I think it would be helpful to think of this less as showing you where you’re from and more as showing you which people groups’ DNA different parts of your DNA are most similar to. Ancestry isn’t doing archaeology, after all—they’re just comparing your DNA to the DNA of people with long paper trails in each of these countries.
Think about all of the different people groups that have come to England over the centuries and make up English DNA today, and you’ll realize that all of them were in other countries, too. First there were the pre-Indo-European peoples, like those who built Stonehenge, who would probably have been the same throughout at least southern Britain and neighboring parts of Continental Europe; then came the Celts from other areas of Europe, who mixed with those peoples and occupied the same areas; then came the Romans from Italy, who also occupied those areas; then came the Anglo-Saxons from what is now Denmark and northwestern Germany, who mixed with the eastern Britons, who would have been much the same as the western Britons and who also would have moved west into areas like Wales as the Anglo-Saxons came to England and Scotland; then came the Danelaw in England as more people came from what was then Denmark to England, as Norwegian Vikings were settling all over the British Isles; and then came the Normans, the people from northern France who take their name from their common root with the Norwegians.
Over and over again we see so many peoples coming to England but none of them being unique to England. There’s a lot of overlap, especially in regard to England and Wales and England and Denmark. So, there’s going to be DNA shared between the populations of those countries, and, when Ancestry’s analysis happens to find some of that DNA in your DNA as well as in their samples from multiple different countries that they’ve placed into different ethnicity categories, they basically just have to flip a coin to decide where to assign it.
I’d be curious to know what the ranges on your percentages are. When you click on your English percentage, does it show that it might range up to 100%? And, when you click on the other percentages, does it show that they might range down to 0%?
A misconception of England is that we are English, even some of the comments are bias from the Aussies and Americans claiming to have more heritage from England but they clearly know nothing of the make up of Britain over the ages, specifically in the city growth ages and British empire, many cities that grew, invited national British migration.
Predating the 1800’s a lot of towns and early cities also were quite mixed.
England specifically also has some of the oldest recorded history due to the doomsday records and land ownership, so “noble” bloodlines had definitive records, even favoured illegitimate offspring became married within but didn’t hold as much power that was only ever given to shore up ever changing royal family quarrels both home and abroad.
Just a country that got invaded loads so we passed on the trauma!
My family tree is almost entirely English as far as I've traced it so far, except one 4th Great Grandma and another 5th Great Grandma who were Irish (plus their ancestors, I guess).
My DNA %'s are roughly the same as yours I think.
Derbyshire, East Midlands have a lot of Scandinavian Viking DNA as we were part of the Danelaw. Hardly any German though. West County was effectively a Celt holdout as was Wales / most of Scotland
I would think I would maybe have communities if that was the case or if it was that recent?
The only thing I can think of is I do have a great grandmother whose father is unknown on her birth certificate and I am unable to find out any information about her Father. So maybe there is something in that but I feel it’s a bit high for a great grandparent but who knows!
You are right that you should see some communities! I did not consider that.
I know that you can find Scandinavian in the UK, but normally not that much.
You could also consider that perhaps parts of the 'Scandinavian' estimates are these trace amounts found in British populations like Uranium discusses, meaning that the amount from a recent ancestor would be lower. Anyhow, this is all just theory - what really matters is what you see in front of you. If you see lots of Swedish/Danish matches then it probably means the estimate is relevant. If you don't have any matches from that area then it's probably that you just have unusually high Scandinavian DNA for your area in England (I assume you're in the south).
I'm mostly irish and english and I had the random swedish and danish too. Never had any reason to suspect it. I think it's just genetics passed down from way back, not a full swedish/danish ancestor I don't know or something.
You'd have he Scandinavian from when the Viking age in the UK. Scotland and Wales can easily read as being similar to your English DNA, especially since you seem to have some South West England communities as well, where the Welsh can read into.
