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Expect broad regional information "the Balkans", "Eastern Europe", "Sub-Sahara Africa", "Northwestern Europe". They can't seem to distinguish Ireland from England/Wales/Scotland. "Southern Europe" could be Italy or Greece or Spain. People moved around much more than we think so It is hard to nail things down. "Eastern Europe" could be Germany or Ukraine or Hungary. Maybe in some cases with deep testing and $$$ you might get more detail.
On the haplogroups (maternal or paternal) they seem like they can point to places 5,000 to 25,000 years ago -- Caspian Sea, Syria, Iberia, etc Populations were smaller and isolated. The field of knowledge is changing fast so don't put a lot of trust in something four or five years old regarding these ancient populations..
dna cant test history, but as people move around they leave people behind, so they test the present and predict the history. somebody with your dna could be from one country but that doesnt mean your tree was every in that country. you got to take it with a grain of salt
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The only DNA nation state on Ancestry.com DNA is Ireland and Great Britain if you don't consider Scotland, Wales, and England separate ethnic nations. West Europe is a large region from Netherlands to northern Italy.
The only DNA nation state on Ancestry.com DNA is Ireland and Great Britain if you don't consider Scotland, Wales, and England separate ethnic nations. West Europe is a large region from Netherlands to northern Italy.
Even those aren't restricted to just those places though.
Great Britain
Primarily located in: England, Scotland, Wales
Also found in: Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Italy
Ireland
Primarily located in: Ireland, Wales, Scotland
Also found in: France, England
Expect broad regional information "the Balkans", "Eastern Europe", "Sub-Sahara Africa", "Northwestern Europe". They can't seem to distinguish Ireland from England/Wales/Scotland. "Southern Europe" could be Italy or Greece or Spain. People moved around much more than we think so It is hard to nail things down. "Eastern Europe" could be Germany or Ukraine or Hungary. Maybe in some cases with deep testing and $$$ you might get more detail.
I guess so many of those people inter-mingled with each other in the same regions.
My husband said Irish and Scottish people are the same race with the same DNA and always have been. English and Welsh seem to be something else.
My mom's side of the family originally were German-speaking Swiss immigrants. So maybe my DNA will say "Central Europe"?
I guess so many of those people inter-mingled with each other in the same regions.
My husband said Irish and Scottish people are the same race with the same DNA and always have been. English and Welsh seem to be something else.
None of those are a race. Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh are all white - their race is white. Even ethnically, their DNA isn't vastly different. AncestryDNA is the only one that attempts to separate Irish/Celtic from British and it's just not always possible. 23andMe and FTDNA lump them together as an indistinguishable "British Isles" or "British & Irish". Even AncestryDNA has to admit that all of those countries can turn up under either category, Ireland or Great Britain. Your ancestry can be entirely English but you could get high results in the category called Ireland, or vice versa.
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My mom's side of the family originally were German-speaking Swiss immigrants. So maybe my DNA will say "Central Europe"?
You may get a high percentage in West/Central Europe, but because the Germans/Swiss share so much DNA with neighboring regions, you will likely get some results in other areas too. Note the info I posted for Great Britain from AncestryDNA includes Germany and Switzerland.
I would say the original Britons, the Welsh, are more Celtic than the Irish. Much less Norman, Viking and Saxon blood.
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