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Have your ever done a DNA test? What were your results?

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  • #102
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Here's my percentage of Irish Scottish and Welsh. 81%
    Unfortunately I'm absolutely rubbish at all things Dna, anyone that has experience with this stuff care to help. Is there a way to break down the % for each country?


  • #103
    External Association
    Registered Users Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭External Association


    silliussoddius wrote: »
    No need to invoke a certain community. With no inbreeding your family tree should have 1,000 people in your family tree at ten generations (say 300 to 400 years ago).
    Take your typical small rural area and imagine people from different families doing a family tree, how much overlap do you think there would be and do you think that many people would even have existed in that area in the last ten generations?
    Granted you would have ancestors move from another area etc. but by and large at about four or five generations most people will be related.

    Interesting. From what I can gather the big moving generation was 1600-1700. End of 9 years War, dispossession etc, Cromwellian upheaval mid century, Williamite Wars 1688-91. When helping people with family trees, if they have good graveyard records a lot are in the same place mid 1700s on.


  • #104
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Yes I am one million % descended from the gaels.

    Erm no I have not done a DNA test ...but I have always said I wanted to :) But i mean i don't think its going to tell me anything i don't know.


  • #105
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,673 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Here's my percentage of Irish Scottish and Welsh. 81%
    Unfortunately I'm absolutely rubbish at all things Dna, anyone that has experience with this stuff care to help. Is there a way to break down the % for each country?

    May I suggest you ask us on the Genealogy forum?!

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #106
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    NeuralNetwork wrote: »
    That’ll give you a fairly good idea of the historical mingling that took place on these islands

    https://www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-and-events/news/news-article/2019/09/researchers-connect-irish-and-scottish-genetic-maps

    Some of it tallies with political history, but more of it connects with stuff like research on movement of things like threads of stories in songs, linguistics, music and so on. A lot of those themes crop up again and again and will tie even into similar stuff in parts of Scandinavia and northern France.

    There’s a lot of quite complex history and some of the movements don’t match geopolitical history.

    It’s interesting in the sense that there are many, many layers that can show a lot of the realities of life, settlements, cultures, migration etc etc.

    I was thinking with the difference in settler patterns by nationality. Fermanagh was mostly settled with English people unlike the rest of Northern Ireland.

    I wonder if a Protestant from Fermanagh would score a high English percentage? Nearly all Ulster Scots people I match score high Scottish with almost no English.

    The highest English percentage I can find in my Northern Irish matches is 7%, so the English inflow did not make much of an impact in this area.


  • #107
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Haven't had a DNA test yet, but based on what I know about our family tree I would expect a fairly standard result for here (South Dublin), nothing exotic, just a blend of approx 80% Irish, English 18%, maybe a little Scots blood too 2% = total guess. All Northern European for sure, Norse based, Viking, Anglo,-Saxon, Celts & Norman's, nothing med related or Spanish I don't think, there again you never know until you've had the test.


  • #108
    Mullinabreena
    Registered Users Posts: 419 ✭✭Mullinabreena


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Haven't had a DNA test yet, but based on what I know about our family tree I would expect a fairly standard result for here (South Dublin), nothing exotic, just a blend of approx 80% Irish, English 18%, maybe a little Scots blood too 2% = total guess. All Northern European for sure, Norse based, Viking, Anglo,-Saxon, Celts & Norman's, nothing med related or Spanish I don't think, there again you never know until you've had the test.
    How many generations back that you know of would your family have lived in Dublin ? I'd say that's a big factor too.


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