This series of videos tells where Scottish people came from kzread.info/head/PLfJ_hYioDtXSHxZdtSHHOIa02r3MZSGAU Get your own MyHeritage DNA test from this link bit.ly/ScotlandHistoryTours_MH

@centerfiresuppressionllc682

Жыл бұрын

So.... My Family was a melting pot long before we came to America! Lol Great fun, laughed hard!

@lorrenaelliott161

Жыл бұрын

@Scotlandhistorytours I ADORE your channel!!! My grandfather is a Scottish Jamaican. Very fair-skinned but with no interest in looking into his family history. I did and have been taking my mum around the areas they came from (They were a mighty border reiving clan……. But they were originally Breton mercenaries brought over By Canmore! And they went on to support Robert the Bruce and he moved them from the foot of the highlands down to Annandale) and it has been an amazingly empowering journey. I came across your channel when doing my research and your videos are FLAWLESS in every way. I shall become a Patreon supporter soon so you can keep on regularly putting out your content. BTW I went on a date with a Scottish tour guide and I KNEW WAY MORE THAN HE DID thx to you content lol 😂 … thank you SO MUCH for all your hard work!!!

@SaorAlba1970

Жыл бұрын

that is what makes Scotland and Scots a great country, we welcome all and we add our cultures to our own, we always have, we had a African captain of our National football team in the late 19th century in Andrew Watson a real footballing pioneer in his time

@alistairbolden6340

Жыл бұрын

This was well put together!

@justtruth5855

Жыл бұрын

@@lorrenaelliott161 check out Negro family crests Britain/ Europe.

I'm a genetic genealogist. My advice is to treat with caution any % less than 2%. These tend to change with each update made by the testing company. My Irish ancestry over 10 years has ranged between 4-17%. My Scottish ancestry has ranged between 37 and 50%. Every update - with new people in the database and refinements in the testing process - changes the results all the time. They are an indication only and shouldn't be thought of as fixed.

@beebeelicious

Жыл бұрын

Genetic Genealogy sounds fascinating. How did you get into that? I'm looking for a great grandfather who looks like he was a Lord and can't work it out!!

@anthonyproffitt5341

Жыл бұрын

It’s Genetics are interesting, but ultimately we are who we are and have to live with who we are in todays world.

@HootMaRoot

Жыл бұрын

I was about to say this every few months the small percentages can change a lot, but with many of the big DNA heritage companies not willing to share data with each other results can be very squed

@andyleighton6969

Жыл бұрын

The error/uncertainty bars if you dig a little deeper into your results give a good example of how much of a guestimate they are. For example my "Scottishness" is headlined at 55%, but could be anywhere between 33% and 55%, quite a variation! As you say, anything with a lower limit of 0% is as likely to be statistical noise as anything else.

@alibali1968

Жыл бұрын

That's fascinating and a really interesting topic. Can you recommend any sites to look further? I did the My Heritage DNA test after watching Bruce's first video momnths ago, it took months to come back. I am 80% Scottish/Irish, 13% Scandanavian and 7% Italian/Greek. I wonder how far back does the test include? 100s or a thousand years?

How interesting - but - more than anything - how lovely to hear a family laughing together ❤️ 😀 ❤️

I took one of those DNA tests. Apparently 100% Human. Bit of a shock TBH

@heatherstephens9295

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@jennifersaar1611

Жыл бұрын

Do you count Neanderthal as human? Cause I've got some. LOL!

@rainicewaller6210

Жыл бұрын

Not possible. All non Africans have Neanderthal blood.

@Ontheroadtourism

Жыл бұрын

By todays that's a bit of a strong statement to make offending those who identify as cats.😂

@fennec13

Жыл бұрын

Well said.

We always think that our ancestors didn't travel much, that they stayed in their little village. One thing I've learned researching family histories is that they moved around A LOT.

@jeremiahkivi4256

Жыл бұрын

yeah if you weren't a peasant, you got out there and did stuff.

@paulmeakin3376

Жыл бұрын

They may not have travelled much but their sperm sure did!

@djonfonsteen6331

Жыл бұрын

@@jeremiahkivi4256 or forced out buy the Banking fraternity that funded the rare earth prospectors and the collection of slaves. Its still going on today. In the DR Congo we see Rats that fund malitias, bribe officials and take all profits back the the Rats nest. Repulsive bastards

@angrybudgie1617

Жыл бұрын

@@jeremiahkivi4256 No even the 'peasants'. They travelled for festivals, for work, for marriage & funerals. Some probably travelled to see what was over the next hill.

@jeremiahkivi4256

Жыл бұрын

@@angrybudgie1617 yeah but peasants didn't travel travel. They might go to the town over for some goods for the farm, but they were tied to the land by the lord. They had to be there the next day to work or the farm fails and they would end up destitute and in prison.

Had my DNA done a few years ago: 48% Scotland, 47% Northern England, 4.8% Irish. That makes me 100% Canadian and damned proud of it. Both sets of grandparents left the UK in the early 1920s and I take great pride in my ethnic roots, but I bleed maple syrup. 😎🇨🇦🎸

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

No pancakes..?? ...

@dabsafe

Жыл бұрын

@@eamonnclabby7067 Aye! Sunday morning brekkie. I slash my wrist over the stack 🥞 … mmm, warm syrup 😎🇨🇦🎸

@barnowl5774

Жыл бұрын

A first generation Aussie from the early 1950s here and I have a mixed UK ethnicity (see comments to the last video) and I ooze vegemite!

