lower in the north of Scotland (N Scotland) and southwest (Argyll), and the Isle of Man, averaging 4%.
There are links with groups in Northern Ireland and western Scotland, which is hardly surprising given the history of the Gaels and the Gaelic Kingdom of Dalriada. The Ulster plantation may be another reason for this link. The data from the People of British Isles study also suggested a large movement of people from Northern France into England and Scotland between 6,000 and 3,000 years ago.
What your thoughts, and what other articles or studies have you came across about the genetic history of Scotland? Please let me know in the comments below. Thanks for watching.
Sources:
Settlers: Genetics, Geography and the Peopling of Britain - Oxford University Museum of Natural History - www.oum.ox.ac.uk/settlers/
Oxford University Museum of Natural History - Genetic Ancestry and the People of the British Isles • Genetic Ancestry and t...
University of Oxford - Who do you think you really are? A genetic map of the British Isles www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-03-19-...
University of Oxford - People of the British Isles - Population Genetics and Facial Genetics www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/ www.peopleofthebritishisles.o...
The genetic landscape of Scotland and the Isles, PNAS, Edmund Gilbert, Seamus O’Reilly, Michael Merrigan, +16, and James F. Wilson, September 3, 2019 116 (38) 19064-19070 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
Study reveals 'extraordinary' DNA of people in Scotland, BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...
#scotland #history #dna

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  • @celtichistorydecoded
    @celtichistorydecoded Жыл бұрын

    Please let me know your thoughts and any other relevant studies or articles...

  • @vusa92troy

    @vusa92troy

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you have a link to the study mentioned? I've taken a Big Y700 DNA test and I would like to see how I might fit in to the study.

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vusa92troy www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1904761116 More sources in the description. Thanks

  • @robertolang9684

    @robertolang9684

    Жыл бұрын

    wow the scots at least speak like the iberian the english language, straight from the lips not twisting it like babies

  • @robertolang9684

    @robertolang9684

    Жыл бұрын

    are you a Scot native speaker?

  • @jmyd83

    @jmyd83

    Жыл бұрын

    Ireland ur of the chaldees is a very interesting book about ancient migrations in Ireland and Scotland

  • @steve00alt70
    @steve00alt708 ай бұрын

    I was born in Ireland. I have 72% scottish, 14% Irish, 11% English and 3% Swedish and danish

  • @davidjohnston7512
    @davidjohnston7512 Жыл бұрын

    I’m a 1st generation Australian.My father was from Glasgow.When I had my DNA tested I was 72% Scottish,12% Irish,9% English and 7% Norwegian.My grandmothers ancestry was from Orkney.I have lots of DNA matches with cousins who I share common ancestors with who are still on Orkney.I hope to visit there someday.

  • @CallemJay_McNeill

    @CallemJay_McNeill

    Жыл бұрын

    Was your grandmother from the Reid family?

  • @mazzdacon2134

    @mazzdacon2134

    Жыл бұрын

    Like you as an Australian I have ancestors from Orkney. I visited last year and it is worth the effort.

  • @lilhazey1128

    @lilhazey1128

    10 ай бұрын

    Orkneys ey viking ties is it no

  • @davidjohnston7512

    @davidjohnston7512

    7 ай бұрын

    ⁠@@CallemJay_McNeillMy 7th great grandmother was Marion Reid from Westray.

  • @sandraswift3489

    @sandraswift3489

    18 күн бұрын

    This name glas is connected to Ireland as gallowglas from ireland.also glastonbury

  • @jennaross6654
    @jennaross6654 Жыл бұрын

    Was always told I was English. Did a DNA test and found out I am 30% Scot. That might explain my love for Scottish music. 😊

  • @johnbrereton5229

    @johnbrereton5229

    Жыл бұрын

    So are you 70% English then ?

  • @jennaross6654

    @jennaross6654

    Жыл бұрын

    @@johnbrereton5229 58%

  • @rosslogan4154

    @rosslogan4154

    Жыл бұрын

    Your surname "Ross" is a Scottish surname. It's also a prominent clan. Ross means headland or cape in Scottish Gaelic. Ross is also the name of a large region in the north west highlands of Scotland. With a surname like Ross you were bound to have at least some Scottish ancestry.☺

  • @stanleywoodison8699

    @stanleywoodison8699

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@jennaross6654 you must be devastated

  • @Armed-Forever

    @Armed-Forever

    10 ай бұрын

    they're barely a distinction between english and scottish, b4 both nations even existed, you had crossover kingdoms like northumbria

  • @clarissagafoor5222
    @clarissagafoor52227 ай бұрын

    Scots from the various Scottish islands have an amazingly high percentage of Scandinavian DNA - one lady, a historian, who thought her DNA would be Scottish/British came back nearly 90sum% Scandinavian!

  • @grumpyowl66
    @grumpyowl66 Жыл бұрын

    Am 52.5% southern scotland, 32.5% English and 16% Scandinavian. Nothing else, but most family lived in North Northumberland. Mothers family name is Douglass.

  • @freewheelman68

    @freewheelman68

    Жыл бұрын

    Look up the old borderland battles between the Percies of Northumberland and the Douglases of southern Scotland, for example Otterburn or Chevy Chase.

  • @WheelieMacBin
    @WheelieMacBin Жыл бұрын

    Many people in the UK are often surprised about their ancestry when they have their DNA tested, and we all tend to have variations on a theme in this country. I am Irish, Scots and English in almost equal measure, with a sprinkle of Norwegian thrown in for seasoning. I have been fortunate to substantiate most of that heritage, apart from the Norwegian. My forebears were victims of the Great Famine in Ireland and the Lowland Clearances in Scotland, and both my Scots and English forebears were of the border region, from reiving families.

