Yes. Family farm in Yorkshire for 200 years. But I don't think that I look anything like a typical Yorkshire person: I have black hair and green eyes and light skin that burns in winter, like Severus Snape from Harry Potter.
My maternal haplo is h6a1b2. I can only take it back seven generations, but it goes to Lancashire where they were textile mill workers. When that line came to America they went to… other textile mills in Massachusetts. I assume we had better labor conditions though 😅 23andme tracks my maternal haplo to the Yamnaya. The specific subclade was found in several Yamnayan burial sites. It came out of the Middle East originally. I’ve been following news in genetics and new studies that have come out seem to suggest that the Bell Beakers absorbed Yamnaya women and brought them to the British Isles and Ireland, so I assume that’s the likely way my foremother arrived in England. Perhaps a video is in order explaining that absorption process??? ❤ I’m mostly Irish on my paper trail but have other lines from Scotland and England… Another such line arrived in America via the Puritan Wave. When I researched that line I found American colonial ancestry that linked to seven Mayflower passengers. Another line on my other side also tracks to Lancashire. The family name on that is “Winterbottom.” Researchers working on that part of the tree said the name itself originates from the fact that the weavers who lived there overwintered at the bottom of the hill where it was protected. They spent the summers overseeing the flocks atop the hill. Pretty cool if true. They also came to Massachusetts to work in our textile mills. All of them, the post famine Irish, the post-clearances highlanders, the mill workers, the pilgrims… they were looking for a better life what a mutt I am.
I'm Dutch and live in the east of The Netherlands, near the German border. My mother was from the west of The Netherlands and my father from the east where I still live. I had my DNA tested and apparantly I'm 65% English, 35% Scandinavian and 1% Middle-Eastern (?). I have (dark) blond hair (turning grey now) and blue-grey eyes. However I don't know anything about (my) halo groups or where I can find information about that.
This presentation was very enlightening but the presenter was flawless, spoke quite fast but very clear with no break and with a lovely Scottish accent.
When he says "ancient England" he means "ancient Britain". The Anglo-Saxons had yet to arrive. However, this channel is excellent and I have learned a lot.
Well if he meant ancient Brythonic Celtic Briton it wouldn’t be English because the Germans wouldn’t be here and where was the DNA of the indigenous Celtic Britons in what is now called England?
He got confused about the pre-bronze-age WHG genetic remnant in modern Brits. Cheddar man's population has left no definite detectable trace. Yes, there are people with the same haplotypes - because, across the channel, those WHG haplotypes got incorporated into newer populations - who then settled Britain and Ireland. What I’m saying is that the mesolithic WHG people who themselves lived on the Atlantic islands are not part of your genetic makeup. CONTINENTAL WHGs, who the Brit WHGs hadn’t been seeing much of for a couple of thousand years - they formed a pre-existing, minor part of the ancestry of all later settlers. What the general British population has been to about the 18th century is; Neolithic (a tiny bit), Bronze age (mostly), Anglo-Saxon and Norman - who all contained a teensy bit of WHG. Modern Brits get almost all of their minuscule remnant of WHG from/through the same people they got EHG and CHG genes from.
@@GuerillaTVChannelPrecisely, I think. You do mean that the English wouldn't be here? You have written "would"? Pre-Anglo-Saxon invasion, the geographical area that is now England would have been Celtic Britain, consisting of many tribes...
@@Jezza-m5k Yes true, however those later English are also descended from the original Celts, as the video revealed the English are 10% to 40% Anglo Saxon. Therefore that means they are majority Celtic, with 90% to 60% of the previous populations DNA. That previous population includes the pre Celtic Hunter Gatherers who lived here at the end of the ice age, 10,000 years ago. It might also include Neanderthal DNA who we know lived here around 400,000 years ago. We know we do have Neanderthal DNA, but whether we inherited from those here or further afield is not known, but its an intriguing thought.
My Ancestry DNA: 49% English. 31% Irish, 11% Welsh, 3% Scottish, 4% Danish and 2% German. 55% Germanic, 45% Celtic. Born in England with an Irish surname. A mixture of the history of these isles 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
I’m from rural Australia, my ancestry is 38% Scottish, 32% English, 25% Irish, 5% Norwegian. Ancestry was able to accurately pinpoint the migrant wave my ancestors came on (and destination). Very amazing
I'm American of mostly English descent and of course proud to have English heritage including basically all American, my last name even come from my great grandfather Henry Johnson from Lanchashire, England before bringing himself to America in the 1600s and arriving in the Virgina Colony probably around 1623 while tracing our side of the family and English is by far the largest ancestral group in the United States and the largest Ethnicity representing 22% of the population across the US, anyway greetings from Texas.
@@Lordrixson5489 Lancashire is probably the best place sir, hope to visit England someday, in my life I have never traveled abroad including England as an American from Texas 🇺🇸 even though it is my ancestror land 🏴
@@ministry2627 No! even that will never happen. But English yeah in the 2020 US census English is the largest ethnic group in the US there are around 46.6 million ancestry reported while German is only 44 Million ancestry so what are you going to do. Saying that German is the largest is a mistake and an inaccurate source at first, without realizing that the number of English descent in the US is very undercounted in general because they claim to be true American.
@jonahwhale9047 The beginning of the introduction of cowboy culture and history along with the influence of country music is also a trend in the famous history of the US western expansion at that time. which at that time also brought many of the majority settlers of English descent who are considered the first white American settlers to make their dark journey westward, In fact, many of them were involved in conflict, misunderstanding, bloodshed over war and land grabbing which made Native Americans feel threatened, Many of the choices that English settlers inevitably had to take as leaders of the expansion route during the 18th century continued until they became known as the Buckaroos in Texas to Arizona, at which time the American Civil War suddenly broke out.
Great job. Very up-to-date and succinctly presented. I am English and live in America. This video is a good way of explaining why it is not always easy for genealogical companies like Ancestry to separate out DNA from the various parts of Europe and particularly the British Isles.
I'm an American from the South, which has always been (along with parts of New England) very ethnically homogeneous among the European derived population - mainly British, broadly speaking. My maternal grandfather was an Englishman from the midlands, and he married an American from an Ulster Scot/German family. On my father's side, we are a mashup of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish, in approximately that order. I'm sort of a bastard son of the entirety of the British Isles :D I would love to have some comprehensive genetic tests done, to compare to your excellent research; but I am wary of giving my genetic information to anyone lightly. Perhaps you could suggest some trustworthy sources that you might know of? Thanks for all your work, I always look forward to new videos.
I have heard it said that if “they” have several DNA samples of your kin (cousins etc) that they can piece yours together. I’m not sure how true it is, but if true, they most likely already have it more or less.
@@44thala49 One of my uncles has taken tests from a couple of different companies. Aside from personal privacy concerns, I have doubts about the veracity of the reports. I've heard similar stories from a number of people that have led me to suspect some of these companies might have a socio-political agenda.
I’d recommend a visit back to the old world and Mother England. It’s a powerful experience. All of the countries of the British Isles are fascinating. Especially North Wales where they still speak welsh as a first language. The Norman kings of England built magnificent castles there almost a 1000 years ago. Avoid the big cities and focus on the smaller ancient towns and villages that still retain the old ways.
@@DorchesterMom Yes perhaps, but it's only a vociferous minority that do, the vast majority all get on fine. That's because In reality here on the British isles, we are all related to one another in one way or another.
@@DorchesterMom I’m equally all including Welsh if my ancestors only knew that their brethren would hate each other. I’m really sad for my mother land. I never feel at home in the US. I have hope for everyone there because there is no hope here. It’s literally a 3rd world country here
@@johnbrereton5229with most people who do (point it out) it’s more of an offhand joke. I do sincerely wonder what it would have been like for those just post famine or post clearances marrying into English, but I assume that every single one of them was so beaten down that at the end of the day they were all just people trying to survive in the new land of America. Generally most of my ancestors were poor and illiterate, just trying to find work and support thier families. I know other people though who are more outspoken about those pairings 😅
@@DorchesterMom As the English are the largest nation on these islands they often get blamed for any disasters . However, the reality is not always what the precieved wisdom claims it to be and the two events you mentioned are prime examples of this.
DNA has really helped us to understand the history of the British home nations. While some haplogroups are too general to furnish ties with particular tribes, others can still provide some insight. I'm no expert, but most of the research papers I have seen implied that the 'average' English person is about 38% Frisian (and Dane Viking), 30% Brythonic Celt, 20% Northwest European (N.France & W.Germany), 6% Norwegian Viking, the remainder is mainly Iberian derived. This is pretty similar to the average Lowland Scot. Interestingly, the Brythonic and pre-Brythonic population is higher in Cornwall and Devon, but still very similar to the English average. Also noteworthy, there is much more diversity between the acknowledged Celtic nations, which would seem to support more of a cultural link. Useful video!
Normans didn't leave any genetic impact on the UK. They were an elite minority who mostly married among themselves within the ruling class. Their DNA has mostly disappeared by now. But even if it hadn't, they were only Nordic in the sense that the first generation was 100% from Denmark and/or Norway. Each subsequent generation was more and more heavily of a mixed origin of Frank, Breton, Burgundian, Gaul, etc.
@@gadpivs Normans didn't leave any genetic impact on the UK. Because they were the Same DNA that's why . The Normans were a Culture NOT a DNA Family group.
Fascinating video! I recently did one of those DNA tests and the results were: 70% England & Northwestern Europe, 11% Sweden & Denmark, 8% Scotland, 7% Wales and 4% Norway. Yorkshire Lass
@@n.m.m5460 stop being so cruel, black means sub-Saharan African and the only reason Cheddar man's skin was described as black was to muddy waters and deliberately diminish, replace, and harm us to claim we never existed based on the false premise that "an ethnicity is just a pigment".
@@n.m.m5460 stop being so cruel, black means sub-Saharan African and the only reason Cheddar man's skin was described as black was to muddy waters and deliberately diminish, enable replacement, and harm us via claims we never existed based on the false premise that "an ethnicity is just a pigment" and that we are somehow sub-Saharans and need to vanish.
@@n.m.m5460 Stop being obtuse. Whites already are capable of dark skin. The issue is being deliberately falsely associated with a foreign race of Sub-Saharan Africans because of a potential pigment to justify replacement by conflating pigment and race. Race is not a pigment. Darker pigment does not mean sub-Saharan African. Europeans have always been Europeans. Only we can be us.
I consider myself a proud Anglo-American since My family has been here since at least 1680. When I had my DNA run, my recent ancestry is literally a map of the British Isles.
Yeh that's what sways census's because Anglo Americans just call themselves Americans since they have been there the longest and Americans with German ancestry are more recent and are more aware of what they are.
I was taught that the English were a mix of Roman, Norse (Viking) and Germanic (Saxon) and it was that mix that makes the English ethnicity, everyone else were Celts (Scots, Welsh, Irish) and over time were almost completely wiped out by the English (with the last Celtic strongholds being Wales, Scotland and Ireland). This has been an accepted and taught theory for hundreds of years (at least, to my knowledge - I learnt this in school and I've never heard anything different). This theory was supposedly taught by the Victorians as a way to cement English ethnic superiority in Britain. It turns out that the Romans, Vikings and even the Saxons left almost no DNA in the English - the Romans and the Saxons were just the nobility and were eventually absorbed or died out, the Vikings in the north intermarried and became English and Christian. The Romans and the Saxons did not wipe out the Celts in England or drive them to the edges of the islands, they lived together and English DNA is still about 70% of what we would call Celtic. I'm not a historian or anything but if that's true we've all been the victim of some pretty crazy propaganda!