@Lucius1958

Жыл бұрын

With me, it would probably be lingonberry, mixed with god knows what else...😉🇺🇸🇸🇪🇬🇧🇨🇭❓

@fyrwyrd

Жыл бұрын

I'm English and got 86% Northern England. NO SOUTHERNER IN ME! WHAYYYY!

Bruce, you have a beautiful family doesn't matter what their ancestry is. To sit around a tablet and laugh like that, not everyone has that! Besides as I've always said, if you pick up a sword and lay down your life for a country, that your country!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Shit, I was jut hoping to play rugby😜

@Priapos93

Жыл бұрын

If you pick up your camera and walk through the thistles for your country, that's your country!

@vegvisirphotography5632

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours when the windows open in winter, every scotsman gets rugby studs. (, ) (°)

@bookmouse2719

Жыл бұрын

beautiful sentiments

@AdrianMareEWEASANTE

Жыл бұрын

Ancestry roots matters. Don't die for country.

My adopted stepkids wanted to do an ancestry test so I did it with em. It was super fun. Theirs came back west African, Nigerian and Scottish. Mine came back eastern Yorkshire, a little bit of all the Northern European countries, Russian and Scottish! It was super fun to have something in common finally! 🎉

I’ve seen a bit about identical twin girls/ladies, whose percentages were very different from each other’s! They sent the dna off to at least three major testing companies and got crazy different results from each. So take it all with a grain of salt!

@archeanna1425

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it's time to get a better definition of "Identical".

@krawlb4walking802

Жыл бұрын

I saw that video too…so it made me less quick to accept these dna tests as solid 100% fact but personally by word of mouth from different generational family members passing down our heritage, I’m pretty sure I know what I am. 😅 😃 It would be entertaining at least to do a DNA test to see if they match up.

@Backs4more

Жыл бұрын

@@archeanna1425 twins, wether identical or not, have to have the same DNA. You cannot negate genetics.

@adriankelly_edinburgh

Жыл бұрын

@@Backs4more If my Higher Biology from 30+ years ago still stands then your statement is only partly true. Non-identical twins come from different eggs (i.e. two were ovulated and were fertilised at the same time by separate sperm) which is why you can have twins of different sexes or, right on topic here, even different skin colours if the parents are mixed race. Identical twins do have the same DNA, though, since this occurs when an already fertilized egg splits into two.

@Backs4more

Жыл бұрын

@@adriankelly_edinburgh I see where you are coming from. I am using the context of these DNA “heritage” checks though. Two non identical twins must show the same “heritage” in there DNA as they have the same mother and father.

When I saw the variety of my first set of results, my comment was “well the Vikings were everywhere”. They update results every once in a while. So my nana’s Hungarian finally showed up the 4th update. I’ve got the English/Scottish in the mix. Half the clan stayed in Scotland, the rest went south. Genealogy is interesting indeed. Awesome video Bruce!

I clicked on this because Bruce looks so much like a few family members of my mom's generation, almost the spitting image of my one cousin. We're Canadian but with the same mix of West African (Nigerian, Sierra Leone) and east African from our Madagascar line. We're also English, Scottish, Irish and NW European. It was interesting to watch a family with a similar genetic blend to my own family divided by an ocean break down their genetics with Scottish accents.

Love these kinda vids. Shows just how intertwined the peoples of this small little world are. All 7.5 billion of us are practically family 😜

@davefinster8697

Жыл бұрын

So true. Using a genealogy website for clues, then finding the documentation, I learn that my 13th Cousin 3 times removed is King Charles. But also that my 10th Great-Grandfather is John Punch, born in Cameroun and brought to Virginia before 1640, and enslaved (By the way, Africa doesn't show up in the DNA ethnicity estimates; not everything makes it through each time the genetic dice are rolled).We are indeed all family.

@resourcedragon

Жыл бұрын

I believe that you can find a chain of at most 7 people between all of us ( e.g. resourcedragon is related to person x who is related to person y who is related to benjamin duston)

@donaldbaker1554

Жыл бұрын

We are He is actually spot on and I have been checking out that section of MY family roots for the past 12 months I've also managed to interpret the Pict stones from the North East of Scotland verifying what I am saying in my interpretation. This is The Closest yet to being part of MY FAMILY. I HAVE BEEN approached in Scotland and to my face asked IF I am a Half Caste when I was working as a Fitter in John Dewar's by the Plumber believe it or not in the 1970's

@tombackhouse9121

Жыл бұрын

*literally family. We're all cousins if you go back far enough.

@donaldbaker1554

Жыл бұрын

Scotland ("the Isle of Skye") especially was petitioning to have the "Indian Looking People" deported No doubt that was an Added reason that McDonald of Sleat depleted his workforce at a Greater rate than The MacLeod's of Dunvegan.

I love your daughters reaction to being that English in her DNA 😂

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

@andrewrobinson2565

Жыл бұрын

Dad didn't eat enough porridge oats? Excellent viewing +1. 😘

@marklittle8805

3 ай бұрын

Poor girl....being English against her will. How Scottish a story is that?

Your family is so fun. Your sense of humor is contagious ❤😅

Loved this. Well done in making that fun to watch. I’m Scottish and proud but my sister had her DNA done and a good 25% is East European. Like Bruce said we are all a jumbo of different ethnicity. I don’t live in Scotland anymore but as we say ‘you can take the Scot out of Scotland but you can’t take Scotland out the Scot’ ❤

@paultemple5042

Жыл бұрын

Och Aye.