  • @janice506

    @janice506

    9 ай бұрын

    Everyone if you go back far enough has been a victim of some sorts

  • @vodkaboy

    @vodkaboy

    9 ай бұрын

    I think these tests don't mean much, they're closer to astrology than whatever people are searching for.

  • @wowbagger3505

    @wowbagger3505

    7 ай бұрын

    @@vodkaboyIThey are statistical comparing an individual’s dna to the whole database. This is why returns can change, particularly around the margins as new data becomes available. Illegal in the US, but not in the UK the entire population of school aged population were tested in the UK resulting in a higher degree of accuracy than most of the world.

  • @oober3690

    @oober3690

    7 күн бұрын

    I'm from old American stock. Nearly all my ancestors came over in the 1600/1700s. But, my DNA profile looks the same as yours. There are still large pockets in the USA that have purely British DNA profiles - mostly in the Southern United States and in flyover country.

  • @ole7146
    @ole71468 ай бұрын

    From Jutland, Denmark and did one of those DNA tests (for what they are worth) a couple of years ago and it came back with 13,9 % Scottish/Irish, 10,3% Eastern European and the rest was Scandinavian. I have no know relatives from either EE or Scotland, Ireland so it may reflect where a certain seafaring people went or perhaps comes from later historical events.

  • @johnnypickles5256

    @johnnypickles5256

    2 күн бұрын

    You kidnnapoed someone up there

  • @danblair1591
    @danblair1591 Жыл бұрын

    I like your accent mate! I’m Canadian of majorly Scottish, British, and Welsh descent with a wee bit Irish, French, and Norman in there as well.

  • @lucylane7397

    @lucylane7397

    Жыл бұрын

    Scotland and Wales is part of Britain

  • @robertolang9684

    @robertolang9684

    Жыл бұрын

    is a Silurian accent

  • @springfieldCo
    @springfieldCo Жыл бұрын

    Great info ! My DNA was very interesting when I took the tests.

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Scott

  • @cooldaddy2877

    @cooldaddy2877

    Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting.

  • @xtramail4909
    @xtramail4909 Жыл бұрын

    I’m 99.6% Scottish and Irish and .4% North African

  • @robertolang9684

    @robertolang9684

    Жыл бұрын

    you are a cisalpine real Celtic guy related to Iberian

  • @wmrustycox
    @wmrustycox Жыл бұрын

    This video answers some questions for me. My DNA is about 65% Scottish (Welsh and Irish) 27% Scandinavian and a small bit of North African where the Berbers were from. Btw I do know I have ancestors that came from the isle of Jura, in the inner Hebrides of Scotland.. which would explain the Scandinavian as the "Vikings" were known to have populated this area.

  • @dlittlester

    @dlittlester

    Жыл бұрын

    Almost like me. Mostly Scottish, Irish, and Welsh, 27% Scandinavian, and surprise, surprise, 8% Greek. My Dad's family came from the Scottish borders.

  • @seanspeed214
    @seanspeed214 Жыл бұрын

    I’m 81% English,the rest is Welsh,Scots and Irish.

  • @michaelshannon9169
    @michaelshannon9169 Жыл бұрын

    Such a Scottish presentation of something academic, I feel unnerved, threatened and for no apparent reason.

  • @alexalston7428
    @alexalston7428 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting, had my DNA revealed a couple of weeks ago. As follows: 73% South West Scotland, 20% N Ireland, 4% England and NW Europe and lastly, 3% Norwegian. My maternal side was simply SW Scotland and N Ireland! This brings me to the sensitive subject of class in the local area...Paternal side has always been in business, farming and professions. Mother's side very much honest labouring class, miners, farm and industrial workers even after many moved to Oz with £10 pom scheme, they've bumped along at that level. An observation and a question about both groups. Nurture or nature?

  • @DHMenke
    @DHMenke Жыл бұрын

    Hi, Steven. Thank you very much for your short analysis on Scottish DNA. I do a lot of family history, and I have a 23% DNA match for Scotland, and a 19% DNA match for Ireland (mostly near Donegal). I have worked on family history for 53 years, and the advent of computer, internet, and DNA has confirmed my research and clarified it. - David Menke, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

  • @MrResearcher122

    @MrResearcher122

    10 ай бұрын

    My grandad was from Donegal. It means you have the blood of the famous O'Neil Dynasty (Northern O'Neil)

  • @TheEggmaniac

    @TheEggmaniac

    10 ай бұрын

    @@MrResearcher122 Just curious here, but how does the fact that someone has '19% DNA match for Ireland (mostly near Donegal), ' mean you definitely have the blood of of the O Neil dynasty in you? There are a lot of clans and people who come from Donegal, that are not descended from them. How do you come by this great generalisation?

  • @brucecollins641

    @brucecollins641

    4 ай бұрын

    @@TheEggmaniac niall o the nine hostages is a mythical tale.

  • @Kickstart947
    @Kickstart947 Жыл бұрын

    Well, this explains Nicola Sturgeon’s DNA, she is descended from Trolls that sneaked aboard Viking vessels.