DNA is certainly ripping up some old stories. Some reckon Bede was a fibber. he Victorians did a lot of mangling. Britain's Hidden History is a good channel.
@wyrdways DNA says different. If the English are all Anglo's then where did the Celts in England go? Are you suggesting that millions of Celts in England were wiped out at some point? By who? Why is there no record of it? After the Angles wiped the Celts out, did they bring millions of Angle's over to replace them? How? When? Did the Angles empty their homeland of people to bring them here? Lol. The idea that Rome wiped out the northern European Celts (modern France/Spain) is nonsense as well...coz, if you kill them all, you can't replace them.
@@HektorBandimar that’s because even if they have English DNA, they’re not deluded enough to call themselves English American because they’ve never been to England they were born in America so they call themselves Americans
@@johnbaird4912 I don’t know. I don’t see the point stupidity deluded sense of loyalty to a country You’ve never been except on holiday or vacation as they say in America just call yourself Americans that’s what you are. Morgan Freeman once said I don’t mind the term African-American I don’t want to be called African-American and the person interviewing him said why and he said I’m not African and he isn’t. He’s never been to Africa well maybe has on television shows and holidays but his ethnicity is African but he isn’t African. He’s American so he gets it. I don’t know why everybody else doesn’t.
@@johnbaird4912it is understood in North America and many other places of heavy migration that one is speaking of the origins of their family lines. It has nothing to do with the passport they hold but with their roots and the journey their families endured.
Excellent, thanks. Danish settlement in the Danelaw exerted a massive influence on English. It is is hard to reconcile this with a mere 6% Viking contribution to the modern English gene pool. Most likely this element is underestimated because it cannot be reliable separated from the Anglo-Saxon element
As far as I have found, I have Irish, Welsh, mainly English, from Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Devon, Sussex, Berkshire and East Anglia - I guess I'm mostly ancient Briton but mainly a Wessex girl - ooh arrr! Sadly no Scottish - yet - it would be nice to have that one in my Heinz 57 mix!
Interesting but a bit tricky to understand your accent even though I’m English…I slowed it down but still tricky..sorry. Please speak more slowly, thank you, I’m sure I’m not the only one and you’ll get more subscriptions.
@@angelataylor2049 yes such a shame Kerry was to stupid to pass the 11+ They may have learnt to speak in RP so we could understand wot they were saying. - such a shame
I always thought I was Scottish because of my last name. Then I took a dna test and there was no Scottish. But 39% English and 32% Germanic. The rest was French, Netherlands, a little Welsh and and little Irish.
Many Norman lords married English heiresses in the decades after 1066. By around 1100 the Anglo-Norman upper classes had abandoned the close cropped and clean shaven look of their fathers and adopted the longer hair and beards of the natives.
Not so,many of the troops The Romans brought over came from Europe,what is now France,Spain,Belgium,Holland,Germany,Denmark.The Batavians,Germanicus,Hispana,Gauls. In 1973,a crowd of us came across A Glasgow University Archaelogical dig in The Kelvin Valley near Dullater on The Antonine Wall (a couple of hundred miles north of Hadrians ! Sorry not the final wall) The Archeoligists were very excited.They had found stones inscribed by the garrlson. The Verdulli,Mounted Archers, - From Syria,- Roman Troops were allowed to go forth and multiply. What price surveys now ? The same could be said of all warrior cults. Britain was not short,then either, there is the Ancient Brits themselves. No wonder we had a go at every so and so. Berserkers like The Danes.
@jonahwhale9047Those were (also!) other Syrians, than you think of though. The people there didn't live in a vacuum sealed box... and no single Arab were in sight, yet. 😋
@@kerrym5424there is a huge difference between Norman and Huguenots. Normans originated from Scandinavia while Huguenots lefts the south of France for predominantly protestant countries in the north of Europe (England, Netherlands and German states)
I am from America. I want to know more about my ancestors. I took a ancestry DNA test and it says I got Over 70% English DNA. I want to know more about how I can find out more about DNA and genetics research.
Like all Europeans, the English are a mixture of 3 genetic groups; Western Hunter Gatherers, Early European Farmers and Steppe Pastoralists - but blended in different proportions. New gene mutations of the past 7000 years or so have introduced regional variations as well as mating strategies like invaders procreating with local women rather than migrating with a family or preference trends favouring blonde hair or blue eyes. Important to note that the lack of defined borders (border control) has meant that there are more Scottish in England than in Edinburgh and more Irish in England than in Dublin (a Viking settlement like Swansea and various Scottish Isles). This mixing means that the ancient Britonic DNA is _still_ the predominant DNA group at circa 63% and the blend with Scotland has meant a 30% Anglo-Saxon DNA North of the border - not much less than England. Personally, my great grandfather and his wife came from Bavaria so I have I1 haplogroup. As far as I can trace, his paternal lineage came from Baltic Poland, south of Gotland and Stockholm where the I1 group is centred. One generation further back and I have Irish, Welsh and Scottish ancestry. The rest is "English" for around 7 generations going back, mostly London and East Anglia, which has probably the most continental DNA. It is difficult to identify uniquely English DNA because of the mixing, migrations and lack of defined borders. I'm happy with British or North European as a descriptor - I was born in Cornwall, so culturally celtic, which is not a distinct DNA group at all.
I'm half English and half Scottish. Scottish (Isle of Skye) mum, English dad (Isle of Sheppy). I grew up moving between England and Scotland, so my accent is weird 😂
Yes. I share 2 segments of DNA with Cheddar Man. 68% of my DNA comes from the British Isle. 32%Scot, 24% Eng., 10% Irish, and 2%Welsh. The rest is northwest European. My haplo groups are x: U8a-1a Y: R-L20.
You *share* those segments with Cheddar man, but it is overwhelmingly likely that they actually arrived in Britain carried by your bronze-age or later Continental ancestors. It is overwhelmingly likely that you got them from his continental cousins. You got your WHG from the same individuals that gave you your EHG and CHG.
An interesting video. My mtDNA is H1C3 which is found in northern England and Scandinavia. My YDNA is H-FT199009 which probably indicates neolithic farmer ancestry and seems to be quite rare.
I know in East Anglia there's a lot of Dutch and Flemish surnames, And I've seen surnames from Brittany France in some of the English. I personally use that September 21st 2022 Anglo-Saxon migration study as my ground basis
@@paulbromley6687 ancestry Is just lineage retention. But DNA is 50% of your DNA that isn't bread and spliced out. No one has genes of my Great great blah blah grandmother 6 generations ago for example. Just descent.
@@artstep9661English is a funny one. It definitely is not easy to learn because the grammar rules are more just guidelines than centrally important. I've known French, Iraqi, Turkish and Japanese people who've spent time over here and were trying to learn the language and they all struggled with the mutability of sentence structure. However, this is also what makes it such a powerful language, you can mangle a sentence and still make sense. So you only need a low level of ability to start using it and manage to communicate meaning fairly well. Partially due to this, english has become the primary language of science and finance across the globe
@@moreplease998 English is definitely easier to learn than most others grammatically due to creolisation over the millenia. Declension is FAR simpler than most other languages including all the ones you just mentioned (Iraqi isn't a language). Where English is harder is that the writing system doesn't match the phonology well but that is a matter of rote memorisation.
Interesting puzzle is my dad, we did his dna with 23andme in 2020 to try and find the identity of his mystery paternal grandfather. Dad's ancestral breakdown was: 100% northwest european 96.1 British and Irish 2% French and German 1% Scandanavian 0.9% Broardly Northwest European His Y DNA haplogroup though was confusingly R-Z93 hardly any native british men with this and far more common in the middle east and the subcontinent. This comes directly from the man who was his unknown grandfather. Dad was a slight man, with brigh ginger hair and freckles. We lost him last year but would still love to know the answer to this puzzle.
z93 appears to be central asian in origin (thousands of years ago). One possibility is that it could represent a rare survival of a Roman era lineage in Britain. Given the rest of the results your dad appears to be native British with no recent foreign ancestry. So whoever the missing grandfather was, he was of British ancestry himself.
@@damionkeeling3103thank you, that's what I felt. He has quite a few matches in Hungary as well but they are most likely from a family offshoot. it's such a fascinating subject isn't it?
❤ I am so English through & through our son checked my ancestors out with a lady whose livelihood is Ancestories . My husband is mainly Southern Irish. I am always being mistook for being Dutch, German & Swedish 😊
My DNA was analyzed showing my ancestry is mostly British, Irish and Scottish. The rest is Norwegian, including Sami. There's also a small bit showing North African. My surname is literally Saxton.
My 12th great grandfather (A Welshman whose name has been passed down through the generations to me) was one of the ship captains that brought people to Jamestown in 1607. He also captained The Virginia, the first ship built in the new world. This information is interesting and well presented. Thank you!
he may have carried my ancestor...Powell. Brother of the first Governor. Who had a Grandaughter in Virginia and then at some point left and settled in Cambridgeshire, England from whom I am a descendent. We tend to think of it as one way traffic but it couldn't have been.
Any thing to do with the English language has got to be complicated and takes time to put together so well done for putting it all together bravo excellent history of the peoples of England loved it 🙏😎
My ancestry is almost equally split between English, Irish and Scottish, with a bit of Norse thrown in. I don't think that is untypical for England, it is simply the percentages that vary. The Germanic presence in modern England goes back much further than 450 AD. Most of the auxiliary troops manning Hadrian's Wall during the Roman administration were Germanic, such as the Tungrians. Many other Germanic people had already settled in southern England before the end of the direct Roman administration of Britannia in 410 AD, probably as foederati troops. The Saxon Advent of 450 AD onwards was most likely a more intense continuation of that process.
Lost my Ma last year ,made me want to find out more,joined Ancestry recently. 72% English.. I Traced my father's paternal line from London back 5 gens to late 1700s to the Romney Marsh .all farm workers Mum's paternal line from London back to her Grandparents in Stroud,Gloucestershire to 4 generations around Cricklade Wiltshire to early 1800s 14% Irish (Cork,Kerry) Maternal Grandma 14% Iberian This one surprised me,! No known Spaniards or Portuguese in the family but apparently could be connected to Spanish Armada ships ending up in Ireland or also a more ancient migration. Is fascinating what you can find,and reading the Cencuses of your forebears! Now need to visit some of the places to see if I can find some gravestones!
I have 92% British Ancestry. My dad was R1b (he participated in a Y-DNA study with the National Odom Assembly here in the states) but I don't know my maternal haplogroup. I know I share a bit over 200 SNP''s with Cheddar Man...which is a fair amount considering the genetic distance.
Basically the same story I’d have thought! Same waves of migration from Beaker people onwards, same group of Celtic Ancient Britons when the Romans came, maybe a bit less Anglo-Saxon DNA but loads of intermingling with the rest of England down the ages!
@@thrutholthrolth I have read that the Cornish have little Saxon DNA, and that the Devon-Cornwall distinction associated with the Tamar is still genetic as well as cultural.
@@thrutholthrolth I think there are differences though. I’ve also heard something about Cornwall having a high amount of R1b, but pre Anglo-Saxon migration, which sounds quite strange.