@emmanuelgoldspleen2905

Жыл бұрын

What DNA test was that? 25% East European. That’s huge. Are you sure you don’t have a grandparent from there?

@donaldbaker1554

Жыл бұрын

They cannot be Scottish as Scotland Did not exist until Kenneth 1st after the Assassination of Donald 1st in Perth Prior to that the Two were the Scotti and the Cornovii and it was a Problem between the Two brothers that caused it If one needs an Explanation I would be Quite Happy to give you the Knowledge. You see it is also MY Family but with a long list of English genes.

@donaldbaker1554

Жыл бұрын

It may make good comedy BUT IT is deadly serious For East Africa However I plumb for Zimbabwe as that is where Buildings have a Great similarity.

@blueband8114

Жыл бұрын

Not all.

I am a very white, very blonde, blue eyed female born in the United States. I was told my entire childhood that I had Native American on both sides of my family. I grew up in a Native American community and I often asked if I was adopted because I did not even slightly resemble my Native classmates or friends! Well, 3 DNA tests later (all with different companies) I am finally relieved to find out I am English/Welsh, Scottish, Irish & German with a little French thrown in.. No big surprise I am not one drop Native American! The moral of my story: Don't always believe what you are told. I have finally found my true identity and now I have the results to prove what my soul always knew! Now if I could just go see Scotland & Ireland in person I would finally feel complete!

@graemegardner8962

Жыл бұрын

These DNA test are more a bit of fun than serious. The DNA tests show the DNA make up of two people who lived centuries ago. For example, your father's, father's father's father could have been for arguments sake, Chinese and your mother's mother's mother's mother could have been an Arab. The DNA result would show you were 50% Chinese and 50% Arab. All other DNA is not included. Hence no record of your native American origins

@helenswan705

Жыл бұрын

I suspect all these results need to be taken with not just a pinch but a handful of salt. And does it matter? T me not a bit. If you do get to visit Scotalnd I hope you enjoy it and don't forget the wellies and raincoat

@barnowl5774

Жыл бұрын

GO! An Australian from 'Down Under' here. I have gone to the UK as I have Welsh (73%) and English (19%) etc. , roots (on a l-o-n-g plane flight) and loved seeing where my ancestors came from. I'm planning to go again now that I know more of my Family Tree.

@chuckbaker7909

Жыл бұрын

A lot of that depends on what tribe. My great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee but my DNA test showed not one drop. I discussed it at length and found out that the Eastern band of Cherokee do not take DNA tests, so they will not show up in DNA tests. Most of the native American that shows is native American from the South Western US.

@alistairjamesheaton9155

Жыл бұрын

People maybe ethnically one thing, but culturally another. Or the expression is people go native when they move to a different country or take the region and they adopt the customs of the locals. You might have someone with a lot of Scottish heritage who lives in Brisbane and wouldn’t know I had it so it came with a bit of them, but you might have another person whose the family were Nigerian the group in Scotland support a local football club are well aware of the delights of haggis and deep fried Mars bars as well as having a broad Scottish accent.

You should all try an Ancestry dna test as it has GCs (Genetic Communities) and also you will most likely getting different regions. Ancestry also has separate categories i.e. England and Northwestern Europe, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. It would be interesting to see what your family gets.

As a black man from America it is refreshing to see someone talk about Scotland from a black Scottish point of view. Your insight into Scottish culture and history is very transparent and fascinating. Because by you having that insight from a different perspective. You give a more well balance look at the Scottish culture coming from both sides .In my short time watching your videos.I had learned so much because it is easier to when i see myself.Even though you're Scottish accent is thick . Scottish history has alot of black roots in it. You really makes it fun and very interesting. You talk about the technical aspects of history and culture with having the need to down play or erase any type of white contributions that was made towards the Scottish culture. I was always fascinated with Scottish culture. But i could never listen to or watch any white Scottish person speak on it. Because they always had the need to downplay or erase any type of contribution that was made by black Scottish folks.You don't downplay nobody real contribution to the Scottish culture. I thank you for that.I'm trying to get others to know about your channel.I feel that it is good for young black children to learn and see different cultural groups within the black world wide community. Your videos are fun and your presentation is on fire. That's how good you are my brother. Much success to you and your channel.💯

Very cool to get all the test results back Bruce! I wasn't at all shocked by the results. Europe and The British Isles are an area that is smaller than the USA but it's always cracked me up that they call us the melting pot! There have been so many movements of people, borders, wars that stretched across half the continents, including the British Isles, that there is no way that most can say they go back solely to the country that they were born in! I know from family papers that my father's side was largely Scottish but my last name is in fact Norman and goes back to William the Conqueror, so his people migrated from Normandy to England to Scotland as they acquired or lost land. Normandy has a small Celtic speaking population that mostly comes from marrying into families of Bretons from Brittany, France, as my father's ancestors did. My mother's people were Breton Huguenots from Brittany who came seeking religious freedom and eventually married into a Cherokee family from Georgia. My father's family also married into the Cherokee, something I didn't know until I found my great-great grandad's name on a book of people applying as members of a wealthy Cherokee family to collect money from a will! (Definitely more Scottish, this one!😁) So I can honestly say that no matter what DNA may or may not say, I am of Celtic and Cherokee descent! I'm also an American because I was born here in Georgia. You are from where you were born and raised. That's what makes you, you. My hope is that one day, every person on this Earth will realize that we are all humans, sisters and brothers all! That way, we can stop all these silly wars and just bicker amongst our families!

