Just Had My Dna Results

[rowanwitch]

37.7% Scandinavian

30.8% Irish, Scottish, Welsh

17.6% North Western European 

13.9% Iberian......

Maybe I shouldn't have voted for Brexit after all

 

[Hymie]

Of course another sibling’s results would show this.

[Thisoldbird]

I did mine several years ago via Ancestry.Com my results are managed by a relative who is a whizz at Ancestry, researching his family tree.  He has been helpful filling in some of my ancestry details.  I don't actively research now but found very interesting information..a bigamist amusing story when matched with newspaper articles from early 1900s. 

It does of course  only get results as more and more people register an interest. 

For me it was worth doing. 

 

[rowanwitch]

My sister is going to get hers done,  but if companies don't s ghost are their results pools when th I believe is the case it probably means  I need to do a couple of others to get a better picture and pick up any other rels.

It's found a couple of  cousins in the USA, and I do know a great uncle  moved there after the second world war  and a lot of folk in Ireland. These has decided we are probably cousins too. I suspect this would be an area of concern in her village...

[rowanwitch]

Ghost are....pool their

[newmodarmy]

Welcome; it s an unusual first post but 'hello 

[ferlew]

As stated above I did mine to ascertain the probability of my biological dad being who a relative old me he was.
My family are from 2 main areas, Yorkshire and Ireland.The fact that I got a large %age of Scotland bore out the rumours I had been told of, given that there are no Scots in either side of my family other than this 'gentleman'.

[douglas9401]

"Anyone who is interested care to explain what I might be missing?"

Might be helpful if applying for social housing if it throws up the 'correct' or preferred answers.

 

[piggynose]

09.25 ditto

[youngmafbog]

My eldest did this when she did her first degree (Biology and Genetics). I told her to keep it to herself, I have the same feelings as AH.

[Maydup]

I can understand people being uninterested, just as I am uninterested in various things people spend their time on; but I cannot understand the denial of not wanting to know if offered the information. 

[bednobs]

personally, i don't get it either.

irish, scottish, welsh are not one homogenous group.

what is the difference between that and north west europe? (i thought we were in NW europe!).

I cant see any benefit for me to know those things

[Prudie]

I was curious, I expect that's what drives others. Mine didn't throw up anything interesting except confirm quite a strong Welsh factor mixed with England and NW Europe.

I do think they have to be taken with a pinch of salt. My daughter did hers and she has a full Italian grandmother and yet had no Italian in her results at all. Just a smidgeon of Spanish. It did however manage to connect us both as a parent/child match.

[bednobs]

Hey prudie, long time no see, how ya doing?

[jno]

Bednobs, the thinking (when I last looked into it, these things change) is that Ireland, Scotland and Wales were settled (this is very broadly speaking) from Celts who made their way up here by land or sea after the last Ice Age. England on the other had was settled by people who had moved across country from SE Europe, maybe in the general areaa of Bulgaria, while there was still a land bridge connecting England to the continent and the Thames flowed into the Rhine.

In the long run that would mean quite dissimilar long-term DNA.  In the shorter term the descendants of these people have setted down and mingled their DNA with people from any old where. What you'e told will depend on the exact test you take; some go back much further than others.