The predominant Y-DNA haplogroup found in Cornwall is R1b, which constitutes approximately 78% of the tested samples. This haplogroup is particularly notable for its high frequency in Western Europe, especially in regions historically associated with Celtic populations. Within R1b, subclades such as L21 and DF27 are prevalent, indicating a strong connection to the early Bronze Age migrations into Britain. R1b Subclades: The L21 subclade is particularly significant as it is often associated with Celtic ancestry. The Cornwall project has identified various branches within this subclade, including DF63 and BY7782, which suggest a localized genetic continuity from the Bronze Age to modern times. 2. Other Notable Haplogroups While R1b dominates the genetic landscape, other haplogroups are present but at lower frequencies: I1 (8.7%): This haplogroup is primarily associated with Scandinavian ancestry and indicates some level of Norse influence in the region. E-V13 (3.8%): This haplogroup has roots in the Balkans and suggests historical connections to Mediterranean populations. GJN (2.6%): A rarer haplogroup that may indicate specific historical migrations or interactions.
I'm English. My family tree goes back to the 1700s with every member being from the same Lincs/S.Yorks area. Recently did my DNA which came back 65% North Western European, 24% English, 11% Welsh.
Interesting! So this means to refer to the English as “Anglo-Saxon” is pretty inaccurate. Only 10-40% of their DNA is Anglo Saxon, the majority of their DNA is Celtic Ancient Briton. This makes sense. The idea that the Anglo Saxons somehow killed or drove out the entire local population after the Romans left without leaving any archeological trace has always seemed far-fetched! But there is also a theory that some of that “Anglo-Saxon” DNA derives from people who were already in England when the Romans arrived. The “Saxon Shore” to which the Romans referred has always been assumed to mean the coast on which “Saxon” newcomers arrived. But it could equally mean the shore already inhabited by Saxons at the time the Romans invaded. Steven Oppenheimer discusses this in “The Origins of the British”, and Simon Jenkins mentions it in his book “The Celts” as well.
Yes that's true Malcolm, in fact I've recently been reading some papers that say when Julius Caesar first invaded he was chasing the Belgae people from Gaul who had escaped to Britain where they had well established kin across southern England. The Belgae, though a Celtic tribe also apparently spoke a Germanic tongue. Also another paper suggests that the famous Iceni people (Boudicaa) also spoke germanic. So it seems a proto English language is far older here than was first thought and would help to explain why we changed to speaking English after the Roman's left so easily.
From the study. We estimate that the ancestry of the present-day English ranges between 25% and 47% England EMA CNE-like, 11% and 57% England LIA-like and 14% and 43% France IA-like. There are substantial genetic differences between English regions (Fig. 5a), with less ancient continental ancestry (England EMA CNE or France IA related) evident in southwestern and northwestern England as well as along the Welsh borders (Fig. 5c). By contrast, we saw peaks in CNE-like ancestry of up to 47% for southeastern, eastern and central England, especially Sussex, the East Midlands and East Anglia. We found substantial France IA ancestry only in England, but not in Wales, Scotland or Ireland, following an east-to-west cline in Britain. (CNE is North German and Danish, England LIA is Late Iron Age i.e. Romano-British). So there is quite a bit of France IA in there also.
_Only 10-40% of their DNA is Anglo Saxon, the majority of their DNA is Celtic Ancient Briton._ Yeah, but it's the 10-40% Anglo-Saxon that make us so much superior.
I'm from Liverpool and supposed to be English. My ancestors came out from Ireland in the 1800's and I assumed I would have some English dna but results came zero English but nearly all Irish with some Welsh.
I'm English, traced my family back to a small village in Kent to 1600, were they stayed until my grandparents, in 1600 family split half went ot America and halt stayed in Kent, prior to that we believe originally from Scotland due to the family name
My father was a English Londoner and my mother from Germany, she had a Hungarian grandfather, I believe the name Martin is of Roman origin relating to a sect of the Roman empire who worshipped Mars as a god of war so it’s possible my ancestors might be of Roman origin too. Possibly a centurion or Roman settler.
Can I ask a question, If you don't want to answer it's fine as it's slightly political, in certain circles in the UK there's beginning to be a push to eliminate the word 'Anglo-saxon' as it's said it's not actually a distinct culture. What's your opinion on this? Personally I think it's important that our history is told regardless of opinion.
It seems silly to me especially in a historical context. There has obviously been various influences on England but the Anglo-Saxons were a significant force, both genetically and culturally. English is a Germanic language because of them, and another word for Old English is literally Anglo-Saxon. But what do you think?
Communist always deleting History . USSR tried the same with Sovietism , Canceled anything with Imperial Russia or even the ancient Kingdoms of Kev-Rus
My family history says my ancestors all hailed from the British Isles, but all over the place within that archipelago. It would be interesting to do a DNA test to get more information - is there a guide to DNA / ancestry testing, that tells what each test includes and excludes and how much they each cost?
My DNA came back as 53% Irish and 47% English, I am English, my dad came from Ireland and that side of the DNA is centered around Clare, Kerry, Galway and Cork, my mum is from Hampshire and my DNA reflects that with the English side centered around Hampshire, Sussex and the South East, there was no other strands of DNA in there which considering how much of a melting pot England has been was a bit of a surprise.
I am a native Saxon from Westfalia in northwest Germany the home of the Saxons as well lower saxony and twente in the east part of the netherlands ......we share the saxon horse on our flag with Kent......I 've been many times in England......the english are family to us......same tribe❤
A lot of people in the comments missing a valuable point. Although Celtic ancestry is much higher in Wales and Scotland (60-70%) it is still as high as Anglo Saxon ancestry in English DNA despite it being a few thousand years older. Britain overall, still is a Celtic Christian nation with large Anglo Saxon and significant Viking DNA too, don’t forget that!
I can understand you perfectly unlike others in my house who think you’re not speaking English , I also understand Jamaican patois clearly when others don’t think it’s English, and even understand a little bit of German for some reason
Regarding the beaker peoples who eat and drank milk products. It's recently been discovered that milk contains an essential nutrient: C-15:0 fatty acid. Apart from milk the only other common source are fish heads and skin. So that could explain the very quick genetic replacement by beaker people's DNA - they were likely healthier than most natives which would've given them advantages in combat.
Breast milk is for humans. Cow’s milk for baby cows. Goat’s milk for baby goats etc. There’s nothing in another mammal’s milk that humans need. The protein content is different and not ‘designed’ for human babies. After weening humans shouldn’t be consuming any milk - regardless of whose breast it is from
Good video. Is the presenter’s accent from the Dundee Aberdeen region? It’s quite hard to understand but I like it, and more Scots should speak on RUclips with their native accent. The more we hear it, the more we get used to it.
Can you do a video about the genetics of Northern Ireland (Ulster) because quite a lot of them are genetically Scottish and not Irish, because of the Plantation of Ulster. So that would be brilliant if you can do that?
After all the invasions of the British Isles by the many invaders mentioned in the video I was surprised to find that my DNA analysis revealed only two origins, Celt (89%) and Anglo Saxon (11%). Interesting video.👍
I am at a loss as to what English dna is. I’m half Irish, which Ancestry and Myheritage acknowledge. My father ‘s side come from a small area of England, the same place I come from, and have done for at least 600 years. I know how I’m Related to Richard III. Yet Ancestry say I’m only 20% English and northwestern Europe and 30% Scottish. According to Myheritage I’m not English at all, but half Irish, half Scottish and 5% flipping Dutch! My brother has done the family tree, with nearly 8000 names on it. He’s an archaeologist, family historian, author and researcher. I know who I am and who my relatives were. I think English dna must be what Americans say they are.
That's interesting. I had a similar thing in that I'm English as far back as I can go yet apparently I have up to 33% Scottish DNA. It makes sense for Northern England to have more of it I guess, as man made country borders won't correlate necessarily with DNA groups :)
I wouldn't bet the mortgage on Ancestry's DNA analysis. My Scots/English ratio has varied WILDLY, and the last iteration brought in a not insignificant 15% Welsh [my great grand father from Flint] they'd previously missed altogether. You basically get an entirely new readout every time they do an update.
I mean, Richard the 3rd was from what is now a part of France, so you won't be getting much English ancestry from him. English DNA is basically 2 parts Brition to 1 part Anglo-Saxon. The latter gets emphasised as a trait of the English as it's lacking in the Welsh, Scottish and Irish, but we're genetically more similar than not. If your DNA says 20%English & Northwestern Europe it probably means 20% Anglo-Saxon, which isn't far off the expected figures for an English person.
Don't take the results literally . The testing companies all give different results . For me , the most accurate company is LivingDNA . The others find British-Irish ancestry hard to separate.
There is very little significant genetic differences between the peoples of the British Isles. i.e. R1b from Bell Beakers and Anglo-Saxons still the most common haplogroup with smaller amounts of Neolithic DNA and with some Scandinavian DNA such as I-M253 and R1a.All their ancient ancesters came from the western fringes of Europe. i.e. from northern France to SW Norway.
Born in northern England carry the pict genetic marker, Scots and Norwegian on my mothers side. My local dialect even uses modern day Norwegian words and many people in my area are not aware of the origin. A quick trip over it becomes evident.
@jonahwhale9047 No my family has lived in northern England for quite some time, my great, great, great grandfather i believe came down from Scotland could hardly speak English the story goes, but apparently my great, great, great grandmother could understand him. Church records in Scotland has our family in their book going back over 500 years. Lots of people in my area have Scottish and Irish surnames. Personally I believe Northumbria cumbria and the Scots are pretty much the same people. Just my opinion.
@jonahwhale9047 Great great great great grandfather. Most names with son on the end normally came from the lowlands originally, but my family has highland and lowland conections and yes it's mostly from the west coast.
@@jimjones-bk2is The video is about English DNA, anyone who came later has a different story and different DNA. Unless of course they married into an English family, then they would have a connection to the same roots.
@@jimjones-bk2is England as a country was founded in 972 so is older than France, Spain and Germany so it's not that recent. Previously the land was uninhabitable due to the ice age and so wasn't permanently settled until after the ice receeded 10,000 years ago. However the dna of these early settlers is still carried by the modern day English, so they are the earliest ancestors of the English.
@johnbrereton5229 everything is relative. Egypt has been around a while. But in terms of human history, both places are recent. Until the ice receded there wasn't even an island here.
I'm part of Haplogroup HV. My mum is from Scotland (I was raised in England and my dad is from Kent). I've got Northwest Scotland 9.3%, North Wales 4.5% , Ireland 2.3%, Southwest Central England 15.2%. Some from: East Anglia, Northwest England and Devon. I've also got South Germanic 15.5%, France 15.5% Finland 4.3% and Scandinavia 2.3%.
I am English as far back as i can go on Ancestry (so atleast as far back as 1700s), mainly all from East Anglia... yet my Ancestry is only up to 65% English/ northern Europe and a large % is Scottish and up to 11% norweigen + traces of German + Welsh. ... i was stunned but it makes sense given previous invasions. Fascinating stuff x
Hi did you know the Scottish fishing vessels followed the shoals down the East cost of England and thousands of Scottish women also moved seasonally too to process the fish - they were called flither girls. I have fishing family from Filey with this Scots influence. Cheers
You have to take these tests with a pinch of salt. Almost the entire Lowlands of Scotland were settled by Anglo-Saxons during the medieval period and these tests are based on historic geographical population groups, meaning that it can sometimes fail to differentiate between these periods and subsequent genetic shifts. You will also find that the large companies who sell these services give a macro view of the breakdown and often conflate groupings because of this. You can find other free services (they often want the data for academic purposes) who will take the data and give you a more accurate breakdown of your ancestry (often resulting in these smaller outlier percentages being corrected).
