If anyone has any knowledge dna results and background percentages, I have a question.

Me | 11/10/2018 | GeorgiaDawg32

[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.

[elbook]

scots-irish were mostly transplanted scots which the english settled into northern ireland sometime after 1300

[Andy'smom]

Could be. Many Irish have a surprising amount of Scandinavian DNA. You would not be alone.

[Jim Noble]

All these results are based on probabilities (frequency of certain DNA sequences in certain populations).

There is no such thing as “Scots-Irish DNA” or “German DNA”. What there are is DNA sequences that are more common in Germans than in Italians, or in Scots.

Ancestry has made a killing reporting results at the 50% confidence level - “OMG, I’m 2% Jewish!” The better companies like FTDNA let you adjust the confidence levels - most of the 2% Jewish, 1% African, 1.5% East Asian results disappear when you dial the sensitivity up from 50% to 80%.

The other poster is not EXACTLY right that the results are for entertainment only - my probabilities match exactly my actual pen-and-ink genealogy. But the way the tests are being sold, and the “fun discoveries” aren’t what they are represented to be.

[apostoli]

Yep, Dynomite! Just found 10 siblings as my ‘father’ wuz from a different “tree”. Family trees are typically NOT accurate... lots of family secrets...

[RubyR]

It will be interesting to see how your report compares to your brothers. My sister has done a lot of research and she told me that it doesn't necessarily work exact with the percentages - i.e. if you have a grandparent who is 100% something doesn't mean you will be 25% of the same.

You may just inherit 10% of that grandparent's DNA or you may inherit 30% or a bunch of other combinations.

I think it is all fascinating. But I am a little freaked out about it and I have not been tested.

Here is a fun comparison. These results are from 2 full siblings who are relative of mine.

#1 Europe-West 16%, Ireland 35%, Scandinavia 24%, Europe-East 8%, Great Britain 9%, Eastern Europe/Jewish 0%, West Asia/Middle East 0% South Asia/India 0% Iberian Peninsula 5% Caucasis 3% Italian/Greek 0% Africa 0%

#2 Europe-West 36%, Ireland 27%, Scandinavia 13%, Europe-East 12%, Great Britain 6%, Eastern Europe/Jewish 0%, West Asia/Middle East 3% South Asia/India 0% Iberian Peninsula 0% Caucasis 0% Italian/Greek 0% Africa 1%

[RubyR]

Oh and I should add we have researched the family tree for those two siblings extensively and there is no one from Scandinavia that we are aware of. Even though it shows up in their results as 24% / 13%.

[Labyrinthos]

Scotch-Irish means that the Scotts were brought into Ireland and Wales by the English to ‘pacify’ the area. That is where the term Black Irish comes from.

Wrong! The "black Irish" are believed to descend from the Iberian Peninsula, from which the Spaniards/Portuguese may have traded with the Celtic Irish on the west coast of Ireland. (Open a map and you will see that the Iberian Peninsula is directly south of Ireland.) Indeed, the Iberian Peninsula and Ireland share similar types of neolithic archaeological sites. And the "black Irish" have a slightly darker complexion and often have the "hook nose" that is common among Iberian descendants.

[Mears]

“Think the Irish areas of Boston”

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I guess you haven’t been to Boston in a while.

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[alexander_busek]

My interest will be peaked piqued when we find fish in our ancestry.

You're welcome!

Regards,

[GeorgiaDawg32]

the late 1700’s from what I understand. There is no record of anyone coming from Scotland-Ireland.

[varon]

those tests are not necessarily accurate.

Perhaps so, however, I accept without reservation the results for my 1st ex-mother-in-law. They show her to be 50% Witch and 50% Bitch. I can still hear her cackles and snarls.....

[chapin2500]

Thanks for the correction! Cheers.

[ZephyrTX]

My maternal grandfather’s Quaker ancestors arrived in Maryland on a ship from England in 1680, actually. He was known as “the immigrant” in these texts.

The books that mention him don’t state where this “immigrant” was from, but I’ll have to presume that if he’s coming from England, he’d have to have been from Ireland or Scotland. My grandfather used to get angry during the 1940s & 1950s that he couldn’t get a job because he “looked too Irish”.

I haven’t had the chance to go digging further into it, but it’s very interesting. I’ve been more focused on my father’s family’s history.

Anyhow - looking at ancestry stuff is pretty interesting, and addictive.