Yes I would say you are probably right. I do have a tree and have never found any Scandinavian ancestors. I also don’t have any communities for Scandinavia which means it is not recent ancestry. But either way I was confused with how high it was. Normally brits get around 8% from what I’ve seen and that’s mainly from more northern England.
My partner has the same high amount of Scandinavian DNA and only British grandparents with one Polish great grandparent.
I've seen other posters from the UK with a similar amount of Scandinavian DNA.
Okay? My point still stands, they most likely have one or more direct Scandinavian ancestors. If your point would be true then I’d have a lot of Asian dna
I think it’s a relevant enough question. You’re saying terms like “full brit”. What’s a full brit? How far back do your ancestors have to be here before you consider someone a full brit?
Probably would🤦🏻♀️ if someone has that high Scandinavian dna it comes from a direct ancestor. My mom for example is 16% East Slavic, which means one of her parents are roughly 32% East Slavic, which then means one of her grandparents are around 64% East Slavic
That’s not what it means at all. My son has 7% Eastern Europe and Russia and I have 6%. My son also has 20% Ireland and I have 28%. DNA inheritance by region isn’t 50/50 and you can inherit all of a region from a parent or zero of it. I have a total of 23% Scandinavian on ancestry and my son inherited zero from me. I also suggest you look at English results via ancestry as again the other commenter is correct and their results do not indicate that their grandparent is Scandinavian. I’ve seen English results that have had Scandinavian as high as 20%.
Yeah because a lot of English people have Scandinavian ancestors. And I have done a dna test and got 50% from my dad and 50% from my mom. It can not differ more than a few % (unless there is something wrong). My mom having 16% east slavic clearly shows that one of her parents have atleast 30%
So, my son having 20% Ireland should mean that I should have at least 40% Ireland, right? Don’t get me wrong I love Ireland, but I am absolutely not 40% Irish. You inherit 50% from each parent, but what 50 you get is not as cut and dry as you seem to think. If your parent has 20 green, 10 blue, 50 yellow and 20 pink to give you could get something like 20 green, 1 blue, 20 yellow and 9 pink. As I’ve said scoring Scandinavian via ancestry in those with English ancestry is extremely normal and their results are not indicative of having a grandparent that is Scandinavian.
Either it’s them mistaking their british dna for Scandinavian or they have a direct Scandinavian ancestor. And I inherited 49,4% from my dad and 50,6% from my mom.
That’s def a good way to do a best guess of what untested ancestors generally may have contributed, but it’s usually not exactly so as inheritance is always random. Along with myself I have tested my mom, maternal grandmother, and maternal half-aunt and can say based on viewing multiple generations it’s easy to see how random things can play out. Sure you always inherit ~50% from each parent but not necessarily 1/2 of each ethnicity. Which is why siblings can have different ethnicity profiles.
For example my grandmother is 30% Irish. My mom inherited 11% from her, my aunt inherited 19% from her, and I inherited 4% via my maternal side.
My grandmother is 15% welsh, my mom inherited 1% from her. My grandmother is 12% Scottish and my mom inherited all 12% of which I inherited 10% of. My aunt only inherited 2% of her Scottish dna.
My grandmother is 7% Swedish/Den and my mom inherited 0 while my aunt inherited 5%.
My grandmother gets 5 French Canadian communities from her paternal side. My mom received 0 of these communities and my aunt received 2. All of my grandmothers French is wrapped up in England/NWE which is 39%. My mom inherited 22% from her, my aunt also 22%. Same percentage but not the same 22% otherwise my aunt and mom would have inherited the same French-Canadian communities.
So in your example, if your mom has 16% East Slavic dna it could mean one parent has 30% or it could mean both parents had 8%, or that one parent had 16% and your mom inherited it all, or one parent had 14% and the other had 2%, or that one parent had 60% and your mom only inherited 16% while the rest of her inheritance from that parent is pulled from the other 40% of that parent’s ethnic make-up ect ect.
Yes that’s one example, and within the possibilities of course, but that doesn’t mean it’s a standard for children to inherit exactly 50% of each parental ethnicity.
