Surprising DNA Results for my husband, me and my siblings! Ancestry, 23 & Me, and Living DNA
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- In this video, Ian and I share our DNA results and tell you what surprised us about our ethnicities. Then I review how my DNA ethnicity results vary vs. my brothers. And finally, I share my brother Alan's DNA ethnicity results across 3 different companies to see how different they are! I show side by side comparisons with Ancestry, 23 and Me, and Living DNA.
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Glad Ian did the DNA test too! Always fun to see everyone's heritage.
I didn't want to do a DNA test because my brother had done one and so I figured "what's the point?"
That just shows my ignorance! It was interesting to see how different the three siblings were ...
I find it all so very interesting...loved listening to all the information and all the hard work you've put into this Dara...so amazing...hope you're feeling better from your bout with COVID!
Thanks, Donna! Thankfully I'm fully recovered and got my ENERGY back!!
You and Ian have more in common than you thought! 🤪What a beautiful tribute this September.
We definitely need to spend some more time in Wales together! Ha ha
I have a 3rd cousin from Dublin Ireland who recently contacted me through 23&me. We are going to see her in October this year! After taking the test I’ve found out SO much (you know I shared with you). Researching our DNA connections is so fascinating. Sorry you missed that conference. Great video Dara. ~Cara 🌺
You are one of those people who unearthed some family secrets! But yes, it is super fun to connect with relatives in the countries our ancestors come from! Are you going to Ireland in October?!?!?!
@@MagentaOtterTravels yes I’ll text you. Last minute visit. 😊
Hi Dara and Ian. Greetings from New Zealand where I found an indirect family connection in the Dunedin Museum. Gerry
How fun! My RUclips friend Anita is currently in Australia heading to New Zealand tomorrow! Enjoy your time Down Under 🇳🇿
Hi. My great-grandmother was born in the Forest of Dean, but worked in Monmouth. The distance between her home in England and her workplace in Wales is less than 2 miles. And she's actually registered on the 1901 census as resident in Wales. There was a lot of movement across the border in the past, especially in Herefordshire and the Forest.
I believe it. There is so much Welsh influence in Herefordshire and the FOD... I think the borders were pretty fluid.
The discrepancies between siblings is mainly due to the overlap of very close categories. In many instances, Welsh and Scottish&Irish and even English to a lesser extent, are interchangeable for instance because these populations are extremely similar to each other when compared to other Europeans. The best way to make sense of it is to use traditional genealogy and the detected "communities" or "regions" to confirm an ancestral link to a particular ethnic group.
In the British isles context, until these DNA tests become more and more accurate, it's best to think of the variation mainly in insular versus continental, English people tending to having more continental ancestry (Anglo-Saxons, Norman...) while Irish having the least.
To a lesser extent, the discrepancies between siblings can be due to the fact we don't exactly inherit 25% of our dna from each of our grandparents. In reality, it can be as low as 19% and as high as 30% or so.
Yes, absolutely! In the follow up video which I will publish next Friday, Alan explains that we really only share 50% DNA with our siblings. That surprised me!
@@MagentaOtterTravelsthere was a test on identical triplets. It said they were identical but each showed different dna. It’s not a fluke. It’s what happens.
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Yes Ian, the best nationality to be!! This is so intersting! Oh Dara you're a bit Welsh too!! You're gonna have to learn the lingo now!!we're looking forward to your German trip already. Love that you are the most German!!! What a fascinating delve through your ancestors. 🍻
Sorry to disappoint... I'm rubbish at pronouncing Welsh AND German! I do much better with Spanish ;-)
But Ian is quite good at German, and I'm so excited about our Germany trip too!!!
It is isn't it! Unfortunately, despite this and all the time I've spend in Wales, I'm much more comfortable with German than Welsh.
FASCINATING! Bravo 👏 you’re still 20% British and that’s a big chunk 😂👌
Loved this video - keep up the good work
Thanks 😊
Bloodworth sounds very Australian too. I grew up in the 80s and we had a huge amount of Australia-mania around the bicentenary in 1988 (I hope I got that right) and in a lot of the Aussie shows they use phrases like "your blood's worth bottling," and similar things.
Oh that is funny!
I found it so endearing that you wanted more British DNA. I have binge watched so many of your videos. I used to stay in Cheltenham as a little boy but haven't been in over 30 years. How did your Father find himself in the U.S? Was he wearing a U.S army uniform in the picture?
Haha, yes my Anglophile tendencies definitely came through in this video LOL!
You really need to go back and visit Cheltenham! Maybe for a fun festival this summer... music, literature, science, jazz, or best of all ... FOOD!
Thanks so much for doing some binge watching! That really helps the RUclips algorithm show me some love, so I REALLY appreciate it!!!
Yes, my father served in WW2 in the Panama Canal Zone! That is actually where he met my mother, which is a shocking story. My father's mother came from Minden, Germany and his father was born in Illinois to parents who had emigrated. His father was from Hanover.
My father was from Texas, he was in the USAF based at Burtonwood in NW England. My mother followed him back and the result was me, she came home and I was born in Liverpool. He told her that one of his grandmothers was Blackfoot. The DNA and family tree totally dispel this. I expect she was told to impress her.
Yes, precisely!! My mother's father used to say to his children they were "Blackfoot Indians"... but it was because they were so poor that the children ran around the farm barefoot all summer long with no shoes. This is how family myths get started! LOL
Famous Memphis Tennessean Elvis’s Great Grand father married a Cherokee woman..or did he ? I wouldnt think a photo exists as it was before colour television..what did your Dad think of Vladiva Vodka ?
@Magenta Otter Travels, I enjoyed this episode v much!!!! One point: at around 07:35, the graphic for East Europe/Russia showed 20% buy you stated 2%.
PS Dara, your mother was beautiful and it is easy to see you have her looks ❤❤
Oof, I didn't catch that mistake! Sorry about that! The correct number was 2%. I said the right thing, but my graphic was messed up.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! My mum was a beautiful woman. The photo I shared was her at 17, and she was actually a model back then! Thanks for watching! Stay tuned for tomorrow's DNA video where my brother (who is way smarter than me!) shares a lot of great info on DNA tests, different companies, and family history research. Cheers! Dara
I highly recommend doing what I call 'The Family History Trail' my cousin and I planned for 2 years to meet up in Croatia which is the country our family is from now. (The borders changed quite a few times!) I knew the area well as my maternal aunt still lives in one of the major towns and she had taken me around when I was a teenager, and not at all interested in family history! (I think age develops that interest)
Yes, I agree! I spent time in Germany in 1985 as a student at uni, back when my German relatives were still alive. But I didn't visit any family history locations. Now as a nearly 60 year-old I'm making the pilgrimage this September!