@justtruth5855

Жыл бұрын

What year did your grandfather+ apply for Cherokee money? @Benayah Israel has done some excellent work research on the Hugunoughts and Scotland etc, @Dante Fortson also has so much information.

Really enjoyed this. Reminded me of dads workmate who's daughter was in England about to hatch. There were desperate attempts to coerce the daughter north because he didn't want a "Bloody English Grandchild!" I'm sure the trip over the border would have profoundly changed the DNA.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

Bruce, thank you for letting us in on your family's journey. It's fun to do the genetic genealogy, but as others have pointed out, the results are only approximations based on the aggregate number of people in a particular area who share a genetic marker. Different genealogy tests test different sections of DNA so can come up with different results. Thank you, Bruce, for seeing the test as the fun it is, and for sharing the reality that our identity is shaped more by the people and times we live in than our DNA. Your comments about Mary Queen of Scots, Wm. Wallace prove the point. If you would like to learn more about genetics, check out "Traced" by Nathaniel T. Jeanson.

Think the results of these tests are pretty clear, you have a wonderful family.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I think so too!

I nearly started a riot in a pub in Partick when I heard a smug guy say he was proud to be a true Scot 100% I said to him there was no such a thing, all hell broke loose

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

That sounds 100% Scottish🤣🤣🤣🤣

Comedy gold! When our family did their DNA we also had some jaw dropping moments. My father who is a proud Yorkshire man had very little English and was more Irish than he expected. My sister in law discovered she had Aboriginal family. I’ve known many friends who have a long family history in Australia who have proudly discovered Aboriginal ancestry. These same friends thought they had some Spanish or Afghan background, which they discover was code for hiding Aboriginal family in the past. I ended up mostly Scottish and Irish with some Scandinavian with almost no English.

So many people moved around through history, that "where did I get this bit" may go waaaaay back. I thought my heritage was largely German, but it turns out the Germans were mostly Heugenoughts from France, resettled in or near Germany. So my DNA shows little German at all. It's super interesting to sort through!!

What a beautiful mixture. Isn't family wonderful. It only solidifies that we are all the same humans. We must always remember that!

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

Very true, Donna, my son found Welsh and Anglo Irish relations as well as Scottish and Irish...

I love your videos and had to chime in on this one. My wife and I took 5 DNA tests and all 5 had slightly different results. 3 tests showed Baltic and some various Afrikan regions. 2 tests showed the same but included South East Asia. None matched out ancestral records completely therefore we took a Russian Originie Test. This test came back 100% matchup with records. 0% Afrikan bloodlines with Australnesian and Baltic. 100% Luxemburg, 100% Yemen of Far East Asia... Sometimes I guess due to politics we forget Indo and Mestizen are synonyms. You are all 100% Indo-Europeans.

This is the best and happiest video I've watched in ages. Thank you so much for brightening my day. BTW we did a DNA test and found out we are 98% English of which 89% was from Sussex. We live within 1 mile of the church where our family were first buried since the late 1600's so my take on this is what a boring untraveled lot my family is !😂

I find this stuff so interesting! I did my DNA along with my mum, Auntie, sister and cousin. Turns out we are all related! 😁

This was a fun and enlightening watch. Thanks to the entire family for sharing.

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

Seconded

I was a bit surprised that not all the percentages added up to exactly 100%, Selasie came to 103.4, Prince came to 101.1 and George came to 99.6. Only Bruce and Zoe were exactly 100%

@barbthegreat586

Жыл бұрын

I guess it's how they rounded the numbers.

You have a lovely family! I'm an American, my mother was German & Austrian (with some Magyar). My Father? His family was mostly European with a few Native Americans in the mix. If you base it on surnames, that European is a mix of Scottish and Irish, with all what that's a mix of! But in the parlance of today, I identify as just some American guy with interest in Scottish History among other things. Thank you for sharing. I look forward to many more wonderful videos and to hear those words that always gets me to smile .. "Let me tell you a story.."

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

I believe clan Leslie are descendants ( some anyway..) of a Magyar nobleman who settled in Scotland...

@sarahMuahahaha

Жыл бұрын

I have Magyar as well

@rsfaeges5298

Жыл бұрын

... cheerie en drasta. 😊 (I obviously nae ken the spelling, tho i LOVE to say it along with Bruce at the end of every episode.)

That was fun Bruce! I want to get my friends to do this with me. Thanks for sharing your wonderful family with us and good morning from America.

Thank you for these videos Bruce, I used to get teased growing up in Ireland for having a Scottish father, your videos show how our identity is much more complex and interesting than we might believe. We should celebrate each other in all our diversity and complexity.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Yes we should

It's a lucky man who knows his own father.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Spin that wheel

@gordonmurray3153

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours I was with a colleague getting the results of our security screening to work in the Houses of Parliament around Westminster. In front of a room full of strangers, he discovered that his dad wasn't who his maw had told him he was.

Beautiful family

It would be fun to follow your example. My Paternal Granddad was interested in Geniology, but that was before DNA was discovered, and as he was illigitimate he took his Mums name. My Grandmother was a Black Douglas, and Cousin to the Duke. Though our Family is related to 1/4 of our wee community. My Maternal grandparents were both Scots though my other Granny was born in Leeds. It would be fun to find out. Like you, I love history, especially Scottish. My dad once mentioned that he had some of William Wallace's blood in his DNA, to which some clown piped up, "that's pish, you dinnae look a bit like Mel Gibson! 🤣😂😋👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😂

I have set my family tree up on my heritage, but not got a DNA test done yet, I believe it’s probably better to get more than one DNA test done from different firms, just to see how spot on they both got the results.