  • @andrewheaney6858
    @andrewheaney6858 Жыл бұрын

    In ancient Scotland from the borders up to Edinburgh you had the Anglo- Saxon Northumbrians, from Edinburgh going up the North East you had a people call the Picti - Picts, from Glasgow / Dumbarton Castle going right down the South West to Wales you had the Brythonic Britons ,and from Glasgow going up the West coast and Islands you had the Scotti Irish Gaels called the Scots, this is not even to mention the arrival of Vikings, Normans and Flemish, so when people get the results of their DNA test which of the the above classes you as being genetically Scottish? Ancient Briton, Pictish, Irish Gael or Germanic Anglo Saxon, I’ve never figured out to this day which ancient group the “Scottish DNA” lands and stops on, to define being genetically Scottish ?

  • @Oligodendrocyte139

    @Oligodendrocyte139

    Жыл бұрын

    The DNA genealogy companies oversell this. Small % fractions are just noise and vary from test to test. “How can DNA tests determine ethnicity?” Is an interesting short article in Who DO You Think You Are magazine online.

  • @andrewheaney6858

    @andrewheaney6858

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Oligodendrocyte139 I had to laugh when two identical twins (girls) sent their samples to separate companies and both result came back different ?

  • @Oligodendrocyte139

    @Oligodendrocyte139

    Жыл бұрын

    @@andrewheaney6858 Says it all! Some of my smart geneticist friends could probably find an exception but not me 😀

  • @Armed-Forever

    @Armed-Forever

    10 ай бұрын

    @@andrewheaney6858 well said, long b4 eng and scot, northumbria existed from york to edinburgh, the division is arbitrary, most pp are a mix at this point

  • @bennym1326
    @bennym13268 ай бұрын

    I got my results back recently 43% scottish 25% English 22% Irish The rest a mix of Scandinavian and german. Then recently I recieved an update that changed my DNA results to 37% scottish 29% English 24% Irish. Spewing I lost some scottishness haha but it goes to show just how closely the borders are related genetically. My grandmothers family were Landales who are from Roxburghshire

  • @paulstewart8459

    @paulstewart8459

    5 ай бұрын

    These tests are going to do that... which is to say, it's a literal guess based upon the database owned by the testing company. These companies are also 100% skewed by their location, which is to say, a British-based company will have more Brits than a Spanish one- and vise-versa. For example: I did exactly that: I had a test done by a British company and came out 100% Brit (heavily Scot). A Spanish company however said I was 43% Spanish and the rest was Dutch. Both are incorrect, although I am heavily Scot, my mother is Swedish, and my dad has Indian (as in Punjabi), in his background. None of this was picked up by either test. Another issue is that the tests can't always weed out recent vs ancient, particularly if you have both in your background. Many Northern Euros will be surprised to find Italian, Spanish or Greek in their background.. at usually 5 to 7%. This doesn't mean you actually ARE these ethnicities but rather it's a marker of the fact that your ancestors, like most Euros, spent many thousands of years in these regions during the Ice Age, well before there was even the idea of an Italy.

  • @jeffreyhawthornegoines8727
    @jeffreyhawthornegoines8727 Жыл бұрын

    Truly interesting of course, and the gentleman's distinct New York accent is wonderful! Lol

  • @aselkiesdream
    @aselkiesdream10 ай бұрын

    I have Northwestern European DNA- Scotland-39% England&NW Europe-%55 Sweden and Denmark at 6%- I am an American. I am currently feeling out of place in the climate here. The closest thing to the climate is Alaska in terms of the genetics. It's too hot here. The other term "nordic" is used to describe the peoples of this region. But it does not recognize individual peoples and tribes.

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @rabbiebhoy
    @rabbiebhoy Жыл бұрын

    The Isle of Man was once Scottish. That would explain the Scots connection.

  • @gcanaday1

    @gcanaday1

    4 ай бұрын

    Manx is intelligible to Gàidhlig speakers. Makes sense.

  • @davecampbell4091
    @davecampbell40913 ай бұрын

    Declaration of Arbroath states Exodus of Moses, Scythia, Spain on over to Ireland and Scotland

  • @paulcannell7188
    @paulcannell718811 күн бұрын

    Love the Irn Bru Gene 😂 Thanks for including The Isle Of Man in the Scottish DNA round up.

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    11 күн бұрын

    Thanks

  • @this-abledtheextravertedhe5299
    @this-abledtheextravertedhe52999 ай бұрын

    Very interesting 🤔

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    9 ай бұрын

    Thanks

  • @waynemcauliffe2362
    @waynemcauliffe2362 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting

  • @manicmechanic448
    @manicmechanic448 Жыл бұрын

    I was able to track my name, Stephens, to South East Scotland. Specifically around Loch Sween. If anyone knows more, I'd love to hear it.

  • @michaelwhite8031
    @michaelwhite8031 Жыл бұрын

    I was born in England but was shocked to find my genetic ancestors were Scots.

  • @justinw1765

    @justinw1765

    Жыл бұрын

    It is hard to pin genetics down to specific nationalities (these came way later than the genetic patterns did!). The Scots, English, Welsh, and Irish all had a very strong Celtic background/influence. These different groups/tribes are genetically close to each other, close enough that it is hard to actually figure out "nationality" in relation to them (just not enough time and environmental difference to produce significant halogroup mutations, etc). The English are sometimes distinguished from the above groups because of the heavier Germanic and Scandinavian combo that mixed in, along with the Roman (that and cultural differences that developed). But make no mistake, pre modern England still had a very strong, predominant Celtic genetic pool despite all the Anglo Saxon, Viking, Norman (once Vikings themselves), Roman, etc invasions. So likely, what the DNA test was actually telling you was that you generally have a lot of Celtic ancestry, which is no surprise. Today, if you look at Celtic looking people from all the above areas, you will tend to see some similarities. Freckles and quite light, easily sunburned skin are common, sometimes a tendency towards reddishness in the hair, tendency to lighter blue gray to medium blue eyes, etc. With all that said, of course there are PLENTY of people in these areas, even in pre modern times (before immigration from very different areas became so prevalent) that also have darker hair and/or who can tan somewhat.