Dara, I have never looked into my DNA. There is quite an extensive Family Genealogy site my cousins have worked on over the past 20+ years. I was most surprised by the differences in sibling results. Fascinating. I've yet to post my German holiday videos as we were there in the Autumn. Which parts of Germany will you be visiting? Thanks for this most interesting and enlightening video. I'm very much a WALES fan...was chuffed to hear about the DNA input from Wales. Have a great weekend. I'm off across the ditch to NZ next Wednesday. Bye for now from Australia. 🇳🇱🙋♀🇳🇿🦘🏴
I'm glad you get to visit both New Zealand and Australia! We haven't decided everywhere we are visiting in Germany yet. Definitely Rothenburg and Berlin and Düsseldorf. Possibly Hamburg. Definitely some villages in Hanover where my ancestors were from 🇩🇪. We fly back to Texas from Frankfurt, of course.
@@MagentaOtterTravels of course you do!🤣✈
The Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians came from the coasts of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Wow! I bet the genealogy companies will have a glut of enquiries from your subscribers, I myself had to pause the video and see how much the different sites were charging for the tests 😀 - any info from those who’ve done them would be appreciated. Interesting, but I do wonder about the discrepancies from one company to another? Still, fascinating stuff!
My brother Alan (next week's video guest star) would recommend you do My Heritage. I think he said the kits are on sale now for $36 and they have a huge European database.
Hi Dara & Ian, next step is a vlog series of you learning German & Welsh respectively. Although, as someone who lives next-door to Wales, I think Ian has the harder job.
Ian has learnt German for me! He will do the speaking when we are in Germany... although most everyone will speak English so I'm alright ;-)
Have you not seen the video of me learning to speak Welsh in 10 minutes? It's ridiculous... so grab a cuppa and check this out: ;ruclips.net/video/R2s7R7vDhNA/видео.html
The sad thing is that, despite being 50% Welsh and spending a good chunk of my childhood there, I'm much more comfortable with the German language.
I wonder why they say England and North West Europe as if England isn't in North West Europe.
@nicksykes4575 I think it would be better for Dara to learn Low Saxon, since the specific region in Germany highlighted for her was “Coastal Northwestern Germany”, the heart of Saxonland. Low Saxon was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League, but it has sadly become marginalized in recent decades by the language of the Germans who came down from the Alps.
@@stephentaylor1476 All of these DNA companies sadly have terrible names for their categories. Currently, the category that includes all of the Netherlands and most of Germany and parts of all of the countries that border them is called “Germanic Europe”, as if Scandinavia and England aren’t Germanic.
You and your siblings get a random 50% from your mother and father, which is why you have differences in your ethnicities. But keep in mind, these are only estimates. I have an identical twin and we share 100% of our DNA - however, because ethnicity is an estimate, we have slight differences in our ethnicity.
That's SO interesting! Thanks for sharing that about you and your twin ;-)
The reason your siblings' DNA percentages may vary is that you all got 50% from each parent but it wasn't necessarily the same 50 percent!
Yes, that is what Alan explains next Friday. I've done a rubbish job understanding DNA to be fair!
I'm not surprised at the Scandinavian blood on your father's side. The borders of Denmark and Germany have shifted around a lot over the years. I'm trying to remember which statesman said that only three people ever understood the Schleswig Holstein question. One was dead, one had gone mad, and the other had forgotten all about it.
Haha, I love how much everyone knows about history and geography! I'm rubbish at both!
I'm not sure if you know this but there are a few different towns known as new castle in the U.S. besides a town named New Castle in England. Some spelled a bit differently and some the same.
I looked up Newcastle Durham and it looks like that is currently in Ontario Canada! That doesn't make sense. I think it was probably Durham North Carolina.
Hi Dara & Ian! I'm excited to learn your results! Fascinating that Ian is 49% Welsh and only 45% English and northern European. Your results were surprising too! Intriguing that you also had a fairly large percentage of Welsh DNA. I would love to go to Roots Tech. Hilarious that you had a larger percentage of German DNA than your two brothers! 😆I have DNA results from Ancestry and Living DNA. My Ancestry results showed that I'm 63% England & Northwestern Europe, highly concentrated in Norfolk and the wider East Anglia, which didn't surprise me at all (very inter-bred, lol!), 14% Norway, 12% Sweden & Denmark, 6% Scottish, and 5% Germanic Europe. Thanks for a very interesting video ❤
The fun thing about RootsTech is that you can attend remotely! Going in person is more fun, but remote attendance is so easy. Over a million people participate! It's at the end of February every year. I'll try to remind you to register next year. This year one of the special guest presenters was Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth! She talked about her family history (she's adopted) and sang a few songs and was great! I had to watch remotely because of stupid covid, of course ;-)
Hi, almost cousin 🤪
@@MagentaOtterTravels Oh yes, please remind me next year 👍😊
Hi Cuz!! 👋😁
Very interesting. Somewhat discouraging to see how wildly it can vary. I dont know who my great grandfather is so I have wanted to take one of these tests. I wonder if the Anglo Saxons and north Germans are still relatively closely related to the point where it threw off some of your results? Thanks for sharing!
Yes, definitely! I think some of my British ancestors DNA is Germanic. Which is probably how I ended up with 51%.
If I were you, I would probably do a DNA test with My Heritage. They are currently on sale 😉. Alan will talk more about that DNA company next Friday.
As for family stories, my Great Grandfather was rumoured to have committed suicide, but thanks to my interest in ancestry, I found out he was a well respected sergeant in the RMLI, who went back into service in the first world war as a trainer, but died on the operation table from appendicitis. He has a military grave in Kent. And was posthumously awarded a medal. So don't believe all you hear
That is a terrible rumour to spread about someone! I wonder how that happened? I'm glad you tracked down the truth!
@@MagentaOtterTravels we think it was possibly his wife, she died in Dover hospital, but my Grandfather was young and never spoke about it
@@wencireone sad 😢
My mother's mother came from Ledbury. Other relatives also lived there. Are we related??? As for mobility, farm labourers often moved from farm to farm. In Herefordshire there are towns with Welsh-type names. There would have been free movement across the vague border. A distant relative moved to Wales in about 1850. My Mother's grandfather was a farm labourer and in the middle of WW I moved 50 miles from Ledbury up to Wellington. Wit the coming of trains and steam ships, moving became easier. Men would go a long way to get work.
Going back in time, the west side of Britain including what is now Wales and Herefordshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cumberland (Lake District) were under the control of the "Celts". When the Germanic tribes invaded in the 700s and then the Danes invaded, the Celts in the Lake District were separated from "Wales". Throughout the last thousand years there was free movement across the borders, quite often minor battles, capture some property. No doubt there were children eventually. Also what we now call Scotland was originally "Pict Land" until the Ulster tribe "Scots" from Northern Ireland invaded "Scotland".
Thanks for sharing all that interesting history! I think you and Ian must be related ;-)
Have you seen my Ledbury vlog? It's one of my better vlogs... and you might enjoy the Herefordshire family history vlog as well, since most of it is in Ledbury. Here are the link:
Ledbury vlog - ruclips.net/video/gPKi6NKConw/видео.html
Herefordshire genealogy vlog - ruclips.net/video/t3apMEPWXlM/видео.html
Those are good points. I suppose that could explain why my Welsh DNA is so high. Since I have a number of relatives from Ledbury I we could be related. I have to go back over 200 years before I see ancestors in Ledbury but it was nice to learn that I have roots in a town that I have so long admired.