@@14Anon2 cool I knew about the kingdom of Northumbria straddling the border, my kids got a 50% signal for Scottish- their mother is a Scot so it was pretty bang on there! Cheers
When the Bell Beaker peoples first moved to Britain, the great pyramids of Egypt were already a few Centuries old. The economic impact of the early civilizations may have very well been a factor in causing the Bell beakers moving to Britain, for example control of the Tin trade may have been a factor.
Agree. Wasn't there archeological evidence of the bell beaker culture found at Stonehenge as well? It seems as if the bell beaker people's "took over" Stonehenge, but I don't think they originated or built Stonehenge. The science isn't definite about who built the final stages of Stonehenge
What tin trade? The Beakers arrived a few centuries before the bronze age is thought to have arrived in Britain. Even if they were already using bronze they wouldn't have known about the tin deposits in Britain as the previous people weren't aware of tin.
About three weeks ago my DNA results came , they also sent me printed letter to explain a few things, my results told me that my heritage is a very high 81% Anglo Saxon, the Angles, Saxon's and Jutes From South Denmark and Northern Germany. 9% Southern Sweden 10% Norwegian, a bit of a mixture, but they all settled in what is now England. As for Celts or early Britons most were driven out of what is now England or simply killed off, so very little if any DNA remains. The Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Danes who occupied England first unified about 927 AD out of previous Kingdoms of Saxons Jutes and Angles. Athelstan being the first King of England but it wasnt called England until around 1000AD the it was first referred to as Engla Land two words prior to that it was the Land of the Angles or Saxons and part of Land of the Danes, collectively Anglia, and yes I am a Historian.
There has never been a linguistic phenomenon on the planet in the history like nowadays with English. You can ask any parent in the world what foreign language they would like their children to study and the answer will automatically, unhesitantly be: ENGLISH.
@@DerekLangdon-w9eon your note, I'm an Arman/ Vĺach language supporter and propagator, while the English language global phenomenon is the savior of lessor spoken (some forbidden) languages.
Because of the United States' hegemony. French was the #1 language before the Treaty of Versailles which put an end to the First World War. Before WW1 all treaties and global documents were written in the French language. The U.S. became so powerful after 1918, they single-handedly benefited from that war by providing credits to the Allies. Even the British Empire was anxious, they knew the U.S. would invade Canada If the British stopped paying loans.
My dads side is entirely British isles genetically, mostly English and Scottish and oddly me and my fathers haplogroup is found pretty much only in Iberia, northern Spain and Basques specifically and isn’t found much at all outside of Iberia which I think is intriguing.
There was an influx of spaniards in Ireland as they took in the remenants of the Spanish Armada, so there is a lot of spanish ancestry in Ireland. Due to large numbers of Irish immigrants settling in England there is now Spanish DNA over here.
@ the Spanish Armada wouldn’t have been enough to have a meaningful genetic impact on Ireland in the long run. However, it is theorized that the original celts that came to the British isles actually came from the Iberian Peninsula so in that case it could actually make sense that I have an exclusively basque/Iberian haplogroup.
@@chandleryoung9515 I have to disagree. Its still a running joke over here. You often come across suntanned , dark haired Irish people amongst the very pasty pale dark haired 'celtic' Irish. People frequently point out their spanish ancestory. I dont think the Southern Irish had a massive population at that time and Im guessing there were a reasonably large number of Spaniards landing as Ireland was the closest catholic haven for them as they couldnt make it to France. I guess its just a humerous 'folk memory' but obviously there is a fair bit of truth behind it.
Fascinating, as someone who is British and have mostly British ancestry on my family tree other than Scottish and German I uploaded my Raw DNA results into mytrueancestry and found out that Im closely related to: Danish Vikings Franks Vandals Anglo-Saxons Gaels Celtic Dobunni
@@johnnypickles5256I matched with DNA from a Dobunni settlement area! One man and one woman looked that father and daughter. It matches your DNA to DNA found from archaeological sites. Absolutely fascinating. It dates it also.
@@johnnypickles5256 Honestly, it would be very similar with the rest of the Celtic tribes in the UK at the time. Iceni tribe was close by which is the most famous because of boudica. The tribes would have been similar just little variations of traditions that was unique to each tribe. The Celts originally migrated from Europe towards the UK and Ireland. Its really after the Romans who Romanised the UK that Scotland, Ireland and Cornwall were able to keep some of their Celtic heritage and history and become the Celts we know of today. However at one point we were all called Celts which has different meanings from the Ancient Greeks and Romans. One meaning is ‘Brave warriors’ another meaning ‘Like Milk’ which indicates the majority of our skin tone at that moment in history. Which would have been strange for the Mediterranean skin tone of that time. I could go on and on 🤣 There are lots of books of the subject but again its very hard to pinpoint who were these people originally because the UK has always been such a mixture of DNA from the original nomads(moving from country to country in search of food) to the Roman Empire and the slavery they enforced with people from countries they occupied (Europe, north Africa, middle east etc) I also had a DNA match for the Picts in the highlands in Scotland which has even less history known other than they had tattoos! 🤣
Might be a bit confusing. I was born in South Yorkshire, Great grandfather on Dad's side was irish, Grandfather on Mum's side as a scot, And mum & dad we're ten pond poms. Wife was born in Cardiff & my kids were born in Brisbane.
There's nothing wrong having English ancestry in your family. Everyone thinks they are Irish or Scottish. Americans seem sure of the real facts of the past and rascim against the English that's the real issue here. Am English have a English mum and a Irish dad. 🇬🇧🇨🇮
I’m English with with some Irish, French, Indian (my paternal side great grandmothers family settled in India in the 1730s and returned in the 1950s) and Welsh ancestry, my paternal line is traceable back to where I live for hundreds of years, I even have distinct genetic markers for my region on the midlands. My haplogroup is I1a2a1d, which is far more common in Sweden but with afew people in Norway and England.
Britain was re-colonised by neolithic farmers in the bronze age - so you're basically Spanish! And British scientists said that the Spanish were black!...
The consensus among historians seems to be that Anglo-Saxon settlement in the British Isles did not come about by hoards of warriors sweeping across the country but by acculturation. Genetic studies have repeatedly demonstrated that immigration from the Germanic-speaking Continent was on a greater scale than argued by supporters of the theory of a small migration, and also that mixing occurred between native Britons and immigrants.
@@jonwek4332Marton village, a suburb of Middlesbrough, is where Captain James Cook was born. I have a sister who lives there. Close by is the Captain Cook museum, which is in the grounds of Stewart's Park. Cook discovered Australia, but many now dismiss this.... Cook, of course, named this land New South Wales...
I have English, Channel Island and Scottish ancestry. I've never had a DNA ancestry test, but my surname is a Norman one...I looked it up on-line. Apparently it comes from the midlands, West Mercia, very near Wales. I guess I should have a DNA test done as I'm quite curious. The Channel Island and Scottish is on my mother's side and she has a French maiden name from the Channel Islands. Her mother's side is from Scotland. So I'm a bit of a mix! I've got very pale skin ,dark brown almost black hair and brown eyes, yet my sister has very blond hair and blue eyes...
I know my maternal grandmother was 100% Scottish and my fraternal grandmother was 100% Swedish. As far as my grandfather's, I've been told one was Irish and the other was from the Isle of Man.
@Angelcynn_2001 The land did, and so did the people. That's the problem with "engalanders" not you I think. Is that we think that we are special in some ways. I have travelled to MANY countries in the east, West and south (not really north). The UK and the US are not that much really
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Do you have English ancestry? Please let me know below and your thoughts in general... Thanks for watching!
Yes. Family farm in Yorkshire for 200 years. But I don't think that I look anything like a typical Yorkshire person: I have black hair and green eyes and light skin that burns in winter, like Severus Snape from Harry Potter.
Many people can trace relatives back to soldiers who died in the Battle of Hastings.
My maternal haplo is h6a1b2. I can only take it back seven generations, but it goes to Lancashire where they were textile mill workers. When that line came to America they went to… other textile mills in Massachusetts. I assume we had better labor conditions though 😅
23andme tracks my maternal haplo to the Yamnaya. The specific subclade was found in several Yamnayan burial sites. It came out of the Middle East originally. I’ve been following news in genetics and new studies that have come out seem to suggest that the Bell Beakers absorbed Yamnaya women and brought them to the British Isles and Ireland, so I assume that’s the likely way my foremother arrived in England.
Perhaps a video is in order explaining that absorption process??? ❤
I’m mostly Irish on my paper trail but have other lines from Scotland and England… Another such line arrived in America via the Puritan Wave. When I researched that line I found American colonial ancestry that linked to seven Mayflower passengers. Another line on my other side also tracks to Lancashire. The family name on that is “Winterbottom.” Researchers working on that part of the tree said the name itself originates from the fact that the weavers who lived there overwintered at the bottom of the hill where it was protected. They spent the summers overseeing the flocks atop the hill. Pretty cool if true. They also came to Massachusetts to work in our textile mills.
All of them, the post famine Irish, the post-clearances highlanders, the mill workers, the pilgrims… they were looking for a better life what a mutt I am.
75% of my DNA is from the British Isles. I have hazel eyes and dark hair from my Irish/Scottish father.
I'm Dutch and live in the east of The Netherlands, near the German border. My mother was from the west of The Netherlands and my father from the east where I still live. I had my DNA tested and apparantly I'm 65% English, 35% Scandinavian and 1% Middle-Eastern (?). I have (dark) blond hair (turning grey now) and blue-grey eyes. However I don't know anything about (my) halo groups or where I can find information about that.
This presentation was very enlightening but the presenter was flawless, spoke quite fast but very clear with no break and with a lovely Scottish accent.
When he says "ancient England" he means "ancient Britain". The Anglo-Saxons had yet to arrive. However, this channel is excellent and I have learned a lot.
Well if he meant ancient Brythonic Celtic Briton it wouldn’t be English because the Germans wouldn’t be here and where was the DNA of the indigenous Celtic Britons in what is now called England?
He got confused about the pre-bronze-age WHG genetic remnant in modern Brits.
Cheddar man's population has left no definite detectable trace. Yes, there are people with the same haplotypes - because, across the channel, those WHG haplotypes got incorporated into newer populations - who then settled Britain and Ireland.
What I’m saying is that the mesolithic WHG people who themselves lived on the Atlantic islands are not part of your genetic makeup.
CONTINENTAL WHGs, who the Brit WHGs hadn’t been seeing much of for a couple of thousand years - they formed a pre-existing, minor part of the ancestry of all later settlers. What the general British population has been to about the 18th century is; Neolithic (a tiny bit), Bronze age (mostly), Anglo-Saxon and Norman - who all contained a teensy bit of WHG.
Modern Brits get almost all of their minuscule remnant of WHG from/through the same people they got EHG and CHG genes from.
@@GuerillaTVChannelPrecisely, I think. You do mean that the English wouldn't be here? You have written "would"? Pre-Anglo-Saxon invasion, the geographical area that is now England would have been Celtic Britain, consisting of many tribes...
@Jezza-m5k correct
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Yes true, however those later English are also descended from the original Celts, as the video revealed the English are 10% to 40% Anglo Saxon. Therefore that means they are majority Celtic, with 90% to 60% of the previous populations DNA. That previous population includes the pre Celtic Hunter Gatherers who lived here at the end of the ice age, 10,000 years ago. It might also include Neanderthal DNA who we know lived here around 400,000 years ago. We know we do have Neanderthal DNA, but whether we inherited from those here or further afield is not known, but its an intriguing thought.
