Posted on 11/10/2018 2:45:18 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
Growing up, my dad always told me we (the kids) were Scots-Irish and Slovak (Eastern European). My older brother did some research and can't find anyone from Scotland or Ireland. Mostly from Wales and England.
Well, he got his test results back (mine are in the works) and it turns out he's 32% Scots-Irish.
My thinking is I have a grandma somewhere in the past who died with a secret that is only now becoming clear.
My question is, how many generations back would one have to go to be 32% (of any background) today?
I'm thinking no more than 4.
Goodluck on your search. But, I suggest you ask Pochahontas Warren about DNA test results..
The DNA thing can be just as much fun with dogs. I adopted my older dog as a puppy from a humane society that advertised him as half Great Dane and half Lab. When I took him to puppy basic training the trainer told me he was probably half Pit Bull and half Lab. However, by then he’d worked his puppy magic on me and I wasn’t about to return him. Then, a couple of years ago, I was dropping him off at the vet and I ran into a full blooded American Staffordshire Terrier (AST, aka Pit Bull) that, from dead on in front, looked very much like my dog.
That did it. I had the vet do a DNA test on him. Turned out that he’s half AST, a quarter Lab, an eighth Golden, and an eighth Cocker Spaniel. Quite a surprise, but he’s a great dog.
right now ancestry is running a ad that allows you to get DNA done for 70.00!
I’ve done one of those DNA things. Pretty interesting from a curiosity standpoint.
According to the news from the past few months, if your name is Elizabeth Warren, you can be 1/1028-th of just about ANYthing
I had my parakeet’s DNA tested. Turns out he is 1/1024th Bald Eagle. Since then he has been demanding a bigger cage, and has practiced dive bombing our fish bowl, and eating our gold fish. DNA can be a dangerous thing.
LOL! We better watch out. This thread started as a serious discussion of human DNA testing and we’ve hijacked it on behalf of dogs and birds. Of course, in my house everything belongs to the dogs, the larger of them being a 129 lb. Great Dane.
Steely Tom did a great job of explaining the DNA % angle.
My Ancestry DNA in the past 6 months didn’t change with a very large increase of identified past relatives. However, my DNA profile had significant changes in the last 6 months.
Now:
My England, Wales, Western Europe DNA % is 72%.
Ireland/Scotland % is 25%.
Benin/Togo % is 3%.
My ancestors # is up to 18,674 from about 1,000 ancestors.
With the exception of the Benin/Togo 3%, my siblings and I are about as white as you can get.
I had about 5% Iberian Peninsula ancestor DNA and about the same re Italian/Greece and both of those are now less than 1%.
Who cares? I mean honestly, what’s the point of all this? At the end of the day our race is one. The human race.
My interest will be peaked when we find fish in our ancestry. Stop giving them money.
DNA is a great tool but it is mainly used to identify distant cousins and confirm research already done, identify missing parents etc.
I would not trust ancestry’s ethnic models to give you a specific heritage. Over so many generations you are talking about mixing a lot of DNA that is not passed down equally among siblings.
The best solution is find whatever info your family has and dig into it some more if you really want to know about your roots. If you PM me I would be happy to do some free lookups for you if you don’t have access to all of Ancestry’s databases.
I agree, but they can say that you are a 0.13% profile match to Polynesian, with a standard error of +12%/-0.13%. It’s leaving out the estimation error, and lack of a rigorous definition of what that 0.13% (or whatever) means that makes it “junk”.
The Welsh and Cornish, for example, are like the Irish and Scotts in being mostly the genetic descendants of the Celtic inhabitants of Britain who were pushed to the West by invading Angles, Jutes, and Saxons. Yet Wales and Cornwall are now geographically part of England.
Thus geneological research would mark a Welshman as English while his genetics may well show Scotts-Irish origins. Or, with frequent intermarriage and migration, an Englishman today could easily have a large component of Scotts-Irish ancestry.
My Scottish great grendfather was born in British Ireland, which is now Northern Ireland, I think. But my father always said he was Scotch-Irish. I found out something interesting though recently. My father and mother are both descended from Wm, Bradford, the governor of the Mayflower Colony through two of his grand children.
I’d only be interested in mtDNA and Y-DNA, not the autosomal. Based on my haplogroups, I could tell if my distant ancestors turned left or right coming through Persia.
Scottish by way of Ireland, no Irish per se unless you go back into the dark ages and beyond to Queen Scota. You’re half of a parent, a quarter of a grandparent. So, assuming the test is accurate there’s more than one grandparent who is Scottish by way of whatever country.
Interracial marriage is not frowned upon by white race. For white people, as long as your spouse is white, you’ll be okay. There are exceptions such as aryans other more secret societies such as pilgrims off the mayflower or self actuated groups
For other ethnic groups marriage out of ones race becomes more difficult and in some almost impossible. it’s difficult but not surprising to see jews, asians and Black and white in interracial marriages. But interracial marriages between certain sects of East Indians becomes an invitation to be murdered. Stoned, Burned for public participation murders and clubbed to death or perhaps 20lb shoes and tossed in a lake for more private or family affairs.
While searching my ancesters, I went back more than a thousand years and found that my English ancestors came from Austria and my Irish ancestors came from Turkey and my Scottish ancestors came from Sweden ! So what does that make us?
A mutt!
DNA went back and forth between ireland and scotland for millenia
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