I think the DNA results would surprise many of us, Dara and Ian. I've also had mine done (Ancestry) and really thought much more German would be there than there was. Yet it came back relatively small compared to what I had been thinking. Much of my make-up also comes from the UK countries. Also northern Europe like Finland and Sweden. I had two aunts who had done the Hyde family tree before the age of the internet. They were only able to get back to around 1830 on the Hyde linage, (4th great grandfather) but much further on the some of the women they had married. I also tried years ago when the internet was still in it's infancy and so were the records. Mostly stored by the Mormon Church at that time. Just within the last several years after watching some of Stephen and Yhana's videos and with his help I was able to go back much further on the Hyde name to my 8th great grandfather born in the mid 1600's in what is now the state of Connecticut. One generation later my 7th great grandfather born in what now is the US would die in England. No record as to where, just England. So I would believe (but of course I can't say it's fact) he had returned to some earlier ancestral area. Stephen had some ideas that could make sense, but we couldn't nail it down. I'm hoping that as I get more time in the future to be able to do so, I'll do more and also among the woman who account for half of our ancestry. Enjoyed hearing about your results and how they vary between companies.
Hi Dave! How is your mum doing?
You may know that I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (formerly known by the nickname of Mormons). The website familysearch.org is owned by the church and is a free resource anyone can use for research. You can get SO MUCH more information from your own computer now!! No need to go to the biggest genealogy library in the world in Salt Lake City or access other websites when so much has been compiled in one place online. AI of course is accelerating the compilation and digitization of records as well.
My brother Alan will talk about this more next week, but using your DNA results in Ancestry will really help you connect with relatives and expand your tree! Hopefully when you and your mum and Kathy are at home and not travelling around you can do some research and find some more branches to your tree ;-)
I wasn't aware of that Dara. I know that much of what we know today comes from their record keeping and it's where Ancestry gets much of their information.We're happily Catholic, but years ago when I was researching the first time two young folks visited our home doing some of their missionary work. We had a long lovely conversation in our home, before they continued on. Snacks were involved. 😁😁@@MagentaOtterTravels
I did a 23 and M3 test a few years ago. Gradually what was deemed Swedish back then ( about 8% ) has disappeared and I'm left with 100% Scottish.
On my father's side I've yet to find an ancestor from outwith the confines of Ayrshire. Ayrshire is an elongated coastal strip in the form of a central basin surrounded by quite high hills all round its inland rim so the centrally located population basically intermarried a lot!.
I have not found any ancestor other than Scottish although my mother has ancestors from Wigtownshire and they look like they might have an Irish surname or two. You can literally fall off a boat from Ireland into Wigtownshire.
My Y -chromosome ( from 7 male line generations of Ayrshire farmers ) is more typically Irish ( linked to the Ui Niall ).
That's very interesting! No shame in ancestors who intermarried. I know it's scandalous now, but it happened a lot centuries ago. My brother Alan (star of next Friday's video) has told me the genealogy term is endogamy. I love Queen Victoria... and she intermarried, didn't she? ;-)
Interesting. My brother did our family tree, no great surprises, we originated in a place in North West Leicestershire. Leicester University was carrying out some research on DNA and Surnames, which he volunteered in. It was done a good time ago, and indicated we came from where we thought. The only surprise was that our surname had travelled the world, yet our branch had intact travelled only within the boundaries of our county of origin. Our surname has been adopted by many individuals who wanted to Anglosize their name. The research found that generally the surname and DNA were constant (male line of Y chromosome) surname was Warner and place of origin Coleorton in Leicestershire. All Interesting stuff.
Oh that's very interesting that they did a DNA and surname research project!
@@MagentaOtterTravels yes it's on Leicester University website. No coincidence Alec Jeffrey's worked for them, he was the father of DNA fingerprinting. Also Leicester University did the research on Richard III (Turi King was lead researcher) DNA. My brother was in a control group. As the database has grown it has become more specific. Also a video on Alec Jeffrey's on an anniversary of his discovery. He has a good sense of humour and its not about detailed information as its delivered to his colleagues, just overview on opening the door to what we have now.
Wow Coleorton is about 2 miles from me
Hi Dara, I was born and raised in Northumberland County, VA. I'm now living in Kilmarnock in the neighboring county of Lancaster VA.
Anytime you want to visit my beautiful part of the Chesapeake Bay area, I'd be happy to help you find where your ancestors lived here.
Oh wow, that is so kind of you to offer! That would be a super fun trip! We are going to Northumberland in England this year, so perhaps we need to visit Northumberland in Virginia next year!🙌🙌🏴🇺🇸
@@MagentaOtterTravels
My DNA makeup is much like yours. Half English and the other consists of Scottish, Norwegian, Danish, Irish and a smattering of North western Germanic clans.
If you want to hear a 16th century Elizabethan English accent in 21st century VA I'll take you to Tangier. It's a small island in the bay and the people are rather isolated hence they never lost their English and Gaelic brogue. Bring an appetite, Tangier Island is known as the blue crab capital. That's where the majority of my family is from except for my great grandfather. He was from Northumberland.
I just finished watching a Swedish TV documentary series, Historien on Sverige (History of Sweden). From 1500s upto around 1800, Various Swedish Kings sent their armies to conquer parts of Europe, including northern parts of Germany and as usually happens, some of them fraternised with the locals! That may explain your strong Nordic DNA connection, via Germany.
Yes, I think my "British" ancestors have Scandi and German origins... and my "German" ancestors are from Germany as well. Hence my 51% German DNA!
I was shocked to learn Ian was born in Jamaica. You have talked a lot about England and Wales but don't think I've heard you talk about that before
Yes, that is a surprising fun fact!
Do words matter or figures of speech? yes they do the words we choose to use carry a lot of extra meaning in the way we use them - thankyou your video was very interesting and I enjoyed it
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Interesting video!! Remember your Dad could also have had Danish and Swede DNA on his German side...As well as from Vikings! Ians ancestry is typical ...DNA from a very rural area ( the Border Marches) but family from the West Midlands....During the Industrial Revolution huge numbers of people migrated to cities from local rural areas! Dara its very interesting that you have such old roots in America!! Going back to the 1600s!
Yes, I have ancestors who were in the colonies back in the Jamestown era! I definitely think I could have Danish ancestry on my father's line. We were planning our Germany trip yesterday, and my ancestors lived in far north Germany not far from Denmark.
I agree with you about the migration of agricultural workers to the big cities during the industrial revolution. I talked about that in our Birmingham family history Vlog. There were examples of people on Ian's family tree who worked in various interesting occupations in Brum ... but they came from farming families in the Herefordshire area earlier.
@@MagentaOtterTravels the enclosure acts largely forced peasants off the land and into the cities and "Dark Satanic Mills" of the 1700s!
Autosomal tests like the one’s you did identify regional ancestry based on where other testers live so regional overlap is possible. I’ve done a few tests and I’m 30% Scandinavian and 55% East of England with a few others. Not surprising as my family have been in Eastern East Anglia since early 16c. East Anglia was part of Danelaw so matching folk in Scandinavia now makes sense. I decided to pin it down and did an FTDNA Y700/Big Y test which looks at male Y chromosome DNA pretty deeply. My paternal line is classic Norse Viking and the archaeological burials I match are fascinating, all are Viking burials mostly Greenland, Iceland and Norway. Ian may like to have his done, the results are most interesting.