  • @michaelwhite8031

    @michaelwhite8031

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Justin, like most l am a Heinz 57. I should have said l have lots of Scots related to me.

  • @MrResearcher122

    @MrResearcher122

    10 ай бұрын

    @@justinw1765 Pre-Celtic. Beaker derived peoples is the modern appellation, I believe.

  • @alexandriat5929
    @alexandriat5929 Жыл бұрын

    I knew I had Scottish blood, my grandfather was 100% scott yet the majority shows a Scandinavian. Turns out my Scottish side Cochran is majority Scandinavian. I am American and knew very little about my grandparents or heritage.

  • @rosslogan4154

    @rosslogan4154

    Жыл бұрын

    *Scot

  • @13141Scott

    @13141Scott

    Жыл бұрын

    It's impossible to be 100% genetically anything let alone Scottish

  • @alexandriat5929

    @alexandriat5929

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rosslogan4154 American lol

  • @kathywolf4558
    @kathywolf4558 Жыл бұрын

    Scythian connections?? Found this interesting in my research: They have been called variously Scythians, Thracians, Cimmerians (and Kurgan Culture), Sarmatians, Cumans, Alans, Huns, Tatars, Turks, Slavs, Bulgars and Goths. In Saratov on the Lower Volga River in Russia, up to 1 in between 3 and 4 people possess this distinctive marker. In Slovenia, at the crossroads of Barbarian incursions into the Roman Empire, as many as 22% of the inhabitants carry it. It is also notable in Ashkenazi Jews, certain Mongols and some Turks. Minimal frequencies occur, on the other hand, in Asians like the Chinese or Indians. One minor branch is found in Malaysia and Australian Aboriginals, pointing to the relatedness of all humans. Another expansion centered on Egypt and became prominent among Berbers..

  • @occidentadvocate.9759

    @occidentadvocate.9759

    Жыл бұрын

    Scythians were never Turks. Tho Turkish schools teach the (Ridiculous) notion, that they were, to try and make it look like Turks were in the Region in ancient times? They weren't. Turks originate in Mongolia. The Scythians and Parthians etc who lived in that region in Ancient times were Aryan tribes. IE White Europeans.

  • @kathywolf4558

    @kathywolf4558

    Жыл бұрын

    @@occidentadvocate.9759 According to research the Scythians most likely originated in what is now Russia. There is DNA evidence to point to them coming from that area. If that is the case they could havee a light skin....also it is possible apparently that Celts could have been in the area of the Amnaya. Admixtures of Turkish or Egyption origin are ot uncommon usually found in the subclades etc..... A very interesting subject to study with an open mind to the evidence presented from several different disciplines. Celts were "all over the place" so admixtures would not be uncommon. Invasions by others were ot uncommon either...once again causing admixtures.

  • @patrickfitzgerald2052

    @patrickfitzgerald2052

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kathywolf4558 Scythians are Indo-Iranian people.

  • @kathywolf4558

    @kathywolf4558

    Жыл бұрын

    @@patrickfitzgerald2052 Check out Kings and Generals channel for the Scythian who were red headed and light eyed...some interesting history there.....Pontic Caspian Steppe....and yes Indo Iranian ...which is interesting considering their abilities with metal, horses etc...trying to figure out the really ancient origin of Celtic tribes....we were a busy bunch...LOL!

  • @robertolang9684

    @robertolang9684

    Жыл бұрын

    @@patrickfitzgerald2052 the iberians match the ancient scyntians samples of moldova and romania

  • @stella8726
    @stella8726 Жыл бұрын

    Hey Ste. I love the ancestry/dna stuff! My Stewart lineage, came from Dol-de-Bretagne originally, by the 1100’s our lineage bided in Scotland. Alan Fitz Flaald (one of my many times Great grandfathers) was a Breton Knight, recruited as a mercenary by King Henry I in his conflicts with his brothers. #IHaveTheIrnBruGeneToo 😂 I’ve got English, North-West Europe, Welsh, Scottish & Norwegian dna, Ive been building my tree for years, I’ve found all except for the Norway link, but your info may help me where to look geographically. Thanks Ste 😊

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Stella, I think the ancestry stuff is really interesting also. That's one epic lineage 😀

  • @patrickfitzgerald2052

    @patrickfitzgerald2052

    Жыл бұрын

    @@celtichistorydecoded I wake up everyday and thank God for not making me a Sub-Saharan African or a jew.

  • @patrickfitzgerald2052

    @patrickfitzgerald2052

    Жыл бұрын

    @@WhiteWolf-eb4mr Sub-Saharans and jews don't have souls.

  • @stella8726

    @stella8726

    Жыл бұрын

    @@patrickfitzgerald2052 😆

  • @patrickfitzgerald2052

    @patrickfitzgerald2052

    Жыл бұрын

    @@stella8726 What?

  • @NorvelCooksey
    @NorvelCooksey Жыл бұрын

    I did my DNA, I am 18% Scottish.

  • @robertolang9684

    @robertolang9684

    Жыл бұрын

    i'm 6% scot but i never got any relative from skotia

  • @paulstewart8459
    @paulstewart84595 ай бұрын

    Interested to know about I2c, which seems to be almost entirely confined to Scotland and to the Wallace clan. Not I2a or I1, but I2c, which is old and unusual.