@dotmenziesholden1251

Жыл бұрын

If you test with Ancestry you can upload your DNA file to many other sites, unfortunately Ancestry does not allow you to do the same :( I test more strongly for my Scottish ancestry on other sites than I do with Ancestry.

@resourcedragon

Жыл бұрын

The results (in terms of the sequencing of the genome) are very consistent between the different companies. What varies is how those companies interpret what they find. (I've tested with both Ancestry and 23andme.)

Enjoyed learning about you and your family's ancestry. Watching you all having fun discovering your ancestry made me interested in learning mine now.

What a good dad/uncle/brother you are! 🎶😎🎶

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😜

My "ethnic" report from Ancestry changes quite a bit. I did some reading on the methodology for assigning "ethnic" percentages, and a lot depends on what they've got in their database. It's not as though there is some absolute pattern for which DNA goes with which ethnicity. As the databases expand, expect more changes to ethnicity estimates in the future. One particularly interesting comment was that southern Scotland and Midlands to northwestern England show much the same DNA patterns. For whatever reason, they chose to call it English rather than Scottish. Compared with what I have documented over the years, a lot of my DNA that they assign to Midlands and Isle of Man should probably be Scotland. And I, too, have that "Scandinavian" (with a smidge of Baltic) thing going on, even though the documentation I have collected over the past 58 years shows nobody from a Scandinavian country more recent than a thousand years ago! However, my most recent traceable, documented Scottish ancestry goes to Clan Macneil and Clan Sinclair--from heavily "Vikingized" parts of Scotland! So it kind of works.

@nataliajimenez1870

Жыл бұрын

There's more genetic diversity between 2 people of the same Nigerian village than between any 2 people outside of Africa (for example, a Scandinavian and a Vietnamese). Most genetic sampling has been done of white people, so those genetic ancestry studies tend to be really bad for people with African roots

@justtruth5855

Жыл бұрын

@@nataliajimenez1870 the E1B1A are the children of the ancient Hebrews. Over 250 million Israelites live in Africa, only 100 million know who they are, and can trace their lineage back to when they were in Egypt or Babylon etc.

I so enjoyed this! Loved the laughter about your results and the factor 50 teasing of your wee girl! 😂😂 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great show as usual Bruce, one of my fave channels. Oh he’s teaching me about my Scottish heritage in a great way… Keep on rockin

Thank you that was so interesting!

I just wanted to first say I have been enjoying your videos for over a year now and I love them. I am an Ameri-Cadian ( taken from the comic book “Starstruck “ Elian Lee and Wm Wm Kaluta duel citizen) of Scottish heritage. I a couple years back I did a DNA test for the Fam years ago. With rainbow results even Nigerian showed up for my kids too. My results were mostly European but I was shocked not too have any Native American/First Nation on either side . But that may be the nature of the GNA pool I was drawing from. Thank for your videos. (My Grandmother on myMums side was A MacLean of Duart. )

Aussie lady, My Heritage DNA say roughly 50/50 Irish/Scot and English. I did another DNA with Ancestry 74 Scot and bits of others, Irish, english, Wales, Sweden and Denmark, and Norway. Done paper and DNA tree....I find the Ancestry more accurate. So up to you to do another company. Have fun.

@carokat1111

Жыл бұрын

Agree

@lorrenaelliott161

Жыл бұрын

I have my Ancestry kit. Wasn’t sure whether to bother but I will now. The Ancestry website helped me track down one part of my family tree that was lost….glad to hear the DNA testing is equally accurate !

This was a fun video to watch. Thank you.

That was brilliant its was beautiful seeing you interact with your family. I Iove your videos l have learned so much .watching from paisley Scotland peace and love to all

What a great family!! So much fun seeing their reactions. 😀

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

They are!

@gilbertmoyes2918

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours, Let's hope Sue Braverman does not see this video, she will have you all shipped off to Rwanda 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. You have a fantastic SCOTTISH family.

Kia ora Bruce and family, All of my dad's family are from Peterhead too and my mum's are all from Glasgow so I would expect to have a lot of Scottish/Irish ancestry, but now I'm not so sure. Very keen to find out more. Love meeting your family. Ngā mihi from Wellington, Aotearoa.

That was really good to watch xx

You’re wonderful, Bruce and so is your family. ❤

I really liked this series with your family members. You all seem to get on so well and the process of finding out the different genetic backgrounds was cool. In the future as more data gets uploaded there will be more to look into. So interesting. Thanks!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

All good for a laugh, but Bruce will find that with each iteration, as the algorithm is refined, the results vary wildly. For example, I'm "currently" 15% Welsh on Ancestry. That sounds plausible as I have a great great grandad from Flintshire, however Wales was entirely absent from the previous two sets of results. That's a big chunk to miss! I've also gone from about 1/3 Scottish to more than 1/2. As mentioned elsewhere, "traces" of this and that, a couple of percentage points here or there, are more likely to be noise in the result than accurate.

@barnowl5774

Жыл бұрын

Agree.

This was a fun watch, thanks for sharing.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you for sharing!