Who did you do your test through?
@@MagentaOtterTravels I've done Autosomal with Ancestry, FTDNA, MyHeritage and Living DNA all much the same answer with all but Ancestry and Living DNA homed in well on the specific UK areas. Living DNA was good as it did a decent job with Y and Mt results to home in further on paternal and maternal origins. It was worst for number of matches as it has a lower tester database than the the others.
@@MagentaOtterTravels I've pinged you a quick email as it has link to look at regarding my Y DNA and RUclips didn't seem to like it
@@Nick_r oh yes, RUclips puts all comments with links into purgatory 🤣
Hi Dara
MyHeritage DNA results show me to be 48.7% English, 31.1% Scandinavian & 20.2% North Western European (i.e. The area from NE France across to northern Germany.
As far as I can see all my relatives going back 250 years are all from Yorkshire so that 50%+ of 'European' DNA must come from viking/Angle/Jute ancestry. I think your English ancestry may also be the same & it is getting mixed up with your German & Scandi DNA. I'm definitely English & you're welcome to join me on that basis and declare yourself English 😅
I also did the Ancestry DNA test which was broadly similar but snuck some Scottish into the mix!
Hard to say how accurate these things are really, especially for a mongrel race like the English 😊
Yes, we mongrel "English" folk have a lot of NW German and Scandi roots for sure. It's fine though... I'm happy to claim all of it!
On your trip to Germany will you be going to Hamburg? You really should have it on your itinerary. 😁😁
As I remember from a Time Team, the Scandinavians went round the top of Scotland and invaded Ireland and the west of Scotland. The kingdom of Ireland included some of the west coast of Scotland. My memory is a bit hazy on the subject.
As for your DNA tests. They make me more sceptical about the tests than I was before. Surely siblings should have the exact ancestry match? Should it not also be the case that the results from each company be broadly similar? As Ian said, people didn't move around very much back then. Before the railways people tended to stay in the same village for generations. Only the well off could afford to travel by stagecoach.
I know that my grandparents on my father's side were from the Dumfries area, but the family name is from the Isle of Lewis in the Highlands. My mother's side were from Lancashire, but the family name appears to be Irish. That's about all I know.
I will go to Hamburg as long as you don't expect me to eat a hamburger 🍔! 😝
In next Friday's video Alan explains why siblings don't share as much DNA as I thought they did .
You should do some family history research to find out more about those ancestors!
@@MagentaOtterTravels No. I expect you to go to Miniatur Wunderland. 😁😁 It's not just trains there btw. The trains are just a small part of the exhibition. They have sections on Hamburg, Las Vegas, Italy, Mount Vesuvius erupting, Monaco and more. Their latest section is South America.
@@MagentaOtterTravels My sister and niece are far more interested in our ancestry than I am. As far as I'm concerned I'm 100% Geordie. 😁😁
Many Americans say they had a Native American Grandmother, but they find that they have no NA DNA. The reason is that when lands were opened to NA people only. People who were barred from moving on to these lands found they could buy a certificate for $5 stating the were of NA blood, so were allowed to settle on these lands. These people were known as Five Dollar Indians.
Oh wow, that's very interesting!
He says that his ancestry is mostly English and later says about Anglo-Saxon but not all English ancestry is Anglo-Saxon!
My brothers in law are also named Brian and Alan.
If they had a sister named Dara I would REALLY be impressed! lol
Fun fact, our parents named us (in order) Alan, Brian, Clay and Dara. Like the alphabetising?
Bloodworth is a cool as heck name!
I agree!! The only one better is my cousins (step cousins, so no blood relation)... they are ACTUAL Cherokee native Americans... and their given surname was Whitekiller! That is LEGIT!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Wow! Simply wow!
I have done my heritage and I want to do ancestry next because my heritage gives me a very low percentage for Scottish and my maternal grandmother is 100 percent Scottish.
Hmmmmm, that's always a mystery... and sometimes a bit disappointing!
When it comes to family DNA I think of it as a big bowl of tossed salad. There are tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber, feta cheese, and maybe a few pine nuts all tossed in a bowl tgen apportioned out into smaller bowls. Each recipient gets the Same salad just in different variations. One gets a bit more tomato, another gets a bigger piece of cucumber. Same same, but different.
I got an extra portion of nuttiness 🤓
My cousin and I are interested in family history and she encouraged me to do the Ancestry DNA test. Mainly because she discovered in hers that there was a Middle Eastern percentage in her DNA, our fathers are brothers so she was curious if that DNA came from her European family. I originally wasn't interested in doing a DNA test simply because I thought my results would be boring, my mother and her family are from towns and villages 6km from my father's. My generation is the first to have grown up in different countries. But I was curious enough to see if I had an exotic ancestor, someone went on the crusades and met a local woman and brought her back to Europe? Turns out my DNA is as boring as I thought it would be! 93% northern Balkans and the rest eastern European. The Middle Eastern ancestor on my cousin's side was from her mother's side of the family.
Haha, sorry that is was boring! Some people end up discovering that the man they thought was there father was not... that is NOT boring but often upsetting! So perhaps you should be thankful? haha
My family has a Welsh surname which comes from Shrewsbury in Shropshire England. Offa's Dyke was not an exact boundary between the Anglo-Saxons and the Welsh. Some Welsh-speaking communities existed right across England, even in Kent until the Norman Conquest
If you go to Britain you must go to Kilpeck Church in Herefordshire. I was born in Birmingham, both my parents and 3 grandparents also. Most of our ancestors come from Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire. Others came from Ireland and Yorkshire. Recently we found through a DNA test on a cousin, we found that we have Italian ancestry. As his mother did not have it, it has to be on my maternal side.
Ian has lots of Herefordshire and Brum ancestors as well.
The Ancestry DNA shows the split between maternal and paternal lines.
I haven't done my dna but I've thought about it my mum mum family has Irish roots and my mum dad family for dutch Jewish but in London and non Jewish since 1800s we have feeling they moved from somewhere else to Netherlands in 1700s but not sure where. Dad family is from Cornwall we believe
Oh I think it would be very interesting for you to do a DNA test! My Heritage has kits on sale for $36 now and they have a huge European database.
The thing you have to understand is that almost all "English" have some "Welsh" in them. It might be quite a small amount, but it will increase dramatically as you go west, particularly into Devon & Cornwall and those borderlands of places like Herefordshire. Herefordshire has even been part of "Wales" at points in our history and, in fact, before the Anglo-Saxons, Norse/Danes and Scots arrived, we were all basically "Welsh". Equally, many Welsh will have a proportion of Anglo-Saxon or Norman or Scandinavian DNA, or a mix of them all. It's true people moved about less but migrations did happen on land and invasions happened all around our coast going back thousands of years, and that mixing all those years ago trickles down through the ages. The way we divide "English", "Welsh", "Scottish" and even "Irish" these days has little to do with us having unique DNA and more to do with the various conquests and political alignments over the centuries. DNA wise we basically all have the same DNA in us, it is just the mix that maybe differs - As British we will usually all have some mix of Welsh (or, more accurately, Brythonic), Scot (which is basically Irish, which is basically Brythonic also), Scandinavian, Norman (which is basically Scandinavian mixed with French) or Anglo-Saxon (which is basically Germanic mixed with Scandinavian) and it is only the amount of the mix which really defines us one way or the other. These DNA tests are very accurate, but they use algorithms to define exactly what the results mean and those algorithms are usually based upon our modern interpretations of nationhood, which is a bit misleading when talking about "ethnicity" in Britain and, to be honest, across much of Europe.