My Ancestry DNA: 49% English. 31% Irish, 11% Welsh, 3% Scottish, 4% Danish and 2% German. 55% Germanic, 45% Celtic. Born in England with an Irish surname. A mixture of the history of these isles 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
How do the geneticists separate all these 'Nationalities'? Genetics doesn't mention anything about Nationalities.
Your comment makes no sense .
@@bitTorrenterGenetics is pseudoscience.
You mug !!. YOU GAVE the matrix your DNA withiught even commiting a crime😂😂
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I’m from rural Australia, my ancestry is 38% Scottish, 32% English, 25% Irish, 5% Norwegian. Ancestry was able to accurately pinpoint the migrant wave my ancestors came on (and destination). Very amazing
Is that you in the photo?
@@benjaminfry6640 🤣🤣🤣😂
@@benjaminfry6640that's the current dorky looking PM 😂
I'm American of mostly English descent and of course proud to have English heritage including basically all American, my last name even come from my great grandfather Henry Johnson from Lanchashire, England before bringing himself to America in the 1600s and arriving in the Virgina Colony probably around 1623 while tracing our side of the family and English is by far the largest ancestral group in the United States and the largest Ethnicity representing 22% of the population across the US, anyway greetings from Texas.
I'm from Lancashire! 👍🏻
@@Lordrixson5489 Lancashire is probably the best place sir, hope to visit England someday,
in my life I have never traveled abroad including England as an American from Texas 🇺🇸
even though it is my ancestror land 🏴
The largest ancestral group in the US is German.
@@ministry2627 No! even that will never happen.
But English yeah in the 2020 US census English is the largest ethnic group in the US there are around 46.6 million ancestry reported while German is only 44 Million ancestry so what are you going to do.
Saying that German is the largest is a mistake and an inaccurate source at first, without realizing that the number of English descent in the US is very undercounted in general because they claim to be true American.
@jonahwhale9047 The beginning of the introduction of cowboy culture and history along with the influence of country music is also a trend in the famous history of the US western expansion at that time. which at that time also brought many of the majority settlers of English descent who are considered the first white American settlers to make their dark journey westward, In fact, many of them were involved in conflict, misunderstanding, bloodshed over war and land grabbing which made Native Americans feel threatened, Many of the choices that English settlers inevitably had to take as leaders of the expansion route during the 18th century continued until they became known as the Buckaroos in Texas to Arizona, at which time the American Civil War suddenly broke out.
A very interesting video - a slower, paced presentation of this complex technical subject would help. Thanks for posting.
You can slow down the video playback speed in the YT options at the bottom of the screen ;-)
Great job. Very up-to-date and succinctly presented. I am English and live in America. This video is a good way of explaining why it is not always easy for genealogical companies like Ancestry to separate out DNA from the various parts of Europe and particularly the British Isles.
Thanks
I just got my DNA test results back I am born and bred English but it turns out I was 51% Scottish and 34% English quite a suprise!
I’m afraid that makes you Welsh
@@paulbromley6687 😄
Mug
Have a haggis and clam down! 😂
@@JohnJohn-cu7nk ?
I'm an American from the South, which has always been (along with parts of New England) very ethnically homogeneous among the European derived population - mainly British, broadly speaking.
My maternal grandfather was an Englishman from the midlands, and he married an American from an Ulster Scot/German family. On my father's side, we are a mashup of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish, in approximately that order. I'm sort of a bastard son of the entirety of the British Isles :D
I would love to have some comprehensive genetic tests done, to compare to your excellent research; but I am wary of giving my genetic information to anyone lightly. Perhaps you could suggest some trustworthy sources that you might know of?
Thanks for all your work, I always look forward to new videos.
I think you can withhold your personal details with some companies when taking a dna test.
Good blood old mate.
I have heard it said that if “they” have several DNA samples of your kin (cousins etc) that they can piece yours together. I’m not sure how true it is, but if true, they most likely already have it more or less.
@@44thala49 One of my uncles has taken tests from a couple of different companies. Aside from personal privacy concerns, I have doubts about the veracity of the reports. I've heard similar stories from a number of people that have led me to suspect some of these companies might have a socio-political agenda.
I’d recommend a visit back to the old world and Mother England. It’s a powerful experience. All of the countries of the British Isles are fascinating. Especially North Wales where they still speak welsh as a first language. The Norman kings of England built magnificent castles there almost a 1000 years ago. Avoid the big cities and focus on the smaller ancient towns and villages that still retain the old ways.
I’m an Ameri-mutt so of course I’ve got English DNA
What’s really crazy about that is when you are an American-mutt and have Irish/Scots/English… and the first two hate on the latter 😅
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Yes perhaps, but it's only a vociferous minority that do, the vast majority all get on fine. That's because In reality here on the British isles, we are all related to one another in one way or another.
@@DorchesterMom I’m equally all including Welsh if my ancestors only knew that their brethren would hate each other. I’m really sad for my mother land. I never feel at home in the US. I have hope for everyone there because there is no hope here. It’s literally a 3rd world country here
@@johnbrereton5229with most people who do (point it out) it’s more of an offhand joke. I do sincerely wonder what it would have been like for those just post famine or post clearances marrying into English, but I assume that every single one of them was so beaten down that at the end of the day they were all just people trying to survive in the new land of America. Generally most of my ancestors were poor and illiterate, just trying to find work and support thier families. I know other people though who are more outspoken about those pairings 😅
@@DorchesterMom
As the English are the largest nation on these islands they often get blamed for any disasters . However, the reality is not always what the precieved wisdom claims it to be and the two events you mentioned are prime examples of this.
Thank you very interesting I did my DNA some time ago and found I am mostly Irish, Scottish , Welsh then English then Scandinavian
DNA has really helped us to understand the history of the British home nations. While some haplogroups are too general to furnish ties with particular tribes, others can still provide some insight. I'm no expert, but most of the research papers I have seen implied that the 'average' English person is about 38% Frisian (and Dane Viking), 30% Brythonic Celt, 20% Northwest European (N.France & W.Germany), 6% Norwegian Viking, the remainder is mainly Iberian derived. This is pretty similar to the average Lowland Scot. Interestingly, the Brythonic and pre-Brythonic population is higher in Cornwall and Devon, but still very similar to the English average. Also noteworthy, there is much more diversity between the acknowledged Celtic nations, which would seem to support more of a cultural link. Useful video!
The Normans also mostly had Nordic genes, so it would be similarly hard to separate them from vikings or Anglo-Saxons.
The Normans came from Viking settlers and the people of West Frankia.
Normans didn't leave any genetic impact on the UK. They were an elite minority who mostly married among themselves within the ruling class. Their DNA has mostly disappeared by now. But even if it hadn't, they were only Nordic in the sense that the first generation was 100% from Denmark and/or Norway. Each subsequent generation was more and more heavily of a mixed origin of Frank, Breton, Burgundian, Gaul, etc.
@@gadpivs Normans didn't leave any genetic impact on the UK. Because they were the Same DNA that's why . The Normans were a Culture NOT a DNA Family group.
Fascinating video! I recently did one of those DNA tests and the results were: 70% England & Northwestern Europe, 11% Sweden & Denmark, 8% Scotland, 7% Wales and 4% Norway.
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Kudos for not repeating the nonsense lie about Cheddar Man being black as some so called historians perpetrate.
@@tonysadler5290 we dont know that, and race is not pigment
We dont know, it's question of probability. But I see someone has repulse with being associated with some skin pigmentation tone 😮
@@n.m.m5460 stop being so cruel, black means sub-Saharan African and the only reason Cheddar man's skin was described as black was to muddy waters and deliberately diminish, replace, and harm us to claim we never existed based on the false premise that "an ethnicity is just a pigment".
@@n.m.m5460 stop being so cruel, black means sub-Saharan African and the only reason Cheddar man's skin was described as black was to muddy waters and deliberately diminish, enable replacement, and harm us via claims we never existed based on the false premise that "an ethnicity is just a pigment" and that we are somehow sub-Saharans and need to vanish.
@@n.m.m5460 Stop being obtuse. Whites already are capable of dark skin. The issue is being deliberately falsely associated with a foreign race of Sub-Saharan Africans because of a potential pigment to justify replacement by conflating pigment and race.
Race is not a pigment. Darker pigment does not mean sub-Saharan African. Europeans have always been Europeans. Only we can be us.
I am a proud Anglo American. I am not an immigrant. My ancestors arrived in America from England in 1759.
I consider myself a proud Anglo-American since My family has been here since at least 1680. When I had my DNA run, my recent ancestry is literally a map of the British Isles.
My family started coming here from England in the 1600's. My family has a family tree going back to the 1500's, from Hereford and Warwick. Cheers.
Yeh that's what sways census's because Anglo Americans just call themselves Americans since they have been there the longest and Americans with German ancestry are more recent and are more aware of what they are.
I was taught that the English were a mix of Roman, Norse (Viking) and Germanic (Saxon) and it was that mix that makes the English ethnicity, everyone else were Celts (Scots, Welsh, Irish) and over time were almost completely wiped out by the English (with the last Celtic strongholds being Wales, Scotland and Ireland). This has been an accepted and taught theory for hundreds of years (at least, to my knowledge - I learnt this in school and I've never heard anything different). This theory was supposedly taught by the Victorians as a way to cement English ethnic superiority in Britain. It turns out that the Romans, Vikings and even the Saxons left almost no DNA in the English - the Romans and the Saxons were just the nobility and were eventually absorbed or died out, the Vikings in the north intermarried and became English and Christian. The Romans and the Saxons did not wipe out the Celts in England or drive them to the edges of the islands, they lived together and English DNA is still about 70% of what we would call Celtic. I'm not a historian or anything but if that's true we've all been the victim of some pretty crazy propaganda!
DNA is certainly ripping up some old stories. Some reckon Bede was a fibber. he Victorians did a lot of mangling.
Britain's Hidden History is a good channel.
@wyrdways DNA says different. If the English are all Anglo's then where did the Celts in England go? Are you suggesting that millions of Celts in England were wiped out at some point? By who? Why is there no record of it? After the Angles wiped the Celts out, did they bring millions of Angle's over to replace them? How? When? Did the Angles empty their homeland of people to bring them here? Lol. The idea that Rome wiped out the northern European Celts (modern France/Spain) is nonsense as well...coz, if you kill them all, you can't replace them.
Northeastern Englishman man here. It’s fascinating to understand genetics but it’s the living who matter
I'm an American and my ancestry is primarily English. I carry the I1 M-253 and U4a1b haplogroups.
I hear of Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Italian Americans, African Americans, but I've never heard any Americans say, "I'm an English American".
@@HektorBandimar that’s because even if they have English DNA, they’re not deluded enough to call themselves English American because they’ve never been to England they were born in America so they call themselves Americans
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So why do they call them selves Irish American and so forth even when they themselves have never to Ireland
@@johnbaird4912 I don’t know. I don’t see the point stupidity deluded sense of loyalty to a country You’ve never been except on holiday or vacation as they say in America just call yourself Americans that’s what you are. Morgan Freeman once said I don’t mind the term African-American I don’t want to be called African-American and the person interviewing him said why and he said I’m not African and he isn’t. He’s never been to Africa well maybe has on television shows and holidays but his ethnicity is African but he isn’t African. He’s American so he gets it. I don’t know why everybody else doesn’t.
@@johnbaird4912it is understood in North America and many other places of heavy migration that one is speaking of the origins of their family lines. It has nothing to do with the passport they hold but with their roots and the journey their families endured.