Well hey there, I just had my DNA done, was always told I was of Scottish heritage. DNA says I'm 49.5 % German. What was interesting was the 3% African. I guess I'm not as white as I look.

@lawrenceglaister4364

Жыл бұрын

Could the 49.5% not be Anglo , Saxon or Jute. ???

@harrymontgomery5268

Жыл бұрын

@@lawrenceglaister4364 not a clue it's what the report said, I also had about 19 % Scot and 18% Scandinavian (Denmark) went through CRI genetics.

Greetings and blessings. Diversity is fantastic. Life is. In just a short period of time, just look at the miles travelled by your elders. Many stories I bet. Try and retrieve a few Bruce and make us a video of the endeavours and travels. That would be great. Sending positive vibes from Manchester.

Really interesting, keep it going, jock

Been waiting for this video. I loved it Bruce. Fun watch your reactions. I think I may do a my heritage test to compare it to ancestry.

That's all phuqen awesome 🤣 My ancestral background is so diverse I can only say "I'm Australian" 🙂🇦🇺🖤💛❤️

My paternal grandfather was from Somerset so my father told us we were English, but I'm actually 47% Scottish, and a direct bloodline descendant of Sir Roger de Kirkpatrick of Dumfries. The bloody dirk on the family crest explains a lot about my family...😬 What I WASN'T expecting was the dollop of Kazakhstani ancestry...

Been looking forward to this since the other one 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I would love to get one of these tests done. I found your tests fascinating ❤

Absolutely fascinating video with your lovely family Bruce, my heritage is mostly German, and as a proud Scot was amazed like you to find I was mostly English lol 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We are as you say all Jock Tamson’s bairns. 😃

@emmanuelgoldspleen2905

Жыл бұрын

Wha’ d’yer mean mostly German but “as a proud Scot”??? I’m a Lowland Scot with an Anglo-Saxon Y-DNA Haplogroup, but I’m just curious as to wha’ you meant. My mtDNA Haplogroup is indigenous to the Isles, as of the Neolithic period.

My DNA results have also changed over time...but interestingly they seem to be getting more and more aligned with my family's stories of where we came from. Also, the way I understand it is that you get 50% from your mum and 50% from your dad. So it is like you took 50% out of the 100% bucket of your mum's DNA and 50% out of 100% of your dad's DNA. My mum's dad was from Finland. Mum can't be more than 50% Finnish because there is no Finnish on her mum's side, and she is in fact 49%. I cannot be more (but can be less) than 25% since there is no Finnish on my dad's side. I am 22% Finnish.

@srice6231

Жыл бұрын

I might be wrong about how much Finnish I could get from my mum but it won't be more than she has...but as I said I have 22%

@tammyads

Жыл бұрын

and you can also get more or less than something so your sibling could get 30% Scottish but you only get 10% but get more of something else, it's really cool. you are right! :D I would love for me and my sister to do one of these to see how much we have in common. and to see if we have any reletives.

@shawngross5420

Жыл бұрын

@@tammyads , yes. My brother and I both took the test. It was fun to compare. Really interesting to compare the DNA of my grandma (95) and her sister (85), too. They are both living and were blown away by the results. Comparing my DNA with my Dad's, sometimes I took part of the DNA from a region and sometimes I took the entire segment. Fascinating! On ancestry, it breaks down what came from each parent. Also, I found a half sister my dad didn't know about! We had a big reunion 2 1/2 years ago. They are close now and she is a part of our family. It doesn't always work out well. But for us, we wanted her and she wanted us, so it is good.

That was fun. It was funny that everybody was surprised by their results.

It’s so fascinating to find this sort of thing out. All the wee parts that make up the whole. Need to get me a test ordered.

Great vid Bruce! what this shows clearly as that we ALL belong to the larger human family and that so much of identity is psychological, not physical (which I don't mean to suggest that our identities are not valid), but what it does show is that we are ALL far more interesting and complex than we may realise - and that we are all the product of complex migrations and intermingling of people over thousands of years. The problem often is that modern nation states have imprinted a dimension to our identity which is somewhat "fake" given that even in Europe (let alone other countries in other continents) most modern nation states' borders only appeared in the last 200 years .... there is a also a teleological problem with ethnic identity, since even our direct ancestors may not have identified (in ethnic terms) in any relatable way to how we might perceive ourselves today .... In terms of these genetic tests, I am not an expert, but I think these stats (particularly "ethnic" attributions) can change depending on the sample size on which these groupings/attributions are based. I myself am half Italian (father), half Scottish (mother). I first participated in the National Geographic genographic project in 2006 and the results were transferred to another company - but as the years have passed my "ethnic" breakdown (and even attribution of my Y haplogroup) has changed (a lot!) over the past years as more people get tested and the information is refined. When I was first tested, the results were supposed to come back in around 4 weeks, but it took them 6 months because my Y haplogroup was extremely rare, and the name and understanding of this haplogroup has changed about 6 times in the past 15 years ...in the past I was informed I had around 20 percent middle eastern origins, in the latest refinement I am told it is less than 2 percent.... another Scottish friend of mine (who believed that both sides of the family had "originated" in Scotland) was told that his Y haplogroup (M) was one that is found in west/northwest Africa! but again, the way these haplogroups became intermingled may not be recent but could date back thousands of years ... ultimately, we are ALL related!

@davefinster8697

Жыл бұрын

@Marcus Check out "Mitochondrial Eve" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve. All living humans carry "her" DNA. Not the only human living then, but we are all related through her.