Thanks for your informative comment! I'd not heard of Brythonic before!
@@MagentaOtterTravels I should clarify that “Brythonic” really refers to language but it is useful also to demonstrate the pre-Roman make-up of the British Isles as recent DNA testing has shown that indigenous people of the British Isles, including Ireland, are all basically the same and it is still present in the majority of people from the British Isles. That said, I don’t think ANYONE from the British Isles has 100% of that DNA but it is generally more present in people from Wales, Scotland and Ireland as well as Cornwall and the West Country. However, you can see how this would complicate results when they’re trying to precisely define whether someone’s DNA is specifically Welsh, English, Irish or Scottish and it all depends on how their very secretive algorithms interpret the results. It is also worth noting that the “Irish”, or Gaelige, and Scottish Gaelic languages (the actual Scots were originally from what is now Northern Ireland) are not actually Brythonic languages but Goidelic, but they do both have the same roots and are related to one another. So, in reality, the thing which separates “Irish” from the rest of Great Britain is the language, not so much DNA. And, of course, politics. And, to an extent, religion. It’s all a bit silly really but it’s nice we can all get along now … sort of.
We’re also very ethnically related to the Bretons of Northern France by the way, modern day Brittany. They even speak their own version of Brythonic language, directly related to Welsh (although how many today actually speak it I cannot say)
Northumberland is now part of England, Newcastle is now part of Northern Ireland, and Isle of Wight is now part of England
Is there a Newcastle in Northern Ireland? I only know the one in the north of England
@@MagentaOtterTravelsThere’s Newcastle in Northern Ireland and Newcastle upon Tyne in England
People have always travelled around Britain.
Really interesting! I would like to do this, and I'd like to do the same for Gordon and Kiki too! 💖 Do you think it's worth the money, especially as the results of 3 different companies suggest 3 very different percentage splits? 🙀
I'm not sure pet DNA testing is "worth it"... but I would recommend you do a test with either Ancestry or My Heritage. They both have spring sales going on ;-)
On another note, Dani, I need to point out that my thumbnail has an absolutely ridiculous "soy face"... and look how well this video is doing versus my typical videos! Once again, rewarding bad behaviour! 🙄
@@MagentaOtterTravels - I'll look into it! I'd hazard a guess I'll be mainly Italian, seeing as my parents were both born in Italy! As for Gordon and Kiki, I'm interested to see what breeds their parents were (and further back). Zelda was half Maine Coon, but both Gordon and Kiki are a mystery! 😹
@@MagentaOtterTravels - How far can we take it?! 😹 Unfortunately, ridiculous facial expressions are proven to work! Gotta play the game! 😹
@@MagentaOtterTravels - My clickbaity spaghetti serving video is now gaining traction too!
The odd thing is that your, Dara, DNA doesn't show any English ancestry despite the fact that your family tree clearly does. I think this is because the English aren't long-term natives of Britain (1500 years isn't a long time when you consider the whole scope of human existence). The English mainly originate from Northern Germany with Scandinavian mixed in. This may be an additional reason (other than your father) why your ancestry is so closely linked to Northern Germany.
Great point, Luv!
I have Viking in me to.
They’ve found that everyone who’s (native) British does. It ranges from 3% to 20% depending on where in Britain you’re from.
Look more towards Norway
Hi from Northern Germany! My northern German mom has as much as 40 percent Scandinavian DNA, without any Scandinavian ancestors in 7 generations. So your Scandinavian DNA results will be part of your fathers northern German ancestry. The same for the Eastern European/russian DNA: Many Germans have more or less Eastern European DNA mixed in.
Very interesting! Yes, I think it's very possible that a lot of my Scandi DNA is from my German father's side. We are currently planning our trip to Germany... we will be going to Berlin and then an ancestral area called Benthen on our way to Hamburg. Then we'll go to a few more ancestral locations around Hannover. I'll also be visiting Dusseldorf, where my one German cousin I knew personally lived. I'm so excited!!
Hi Dara. How interesting. I have done mine and I am 70% English and NW Europe. I am 20% Scottish and - 10% GERMAN. It has always fascinated me. Did you know that DNA was cracked at Cavendish Laboratories in Cambridge UK (where also the atom was split) by Crick and Watson who got the Nobel prize. There is a Crick Institute in Cambridge.
I didn't know that, but I knew it was in Britain. Alan actually mentions that next week ;-)
On a totally different note, let me know if you want to meet up for "coffee" with other Magenta Otter Tribe members sometime this summer. I was thinking about you and Vanessa. Another woman who is a newer subscriber suggested it to me. ;-)
@@MagentaOtterTravels It would be nice to meet up for coffee with the other Cheltenham lady this summer. I presume you are coming here in May? I am, at this moment, waiting to go for a keyhole operation at the heart hospital in Oxford. Hopefully in about a month but I have not got a definite date yet. Because the op. Is keyhole it means that there is only a short recuperation. A week or two. Therefore late.May or June should be OK for a meet up. I will look forward to it.
@@valeriedavidson2785 good luck with your surgery! I'm glad it is expected to be a short recovery!❤️🩹
I think mid June is the earliest we could do it .
@@MagentaOtterTravels That will be fine. Whenever it suits you.
I took a My Heritage DNA test and I got English 53% Azores Islands Portugal 26.4 % Irish Scottish Welsh 8.9 % Scandinavian 7.6 % East European 4.1 %
We talk more about MyHeritage in this Friday's video. It's great for European ancestry.👍
I'm half Irish and half Border collie.
Lovely! Do collies like boiled bacon joints?
@@MagentaOtterTravels hahahaha yes, you don’t want to leave any food unguarded with me around hehehe xxx
livin g dna scoring so high on british and low on german is not surprising at all to me considering your heritage. The company like you said is smaller and focuses mainly on British isles. The Anglo Saxons who make up a large portion of english DNA came from the area in Germany your father is from. Hard to tell these people apart genetically as they are the same essentially.
Good points!
Those DNA percentage calculations are all highly misleading as they are statistical match with certain marker genes and how frequently they appear in the current populations of those countries. They don't really measure what proportion of you is ancestry from any given country. If it did, you wouldn't get such wild variations. Also, the way the calculations are made is highly proprietary, and specific to each company, and they have different, secret methods. I am very sceptical about what is going on and, dare I say it, these companies are interested in drumming up business and creating unwarranted levels of precision helps that. I might even suspect that it's a bit sexier to have fashionable ethnic groups, so they might tweak their algorithms to that effect.