There are more of Celtic decedents in England than in Scotland, Ireland and Wales put together
Excellent, thanks. Danish settlement in the Danelaw exerted a massive influence on English. It is is hard to reconcile this with a mere 6% Viking contribution to the modern English gene pool. Most likely this element is underestimated because it cannot be reliable separated from the Anglo-Saxon element
Danes or Danish were already are mixed with thier Scandinavian cousins I1a but Mostly from they are R1b group thats is why the foot print is small.
Well done. Thanks for the video.
As far as I have found, I have Irish, Welsh, mainly English, from Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Devon, Sussex, Berkshire and East Anglia - I guess I'm mostly ancient Briton but mainly a Wessex girl - ooh arrr! Sadly no Scottish - yet - it would be nice to have that one in my Heinz 57 mix!
Interesting but a bit tricky to understand your accent even though I’m English…I slowed it down but still tricky..sorry. Please speak more slowly, thank you, I’m sure I’m not the only one and you’ll get more subscriptions.
@@angelataylor2049 yes such a shame Kerry was to stupid to pass the 11+
They may have learnt to speak in RP so we could understand wot they were saying.
- such a shame
@@HNH421 just saying I couldn’t understand him…perhaps I’m thick?
I always thought I was Scottish because of my last name. Then I took a dna test and there was no Scottish. But 39% English and 32% Germanic. The rest was French, Netherlands, a little Welsh and and little Irish.
Upper class and aristocracy are basically Normans and the common people are Anglo/Saxons.
The plebs you mean?!😊
Many Norman lords married English heiresses in the decades after 1066. By around 1100 the Anglo-Norman upper classes had abandoned the close cropped and clean shaven look of their fathers and adopted the longer hair and beards of the natives.
The Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, normans were all very similar genetically. And they all mixed together anyway
Not so,many of the troops The Romans brought over came from Europe,what is now France,Spain,Belgium,Holland,Germany,Denmark.The Batavians,Germanicus,Hispana,Gauls.
In 1973,a crowd of us came across A Glasgow University Archaelogical dig in The Kelvin Valley near Dullater on The Antonine Wall (a couple of hundred miles north of Hadrians ! Sorry not the final wall)
The Archeoligists were very excited.They had found stones inscribed by the garrlson.
The Verdulli,Mounted Archers, - From Syria,- Roman Troops were allowed to go forth and multiply.
What price surveys now ? The same could be said of all warrior cults. Britain was not short,then either, there is the Ancient Brits themselves. No wonder we had a go at every so and so. Berserkers like The Danes.
@jonahwhale9047Those were (also!) other Syrians, than you think of though. The people there didn't live in a vacuum sealed box... and no single Arab were in sight, yet. 😋
Holy crap I needed the subtitles on this one.
Thanks very much, I watch but often forget to say thanks.❤
I have a great grandmother whose family were part of the Huguenots, Jacques.
Thanks, interesting.
Another Norman then Huguenot here!
@@kerrym5424there is a huge difference between Norman and Huguenots. Normans originated from Scandinavia while Huguenots lefts the south of France for predominantly protestant countries in the north of Europe (England, Netherlands and German states)
@@marchauchler1622 Yes,I know that. Different time periods, but I am descended from both!
I am from America. I want to know more about my ancestors. I took a ancestry DNA test and it says I got Over 70% English DNA. I want to know more about how I can find out more about DNA and genetics research.
Like all Europeans, the English are a mixture of 3 genetic groups; Western Hunter Gatherers, Early European Farmers and Steppe Pastoralists - but blended in different proportions. New gene mutations of the past 7000 years or so have introduced regional variations as well as mating strategies like invaders procreating with local women rather than migrating with a family or preference trends favouring blonde hair or blue eyes.
Important to note that the lack of defined borders (border control) has meant that there are more Scottish in England than in Edinburgh and more Irish in England than in Dublin (a Viking settlement like Swansea and various Scottish Isles).
This mixing means that the ancient Britonic DNA is _still_ the predominant DNA group at circa 63% and the blend with Scotland has meant a 30% Anglo-Saxon DNA North of the border - not much less than England.
Personally, my great grandfather and his wife came from Bavaria so I have I1 haplogroup. As far as I can trace, his paternal lineage came from Baltic Poland, south of Gotland and Stockholm where the I1 group is centred.
One generation further back and I have Irish, Welsh and Scottish ancestry.
The rest is "English" for around 7 generations going back, mostly London and East Anglia, which has probably the most continental DNA.
It is difficult to identify uniquely English DNA because of the mixing, migrations and lack of defined borders. I'm happy with British or North European as a descriptor - I was born in Cornwall, so culturally celtic, which is not a distinct DNA group at all.
I'm half English and half Scottish.
Scottish (Isle of Skye) mum, English dad (Isle of Sheppy).
I grew up moving between England and Scotland, so my accent is weird 😂
Go back a bit further and I reckon your grandad was from the Isle of dogs and your garnny, the Isle of Wight too.
Yes. I share 2 segments of DNA with Cheddar Man. 68% of my DNA comes from the British Isle. 32%Scot, 24% Eng., 10% Irish, and 2%Welsh. The rest is northwest European. My haplo groups are x: U8a-1a Y: R-L20.
You *share* those segments with Cheddar man, but it is overwhelmingly likely that they actually arrived in Britain carried by your bronze-age or later Continental ancestors. It is overwhelmingly likely that you got them from his continental cousins. You got your WHG from the same individuals that gave you your EHG and CHG.
Haplo groups... the new pro nouns, lol
An interesting video. My mtDNA is H1C3 which is found in northern England and Scandinavia. My YDNA is H-FT199009 which probably indicates neolithic farmer ancestry and seems to be quite rare.
I know in East Anglia there's a lot of Dutch and Flemish surnames,
And I've seen surnames from Brittany France in some of the English.
I personally use that September 21st 2022 Anglo-Saxon migration study as my ground basis
I’m not sure if surnames give a false view as dna signatures seem not to correlate over time. I may be wrong
@@paulbromley6687 ancestry Is just lineage retention.
But DNA is 50% of your DNA that isn't bread and spliced out. No one has genes of my Great great blah blah grandmother 6 generations ago for example. Just descent.
What came out of it - a miraculous linguistic phenomenon - the English language, the most loved language globally - the mother of rock music.
It is not lovable, it is easy to learn and so to speak with everyone around. On the other hand it is poor in words, expression and sounds awful.
@@artstep9661English is a funny one.
It definitely is not easy to learn because the grammar rules are more just guidelines than centrally important. I've known French, Iraqi, Turkish and Japanese people who've spent time over here and were trying to learn the language and they all struggled with the mutability of sentence structure.
However, this is also what makes it such a powerful language, you can mangle a sentence and still make sense.
So you only need a low level of ability to start using it and manage to communicate meaning fairly well.
Partially due to this, english has become the primary language of science and finance across the globe
The language the gods had always intended.
@@moreplease998 English is definitely easier to learn than most others grammatically due to creolisation over the millenia. Declension is FAR simpler than most other languages including all the ones you just mentioned (Iraqi isn't a language). Where English is harder is that the writing system doesn't match the phonology well but that is a matter of rote memorisation.
@@artstep9661is that why you speak it?
Interesting puzzle is my dad, we did his dna with 23andme in 2020 to try and find the identity of his mystery paternal grandfather. Dad's ancestral breakdown was:
100% northwest european
96.1 British and Irish
2% French and German
1% Scandanavian
0.9% Broardly Northwest European
His Y DNA haplogroup though was confusingly R-Z93 hardly any native british men with this and far more common in the middle east and the subcontinent. This comes directly from the man who was his unknown grandfather. Dad was a slight man, with brigh ginger hair and freckles. We lost him last year but would still love to know the answer to this puzzle.
z93 appears to be central asian in origin (thousands of years ago). One possibility is that it could represent a rare survival of a Roman era lineage in Britain. Given the rest of the results your dad appears to be native British with no recent foreign ancestry. So whoever the missing grandfather was, he was of British ancestry himself.
@@damionkeeling3103thank you, that's what I felt. He has quite a few matches in Hungary as well but they are most likely from a family offshoot. it's such a fascinating subject isn't it?
Thank you for the subtitles ;-)
Very necessary.
❤ I am so English through & through our son checked my ancestors out with a lady whose livelihood is Ancestories . My husband is mainly Southern Irish. I am always being mistook for being Dutch, German & Swedish 😊
i am also , often mistaken for a, freezy saxion jutey anglo
No such thing as Southern Irish DNA, DNA doesn't do political partitions! It's simply Irish DNA.
My DNA was analyzed showing my ancestry is mostly British, Irish and Scottish. The rest is Norwegian, including Sami. There's also a small bit showing North African. My surname is literally Saxton.
My 12th great grandfather (A Welshman whose name has been passed down through the generations to me) was one of the ship captains that brought people to Jamestown in 1607. He also captained The Virginia, the first ship built in the new world. This information is interesting and well presented. Thank you!
Sounds quite farfetched MATE.
he may have carried my ancestor...Powell. Brother of the first Governor. Who had a Grandaughter in Virginia and then at some point left and settled in Cambridgeshire, England from whom I am a descendent. We tend to think of it as one way traffic but it couldn't have been.
Thanks
Any thing to do with the English language has got to be complicated and takes time to put together so well done for putting it all together bravo excellent history of the peoples of England loved it 🙏😎
My ancestry is almost equally split between English, Irish and Scottish, with a bit of Norse thrown in. I don't think that is untypical for England, it is simply the percentages that vary. The Germanic presence in modern England goes back much further than 450 AD. Most of the auxiliary troops manning Hadrian's Wall during the Roman administration were Germanic, such as the Tungrians. Many other Germanic people had already settled in southern England before the end of the direct Roman administration of Britannia in 410 AD, probably as foederati troops. The Saxon Advent of 450 AD onwards was most likely a more intense continuation of that process.
Lost my Ma last year ,made me want to find out more,joined Ancestry recently.
72% English..
I Traced my father's paternal line from London back 5 gens to late 1700s to the Romney Marsh .all farm workers
Mum's paternal line from London back to her Grandparents in Stroud,Gloucestershire to 4 generations around Cricklade Wiltshire to early 1800s
14% Irish (Cork,Kerry)
Maternal Grandma
14% Iberian
This one surprised me,!
No known Spaniards or Portuguese in the family but apparently could be connected to Spanish Armada ships ending up in Ireland or also a more ancient migration.
Is fascinating what you can find,and reading the Cencuses of your forebears!
Now need to visit some of the places to see if I can find some gravestones!
I have 92% British Ancestry. My dad was R1b (he participated in a Y-DNA study with the National Odom Assembly here in the states) but I don't know my maternal haplogroup. I know I share a bit over 200 SNP''s with Cheddar Man...which is a fair amount considering the genetic distance.
Love your vids, thank you.
Thank you
Great video. Can you do one on Cornish genetics please?
Basically the same story I’d have thought! Same waves of migration from Beaker people onwards, same group of Celtic Ancient Britons when the Romans came, maybe a bit less Anglo-Saxon DNA but loads of intermingling with the rest of England down the ages!
@@thrutholthrolth I have read that the Cornish have little Saxon DNA, and that the Devon-Cornwall distinction associated with the Tamar is still genetic as well as cultural.
@@thrutholthrolth I think there are differences though.
I’ve also heard something about Cornwall having a high amount of R1b, but pre Anglo-Saxon migration, which sounds quite strange.