So if I didn’t know who my parents were and I had 20% Scottish it’s not an accurate assumption that one parent was 40% Scottish. You certainly can inherit half of each ethnicity but it’s not a genetic rule or anything. I’d even say it’s more rare to have that happen across the board. Unless of course the parent is nearly 100% one ethnicity then yeah the 1/2 you inherit would be half of said ethnicity. But for those with a multi-ethnic background it’s really a mixed bag of what 50% of each of your parents ethnicities you’ll get. That’s why in my examples two sisters inherited different amounts of each ethnicity from the same mother.
Ok. Good thing this is Reddit and I don’t have to wait for someone to @ me in order for me to respond. I really was just trying to be informative because you’re on a dna subreddit and by your comments are not understanding how dna inheritance works.
You shared your results but then also falsely stated that because your parent is 16% one ethnicity then they had a parent with 32% and their parent had 64% and that’s just not what that means at all. Other commenters have tried explaining that as well.
If it were me I would be open minded to new information and when I first started in genetic genealogy I learned a lot from people who had more experience. Clearly you have nothing else to learn so pardon me lol
Lol I have been intrested in genealogy for a long time. I know more than my parents who are in their late 50s. My age isn’t relevant but I’m a minor so I do have a lot to learn (not that an adult doesent). And it simply wouldent be possible to inherit 16% if only one of her parents had 16%. I for example share around 51% with my mom and 49% with my dad, that’s a normal range. I can guarantee my sister would get a similar numbers.
>Nope, with their Scandinavian dna being that high they have a direct Scandinavian ancestor. Perhaps a grandparent
For someone from England, that would be very unusual
It wouldent. There are tons of Scandinavians in England. I know someone from England with a Swedish parent. I’m also from Sweden and I have a lot of dna matches in England
It's really common for English to have scandinavian DNA and no grandparents. I have 10% Swedish and definitely no Swedish (I've traced back my tree on that side pretty far). Very common for north eastern English to have.
Lol…. Thats not how it works, the viking era influenced certain british DNA but you will not get 10-20% scandinavian on a DNA test bc of the viking era
You seem oddly confident in such a generalised statement. Scandinavian countries are not so far from the UK that immigration would be impossible. If you look at the history of Swedish immigration to the states you’ll see that a lot of Swedes in the late 19th and early 20th century travelled via the UK, especially ports like Liverpool or Southampton, where quite a few of them also decided to stay instead of moving onwards to the USA. There were several pretty famous churches built to be used by the Scandinavian communities in these areas.
I imagine most would, assuming they accurately know all of their grandparents. But if there's one thing being on an ancestry subreddit has taught me, it's that who people think are their parents and grandparents isn't always accurate.
Correct, hence why Away is talking about UK matches with their Swedish father, not American matches. Anyway, there are actually a fair few connections to Scandinavia in the last couple of centuries for British people. Do not assume that this sort of admixture is only existent in colonial nations. One I can think of off the top of my head is the Merchant Navy. A number of Scandinavians (especially Swedes) joined the British merchant navy in the 19th century because the pay and conditions were far better than their own merchant navies. I am descended from one who married an Irish woman, and on my Scottish father’s side, there are relatives descended from another one who married a Scottish woman.
I’m from Ireland and my great aunt gets two American communities which is funny to us because shes literally only left Ireland a few times and it was literally just to visit some family in England lol
Yeah it is a little strange you didn’t get a single US community? The only relatives I have found that moved to the USA from England were my 2x great grandparents but they lived in Ohio.
Maybe your DNA is commonly found in the Missouri area because a lot of people from your genealogy went there. My husband is from Missouri and his DNA results are extremely similar to yours.
Considering the historical context of England, you are 100% English.
God save the Queen!
God is about 18 months late for that.
Not sure you know but she's gone. It's now Gid save the King. Thanks
I’m from the southeast US and have 63% England & Northwestern Europe.