I think it's more accurate where there are wide variations. For example, somebody with one Chinese parent and another from Italy would show a much more accurate picture than somebody from a fairly mixed background in central Europe where there will have been a lot of mixing up of hundreds of generations.
Yes, I agree with you!
Those Swedes invaded all the parts of Germany my parents are from LOL. My German went from 84% to 54%, but they bumped up my Baltics to 23% and of course those darn Swedes are in there too. 🤣 My husband (75% English) his ancestors migrated to Wales from the Midland (I think that's what it's called), so I was actually surprised how much Welsh he had at first. Then I found more Welsh through his one American great-grandmother (we're Canadian FYI). Also found 3 Mayflower ancestors through her. And of course he has a smidge of Sweden as well. His only Indian is Bengali, nothing from North America.
You have found out so many interesting things in your family history research! Well done 👍
It's fun how we're all finding out we have all this Welsh blood in us! Surprising for such a small country 😮❤️🏴
Are you certain that your Scandinavian dna is from the Viking era? Your father was from northern Germany which is very close to Denmark and Sweden and many people from Scandinavia have moved to the US in the last couple of hundred years. The Vikings that came to England mainly settled in the eastern counties, the Danelaw areas.
I’m English and all my ancestors that I know of were English but was still intrigued to take a dna test. It’s turns out 100% of my ancestors have lived in England for the last 1000 years. 1000-500 years ago they all lived in Yorkshire, 500 years ago they headed south and got to the East Midlands which is where all my family are from. Prior to 1000 years ago I’m 83% English, 11% Scottish and 6% Norwegian (Viking). York was a Viking city so even though that was a surprise it does all add up.
I did my dna test with Ancestry.
I’ve always had an intense belonging to England, it’s very difficult to describe I feel this land is part of my blood and bones and now I know my ancestors have fought and died on this soil over the last millennium adds up, it’s my home and the land of my ancestors and where I belong. ❤
I appreciate the connection you feel to your English roots. That's great!
My "British" ancestors came to British Colonia America in the early 1700's... so I believe they had Anglo Saxon or Viking heritage centuries ago.
I’ll forgo telling the punchline from the old joke about why one could tell the lady was from Scandinavia!😁
I’ve always been interested in doing these test as I was adopted. Don’t think I want to know the results😂
That is something we talk about in tomorrow's video. My brother is a DNA and family history expert, and it's true that you should not do a DNA test unless you are willing to learn about some secrets and surprises! A lot of adopted people want to do DNA tests, but I also think it's great to just let your parents be your parents and not dig into your biological roots. Whatever makes you happy!❤️
North Germany usually maps with very hight Scandinavian and/or English because of the Germanic migrations from Scandinavia and then the Anglo-Saxon migration to England. So your 20% Scandinavian is probably north German… and of course originally Scandinavian in origin 😉❤
I agree! Looking more at the ancestral locations in North Germany, it really is not very far from Denmark!
49% welsh
45% english
4% sweden denmark
2% norway
= 49% celt + 51% germanic = probably one of the first results of an englishman that had no scottish or irish in them! :)
Were you surprised by the amount of Welsh, or were you expecting that?
@@MagentaOtterTravels Well i rarely watched any english guy having over 50% english to be honest. the most english english people are in the east, but they also tend to be more scandinavian (because all migrations happened from the east, the anglo saxon and the norse).
Being next to wales so bordering this brithonic celtic land i think its not as suprising
@@cowlo9990 very interesting!
The Cherokee Indian Princess is a common thing for Americans. Nearly all Americans appear to think they have Native American in their tree.
Yes absolutely!
You get a different mix of genes from your parents compared to your siblings. If not, you would be their identical twin.
Yes, we discuss this in my video this Friday (with my brother who is a DNA expert).
CAUTION: do not let your twin commit murder, as you might accidentally get convicted with DNA evidence!!
Following loads of research, my ancestors family name is the same as Julie's maiden name from the Britgirls and can trace my ancestors back living within 10 miles of her ancestors, unfortunately some fat king destroyed the older records 😪
That is super fun! Julie told me a while ago that you had shared some genealogy research with her. But NOT fun that some king with a 52" waist destroyed your records. That happened to so many old records. And a lot of them have burned up as well in all those cathedral and church fires!
my dad is welsh
I love how Wales 🏴 tries to keep Welsh culture alive.❤️
Your DNA doesn't vary - the databases of other people's DNA they are comparing it against do.
That's why a UK company, with a database of UK samples will find UK heritage.
Yup 😉
I used My Heritage. I knew I was English, Welsh and Scots and Irish.
I am - 33.8% Scandinavian Norway/Denmark
32.2% Welsh, Scots and Irish
29.3% English
2.9% Italian
0.8% Iberian
0.8% Turkish area.
I wish they had explained the English more, and given individual amounts of Welsh, Scots and Irish. The Italian might be Roman.
My family are from North Wales, Shropshire and Liverpool. With some Scottish and Irish too.
Please watch this Friday's video, because my brother talks a lot about My Heritage. He knows a lot more about it than I do! You might want to upload your DNA results to Living DNA to see if they give you more British information
Most DNA testing companies only go back about 8 generations.
Good to know!
Giving nations ot DNA is odd to me. Celtic, Anglo Saxon and Scandinavian would be more logical. Some historians are disputing "Celtic" preferring 'Ancient Britons'. But there are Celtic languages.
I have Aegean ancestry so it is a bit mixed, my ethnic map has a rainbow of colours that are spread from Turkey to Ireland. One of the family stories was that when my great grandmother was a young girl she had to run away from Turkish soldiers and had escaped by swimming a river. This seemed far fetched since she was born in the UK and the likelihood of her going to Ottoman controlled areas then returning to the UK could not be fitted in with her age and when she had children in the UK. Through Ancestry we got into contact with other branches of the family that had split off from mine before my great grandmother was born and they had a similar story. We surmise that the girl in question existed but was probably two generations earlier than my great grandmother.
I think that some parts of the world are not supplying these companies with DNA so the full analysis is going to be skewed toward places were it is a common thing to do. As more information comes in and DNA from slow or low uptake areas is analysed percentages will change, this has happened to me and my ethnicity has switched from Italian towards the Aegean regions of the Mediterranean. This matches what I know about my ancestors, the Italian was a surprise when it first appeared as the names of some of my ancestors are clearly Greek not Italian.
That is a great story! But I'm not surprised that some of the details altered during the decades or re-telling ;-)
Have you done any family history tours of Greece?
As for certain countries... yes, my brother Alan discusses that in next Friday's video. For example, you cannot do DNA tests in France!
I think Dara's 5% Devon is just all the scones/cream tea's she has been eating on her visits. lol
I have never done a DNA test, but I was told my last name is Viking. my fathers parents were from Manchester and my mother's mother was Jersey and my mother's father was from London. because of the Jersey line, there will be French/Breton in my family tree at some point.
Alan is 5% Devon. I think I'm probably up to 25% now with all my cream teas eaten with the clotted cream FIRST on the scones!
Yes, I bet you do have some French DNA in you. As you will learn next Friday, taking DNA tests in France is illegal!