My sister and I both had our dna ethnicity compared. We shared most things but in very different amounts even though we have the same parents. It was a fun test to look at

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but that makes sense, no?

@brockblades

Жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours it does when you understand that you don’t get the same amount of dna from each parent. My sister had never considered it 😂

Great video, Bruce 😊

This was a great video! You have an awesome family!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

I know, right?

Thanks for the video Bruce. Wonderful! Yours is my ideal Scottish family. Forget The Broons! I want Scotland to be independent but I also want it to be open and accepting of everybody. I don't think we can be while we're tied to England. I returned from a holiday in Crete on Tuesday and while queueing for passport control at Heraklion airport, there were Germans in our queue by mistake. The Glasgow flight, like all the British ones, was going from Hall B. The German ones were departing from Hall A. The people in the queue asked a member of staff where they should go and she said "You want Gate A6. This queue is for Hall B. That is for non-European flights." I know that she meant non-Shengen flights, but it really cut me to the core. I could almost have cried. So now we're non-European because we're lumbered with those people down south! Aargh! Don't get me wrong. I sat at the gate for the Newcastle flight rather than at the gate for Glasgow because the people waiting for Newcastle were a bit more savoury than the Glasgow people. So I'm not being racist. But I want to live in a country that is outward looking and accepting. That is not the United Kingdom unfortunately. Keep opening our eyes to these things. You do wonderful work.

@andrewmcilwraith1997

Жыл бұрын

@Soul of a robot In an independent Scotland the SNP wouldn't exist. Their maths are irrelevant. They would have no role and they would have to show their true colours at the first general election. Interesting! If Croatia or Slovenia can be independent and a member of the EU then I suppose Scotland can too. It'll be up to the government that is elected. If a party are not pro-European, I don't think they will be elected to govern.

@cadileigh9948

Жыл бұрын

@Soul of a robot As the second largest contributor of taxes to the westminster administration after London the renewable power and water rich Scots are well place to thrive alone. No colony has asked to return after independance. Wales which is wealthy in similar resources will follow. We actually would be happy to pay higher taxes to have better services as in Scandanavia. Our ethos in the Celtic nations is very different to Englands despite the influx of immigrants who retire here

@beth12svist

Жыл бұрын

Well, in the meantime, look at it this way: My father, as he recalled his travels to the UK (specifically, mainly Northern Wales) in the 1990s, would say: "We were lumped in the non-EU queue with the Swiss, the Norwegians, and other such rabble." (We're Czech.)

What a fun breakdown. I love your family. Beautiful.

I really enjoyed this, thanks!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Wee mongrel dugs are usually the healthiest 😀

Just goes to show that a good number of ancestors from time immemorial were travelers who were willing to go against the odds and not entirely conventional re who sparked their fancies!

@lorrenaelliott161

Жыл бұрын

We are assuming that all these liaisons were historically consensual….I have a lot of friends who are Russian but also polish or German… doubt consent was involved in all of those ….

@wardarcade7452

Жыл бұрын

@@lorrenaelliott161 I didn't say whether the couplings were or weren't consensual- just that there were travelers who became smitten with those of different backgrounds. If one has no data about ancestry besides the sheer DNA (much less any testimonies concerning individual ancestors), one should not presume the issue of consent either way. Moreover, throughout history there HAVE been mutually consensual trysts of couples with very different ethnicities despite the societal norms, ethics and even laws condemning 'mixed' unions.

What a beautiful family. If you live on Scotland or were born or raised in Scotland your Scottish in my book, and all of the other bits just make you more interesting.

Love these videos Bruce!

Brilliant video Bruce, fascinating. I guess the difference between a Ghanaian and a Nigerian is a bit like the difference between English and Scottish in that we're more or less the same, genetically at least, if not politically or culturally. I feel like doing the same for myself and my family. I'm 100% peely-wally Scottish, but my wife is Malay-Singaporean and kids are a mix. Could be very interesting!

@monkeymox2544

Жыл бұрын

The English and the Scottish are very culturally similar. My Dad is Scottish and my Mum is English, so I've grown up around both, and I've always been baffled by people acting as if they're different. Similar tastes in food and drink, they consume more or less the same popular culture, read the same literature, have the same senseof humour, and have similar social morays. Public opinion polls show very similar political beliefs, too, with a couple of exceptions, although admittedly these similar beliefs don't manifest politically, for various reasons. In any case, anyone who has spent time around people from different parts of the UK have to admit, if they're being intellectually honest, that there is such a thing as cultural Britishness which transcends local identities.

@barnowl5774

Жыл бұрын

@@monkeymox2544 Now they do but probably this was not so hundreds and thousands of years ago.

@monkeymox2544

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewheaney6858 yeah he's a great example of what I'm talking about. Honestly I think the biggest divides in Britian are around class, not what part of the country you're from.

@shelleyphilcox4743

Жыл бұрын

@@monkeymox2544 Its true there are lots of cultural similarities, but there are also cultural differences, which I'm very happy about. It means there is much to connect us but also enough difference to be interesting.

I’m a similar European and non-European mix to Zoe except my non-euro part is NZ Māori and my European part is almost entirely Scottish according to DNA results but that doesn’t fit perfectly with my family tree. I believe we pick up differing amounts of DNA from various ancestors, in my case I collected a lot of DNA from various Scottish ancestors and not much or none from Welsh, Irish and English ancestors.

@kirstennielsen4046

Жыл бұрын

Not everything was as it was written down... just saying.