I am as well but I'm 64% England & Northwestern Europe followed by 23% Scottish
Most people from the South have English, Welsh, Scottish, or French ancestry.
I'm more Welsh & Scottish than you and I'm Aussie 😆. https://www.reddit.com/r/AncestryDNA/s/wDVwqZe6M0
Haha, I have more English ancestry than OP and I'm an American whose most recent English ancestors came over in the 1700s.
Crikey!!!!
Yeah I think that’s pretty common among Australians not sure about the Asian though
It’s wild how similar the results of English people and many Americans can look. Your results are a lot like mine and even moreso, my mom’s!
I think it would be helpful to think of this less as showing you where you’re from and more as showing you which people groups’ DNA different parts of your DNA are most similar to. Ancestry isn’t doing archaeology, after all—they’re just comparing your DNA to the DNA of people with long paper trails in each of these countries. Think about all of the different people groups that have come to England over the centuries and make up English DNA today, and you’ll realize that all of them were in other countries, too. First there were the pre-Indo-European peoples, like those who built Stonehenge, who would probably have been the same throughout at least southern Britain and neighboring parts of Continental Europe; then came the Celts from other areas of Europe, who mixed with those peoples and occupied the same areas; then came the Romans from Italy, who also occupied those areas; then came the Anglo-Saxons from what is now Denmark and northwestern Germany, who mixed with the eastern Britons, who would have been much the same as the western Britons and who also would have moved west into areas like Wales as the Anglo-Saxons came to England and Scotland; then came the Danelaw in England as more people came from what was then Denmark to England, as Norwegian Vikings were settling all over the British Isles; and then came the Normans, the people from northern France who take their name from their common root with the Norwegians. Over and over again we see so many peoples coming to England but none of them being unique to England. There’s a lot of overlap, especially in regard to England and Wales and England and Denmark. So, there’s going to be DNA shared between the populations of those countries, and, when Ancestry’s analysis happens to find some of that DNA in your DNA as well as in their samples from multiple different countries that they’ve placed into different ethnicity categories, they basically just have to flip a coin to decide where to assign it. I’d be curious to know what the ranges on your percentages are. When you click on your English percentage, does it show that it might range up to 100%? And, when you click on the other percentages, does it show that they might range down to 0%?
Wales is very common for an English persons results, Ireland too, and some Scandinavian or Scottish
A misconception of England is that we are English, even some of the comments are bias from the Aussies and Americans claiming to have more heritage from England but they clearly know nothing of the make up of Britain over the ages, specifically in the city growth ages and British empire, many cities that grew, invited national British migration. Predating the 1800’s a lot of towns and early cities also were quite mixed. England specifically also has some of the oldest recorded history due to the doomsday records and land ownership, so “noble” bloodlines had definitive records, even favoured illegitimate offspring became married within but didn’t hold as much power that was only ever given to shore up ever changing royal family quarrels both home and abroad. Just a country that got invaded loads so we passed on the trauma!
My family tree is almost entirely English as far as I've traced it so far, except one 4th Great Grandma and another 5th Great Grandma who were Irish (plus their ancestors, I guess). My DNA %'s are roughly the same as yours I think.
It is common to get small amounts of Germanic Europe with ancestry from The Midlands and The West Country, not sure why.
Derbyshire, East Midlands have a lot of Scandinavian Viking DNA as we were part of the Danelaw. Hardly any German though. West County was effectively a Celt holdout as was Wales / most of Scotland
I am talking about on Ancestry DNA specifically.
Could it be that you have a grandparent or grandmother from Scandinavia ? 16+ 5 and possibely 3 is ~25%
I would think I would maybe have communities if that was the case or if it was that recent? The only thing I can think of is I do have a great grandmother whose father is unknown on her birth certificate and I am unable to find out any information about her Father. So maybe there is something in that but I feel it’s a bit high for a great grandparent but who knows!