@@MagentaOtterTravels they probably banned the DNA tests in France because alot of them would show German ancestry from WWII. lol
@@MagentaOtterTravels my grandmothers maiden name was Le Beurrier and she could speak Jèrriais (Jersey French) fluently, as well as English.
@@jeanlongsden1696 I think there are probably a few reasons they are banned! My brother will share one reason he heard in next week's video...
Shouldn't full siblings have exactly the same ethnic mix?
Not exact same % in siblings cause we don't all inherit same amounts from each parent.
I was confused about this too... but as my brother explains in next week's video, you probably only share about 50% DNA with your sibs!
@@HSolar In a sense I suppose it's a bit like your signature: it's generally the same, but with the most minor differences.
I have a cousin, well, he’s the grandson of my grandmother’s brother, so whichever cousin you choose to call him, he is extensive into genealogy. Capable of more than me. Our Finnish great great grandmother was born in Norway. So, he says she was Norwegian. 🤦♀️. Not if both her parents were Finnish. 🤷♀️🤷♀️. And apparently she never learned English. I don’t know when she came to America but my mom said she only spoke Finnish.
I always get confused with the "xth cousin zth removed" labels... but that's what that person is!
Sounds like you need to do a DNA test to sort out this Norweigan vs. Finnish stuff! Please watch tomorrow's video. My brother Alan gives a lot of good info on DNA testing and family history research. Thanks for watching! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels I’ve done dna and have both Finnish and Norwegian. 🤷♀️
The idea that people before modern times never travelled more than a few miles from their place of birth is misleading. This might have been true for the majority but some people travelled big distances to invade, trade, marry, other personal reasons or just out of curiosity for those with the means. Isotope analysis was done on remains near Stonehenge which showed the woman had spent time many miles away, north Wales I think. Hereford has been a border town for a long time. I used to live not that far from Hereford and it struck me how Welsh the inhabitants look. When coming across unexpected ethnic DNA something to take into account is that a significant minority of us have a different biological father to the person we call daddy. I find it amusing when people claim kinship to, usually famous or regal, people 10 or more generations back when the chances are there has been infidelity on at least one link.
Yes I discuss that with my brother next Friday... don't do a DNA test unless you are open to discovering some family secrets!!
I love this sort of genealogy. But my understanding is that many of the commercial tests have to be taken with a grain of salt. They are getting more accurate as more people do it but they are really comparing your DNA against populations of people with known ancestries. So for some regions of the world it can be reasonably accurate and for other's there's not enough people to who have done a test to compare. Having said that, we did a test almost 20 years ago as part of research thing done by National Geographic. They essentially said your DNA shares traits with various populations around the world given as a percentage. So for me they said most of it was north western Europe, Germanic tribes, which included the British isles and Scandinavia, with a smattering of Mediterranean and middle east. Which makes sense. Most of my mother's side of the fam is Irish. Dad's is northern England and French. Which tally's up with the DNA test. But that is specific as it got. Michelle's is more interesting. She had a small percentage that share traits with populations from Asia - specifically China and Japan. The majority though was similar to mine. Which again makes sense because her father's ancestry is similar to mine, but the big difference was Michelle's mum is Ukrainian. Much of that part of the world was conquered by the Mongol hordes back in the 1200s. In fact something like 8% of men, something to do with the Y chromosome, from areas of the former Mongol empire are descended from one man - thought to be Genghis Khan.
We've been meaning to do an updated test, perhaps with the kids because they share our DNA, to see what we can come up with. We tell the kids they are descended from Vikings and Mongol warriors in the meantime. 😂
It is was interesting how far your family goes back in the Americas. 17th Century is as good as it gets. So you have a nice mix of new and old. Like you I was hoping for a bit of indigenous blood but the DNA test shot that old legend full of holes. My family has been here from shortly after the founding of the colony though. Yes, convicts. Mum's Irish ancestors got here a few years later. We have no idea where both dad and mum's ancestors came from before that other than a very non specific British Isles. But now my brother has rejoined the Germanic tribe and his kids are German. The family is circling back to its roots. 😂
Great stuff, I look forward to your chat with your brother.
Very interesting to hear of your convict ancestors! I do think you should both do an updated DNA test! Try a different company than the one you did the first time. You are absolutely right that the data is extremely dependent on who else has had tests done. And the fact that so many more people are doing them means the data is continuing to be refined. I don't recommend Living DNA, but the other companies have loads of data. If you did My Heritage before, try Ancestry. Or vice versa...
@@MagentaOtterTravels definitely will try. It would be nice to narrow down the specific areas of the British Isles and Europe.
Looking at Ian's DNA map, I'm curious if Ian is familiar with that old midlands, working class, coal miner "lads/lass spirit" which is mostly made up of British/Commonwealth heritage people and the sense of loyalty, trust, authenticity, duty, responsibility and family vibe amongst the locals. Often those people would identify by their region rather than their ethnicity or other characteristics and love to banter about any differences but all know that they'd go out their way to look after each other instinctively because that common sense of 'lads/lasses spirit' that they all share.
That's really interesting! If you watch our Birmingham family history blog, he definitely had working-class Brummie ancestors.
The regional thing you mentioned is also interesting. Makes me think about our travels in Germany and Austria and Italy. Because country/political national boundaries have changed so much over the centuries, many people feel strong connection to their region rather than their country. People think of themselves as Bavarian, or Tyrolean... rather than German, Austrian, or Italian.
Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I wasn't aware of it. A large part of my ancestry is made up of working class people from the Midlands so it's good to know that this "spirit" existed.
@@MagentaOtterTravels Yeah, you may have noticed that trend in the UK where locals refer to folks by regional group names like 'Brummies', 'Scousers', 'Cockneys' and other names for regional groups. Often folks from each of these regional groups love to have a bit of friendly banter about the different regional stereotypes and differences in local dialects/accents i.e. "Aup me duckie". Often the folks from these groups would see it as a sign of respect if they'd have some derogatory banter together where you'd see if someone called somebody a derogatory name, they'd laugh and say "I like this guy", whereas if some stranger comes along and is incredibly polite, they'd ask themselves "what is this guy after...". The sarcasm and derogatory banter was one of the things that bonded the locals and got them through the stress of work and other life stresses.
@@SmilerOnline oh yes, I have definitely a come across these regional rivalries!
I don't have much of an idea of my ancestry past my grandfather, most birth records from my origin country were destroyed during WWII. My grandfather died pretty young, in his 20s. When the Japanese invaded they rounded up all the young men in the town and executed them in a field. At least that's the story that's been passed down through the generations in my family.
Oh my goodness! What a horrific story! War is hell.
A lot of Welshmen would cross the border to visit English ladies through history
You're probably right 😉
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Every American has heard that they are a least a small percentage Native American lol.
Yes, it is such a common thing!
Hey Dara, I did my Ancestry DNA Test 7 ago or so, My DNA results have changed a few times. Initially I was Irish, due to my mother, but that went away, and also Welsh, that went away. I am currently 49% England and Northwestern Europe. 33% Scottish, areas are East and Central Scottish Lowlands, Central Lowlands and Fife. 9% for both Sweden, Denmark & Norway. Also, if you want to enjoy some good German Food, you can stay in Texas, Places like New Braunfels for WurstFest, which is really intense, Boerne, Fritzburg, Gruene,Brenham, and Schulenber.
