Has anyone else been ubber surprised by their dna results???? (percentage, dark)
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To say Brits are not Celtic but the Welsh, Scots are, I am confused like saying Chief Sitting Bull is not American. I guess she meant the English
celts are not a race or people but a way of life that was embrace from other people living in the area. they claim there is no percise celts dna but just of others that lived in the area that pickup their lifestyle.
celts are not a race or people but a way of life that was embrace from other people living in the area. they claim there is no percise celts dna but just of others that lived in the area that pickup their lifestyle.
The article says that people in Scotland and Cornwell are more English than Celtic. The study was specific to the UK, NOT Ireland, where there would be the most genetically pure Celts. From what I can tell, it is not conclusive that there is no Celtic race.
The Britis are not really mongrel . England is 75% Brythonic(Celt in this discussion) while Scotland is prob 85% Brythonic and Wales 99% so Britain, as Ireland, is 90% on average is non Germanic, so today's Brits as was George Washington basically 80% Brythonic
This is true my english ancestry is very Kentish (Jutes and so on) so I should be a bit more germanic plus I have actual german ancestors on paternal and maternal side.
But I only came up as 4.4 percent german on 23andme My euro ancestry was predominantly british and irish,I think if my english ancestry were that Jutish/Frisian/germanic it would show up more but then again 23andme onky dates the last 500 years.
Interesting post, also Kent is an old British name as is the Thames (named after a God) though we have a Germanic tongue ( with Latin and French and British words)
I certainly had some surprised via testing DNA with my own tests and those of relatives. I've identified I have at least two Sub-Saharan African ancestors, very likely slaves exported via the slave trade from West or Central Africa. One was an African male (identified via cousins Y DNA tests) and the black and white racial intermixing and "passing" happened sometime in the 1600s or early 1700s.
I also have confirmed distant Native American ancestry, probably from an ancestor Andrew M Russell who came from South Carolina, possibly from the Darlington Co., SC region near where various tri-racial peoples have been recorded.
The Britis are not really mongrel . England is 75% Brythonic(Celt in this discussion) while Scotland is prob 85% Brythonic and Wales 99% so Britain, as Ireland, is 90% on average is non Germanic, so today's Brits as was George Washington basically 80% Brythonic
Well firstly you have to define what you mean by "mongrel". Britain (England+Wales+Scotland) is not as a whole even 75% Brythonic (Celtic)! At least 30% of the British genome is Germanic, so about 70% Brythonic, while in eastern parts of England, it is even lower.
George Washington despite being mostly of English ancestry, had French and Dutch ancestry too, so we couldn't say that he was 80% Brythonic. Though he had red hair, blue eyes, pale skin, a pigmentation combination which would be more common amogst the English than the French or Dutch.
Interesting post, also Kent is an old British name as is the Thames (named after a God) though we have a Germanic tongue ( with Latin and French and British words)
English is not the only Germanic tongue with French words, Dutch and Flemish also have French words.
The article says that people in Scotland and Cornwell are more English than Celtic. The study was specific to the UK, NOT Ireland, where there would be the most genetically pure Celts. From what I can tell, it is not conclusive that there is no Celtic race.
It's Cornwall not Cornwell by the way! Cornwall is still mostly Celtic in comparison to the rest of England, but not as Celtic as Wales. The Cornish have received more Germanic admixture than the Welsh. It really depends what we mean by "Celtic" race, in Britain, Celtic was meant to call the pre - Roman people of Britain who were simple Celtic speakers. As with "Germanic" or "Slavic" races, etc...
This is true my english ancestry is very Kentish (Jutes and so on) so I should be a bit more germanic plus I have actual german ancestors on paternal and maternal side.
But I only came up as 4.4 percent german on 23andme My euro ancestry was predominantly british and irish,I think if my english ancestry were that Jutish/Frisian/germanic it would show up more but then again 23andme onky dates the last 500 years.
Yes indeed. Kent, East Anglia, midlands have the highest Germanic admixture in England, due to the fact that these were the regions where the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians first settled.
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