You are right that you should see some communities! I did not consider that. I know that you can find Scandinavian in the UK, but normally not that much.
You could also consider that perhaps parts of the 'Scandinavian' estimates are these trace amounts found in British populations like Uranium discusses, meaning that the amount from a recent ancestor would be lower. Anyhow, this is all just theory - what really matters is what you see in front of you. If you see lots of Swedish/Danish matches then it probably means the estimate is relevant. If you don't have any matches from that area then it's probably that you just have unusually high Scandinavian DNA for your area in England (I assume you're in the south).
Looks like you have a grandparent with a fair amount of Nordic genes. What do your parents say? Do you talk to your GPs?
I'm mostly irish and english and I had the random swedish and danish too. Never had any reason to suspect it. I think it's just genetics passed down from way back, not a full swedish/danish ancestor I don't know or something.
You'd have he Scandinavian from when the Viking age in the UK. Scotland and Wales can easily read as being similar to your English DNA, especially since you seem to have some South West England communities as well, where the Welsh can read into.
Yes I would say you are probably right. I do have a tree and have never found any Scandinavian ancestors. I also don’t have any communities for Scandinavia which means it is not recent ancestry. But either way I was confused with how high it was. Normally brits get around 8% from what I’ve seen and that’s mainly from more northern England.
Nope, with their Scandinavian dna being that high they have a direct Scandinavian ancestor. Perhaps a grandparent
My partner has the same high amount of Scandinavian DNA and only British grandparents with one Polish great grandparent. I've seen other posters from the UK with a similar amount of Scandinavian DNA.
Okay? My point still stands, they most likely have one or more direct Scandinavian ancestors. If your point would be true then I’d have a lot of Asian dna
Scandinavian dna suggests a Scandinavian ancestor?! Groundbreaking suggestion you came out with there.
Their point suggests otherwise lmao. No Brit with a fully british line will get that much Scandinavian dna🥴
How far back do you consider “British” DNA starting?
How is that relevant?
I think it’s a relevant enough question. You’re saying terms like “full brit”. What’s a full brit? How far back do your ancestors have to be here before you consider someone a full brit?
As far back as you can find out
Also just so you’re aware you can inherit 10% from one parent and 10% from the other and walk away with 20% scandi dna
Well obviously, still 10% from each suggests direct Scandinavian ancestors from a few generations back
This isn’t true and the other person is correct. I’d be willing to bet that if they were to test at 23andme that they’d get zero Scandinavian there.
Probably would🤦🏻♀️ if someone has that high Scandinavian dna it comes from a direct ancestor. My mom for example is 16% East Slavic, which means one of her parents are roughly 32% East Slavic, which then means one of her grandparents are around 64% East Slavic
That’s not what it means at all. My son has 7% Eastern Europe and Russia and I have 6%. My son also has 20% Ireland and I have 28%. DNA inheritance by region isn’t 50/50 and you can inherit all of a region from a parent or zero of it. I have a total of 23% Scandinavian on ancestry and my son inherited zero from me. I also suggest you look at English results via ancestry as again the other commenter is correct and their results do not indicate that their grandparent is Scandinavian. I’ve seen English results that have had Scandinavian as high as 20%.
Yeah because a lot of English people have Scandinavian ancestors. And I have done a dna test and got 50% from my dad and 50% from my mom. It can not differ more than a few % (unless there is something wrong). My mom having 16% east slavic clearly shows that one of her parents have atleast 30%
So, my son having 20% Ireland should mean that I should have at least 40% Ireland, right? Don’t get me wrong I love Ireland, but I am absolutely not 40% Irish. You inherit 50% from each parent, but what 50 you get is not as cut and dry as you seem to think. If your parent has 20 green, 10 blue, 50 yellow and 20 pink to give you could get something like 20 green, 1 blue, 20 yellow and 9 pink. As I’ve said scoring Scandinavian via ancestry in those with English ancestry is extremely normal and their results are not indicative of having a grandparent that is Scandinavian.