  • @DonQuixote547
    @DonQuixote547 Жыл бұрын

    My buddy who considers himself a purebred Scott and lives in Auchtermuchty, found out that he is off 30% Sub-Saharan African DNA. How can this be?

  • @NOT_SURE..
    @NOT_SURE.. Жыл бұрын

    i always assumed i was a white decendant of vikings or celts or even just english serfs, turns out my family were probably indian tinkers or transient farmworkers who worked their way across europe, they were on their way to anglesey (dont know why ) but stopped in east anglia

  • @govang5191

    @govang5191

    Жыл бұрын

    The Indian people ya mentioned were a mobile group following the Roman army's for work and survival.

  • @cmcc3721

    @cmcc3721

    Жыл бұрын

    Just take a look in the mirror and look for the tell tale signs that indicate which geographical area your ancestors likely came from. Everything else is just BS.

  • @emmanuelgoldspleen2905

    @emmanuelgoldspleen2905

    Жыл бұрын

    What do you mean 'Indians'?

  • @realitywins9020

    @realitywins9020

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@govang5191 Gypsies arrived in Europe centuries after the Romans

  • @garyclothier9914
    @garyclothier9914 Жыл бұрын

    I live in Canada but my bloodline comes from Orkney

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Gary. Orkney fascinates me.

  • @charliebell2548
    @charliebell254811 ай бұрын

    I'm Scottish my people were from the borders west marches I'm a Bell. Im American but ky DNA is Scottish English Welsh Irish french Norway So I'm British.

  • @DeRhamme
    @DeRhamme2 ай бұрын

    I'm a little late to this, I did a DNA test from Ancestry, I'm 39% Scotland, 37% England & Northwestern Europe, 8% Sweden & Denmark, 8% Germanic Europe, 5% Wales, 3% Norway.

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing, really interesting

  • @TheJoeCool1964
    @TheJoeCool1964 Жыл бұрын

    Oh. I live in the US, in Georgia

  • @SaxonSuccess

    @SaxonSuccess

    Жыл бұрын

    Never mind...

  • @qetoun
    @qetoun Жыл бұрын

    The Iron bru gene, lol

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    Жыл бұрын

    You've got to get the jokes in :)

  • @mosescola4174

    @mosescola4174

    Жыл бұрын

    It is!

  • @TheVinceLyons
    @TheVinceLyons Жыл бұрын

    The saami also have a genetic connection w the berber as did the Guanche of the canary islands, who themselves were fair complected and light haired. Makes me think that North Africans looked different then than they do now.

  • @TheVinceLyons

    @TheVinceLyons

    Жыл бұрын

    I guess I'm saying the Queen Scotia may have some truth

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating Barney, thank you

  • @FaithfulOfBrigantia

    @FaithfulOfBrigantia

    Жыл бұрын

    This is probably a result of the Megalithic culture. It originated in North Morocco, and ended up being the dominant civilization in all of Bronze Age Western Europe,(Atlantic coast) from the Canaries all the way to Norway.

  • @patrickfitzgerald2052

    @patrickfitzgerald2052

    Жыл бұрын

    The Indigenous North Africans have always been a Caucasoid type people and they're closely related to us Europeans by blood.

  • @occidentadvocate.9759

    @occidentadvocate.9759

    Жыл бұрын

    North Africans in Ancient times were White Europeans.

  • @cg1548
    @cg15487 ай бұрын

    I have a question! I took my dna test I have 28% Scottish and 3% Scandanavian but no Irish on my dna test... however my grandmother has all the above with 10% Irish included. Do you think they could have mistaken some Irish dna for Scotland ? What are your thoughts

  • @Thezeldamariochanell

    @Thezeldamariochanell

    5 ай бұрын

    I think all scoutish people originally came from Ireland

  • @bluerfoot
    @bluerfoot8 күн бұрын

    Families have been in the USA for centuries, Ancestry says I'm 52 percent Scot. It originally had me at the same Irish but that flipped (now 24 Irish), so I guess these 2 people are pretty darn close.

  • @emmanuelgoldspleen2905
    @emmanuelgoldspleen2905 Жыл бұрын

    Hey man, thanks for the great video. We aren't actually Celts, whatever that even means. The bulk of our ancestors were the Bell Beaker folk who were already living in Scotland over 4000 years ago. We arrived in Great Britain in about 2450 BCE. From this Bell Beaker ancestry, we have always maintained genetic likeness to other people of the North Sea region - Frisians, Saxons, Angles, Danes, Norwegians. We are not significantly linked by genes to the so-called "Celts" of Gaul, or the Alpine ethnic groups who cultivated the Hallstatt and La Tene cultures.

  • @MiloManning05

    @MiloManning05

    Жыл бұрын

    The Irish and welsh are the ones related to the Gauls and Middle European Celtic peoples

  • @emmanuelgoldspleen2905

    @emmanuelgoldspleen2905

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MiloManning05 Firstly, what makes you say that? Why not the Scottish or the old Britons of what’s now called England? Actually, of the Isles folk, the Irish and the Picts are the LEAST related to Gauls and Central Europeans.

  • @MiloManning05

    @MiloManning05

    Жыл бұрын

    @@emmanuelgoldspleen2905 that’s not true at all , Irishmen still share most close genetic relations to Spanish and French Celts and to Bavarians and almost none to Picts.

  • @emmanuelgoldspleen2905

    @emmanuelgoldspleen2905

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MiloManning05 Prove it! What haplogroup do the Irish have, that is so close to Spanish and French?

