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Post by maxplonk on Oct 18, 2021 14:32:53 GMT
I did the DNA ethnicity test about 5 years ago (it was bought for me as present) can't remember the exact percentages but I'm only 12% British mostly western European (which was defined as Belgium,France,Germany & Holland) with a good chunk of Irish (as I think many people in Britain are) with small percentages of Scandinavian, Iberian, Finnish, Russian & 1% native American (which was a surprise but apparently relates to all the American native peoples) edit: much of the above was a surprise was expecting some Irish & some Iberian & I think Scandinavian is to be expected for most British people They must have looked way back then? Many many hundreds of years? 12% British? You were born somewhere else and your parents aren't British? Someday ... hopefully ... I will take not only 1, but 2-3 saliva tests and see if there are any differences between the results. Different testing companies use different reference databases and different algorithms leading to results which can differ, sometimes widely.
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Post by yeokel on Oct 20, 2021 15:45:20 GMT
I don’t expect it too it was just done by my cousin who was at the time a catholic bishop as a hobby to see how far he could go. Once he was past the 1700’s it was sketchy and probably inaccurate but it was as just interesting to see that as a family name how far he could push the limits. ancestry.com is the site to use. You can leverage work others have done and quickly add names to your tree once you get familiar with how it's set up - it does take some time to learn though. Kept me busy for hours during lockdown and uncovered some interesting family stories that had been buried for more than 100 years. I’ve been working on my family tree off and on since, about 2010. On my paternal side there are some strong ties to Stoke on Trent (mainly up Hanley duck), a lot around Newcastle, Knutton and a few in Silverdale. And then some out Madeley and Woore way. (one interesting discovery is that it seems very likely that My great great grandfather and I went to the same primary school in Madeley!) Most of my maternal side is Scottish although one branch leads to Birmingham/Warwickshire and then backwards to Shrewsbury. (I have two mayors of Shrewsbury from the 1800’s in my bloodline.) I agree with other comments that once you are back to the 1700’s it becomes much tougher although there is still a surprising amount of information out there if you work hard enough to root it out. Ancestry and Find My Past are good resources for the 1900’s back to the middle 1700’s (particularly FMP for the North Midlands). Beware though that too many people, particularly on Ancestry, simply cut and paste chunks of other trees on to their own without doing any research at all. This leads to errors being repeated multiple times, repeated so often that you begin to feel that “if all these people have come to the same conclusion, which happens to be different to mine, then maybe it is me who is wrong". But it’s often not, a lie repeated often enough can easily become 'the truth' in these cases. And I would contend that any family tree which has 20,000 or 30,000 names on it has not been researched properly or thoroughly. There is no way it could have been. I’ve seen people have kids before they themselves were actually born, people who’ve emigrated but still managed to come back to the UK after they had died abroad to get married again, and a couple (I discovered last week) who seem to have got married when they were aged seven and nine respectively. (mind you, this was in Linlithgowshire (West Lothian, Scotland), so who knows?) And my very latest discovery is that I might be related to my wife as we both have Muirs in Linlithgowshire in the late 1700’s. I haven’t made the link yet, but I suspect I will in due course. It is a fascinating, though very time consuming hobby!
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