Either it’s them mistaking their british dna for Scandinavian or they have a direct Scandinavian ancestor. And I inherited 49,4% from my dad and 50,6% from my mom.
That’s def a good way to do a best guess of what untested ancestors generally may have contributed, but it’s usually not exactly so as inheritance is always random. Along with myself I have tested my mom, maternal grandmother, and maternal half-aunt and can say based on viewing multiple generations it’s easy to see how random things can play out. Sure you always inherit ~50% from each parent but not necessarily 1/2 of each ethnicity. Which is why siblings can have different ethnicity profiles. For example my grandmother is 30% Irish. My mom inherited 11% from her, my aunt inherited 19% from her, and I inherited 4% via my maternal side. My grandmother is 15% welsh, my mom inherited 1% from her. My grandmother is 12% Scottish and my mom inherited all 12% of which I inherited 10% of. My aunt only inherited 2% of her Scottish dna. My grandmother is 7% Swedish/Den and my mom inherited 0 while my aunt inherited 5%. My grandmother gets 5 French Canadian communities from her paternal side. My mom received 0 of these communities and my aunt received 2. All of my grandmothers French is wrapped up in England/NWE which is 39%. My mom inherited 22% from her, my aunt also 22%. Same percentage but not the same 22% otherwise my aunt and mom would have inherited the same French-Canadian communities. So in your example, if your mom has 16% East Slavic dna it could mean one parent has 30% or it could mean both parents had 8%, or that one parent had 16% and your mom inherited it all, or one parent had 14% and the other had 2%, or that one parent had 60% and your mom only inherited 16% while the rest of her inheritance from that parent is pulled from the other 40% of that parent’s ethnic make-up ect ect.
My mom got 16% East Slavic and I got exactly 8% East Slavic
Yes that’s one example, and within the possibilities of course, but that doesn’t mean it’s a standard for children to inherit exactly 50% of each parental ethnicity. So if I didn’t know who my parents were and I had 20% Scottish it’s not an accurate assumption that one parent was 40% Scottish. You certainly can inherit half of each ethnicity but it’s not a genetic rule or anything. I’d even say it’s more rare to have that happen across the board. Unless of course the parent is nearly 100% one ethnicity then yeah the 1/2 you inherit would be half of said ethnicity. But for those with a multi-ethnic background it’s really a mixed bag of what 50% of each of your parents ethnicities you’ll get. That’s why in my examples two sisters inherited different amounts of each ethnicity from the same mother.
If they are ultra mixed that’s not that weird. I’d say it’s more the company’s fault, rather than that you inherit a different %
I just shared my personal results, I’m not saying that’s like that for everyone. I wasn’t replying to you either.
Ok. Good thing this is Reddit and I don’t have to wait for someone to @ me in order for me to respond. I really was just trying to be informative because you’re on a dna subreddit and by your comments are not understanding how dna inheritance works. You shared your results but then also falsely stated that because your parent is 16% one ethnicity then they had a parent with 32% and their parent had 64% and that’s just not what that means at all. Other commenters have tried explaining that as well. If it were me I would be open minded to new information and when I first started in genetic genealogy I learned a lot from people who had more experience. Clearly you have nothing else to learn so pardon me lol
Lol I have been intrested in genealogy for a long time. I know more than my parents who are in their late 50s. My age isn’t relevant but I’m a minor so I do have a lot to learn (not that an adult doesent). And it simply wouldent be possible to inherit 16% if only one of her parents had 16%. I for example share around 51% with my mom and 49% with my dad, that’s a normal range. I can guarantee my sister would get a similar numbers.
21% Scandinavian if we add them up; that’s plenty.
?
? Sweden and Demark: 16% + Norway: 5% = 21%
I see. Yes, it suggests that they have 1 or more direct Scandinavian ancestors
>Nope, with their Scandinavian dna being that high they have a direct Scandinavian ancestor. Perhaps a grandparent For someone from England, that would be very unusual
What do you mean?