  • @realitywins9020

    @realitywins9020

    Жыл бұрын

    We are Celts, because our native languages are Celtic. You could claim that we're Celticised Beakers rather than genetic Celts, but you can also refer to us as Insular Celts as distinct from Continental Celts

  • @matutegamer9255
    @matutegamer92559 ай бұрын

    Ain't no way, I'm half spanish and half Scottish, but turns out I'm 50% english lol

  • @eleveneleven572
    @eleveneleven572Ай бұрын

    Anglo Saxon DNA from the borders up to Edinburgh (Edwins Fort)...and the Scots language from around 600AD. It is Anglic, derived from Germanic. Brythonic DNA in south west matching north west England of native Britons.

  • @cymro6537
    @cymro6537 Жыл бұрын

    According to Ancestry DNA ,I'm 1% Finish,2% Scottish,and 97% Welsh.

  • @vanessasworder

    @vanessasworder

    10 ай бұрын

    Rare

  • @cymro6537

    @cymro6537

    10 ай бұрын

    @@vanessasworder Yep , I'm a keeper 😂

  • @vanessasworder

    @vanessasworder

    10 ай бұрын

    @@cymro6537 😊

  • @silvermane2556
    @silvermane255611 ай бұрын

    Cool video, found out I’m 49% Scottish

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    11 ай бұрын

    Thanks

  • @fenellainnis7216
    @fenellainnis7216 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting my Scottish daughters results were 94% Scottish and Irish ,predictable , 6% Afghanistan Middle Eastern nomadic ,we were thinking were did that come from , your explanation answers that question .

  • @user-qz4xc4uh3d

    @user-qz4xc4uh3d

    Жыл бұрын

    I will answer this question my good man😅, this is a 100% fraud. No one could be a 6% that or that. That means only, that your DNA had modified according your actions, or actions that made your ancestors, for example they lived or served in army or battalion that was located for a long time in middle east (or Africa) your body, how should I say , your DNA, and whole your organism is mutant 😂 , that always adopting in that particular environment, which you are living in. (Sorry for my bad English, I'm from Russia ), so your a still a Scotsman and nothing will change it (unless if you for example didn't have the paternal haplogroup of all celtic people R1b )

  • @springfieldCo
    @springfieldCo Жыл бұрын

    23andme said I was 95.2% British isles and Ireland.

  • @springfieldCo

    @springfieldCo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jb2532 what's sketchy ?

  • @SaxonSuccess

    @SaxonSuccess

    Жыл бұрын

    @@springfieldCo 23andMe are not the best at British and North West European DNA. LDNA is a bit better, but Ancestry is better again in my view.

  • @springfieldCo

    @springfieldCo

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree that pretty much all ancestry tests are not the most reliable all the time.

  • @springfieldCo

    @springfieldCo

    Жыл бұрын

    I've taken a crigenetics DNA test and it was actually very different lol

  • @KH-nw3cq
    @KH-nw3cq3 күн бұрын

    Is there anyone knowing something about “Corrigan” surname?

  • @zhanzhara991
    @zhanzhara9916 ай бұрын

    Hi, I've seen scotish I-L1287 from livingdna and 23andme, anyone here? I was curious if they have old scotish origin or have roots from cintinental Europe

  • @user-ig6jz4mv9r
    @user-ig6jz4mv9r4 ай бұрын

    Half of the genomes of the Irish and Scots are Mongolians, who originated in the Russian steppes. Irish and Scottish people have a high proportion of genes from ancient North Eurasia, which originated in Mongolia...

  • @user-qz4xc4uh3d
    @user-qz4xc4uh3d Жыл бұрын

    😂 When I heard this perfect accent, I thought I've get robbed, or I've done something wrong.

  • @gwynwilliams4222
    @gwynwilliams4222 Жыл бұрын

    I'm Welsh and my DNA can be traced back to ice age so pritty boring. But do have a great great grandmother from Scotland she was a macgregor

  • @CJBroonie
    @CJBroonieАй бұрын

    My husband is Scots and he has the Irn Bru gener for sure!

  • @gelkins2207
    @gelkins2207 Жыл бұрын

    As an American I found it interesting that my dna results came back as 55% Scotland and 43% England. Also the fact that I am 0% Irish was interesting as well. I wasn’t expecting such a high concentration…expected I would find a lot more variety being an American. Very cool.

  • @autumnphillips151

    @autumnphillips151

    11 ай бұрын

    What was the other 2%?

  • @gelkins2207

    @gelkins2207

    11 ай бұрын

    @@autumnphillips151 Sweden/Denmark

  • @stephenswistchew7720
    @stephenswistchew7720 Жыл бұрын

    I’m half Scottish and half Irish. One half wants to get drunk the other half won’t pay for it

  • @Maryann-dj6hb
    @Maryann-dj6hb4 ай бұрын

    Regarding the Berbers in Egypt, in my studies, I found that they came out of Egypt when Moses parted the Red Sea. They are the ancient Israelites of the House of Joseph. Joseph, son of bigfoot biblical Patriarch Jacob. Joseph and the Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 years. When the Northern Kingdom of Israel were taken into captivity 660 B.C. , by the Assyrians, they eventually migrated up to the country of Georgia and went through the " Pass of Israel " in the Caucasus Mountains and crossed the seas migrating to Ireland and Scotland. They established Kingdoms in both places. So, we are among the descendants of " the Lost Tribes of Israel." And, the Bible teaches that in end days, the Lost Tribes will become aware of their biblical roots. And, the tribes shall be united again with all 12 tribes. The English Royals are the Tribe of Judah. But, the Scotts are the House of Joseph. I traveled to Egypt and traveled in the ancient path of Joseph. I am American born. But, my mother's father's roots are from the Highlands of Scotland. And, her mother's are from Ireland. I've never been to Scotland . But, I would like to purchase a property there for the House of Joseph. We are a royal lineage and our history is amazing.