@raukawa4732

Жыл бұрын

What?

@kirstennielsen4046

Жыл бұрын

@@raukawa4732 I'm saying family tree is the official version, DNA the truth. Some would e.g. have had a young girl's child hidden in plain sight as another sibling alongside its mother; some would marry one, but have given birth to a child of another ... that kind of thing.

Great video thanks

this was so fun to watch

I am an amateur historian and genealogy enthusiast so I am by no means an expert, but from what I understand the percentage is based on the probability that your ancestors are from that region. So based on the databases for certain populations there's an X% chance that your ancestors came from those places. Having 1% ancestry of something doesn't necessarily mean your ancestors definitely came from there. Just means there's a higher chance than 0. Curious if anyone else can expand on this 😊

@KristiContemplates

Жыл бұрын

Oh, Lord. Population genetics - run awaaaaaay!!

@KristiContemplates

Жыл бұрын

@Marcus two (2) areas of genetics I cannot stand discussing; Quantitative genetics and statistical population genetics. Gimme biomechanisms that regulate gene expression any phuqen day o'the week

We get 50% of our DNA from each parent, which means we only get 50% of each parent’s DNA. DNA can vary between people with the same parents for this reason! So just because Scottish didn’t show up on your DNA test doesn’t mean you don’t have Scottish ancestry. I know you know this, but so many people who do DNA tests do not understand how it works.

@barnowl5774

Жыл бұрын

The tests show the % of ethnicity. They do not show if a very small number of ancestors popped up here and there from other places after a number of generations back.

@ffotograffydd

Жыл бұрын

@@barnowl5774 Which is a different point entirely.

@barnowl5774

Жыл бұрын

@@ffotograffyddHow?

@ffotograffydd

Жыл бұрын

@@barnowl5774 How what?

@barnowl5774

Жыл бұрын

@@ffotograffydd How is my comment 'a different point entirely'?

Thanks for sharing this information! Thanks for the story!

This was so cool I love it. It was fun.☮️🌹🦋❤️🌟😊

great stuff!

As far as I’m concerned if you live and love in Scotland, you’re Scottish. ❤

@jacquelinemerrick4257

Жыл бұрын

@jeanthompson9873

Жыл бұрын

Born in the English Midlands.Arrived in wonderful Scotland 10 years ago to live ( been visiting for 50 + years) Now feel I have found my real home.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@emmanuelgoldspleen2905

Жыл бұрын

Naw, that’s wha’ Nicola Sturgeon said. Have fun cobbling together more nationalities tha’ don’t exist! Unless you have Celtic origins on your DNA test, that are localised to the north of Britain, then you’re no Sco’ish, in an ethnographic sense of the word. That’s the fact, whether we like it or not. You may have citizenship of Scotland (or rather the UK), but that’s a legal fiction that only exists on paper, and has nothing to do with British gene pools, evolution, and genetic adaptation. This isn’t me havin’ a go, it’s a matter of science and biology ‘n’ aw tha’.

@jaggy-snake

Жыл бұрын

@@emmanuelgoldspleen2905 cool story Ivan.

@jaggy-snake

Жыл бұрын

@@emmanuelgoldspleen2905 I love how you’re trying to sound Scottish LMAO.

I'm from a long line of people who couldn't keep it in their pants and would roll about in the hay with anything with a pulse and thus my family are arguably as mixed as yours but I consider myself a Welsh/Scot who just happens to live in Poland we are all mongrols but we are still needing to get you guys England tops for the World Cup hihihi

@KeithWilliamMacHendry

Жыл бұрын

I love the English but when it comes to football or rugby I’d wear a Taliban top before id wear a Englanders top 😁. You just cannae wear an English top & I wish they’d stop plagiarising the blue from our flag in their merchandise. Their Plantagenet lions ( (formerly leopards) are gold, not blue as the EFA have them displayed.

@cadileigh9948

Жыл бұрын

Cymru are in the Foot ball world cup so you can sing Ni yma o hyd when we compete if you can accept the venue

@lorrenaelliott161

Жыл бұрын

I couldn’t help laugi😂😂😂😂😂😂ng out loud at your description of how your ancestors spent their free time lol

Absolutely fascinating.

Great video lots of love from Isle of Bute

HA H A Bruce I'm English and very proud of that I did a Ancestry test turns out I'm 42 % Irish 35 % English 13 % Scottish and rest Denmark and Sweden so that means I'm more Scottish then you and your lassie and I'm English. Love ya videos pal ..

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Aye, but can ye say purple curly wurly?

Bruce 😢 it could have been a lot worse , you could have been 100% English 😂😂

Well, I’ve been watching your videos for some time, and from what I’ve seen you’re 100% nice.

I love the fun and laughter in this video. What a great family!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

10 ай бұрын

They are!

Being from a family that historically lived around Stirling up towards Highland Perthsire and West to the Trossachs. I've met Scots Asians, Scots Africans, Scots Chinese and even a Scots Native American, all born in Scotland, all equally Scottish, to a significant degree Scots speakers and all raised in Scots culture. What makes someone Scots is far less to do with genetics, more a matter of being born with a Scottish soul. Scottish, it's a Soul thing.

@petesmitt

Жыл бұрын

nah.. don't get ethnicity and nationality mixed up; they aren't the same thing.

Loved this video....everyone round that table was briiliant....just shows we are all brothers and sisters...your family is great...luv fae Dundee

I love your family! What a diverse group!

this is so awesome and important