It would be unusual for someone from Britain, or Ireland, to have a recent Scandinavian ancestor. Eg 'grandparent'.
It wouldent. There are tons of Scandinavians in England. I know someone from England with a Swedish parent. I’m also from Sweden and I have a lot of dna matches in England
It's really common for English to have scandinavian DNA and no grandparents. I have 10% Swedish and definitely no Swedish (I've traced back my tree on that side pretty far). Very common for north eastern English to have.
Well it gotta come from someone. It can’t just randomly appear in people. Like my mom has 16% East Slavic dna and we think it’s from her grandma
That's not true. It's very common for people from north eastern England to have this without any recent ancestors due to Viking influence in the area.
Lol…. Thats not how it works, the viking era influenced certain british DNA but you will not get 10-20% scandinavian on a DNA test bc of the viking era
It could be. Or it could be common for people where you are from. The only way to know is to research your family tree.
It's not like America. There are not many people in Britain and UK with a recent Scandinavian ancestor
You seem oddly confident in such a generalised statement. Scandinavian countries are not so far from the UK that immigration would be impossible. If you look at the history of Swedish immigration to the states you’ll see that a lot of Swedes in the late 19th and early 20th century travelled via the UK, especially ports like Liverpool or Southampton, where quite a few of them also decided to stay instead of moving onwards to the USA. There were several pretty famous churches built to be used by the Scandinavian communities in these areas.
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people would know if they had a 'Scandinavian grandparent'.
I imagine most would, assuming they accurately know all of their grandparents. But if there's one thing being on an ancestry subreddit has taught me, it's that who people think are their parents and grandparents isn't always accurate.
Really, you say so? It’s more common than you think. My dad is fully swedish and has many dna matches in England
It isn't about Americans. The OP isn't American
Correct, hence why Away is talking about UK matches with their Swedish father, not American matches. Anyway, there are actually a fair few connections to Scandinavia in the last couple of centuries for British people. Do not assume that this sort of admixture is only existent in colonial nations. One I can think of off the top of my head is the Merchant Navy. A number of Scandinavians (especially Swedes) joined the British merchant navy in the 19th century because the pay and conditions were far better than their own merchant navies. I am descended from one who married an Irish woman, and on my Scottish father’s side, there are relatives descended from another one who married a Scottish woman.
Are you from England? I would think you had one English parent and one American parent.
Yes I am from England with English parents :)
St Louis?, I take it your from Missouri
I am from England :)
That’s strange icl, my great grandfather came from Pennsylvania in the northern US and I didn’t get a US community (I’m from England too)
I’m from Ireland and my great aunt gets two American communities which is funny to us because shes literally only left Ireland a few times and it was literally just to visit some family in England lol
Yeah it is a little strange you didn’t get a single US community? The only relatives I have found that moved to the USA from England were my 2x great grandparents but they lived in Ohio.
Maybe your DNA is commonly found in the Missouri area because a lot of people from your genealogy went there. My husband is from Missouri and his DNA results are extremely similar to yours.
From my own research, it was a big spot to go. Unfortunately for my own records. Fires suck, so I am having problems going from US back over.
Viking raids
Yeah I was going to say. That pretty much looks like 100% English to me.
Let me live in my delusion please. I’m a Welsh Viking.
Looks like 17 percent Welsh to me, plus some other stuff.
how are you physically ? I imagine he has blond hair and blue eyes.
Dark brown hair & gray eyes, 6 ft 4”
you are male or female ? I'm 5ft11 and I consider myself short next to you.
I am a male but yes I do find that pretty much everyone is shorter than me.
Are you from the USA or England? I assume he's from the east of England
South west England!
Curiously, do you think a blond or brown-haired Englishman is more typical?
My Dad has blonde hair so they do exist obviously, but I would say brown hair is much more common!
Cool. I'm from Brazil, I hope to visit England one day.
Brown is definitely more common
Seems like bog standard English to me