  • @davecampbell4091

    @davecampbell4091

    3 ай бұрын

    I agree with much of what you have stated. Scotland has traces of 4 lost tribes such as Dan, Simeon, Levi and Judah. Interesting research and records at British Museum done in 1960’s. Well understood in Victorian era. Books: J.H. Allen Judahs sceptre Josephs birthright, Yair Davidy Hebrew Celtic Heritage and Wcg U.S. and Britain in Prophecy Just to name a few…

  • @colinsmith1288
    @colinsmith1288 Жыл бұрын

    The vikings certainly got around. You look at the size of Scandinavia and think why did the vikings need to invade the British Isles back in the day and for hundreds of years at that.

  • @MikeWhiskyTango

    @MikeWhiskyTango

    Жыл бұрын

    Loot pillage and plunderrrrrrr!!!!

  • @occidentadvocate.9759

    @occidentadvocate.9759

    Жыл бұрын

    Because most of Scandinavia is Mountainous, hilly, and Barren. Decent farming land was in short supply. Hence why the Viking sailed the world It was to look for suitable land to farm at first.

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    Жыл бұрын

    I know Colin. I think population pressures back home was one key reason. A good subject for a future video though

  • @SaxonSuccess

    @SaxonSuccess

    Жыл бұрын

    @@occidentadvocate.9759 Land for farming and young women for breeding and slavery. Plus the murder and robbery that went hand in hand with the stealing of land and young women.

  • @rosslogan4154

    @rosslogan4154

    Жыл бұрын

    Decent farming land.

  • @francisfischer7620
    @francisfischer76206 ай бұрын

    Really! How and why? Quite a trip!

  • @TheJoeCool1964
    @TheJoeCool1964 Жыл бұрын

    Ancestors DNA says that I'm 70% Scottish, 18% Baltic , 6% Norway..6% unknown.... What the he'll dose that mean ??

  • @ladyraven3418

    @ladyraven3418

    Жыл бұрын

    It means they don't have enough DNA samples of the "unknown" bit.

  • @SaxonSuccess

    @SaxonSuccess

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ladyraven3418 Unusual though, I think, for such a large chunk (6%) to be 'unknown'.

  • @johnnyjumpup859
    @johnnyjumpup859 Жыл бұрын

    So the people who moved to Scotland from Ireland a thousand years ago before Henry the eight invented protestants what were those people.

  • @michaelcandido2824

    @michaelcandido2824

    7 ай бұрын

    your thinking scots-irish

  • @garyanderson9644
    @garyanderson9644 Жыл бұрын

    My mob were from Aberdeenshire descended from the pict farmers and quite proudly gave the Romans hell ! 😂 Slainte !

  • @mikedixon9089
    @mikedixon9089 Жыл бұрын

    Same I was born in Liverpool roughly 50% Celtic mostly Irish Scottish 50% French wtf 😊

  • @alexsandersmith1880
    @alexsandersmith1880 Жыл бұрын

    My daughter and son got DNA results of 95% Scottish from the Hebrides 4% Germanic 1% Icelandic. We are from a predominantly Scottish area of Eastern Canada.

  • @ruaraidhmorrison5879

    @ruaraidhmorrison5879

    11 ай бұрын

    Your ancestors will most likely have emigrated to Canada following the Highland clearances. Many in the western isles and north west highlands emigrated to Canada.

  • @Justme48813
    @Justme4881311 ай бұрын

    you so cool, love your appearance! Great genes though!

  • @scottishbhoy1987
    @scottishbhoy1987 Жыл бұрын

    They did a study in the Orkney islands and found that all men have Norse DNA but no Pictish DNA but the women had both Norse and Pictish now for that to happen they have either killed off all the Pictish men or castrated them which I found really interesting and I know you will too.

  • @invadertifxiii
    @invadertifxiii3 ай бұрын

    Are people of lowland Scotland and Northern Ireland more likely to have higher English Ancestry percentage?

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    3 ай бұрын

    I would say so yes

  • @invadertifxiii

    @invadertifxiii

    3 ай бұрын

    @celtichistorydecoded thank u, it all makes sense, my mother insisted we were irish but didn't tell me more about the family but I'm pretty sure we were northern irish decent

  • @eddiepattisonhogg9917
    @eddiepattisonhogg991711 ай бұрын

    what's the DNA of the Geordie nation, are we Scandinavian as so many think?

  • @theburningelement.6447
    @theburningelement.64476 ай бұрын

    I'm 95% Scottish crazy

  • @robertmaceanruig6291
    @robertmaceanruig6291 Жыл бұрын

    OAP Here, my DNA is Scottish .. I was Born in. England ,, I have Clan Kilt of my Name. And kilt and me Around this World.. when I was younger.. Sola Birtus Nobilitat….🍺🇬🇧🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

  • @plantagenant
    @plantagenant9 ай бұрын

    I did MyHeritage DNA . I got about 75% English 25% Scandanavian.....but here's the oddity. The same report detailed my two geographical areas in Britain that I have the most genetically related clusters are Yorkshire and around Aberdeen....and they describe both of these populations as "english" ..?....