The predominant Y-DNA haplogroup found in Cornwall is R1b, which constitutes approximately 78% of the tested samples. This haplogroup is particularly notable for its high frequency in Western Europe, especially in regions historically associated with Celtic populations. Within R1b, subclades such as L21 and DF27 are prevalent, indicating a strong connection to the early Bronze Age migrations into Britain.
R1b Subclades: The L21 subclade is particularly significant as it is often associated with Celtic ancestry. The Cornwall project has identified various branches within this subclade, including DF63 and BY7782, which suggest a localized genetic continuity from the Bronze Age to modern times.
2. Other Notable Haplogroups
While R1b dominates the genetic landscape, other haplogroups are present but at lower frequencies:
I1 (8.7%): This haplogroup is primarily associated with Scandinavian ancestry and indicates some level of Norse influence in the region.
E-V13 (3.8%): This haplogroup has roots in the Balkans and suggests historical connections to Mediterranean populations.
GJN (2.6%): A rarer haplogroup that may indicate specific historical migrations or interactions.
@@theGhostofRoberttheBruce very interesting, thanks!
I'm English. My family tree goes back to the 1700s with every member being from the same Lincs/S.Yorks area. Recently did my DNA which came back 65% North Western European, 24% English, 11% Welsh.
Interesting! So this means to refer to the English as “Anglo-Saxon” is pretty inaccurate. Only 10-40% of their DNA is Anglo Saxon, the majority of their DNA is Celtic Ancient Briton.
This makes sense. The idea that the Anglo Saxons somehow killed or drove out the entire local population after the Romans left without leaving any archeological trace has always seemed far-fetched!
But there is also a theory that some of that “Anglo-Saxon” DNA derives from people who were already in England when the Romans arrived. The “Saxon Shore” to which the Romans referred has always been assumed to mean the coast on which “Saxon” newcomers arrived. But it could equally mean the shore already inhabited by Saxons at the time the Romans invaded. Steven Oppenheimer discusses this in “The Origins of the British”, and Simon Jenkins mentions it in his book “The Celts” as well.
Yes that's true Malcolm, in fact I've recently been reading some papers that say when Julius Caesar first invaded he was chasing the Belgae people from Gaul who had escaped to Britain where they had well established kin across southern England. The Belgae, though a Celtic tribe also apparently spoke a Germanic tongue. Also another paper suggests that the famous Iceni people (Boudicaa) also spoke germanic. So it seems a proto English language is far older here than was first thought and would help to explain why we changed to speaking English after the Roman's left so easily.
Depends where in England you were born. Anglo-Saxons were only a part of what would become England.
I find it hard to believe that even in the “majority Anglo” areas the highest would be only 40%…there’s an undereporting of Germanic influence
From the study. We estimate that the ancestry of the present-day English ranges between 25% and 47% England EMA CNE-like, 11% and 57% England LIA-like and 14% and 43% France IA-like. There are substantial genetic differences between English regions (Fig. 5a), with less ancient continental ancestry (England EMA CNE or France IA related) evident in southwestern and northwestern England as well as along the Welsh borders (Fig. 5c). By contrast, we saw peaks in CNE-like ancestry of up to 47% for southeastern, eastern and central England, especially Sussex, the East Midlands and East Anglia. We found substantial France IA ancestry only in England, but not in Wales, Scotland or Ireland, following an east-to-west cline in Britain. (CNE is North German and Danish, England LIA is Late Iron Age i.e. Romano-British). So there is quite a bit of France IA in there also.
_Only 10-40% of their DNA is Anglo Saxon, the majority of their DNA is Celtic Ancient Briton._
Yeah, but it's the 10-40% Anglo-Saxon that make us so much superior.
So much information! I’m going to watch this again!!
I'm from Liverpool and supposed to be English. My ancestors came out from Ireland in the 1800's and I assumed I would have some English dna but results came zero English but nearly all Irish with some Welsh.
Liverpool had loads of migration from Wales and Ireland. Three of the Beatles had non-English surnames.
Very interesting. I'm not a geneticist but I do have an interest in the history of Britain.
I'm English, traced my family back to a small village in Kent to 1600, were they stayed until my grandparents, in 1600 family split half went ot America and halt stayed in Kent, prior to that we believe originally from Scotland due to the family name
My father was a English Londoner and my mother from Germany, she had a Hungarian grandfather, I believe the name Martin is of Roman origin relating to a sect of the Roman empire who worshipped Mars as a god of war so it’s possible my ancestors might be of Roman origin too.
Possibly a centurion or Roman settler.
Can I ask a question, If you don't want to answer it's fine as it's slightly political, in certain circles in the UK there's beginning to be a push to eliminate the word 'Anglo-saxon' as it's said it's not actually a distinct culture. What's your opinion on this? Personally I think it's important that our history is told regardless of opinion.
It seems silly to me especially in a historical context. There has obviously been various influences on England but the Anglo-Saxons were a significant force, both genetically and culturally. English is a Germanic language because of them, and another word for Old English is literally Anglo-Saxon. But what do you think?
It is simply political, dressed up as other things...
Communist always deleting History . USSR tried the same with Sovietism , Canceled anything with Imperial Russia or even the ancient Kingdoms of Kev-Rus
My family history says my ancestors all hailed from the British Isles, but all over the place within that archipelago. It would be interesting to do a DNA test to get more information - is there a guide to DNA / ancestry testing, that tells what each test includes and excludes and how much they each cost?
My DNA came back as 53% Irish and 47% English, I am English, my dad came from Ireland and that side of the DNA is centered around Clare, Kerry, Galway and Cork, my mum is from Hampshire and my DNA reflects that with the English side centered around Hampshire, Sussex and the South East, there was no other strands of DNA in there which considering how much of a melting pot England has been was a bit of a surprise.
I am a native Saxon from Westfalia in northwest Germany the home of the Saxons as well lower saxony and twente in the east part of the netherlands ......we share the saxon horse on our flag with Kent......I 've been many times in England......the english are family to us......same tribe❤
A lot of people in the comments missing a valuable point. Although Celtic ancestry is much higher in Wales and Scotland (60-70%) it is still as high as Anglo Saxon ancestry in English DNA despite it being a few thousand years older. Britain overall, still is a Celtic Christian nation with large Anglo Saxon and significant Viking DNA too, don’t forget that!
I can understand you perfectly unlike others in my house who think you’re not speaking English , I also understand Jamaican patois clearly when others don’t think it’s English, and even understand a little bit of German for some reason
Regarding the beaker peoples who eat and drank milk products. It's recently been discovered that milk contains an essential nutrient: C-15:0 fatty acid. Apart from milk the only other common source are fish heads and skin. So that could explain the very quick genetic replacement by beaker people's DNA - they were likely healthier than most natives which would've given them advantages in combat.
Breast milk is for humans. Cow’s milk for baby cows. Goat’s milk for baby goats etc. There’s nothing in another mammal’s milk that humans need. The protein content is different and not ‘designed’ for human babies. After weening humans shouldn’t be consuming any milk - regardless of whose breast it is from
Good video. Is the presenter’s accent from the Dundee Aberdeen region? It’s quite hard to understand but I like it, and more Scots should speak on RUclips with their native accent. The more we hear it, the more we get used to it.
Excellent video on an excellent people!
Can you do a video about the genetics of Northern Ireland (Ulster) because quite a lot of them are genetically Scottish and not Irish, because of the Plantation of Ulster. So that would be brilliant if you can do that?
The Anglo Saxon’s were basically the first Vikings.
Can you tell the people at MyHeritage that? Six months I've been waiting for the update. 🙄
After all the invasions of the British Isles by the many invaders mentioned in the video I was surprised to find that my DNA analysis revealed only two origins, Celt (89%) and Anglo Saxon (11%). Interesting video.👍
Great video
Thank you
Great video.
Very good video
Thanks
Finding this hard to follow despite loving the accent. I’ll come back and read the transcript.
I am at a loss as to what English dna is. I’m half Irish, which Ancestry and Myheritage acknowledge. My father ‘s side come from a small area of England, the same place I come from, and have done for at least 600 years. I know how I’m Related to Richard III. Yet Ancestry say I’m only 20% English and northwestern Europe and 30% Scottish. According to Myheritage I’m not English at all, but half Irish, half Scottish and 5% flipping Dutch! My brother has done the family tree, with nearly 8000 names on it. He’s an archaeologist, family historian, author and researcher. I know who I am and who my relatives were. I think English dna must be what Americans say they are.
That's interesting. I had a similar thing in that I'm English as far back as I can go yet apparently I have up to 33% Scottish DNA. It makes sense for Northern England to have more of it I guess, as man made country borders won't correlate necessarily with DNA groups :)
I wouldn't bet the mortgage on Ancestry's DNA analysis.
My Scots/English ratio has varied WILDLY, and the last iteration brought in a not insignificant 15% Welsh [my great grand father from Flint] they'd previously missed altogether. You basically get an entirely new readout every time they do an update.
I mean, Richard the 3rd was from what is now a part of France, so you won't be getting much English ancestry from him.
English DNA is basically 2 parts Brition to 1 part Anglo-Saxon. The latter gets emphasised as a trait of the English as it's lacking in the Welsh, Scottish and Irish, but we're genetically more similar than not.
If your DNA says 20%English & Northwestern Europe it probably means 20% Anglo-Saxon, which isn't far off the expected figures for an English person.
I'm Dutch. And so were my ancesters as far as I know. However from MyHeritage I learned that I'm 65% English! 😊
Don't take the results literally . The testing companies all give different results . For me , the most accurate company is LivingDNA . The others find British-Irish ancestry hard to separate.
Dominic Diamond has branched out
There is very little significant genetic differences between the peoples of the British Isles. i.e. R1b from Bell Beakers and Anglo-Saxons still the most common haplogroup with smaller amounts of Neolithic DNA and with some Scandinavian DNA such as I-M253 and R1a.All their ancient ancesters came from the western fringes of Europe. i.e. from northern France to SW Norway.
Born in northern England carry the pict genetic marker, Scots and Norwegian on my mothers side. My local dialect even uses modern day Norwegian words and many people in my area are not aware of the origin. A quick trip over it becomes evident.
@jonahwhale9047 No my family has lived in northern England for quite some time, my great, great, great grandfather i believe came down from Scotland could hardly speak English the story goes, but apparently my great, great, great grandmother could understand him. Church records in Scotland has our family in their book going back over 500 years. Lots of people in my area have Scottish and Irish surnames. Personally I believe Northumbria cumbria and the Scots are pretty much the same people. Just my opinion.
@jonahwhale9047 grandmother was born 1901 1903 so would be earlier than that.
@jonahwhale9047 Great great great great grandfather. Most names with son on the end normally came from the lowlands originally, but my family has highland and lowland conections and yes it's mostly from the west coast.
Texan. Ancestry British and Danish. R1b
Interesting video, must have taken some time to research and put it together 👍
Thanks
Thanks for a very interesting video which shows that our roots are deep here in England. In fact, right back to the end of the ice age.
Except of course for all the people who came later
@@jimjones-bk2is
The video is about English DNA, anyone who came later has a different story and different DNA. Unless of course they married into an English family, then they would have a connection to the same roots.
@@johnbrereton5229 England didn't exist until very recently. Certainly not at the time of the last ice age
@@jimjones-bk2is
England as a country was founded in 972 so is older than France, Spain and Germany so it's not that recent.
Previously the land was uninhabitable due to the ice age and so wasn't permanently settled until after the ice receeded 10,000 years ago. However the dna of these early settlers is still carried by the modern day English, so they are the earliest ancestors of the English.
