I did an Ancestry DNA last year and surprisingly no trace of Scottish, but I'm 8th generation English so it has been diluted to 'undetectable'. Still surprising though:
53% England and Northwestern Europe
9% Denmark
9% Ireland (Munros originally came from Ireland so that could be it).
4% Wales
1% Sardinia!!
and
24% German!
My youngest responded to that by saying "look on the bright side, we've just won another 4 World Cups!"
and a European Championship.
Oh yes - another four actually as Germany have won three!
I did an Ancestry DNA last year and surprisingly no trace of Scottish, but I'm 8th generation English so it has been diluted to 'undetectable'. Still surprising though:
53% England and Northwestern Europe
9% Denmark
9% Ireland (Munros originally came from Ireland so that could be it).
4% Wales
1% Sardinia!!
and
24% German!
My youngest responded to that by saying "look on the bright side, we've just won another 4 World Cups!"
and a European Championship.
Oh yes - another four actually as Germany have won three!
Dredging this up to say I finally got mine done and results back. I wanted to do it as my late nan was convinced we had Spanish heritage (for no other reason than she liked Spain when she went there - nutter). She was wrong, obviously. But we do have Scottish which I didn't know about (nan's grandparents most likely). So I'll be drinking more scotch than sangria this summer.
Everything else in there we knew about (dad with his 100% Welsh DNA, I guess his ancestors weren't lookers). The Norway element would be those cheeky Vikings I'd guess?
Anyone had any weird/unknown results back?
Not sure how you only got 48% Welsh from you dad if he was 100%. Ewe need to look into that.
I think that's her overall result not just her dad.
Yeah it says:
"You may not have inherited certain DNA because
DNA inheritance is random, so you don't inherit 50% of your parents' ethnicities
at most, only half of someone’s DNA can be passed down
beyond your parents, the amount of DNA you inherit from ancestors is not necessarily 25% from each grandparent, 12.5% from each great-grandparent, and so forth
your DNA may also look more like DNA from regions near your ancestors' homelands than it does like DNA from their country."
Plus my dad did his DNA with them too and he got 100% Welsh, boring bugger.
Not sure if I’m being thick, does this mean two siblings (with the same parents) could have different DNA results?
Was wondering the same: would the ancestry DNA results for my brother be identical to mine?
If not, and yet we both have the same biological mother and father, how reliable are the results?
For example, if my results indicate that I am 20% Iberian, but his results say 40% Iberian, how much of my ancestry is Iberian?
Refer to my earlier post. You have the Same DNA heritage but different combinations/mix thus you can have different ‘quantities’ of Iberian DNA for example. It’s how nature ensures we have a resilient population. Diversity of DNA between even siblings ensures as a population some of us will always survive a plague or supporting Charlton …
Thanks KiwiValley, yes I follow you.
I just wondered how much to trust the actual percentages you get from those analyses.
I guess they tell you that for sure you have that ancestry, but cannot guarantee you don't have others, which may show up in your siblings' results.
All the main DNA sites update their estimates as the technology and science improves, and the pool of testers grows.
There’s no doubt truth in it, but it shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Ancestry picked out a tiny area in Ireland for some of my relatives results, exactly where one pair of my great x 3 grandparents married in around 1840 before they later emigrated to England.
I did an Ancestry DNA last year and surprisingly no trace of Scottish, but I'm 8th generation English so it has been diluted to 'undetectable'. Still surprising though:
53% England and Northwestern Europe
9% Denmark
9% Ireland (Munros originally came from Ireland so that could be it).
4% Wales
1% Sardinia!!
and
24% German!
My youngest responded to that by saying "look on the bright side, we've just won another 4 World Cups!"
and a European Championship.
Oh yes - another four actually as Germany have won three!
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Oh yes - another four actually as Germany have won three!
There’s no doubt truth in it, but it shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Ancestry picked out a tiny area in Ireland for some of my relatives results, exactly where one pair of my great x 3 grandparents married in around 1840 before they later emigrated to England.
But he's also lost two world wars.