I’ve always known it’s never been a huge % - it’s from my dads side and I’m still not entirely sure where.Burnley1989 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 10:10 amYou might want to change your name to claretsandbarelyjew
I tested because of how dark I am. Would you think I was part Swedish?Burnley1989 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 10:20 amYou’ve made me want to test now, my dads side of the family are really dark and we know very little about any of his ancestors.
Unfortunately I got my mothers genes and I’m pasty
You're probably not...That Scouse element will've just just nicked the smaller bits of DNAclaretburns wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 10:27 amFinding out I was more Yorkshire than Lancashire was a sad day
How much did you pay to take the test?ClaretAndJew wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 10:03 amGot my results back from My Heritage, came back at around 20% English, 70% Scottish/Irish/Welsh, 4% Finnish and then the rest is Ashkenazi Jew.
Do I have to go back to my own country? Or, stop supporting the English national team?
Genuinely surprised by these results r.e., English and also Finnish randomly thrown in there. Both my parents, and paternal/maternal grandparents are English, though I guess DNA doesn't exactly work like that.
Is there some sort of Celtic hub that I can join to embrace my new heritage?
£35 for the test which I found reasonable. The results are quite vague though so I don’t know if there’s better ways to do it out there or if this is all I’ll ever know about my dna. I am surprised it hasn’t managed to narrow down the Celtic bits though.Claret86 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 10:36 amHow much did you pay to take the test?
During covid I had a stab at my family tree. I've got a fairly unique surname so could trace it back quite easily, my great, great grandparents were Welsh coal miners for generations,and, on my grandmother's side it was scousers and Irish. Otherwise, it was just English
I have a friend who did just that, or at least his sister did and she mentioned it in a conversation which I was a party to. The chap's predominantly Italian/Maltese (which he always knew) and since retiring lives in France, but he's a 'Geezer' born and raised in east London who manages to be racist, anti-semitic, anti-EU and wildly anti-Immigrants of any stripe.Burnley1989 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 10:10 amIt would be funny to test some of the vocal racists in the uk...
) So whenever his Facebook postings get a little too much for my taste, I send him a pm threatening to post a reply to his page which references his own African heritage; to be honest, if it was me, I'd be more embarrassed about people finding out that I was a West Ham supporter..Some of the Vikings came from modern-day Finland and beyond that, Scandanavian soldiers/mercenaries found employment all over Europe and even into Asia Minor
Without the need for scientific research and study: i grew up not that far from Burnley, then in my early teens moved 'over the hill' to North Yorkshhire, where my new friends were generally taller and fairer haired/skinned than my old ones and indeed myself. It was my father who explained about the effects of immigration during the dark-ages (I think those were around the time when Blackburn Rovers had a decent football team; hence the name) when the Vikings invaded/occupied most places to the east of the Pennines, but never gained the same foothold on t'other side, where the Celts held sway
I suffer from this, my dad has it as well and his grandad (my great grandad) had it quite bad. My grandad died when he was 39 so not sure if he had it but wouldn't suprise medushanbe wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 10:55 amA few years ago I took part in a study by Leicester University who were doing research into Viking heritage. It was interesting because my dad had a condition called Dupuytren's contracture, which is a thickening of the tissues in the hand and is nearly always associated with people of 'Viking' heritage. If you've ever done the Jorvik centre, its mentioned in the commentary during the ride.
Anyway, sure enough the results came back that the family orginates from either Norway or Sweden.
Did you have a 6% circumcision?ClaretAndJew wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 10:25 amThe kit I did is fairly vague about the Celtic side. Unless you can’t discern between Welsh/Scottish/Irish too much. I wish it broke it down even further. Like am I mostly Scottish? Or Welsh? Etc.
Finnish though. Wtf.
Exactly this, go back far enough and we’re all African. Just go back a few thousand generations and everyone on the planet has the same common ancestor, from so called European ‘royalty’ to the poorest kid in an Indian slum.
Quite interesting - I’m from North Yorks and married a beautiful girl from Rochdale, so spent a lot of time there during our early relationship. It always amazed me, whenever we went out that I was taller than most at 6’. Over here I was always one of the shorter of my school and Uni friends.Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 11:13 amI did one a few years ago with 'Ancestry dot com'' that was a Christmas gift. The results, from memory, said I was sixty odd percent Irish, twenty (ish) percent Scottish with remainder a mix of English, Scandinavian and Iberian.
It's quite specific, reading between the lines. The Angles (and Saxons) came in after the Romans left, so about 500-600 AD. Neither the English name nor the Englisg people existed before then; the residents were Britons. So that's the starting point. The Vikings came from about 800 AD, but they have their own category so "English" must have been defined by then. I suggest the later part of that period, otherwise the various tribes of Britons (pushed out to be Welsh and Cornish) wouldn't have had time to get clear. So let's say 700 AD is when "English" was defined for this purpose.
Don't forget these are showing you modern day areas - Manchester and Liverpool were historically Lancashire, so you're almost certainly more Lancs than an anaemic-roserclaretburns wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 10:27 amFinding out I was more Yorkshire than Lancashire was a sad day
Glad you've looked into how the tests work before forming an opinion.International class wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 8:31 pmAll the above show that the results are garbage.
I mean every test should show our African heritage.
Remember Lucy!
Save your money mate.
I'm a Gildert, and it's incredible how many times I get my name 'corrected' to Gilbert.paderbornclaret wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 2:56 pmDid a FTDNA test after finding my Cornish ancestry. The Cornish varients of my surname was a minefield and others encouraged me to to do one. Joined the Gilbert and Cornish projects on FamilyTree which is fascinating. Discovered I'm I1-M253 which is not your normal 'Celtic' dna found amongst other Cornish Jelberts/Jelbarts/Jelbards/Gilberts. I'm of Viking/Norman blood, which makes perfect sense for the Kernow/Breton/Norman link. If anyone else happens to be I1... go to Mr I1 on YouTube, it's an education.
My great grandfather was born a Jelbert in St Just, but on arriving in Burnley with his brothers, they all appear as Gilbert in the censuses thereafter. In Cornwall our surname changes literally with each census/marriage/birth cert. The Cornish J is changed to the strong Anglo Saxon G.