@johnbrereton5229 everything is relative. Egypt has been around a while. But in terms of human history, both places are recent. Until the ice receded there wasn't even an island here.
I'm part of Haplogroup HV. My mum is from Scotland (I was raised in England and my dad is from Kent). I've got Northwest Scotland 9.3%, North Wales 4.5% , Ireland 2.3%, Southwest Central England 15.2%. Some from: East Anglia, Northwest England and Devon. I've also got South Germanic 15.5%, France 15.5% Finland 4.3% and Scandinavia 2.3%.
I am English as far back as i can go on Ancestry (so atleast as far back as 1700s), mainly all from East Anglia... yet my Ancestry is only up to 65% English/ northern Europe and a large % is Scottish and up to 11% norweigen + traces of German + Welsh. ... i was stunned but it makes sense given previous invasions. Fascinating stuff x
Hi did you know the Scottish fishing vessels followed the shoals down the East cost of England and thousands of Scottish women also moved seasonally too to process the fish - they were called flither girls. I have fishing family from Filey with this Scots influence. Cheers
@antonyreyn oh that's fascinating to know, thank you for sharing :)
You have to take these tests with a pinch of salt. Almost the entire Lowlands of Scotland were settled by Anglo-Saxons during the medieval period and these tests are based on historic geographical population groups, meaning that it can sometimes fail to differentiate between these periods and subsequent genetic shifts.
You will also find that the large companies who sell these services give a macro view of the breakdown and often conflate groupings because of this. You can find other free services (they often want the data for academic purposes) who will take the data and give you a more accurate breakdown of your ancestry (often resulting in these smaller outlier percentages being corrected).
@@14Anon2 cool I knew about the kingdom of Northumbria straddling the border, my kids got a 50% signal for Scottish- their mother is a Scot so it was pretty bang on there! Cheers
Not forgetting that results change as more DNA is collected
What can you tell us about Dunlace Castle??
When the Bell Beaker peoples first moved to Britain, the great pyramids of Egypt were already a few Centuries old. The economic impact of the early civilizations may have very well been a factor in causing the Bell beakers moving to Britain, for example control of the Tin trade may have been a factor.
Agree. Wasn't there archeological evidence of the bell beaker culture found at Stonehenge as well?
It seems as if the bell beaker people's "took over" Stonehenge, but I don't think they originated or built Stonehenge. The science isn't definite about who built the final stages of Stonehenge
Scara brae was built around the same time as pyramids.
@@wor53lg50 A miraculous place.
in the bible they call it the tin island - joshif of arimitea was a tin traider -
What tin trade? The Beakers arrived a few centuries before the bronze age is thought to have arrived in Britain. Even if they were already using bronze they wouldn't have known about the tin deposits in Britain as the previous people weren't aware of tin.
About three weeks ago my DNA results came , they also sent me printed letter to explain a few things, my results told me that my heritage is a very high 81% Anglo Saxon, the Angles, Saxon's and Jutes From South Denmark and Northern Germany. 9% Southern Sweden 10% Norwegian, a bit of a mixture, but they all settled in what is now England. As for Celts or early Britons most were driven out of what is now England or simply killed off, so very little if any DNA remains. The Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Danes who occupied England first unified about 927 AD out of previous Kingdoms of Saxons Jutes and Angles. Athelstan being the first King of England but it wasnt called England until around 1000AD the it was first referred to as Engla Land two words prior to that it was the Land of the Angles or Saxons and part of Land of the Danes, collectively Anglia, and yes I am a Historian.
There has never been a linguistic phenomenon on the planet in the history like nowadays with English. You can ask any parent in the world what foreign language they would like their children to study and the answer will automatically, unhesitantly be: ENGLISH.
So you’re an English supremacist!! You snuck that one in on the sly didn’t you…
@@DerekLangdon-w9eon your note, I'm an Arman/ Vĺach language supporter and propagator, while the English language global phenomenon is the savior of lessor spoken (some forbidden) languages.
Because of the United States' hegemony. French was the #1 language before the Treaty of Versailles which put an end to the First World War. Before WW1 all treaties and global documents were written in the French language. The U.S. became so powerful after 1918, they single-handedly benefited from that war by providing credits to the Allies. Even the British Empire was anxious, they knew the U.S. would invade Canada If the British stopped paying loans.
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I made it 7 minutes with your vocal cadence and almost walked into traffic to make it stop.
your channel is great, thank you
Thanks
My dads side is entirely British isles genetically, mostly English and Scottish and oddly me and my fathers haplogroup is found pretty much only in Iberia, northern Spain and Basques specifically and isn’t found much at all outside of Iberia which I think is intriguing.
There was an influx of spaniards in Ireland as they took in the remenants of the Spanish Armada, so there is a lot of spanish ancestry in Ireland. Due to large numbers of Irish immigrants settling in England there is now Spanish DNA over here.
@ the Spanish Armada wouldn’t have been enough to have a meaningful genetic impact on Ireland in the long run. However, it is theorized that the original celts that came to the British isles actually came from the Iberian Peninsula so in that case it could actually make sense that I have an exclusively basque/Iberian haplogroup.
@@chandleryoung9515 I have to disagree. Its still a running joke over here. You often come across suntanned , dark haired Irish people amongst the very pasty pale dark haired 'celtic' Irish. People frequently point out their spanish ancestory. I dont think the Southern Irish had a massive population at that time and Im guessing there were a reasonably large number of Spaniards landing as Ireland was the closest catholic haven for them as they couldnt make it to France.
I guess its just a humerous 'folk memory' but obviously there is a fair bit of truth behind it.
Anglo Saxons changed and created the world purely the language we speak today
I hear the Williams were the last main Celtic clan to migrate north from Iberia- Galacia to South Wales. Is this true ?
Fascinating, as someone who is British and have mostly British ancestry on my family tree other than Scottish and German I uploaded my Raw DNA results into mytrueancestry and found out that Im closely related to:
Danish Vikings
Franks
Vandals
Anglo-Saxons
Gaels
Celtic Dobunni
That's very interesting, how does one go about loading your DNA onto that site ?
Dobunni ? How did that result come about????
@@johnnypickles5256I matched with DNA from a Dobunni settlement area! One man and one woman looked that father and daughter. It matches your DNA to DNA found from archaeological sites. Absolutely fascinating. It dates it also.
@@xsamrx4718 interesting to see were the dubonni migrated from originally and which dna group they fall under
@@johnnypickles5256 Honestly, it would be very similar with the rest of the Celtic tribes in the UK at the time. Iceni tribe was close by which is the most famous because of boudica. The tribes would have been similar just little variations of traditions that was unique to each tribe. The Celts originally migrated from Europe towards the UK and Ireland. Its really after the Romans who Romanised the UK that Scotland, Ireland and Cornwall were able to keep some of their Celtic heritage and history and become the Celts we know of today. However at one point we were all called Celts which has different meanings from the Ancient Greeks and Romans. One meaning is ‘Brave warriors’ another meaning ‘Like Milk’ which indicates the majority of our skin tone at that moment in history. Which would have been strange for the Mediterranean skin tone of that time. I could go on and on 🤣 There are lots of books of the subject but again its very hard to pinpoint who were these people originally because the UK has always been such a mixture of DNA from the original nomads(moving from country to country in search of food) to the Roman Empire and the slavery they enforced with people from countries they occupied (Europe, north Africa, middle east etc) I also had a DNA match for the Picts in the highlands in Scotland which has even less history known other than they had tattoos! 🤣
Might be a bit confusing. I was born in South Yorkshire, Great grandfather on Dad's side was irish, Grandfather on Mum's side as a scot, And mum & dad we're ten pond poms. Wife was born in Cardiff & my kids were born in Brisbane.
There's nothing wrong having English ancestry in your family. Everyone thinks they are Irish or Scottish. Americans seem sure of the real facts of the past and rascim against the English that's the real issue here. Am English have a English mum and a Irish dad. 🇬🇧🇨🇮
I’m English with with some Irish, French, Indian (my paternal side great grandmothers family settled in India in the 1730s and returned in the 1950s) and Welsh ancestry, my paternal line is traceable back to where I live for hundreds of years, I even have distinct genetic markers for my region on the midlands.
My haplogroup is I1a2a1d, which is far more common in Sweden but with afew people in Norway and England.
Northern European. Angles, Saxons, Normans (vikings) are the majority of us.
I'm 5% Martian, but, shhhhhh
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 no worries sweatheart😘
Britain was re-colonised by neolithic farmers in the bronze age - so you're basically Spanish!
And British scientists said that the Spanish were black!...
@@johnpatrick5307 And you wonder why we take the piss out of the Irish…
@@toucheturtle3840
Ignorant mongrel - or should it be Black
man?
The consensus among historians seems to be that Anglo-Saxon settlement in the British Isles did not come about by hoards of warriors sweeping across the country but by acculturation. Genetic studies have repeatedly demonstrated that immigration from the Germanic-speaking Continent was on a greater scale than argued by supporters of the theory of a small migration, and also that mixing occurred between native Britons and immigrants.
I'm Australian and have English,Welsh,Scottish, Cornish and Irish DNA. And my features are fair skinned blue eyes and white hair.
White hair? Australia is strange.... do you mean blonde?
@@Jezza-m5khe means he is old or an albino
We live near a small village in Lincolnshire where the captain who named Australia was born and has now been recently rebuired there.
@@jonwek4332Marton village, a suburb of Middlesbrough, is where Captain James Cook was born. I have a sister who lives there. Close by is the Captain Cook museum, which is in the grounds of Stewart's Park. Cook discovered Australia, but many now dismiss this.... Cook, of course, named this land New South Wales...
In short, your German!
I have English, Channel Island and Scottish ancestry. I've never had a DNA ancestry test, but my surname is a Norman one...I looked it up on-line. Apparently it comes from the midlands, West Mercia, very near Wales. I guess I should have a DNA test done as I'm quite curious. The Channel Island and Scottish is on my mother's side and she has a French maiden name from the Channel Islands. Her mother's side is from Scotland. So I'm a bit of a mix! I've got very pale skin ,dark brown almost black hair and brown eyes, yet my sister has very blond hair and blue eyes...
Cheddar man was not black ,😮
Correct
But oooooohhh how they want him to be.
Only on netflix
He would have looked more southern European /Middle Eastern, a dark olive skin,blue eyes and black hair.
@@thelstanegn5348 sounds more like it...!
I know my maternal grandmother was 100% Scottish and my fraternal grandmother was 100% Swedish. As far as my grandfather's, I've been told one was Irish and the other was from the Isle of Man.
The romans never conquered England for anyone wondering since the anglo saxons (indigenous English) hadn't arrived to Britain until the Romans left!
So who built Bath and all the roads. Ofc we were conquered by Rome
Yep. England did not exist until after the Roman empire fell, 450AD. Rome never conquered England
@Angelcynn_2001 The land did, and so did the people. That's the problem with "engalanders" not you I think. Is that we think that we are special in some ways. I have travelled to MANY countries in the east, West and south (not really north). The UK and the US are not that much really
People who know nothing, such as Chris the woke, will say anything to discredit the English.
@@chrisdorrell1are you seriously asking that? That's like saying you dont own the house you live in because someone else built it 🙄👍
Great video - many thanks.
Thanks
I'm an American but my ancestry is 85.9% British, Irish, Scots, and Welsh, 8% Scandinavian, 5.4% Eastern European, 0.6% Egyptian, 0.1% unassigned.