  • @ryankelly3411
    @ryankelly34118 ай бұрын

    proud Pict! just dont tell Conan of Cimmeria

  • @MassiveLib
    @MassiveLib Жыл бұрын

    Mostly French and Viking

  • @vickeymaxwell-iu4ts
    @vickeymaxwell-iu4ts5 ай бұрын

    I’m a Maxwell 16% scotch

  • @mosescola4174
    @mosescola4174 Жыл бұрын

    Hella leg genes that makes the men look manly in kilts and makes the Scottish women look thick enough to destroy you with one stomp. 0:42 how did this happen!

  • @Joanna-il2ur
    @Joanna-il2ur Жыл бұрын

    Ah DiNnA ken.

  • @carausiuscaesar5672
    @carausiuscaesar5672 Жыл бұрын

    I understood lowland Scots like me are of origin Germanic Anglo-Saxons.

  • @MiloManning05

    @MiloManning05

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @realitywins9020

    @realitywins9020

    Жыл бұрын

    No. You're just Celts who lost your language!

  • @realitywins9020

    @realitywins9020

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@MiloManning05 even the North-East of England is more Celtic than Germanic genetically. The 'Lowlanders are Germanic' nonsense is political propaganda. Rabbie Burns had Gaelic speaking family in Ayrshire! Gaelic was spoken across the Lowlands for centuries

  • @realitywins9020

    @realitywins9020

    Жыл бұрын

    And Welsh and Pictish were spoken across the Lowlands before that!

  • @realitywins9020

    @realitywins9020

    Жыл бұрын

    DNA has proved that Lowlanders and Northern English are mainly Celtic

  • @petermacleod2402
    @petermacleod24026 ай бұрын

    I am 100% Doggerland!

  • @StompingRabbits
    @StompingRabbits2 ай бұрын

    Feed your Scot, feed him!

  • @sandraswift3489
    @sandraswift348918 күн бұрын

    The hebrides is a hebrew settlement.it means .the hood.machir bay is clearly marked.machir was a descendant of shem.noahs son.

  • @albertdeleon6272
    @albertdeleon627210 ай бұрын

    Europeans have African DNA

  • @ryankellypa
    @ryankellypa Жыл бұрын

    my dna is west scottish so i am a winner

  • @tompchromedome
    @tompchromedome2 ай бұрын

    I am Australian, I like bagpipes and farting in lifts, could I be of Scottish heritage?

  • @delfine7163
    @delfine716310 ай бұрын

    I’m a quarter Scot but need subtitles please.

  • @mohanadhijazi3426
    @mohanadhijazi34262 ай бұрын

    Bro you look Norwegian

  • @celtichistorydecoded

    @celtichistorydecoded

    2 ай бұрын

    I probably am to some degree :)

  • @mohanadhijazi3426

    @mohanadhijazi3426

    2 ай бұрын

    @@celtichistorydecoded oh yes Scotland has lot of Scandinavian DNA

  • @yesenochwasRIGHT
    @yesenochwasRIGHT12 күн бұрын

    These studies are flawed.

  • @Bastillian
    @Bastillian Жыл бұрын

    Clearly, Scotland is merely a geographic expression. There is no such thing as a Scottish race, just a minority tribe from Ulster after all. There are Gaels, Picts, Norse, Saxon and Britons (read Welsh).

  • @occidentadvocate.9759

    @occidentadvocate.9759

    Жыл бұрын

    The Scots are a Race! Part of the White Race.

  • @brucecollins4729

    @brucecollins4729

    Жыл бұрын

    bastillian.......ireland would be the same then.....scots /english/welsh/normans /anglo-saxons. you might want to research the "mythical gaels" .

  • @davzinzan

    @davzinzan

    Жыл бұрын

    What are Picts if not a Scottish race?

  • @occidentadvocate.9759

    @occidentadvocate.9759

    Жыл бұрын

    @@davzinzan The, Indigenous Celtic Population. Spoke a variation of Welsh, which was spoken all over what is Now Scotland, England and Wales till the 4th century.

  • @rosslogan4154

    @rosslogan4154

    Жыл бұрын

    "A Minority Tribe from Ulster,"....You don't know what you're talking about! Of course there isn't a Scottish race. No one on here said there was. You'd cause an argument in an empty room! 😂🤣🤣

  • @Valhalla88888
    @Valhalla888885 ай бұрын

    Dal Riata was not an Irish colony as today's Ireland did not exist, the Romans and Greeks called today's Ireland as Scotia i.e. Scotland and the people were called the Scotti ie Scots, from the 1st to 5th century is that not correct, the Picts from Caledonia invaded today's Ireland in the 2nd century these Scotii might be the descendants of the Picts?

  • @thelouderyouscream
    @thelouderyouscream Жыл бұрын

    English. DNA irrelevant. My country.

  • @bpinkhof
    @bpinkhof Жыл бұрын

    The Morini, the Atrebates and the Ambiani are interesting to study for South Wales and some other parts in South-England. And their original Belgian Celtic tribes in the time the channel did not exist. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallia_Belgica#/media/Bestand:Map_Gallia_Tribes_Towns.png

  • @correctpolitically4784
    @correctpolitically478410 ай бұрын

    So genetically id be closest to the Orkney population.

  • @withtwins6017
    @withtwins6017 Жыл бұрын

    My genetics are 1%. Irish, 7%. Scottish, 7% Danish, 5% Eastern European and Russian, 80% English & Northwestern Europe... If the words Norwegian Viking or had a face it Would look just like me.... 😂😂😂 .Which is fucked up... Cause according to ancestry I am not norwegian... Even though there is a mountain in norway with my last name.... Renneberg hill and Rennebergstjorni

  • @GroendalGangsta
    @GroendalGangsta Жыл бұрын

    Welcome to Scandinavia.