Yes, so many great places in Texas that were originally German settlements!
You bring up a good point, Brian. I need to do this DNA test again and see if some English has shown up! 🤣
Well I did the dna test 1x and the percentage of different nationalities has changed based on better results. No need to do it again
My family myth is thanks to a company who in the 1970s and 80s? produced family shields. You sent them your surname they 'researched' it created a shield for you and a write up of where your family is from. My uncle had one made up and my father decided what was good enough for his brother was good enough for him so got one done too. The family history was that we were German from Brunswick in Bavaria and then had migrated down to the northern Balkans. Well according to my DNA test there's no German DNA at all, never mind Bavarian!
Too bad... Bavaria is such a beautiful place! Yes, there are so many "stories" we are told of our ancestry that just aren't based in fact, I'm afraid!
My father and my mother are from Guatemala and I have 15 % wales 30 % spain 10% jewish 40% indigenous América 5 % north África I'm really surprised about my dna . I dont think is true because all the family I know we are from Guatemala . But my ancestors were white and blue eyes.
So interesting! The Native American doesn't surprise me for Guatemala, and Spanish migrants make sense too. But maybe some migrants from Britain came to Guatemala centuries ago?
I think one of my great grand parents got married to someone from wales because my great grand father was white or i dont really know but i was surprised when i got my results @MagentaOtterTravels
It is strange DNA, I am mostly English, Irish and to my absolute surprise 4% Iberian Peninsula?
Oh nice! I think that means you need a holiday in Portugal! ;-)
Yeah, my grandfather-who we’re pretty sure is just English and Scottish-got 17.9% Iberian on MyHeritage (a company whose ethnicity estimates are often referred to as “trash”) and no English at all (although he did get 36.4% Scandinavian, and the Anglo-Saxons did come from Denmark, after all). It’s difficult, though, because there’s so much DNA shared by Europeans. People did in fact move around a lot, even before recorded history. Something strange I recently found out is that the Bretons-the Celtic nation of Brittany in France, whose closest linguistic relatives are the Cornish and then the Welsh-are actually most similar to the Irish, DNA-wise. I was reading a very long and dense scientific article trying to understand how that could be, and basically it came down to the first Indo-Europeans who came to Northern France and Ireland being particularly genocidal toward the pre-Indo-European peoples who lived in those areas (for example, those who put up the Carnac Stones), whereas the first Indo-Europeans who came to Britain seem to have been much more inclined to mix with the pre-Indo-European peoples there (for example, those who built Stonehenge), although they did still wipe out their culture and replace it with Proto-Celtic. At least, I think that’s what the article was trying to say. Not sure, though.
being WELSH is an act of god
❤️🏴
20% Welsh, a bit of an old dragon then 🏴🐲😂
Definitely old, definitely a dragon, but I'm a magenta one rather than red ;-)
2% or 20%?
???
You said 2% but on screen you had put 20% (if I heard right)@@MagentaOtterTravels
I think on Ancestry Scottish is over estimated. I doubt siblings could have such discrepancies. I also don't think the Scandinavian is due to Vikings but possibly due to that overlap i.e. England and Northwestern Europe. Whatever is causing it is not due to Vikings as that is too old. It is due to what populations they are using for their references and I think the England and Northwestern Europe is a very broad category so a lot of people aren't going to match that in really high percentages so it's going to give some people things like Ireland or Scandinavia when they might not actually have that ancestry to compensate for the different areas of England i.e. some more leaning to Anglo-Saxon, some more Insular Celtic etc.
I visit family in Somerset and they’ve told how for years, on Sundays, Welsh men would get the ferry to England, so they could go to the pub. At the end of the day’s fun, the ferry would take them home again, a little worse for wear. Quite a few romances would end in the man settling in Somerset to start a family. There’s lots of Welsh blood in South West England.
Ah yes... I JUST took a look at my ancestors on FamilySearch and found several in the 1600's who lived in Scotland, Somerset and Wales!
49% Welsh! Thats a strong amount. Plus a bit of Sweden, Denmark and Norway invaders thrown in. 51% German, great stuff! My grandma was German so I must have some percentage based there. Eating green food? Isn’t that something that you threaten children with? 😱 “Eat your greens!” Your mum is Kate Mulgrew? Germany is high on our list, maybe this year! Shame about the covid ruining your plans with your brothers. Hi Alan see you next week! Ah so you and your siblings all have a good deal of German in you. Shudder to think what I’ve been told that might not be true. Best not to look too deeply 😱
Come to Germany with us!
Bloodworth, about £100 for 600ml 😉
LOL
Wales in England?
I'm not sure what you are asking, but Ian had ancestors from Wales as well as counties in England which border Wales.
when every anyone does a DNA test it hardly ever come back with english ancestry or it is usually very little even when you know your english ancestors go back a long way very strange!
Because these DNA tests go back for centuries, not just a few generations. And those people in England came from somewhere else first!
the scottish welsh and irish are celts and they originally came from central asia to europe and then to britain then the anglo sax sons conquered what is now called england millenniums ago all these people came to Britain millenniums ago so why doesn't the irish scottish and welsh dna come back as from central asia or europe
where their ancestors originally came from the people who are now the english have been in what is know as england for millenniums @@MagentaOtterTravels
Dara: you look *very* Welsh
Thank you! Ian looks more Welsh. He has that swarthy Welshman look to him 😉❤️🏴
@@MagentaOtterTravels Didn’t strike me that way - more general Brummie. I’m saving up for a DNA test, but I’ll be concentrating on the maternal haplogroups first
@@lkgreenwell My Heritage has kits for $36 now... great sale!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Strangely enough I’m just reading the first Brother Cadfael book on St Winifrede, or *Guinevere* as you might prefer to pronounce her!
Great editing!!! You must spend hours!!!
Could have told you about Bloodworth. I applied at University of Georgia. There are no Cherokee Bloodworths they told me!
@@clayrabe4556 LOL doesn't sound like a Cherokee name!
Have you traced your family trees as far back as 1600s. That should give you a fair indication of where your Ancestors are actually from
THANK YOU for asking this question. I actually had not looked at this recently. But I just checked familysearch and found that my 10th great grandfather was from Essex and was named WILLIAM MORRIS! I just did a post about how chuffed I was to discover this the week of my William Morris video! haha
I also found several others of the same era who were from Scotland and Wales. I have lots more places I need to visit now ;-)
@@MagentaOtterTravels I also have the surname Morris in my family tree, but they hail from Dorset, but originally Wales
@@wencireone I think there are a lot of Morrises. And probably a lot of William Morrises!
Your mother is a very good looking woman.
She was a model! That photo is from when she was 17. Beautiful, loving woman. I miss her lots. She's been gone 10 years 😢
I am not surprised that your mother was a model. I also think that your father had a look of Prince Philip about him.
@@lizbignell7813 yes, I agree!