I live in Norway, my results are: 55,9% Scandinavian 36,4% Finish 2,8% North and Western european 2,8 % eskimo/ inuitt and 1,1% Sentral asian! I knew about the finishpart, my great grandfather on my moms side was apparently from Finland
did you know of the west african in your family? if not then go use another company or go on gedmatch. myheritage gives many people west african but it disappears in other tests or analytic tools.
I got 99% Scandinavian, and 1% from Papua New Guinea. I feel like either it’s incorrect or, if it’s true, it probably wasn’t a beautiful love story. I think people should that keep in mind when recieving their DNA test results while gushing about how ”exotic” they suddenly are.
MyHeritage uses tons of marketing trace results. Basically just random 1-3%'s of "exotic results" that create attractions for customers. So the 1% Papuan is almost certainly wrong.
whaat, thats such a wierd mix, i never saw that........ i saw some finns have a few percent siberian opr eskimoe and that makes sence, but 1% papua new guinea is super stramge, sweden hasnt had any reason to be there ever really, we havent, very hard to see how it could be possible.... but u never know, its not impossible that 1 person from p.n.g. would somehow get all the way to scandinavia, in like the 1600s? 1500s? very odd
@@sykes2698 really? :( thats so bad if true. but ive watched many dna result videos and most of the time it is explainable and makes sence. for example some scandinavians and other europeans can get like 2% south asian, and are startled, but thats most often romani genes, eastern european romani have waaay higher percentage ofcourse, while for example a finnish kale roma might have 7% indian like here th-cam.com/video/Eil5ZJCVngY/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=SariannaRimpel%C3%A4inen but this Papua New Guinean is the waay strangest Ive heard so far, very difficult to make sence of. hard to believe that the company can fake "throw in there" some dna that isnt there, but maybe... hm
this is sooo fun to watch! I love these videos- I wish My Heritage would come to our Genealogy Seminar in Springfield Missouri to teach people about not only my heritage and how to use it but about your DNA research!
And the Celtic blood got mixed in. There are parts of certain Eng cities like Birmingham that have Irish for example (liverpool as well)...so no surprise.
I know this is false, I am a white american and know that from documents (haven't done DNA testing yet), I am 3/8 german 1/8 Bohemian (Czech, Bohemia is a region in Czechia) 2/8 Slovene 2/8 who knows, maybe some English, Scandinavian, Arabic, French, Dutch, who really knows. That's the part of my family that has been in the United States the longest.
Got my results last week: English - 46.3% South Asian - 23.8% Ashkenazi Jewish - 15.7% Scandinavian - 6.3% North and West European - 3.3% Central Asian - 3.1% Italian - 1.5% From what I've already learned about my background from family members. The list is pretty much spot on, but culture wise, I'm as British as you can get.
Born in Paris raised in Paris , I knew my family was a bit greek / britain , but french and in France since forever Results : 56,6% spanish/portuguese 28,5% English 12,7% britain irish welsh scottish 2,2% greek & italian Yes , I’m 0% french 😂
Wow ! My brother results Nigeria 57.1% Me: 46.4% Kenya 27.0% Me: 36.8% Sierra Leonne 4.8% Me: 11.4% Centre Afrique 4.5% Me: 1.2% Ouest African 1.7% Me: 0% Scandinave 1.6 Me: 0% Italian 1% Me: 0% South Asia ( india) 1.4 Me: 1.5 Phillipia, malaisya, Indonesia 0.9 Me: 0% But I have irish,Scottish whales and britain ( from France Bretagne) : 2.7% My parents come from congo Kinshasa but my grand grand father from my mom side was melting. My grand grand grandfather from my dad side was American south Carolyn, a missionary, working in Congo my family called him By water, and my grand grand father was indian from India( from my dad maternal) I born and live in France 🇫🇷 and I am a fresh speaker... ahahha
@@nikgeo8690 central California. Thankfully my Danish ancestors broke the trend of Scandinavians going to Minnesota and opted for Solvang California instead. So grateful to them for that.
I just received my results this week. I was expecting some african (specifically Nigeria) but ended up with so much more from areas in the U.K., Libya, Egypt, MesoAmerica areas, France and Italy. Essentially, as a black american I'm a proud mut 🙂
My Friend had this done and found out that he was descended from a long ine of Mathematicians, He told me his DNA was : 55% English...35% Celtic 7% Eastern European and 6% Scandinavian.....
One thing I found out from being on ancestry website and doing DNA testing is that, contrary to what I had assumed about ancestry and such being a feminine interest, men are actually the ones all over these websites tracing DNA and creating these large pages about family, and tracing ancestors. It’s very nice to see
Nathan Tisdale why would you be excited about being English?!!!! Any way there is not really any definable English dna it's admixture because you guys were invaded by celts, Romans, Irish, then viking, then Norman's, also iberian celts after the first wave of Franco Belgian celts, also Danes and freisians, all this is genetic markers for the average white English.
I had mine come back a couple of days ago. I'm 47.8% English / 45% Irish, Scottish and Welsh / 7.2% Scandi. I must say, it was quite a surprise, as I'd grown up always believing I had A fair bit of Italian from my father's side. I guess not! From what I've seen, unlike a lot of people, I'm quite pleased to be almost wholey a British Isles lad.
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I did a MyHeritage DNA test. I am. 56.3% English. 40.1% Irish, Scottish and Welsh 3.6% Nigerian (the percentage of Nigerian shocked me) I'm pale blonde and have blue eyes.
I think your DNA results are right even that you are blond a I think you have some Nigerian charcteristics that conects you with Nigerian people's like your nose and construct of your figure,and than your are a light dark.
@wild one That's really interesting, it wouldn't surprise me at all in the current political climate, if that turned out to hold some truth, may I ask do you know of any sources where I can look it up please. Things are so crazy now, I have to vet everything myself. Thanks.
Bob el Silencioso Yes, there is cultural ethnicity, too. But, of course, DNA testing certainly could not pinpoint that. There probably is some DNA differences between different European ethnicities, certainly a Dane is different from, say, a Bulgarian, BUT despite their claims, the ancestry DNA tests cannot yet really pinpoint that, either.
I got my DNA done by both MyHeritage and Ancestry. I found MyHeritage was more complete. Ancestry had about 5 listings but MyHeritage was fuller with more precise percentages. It listed Middle Eastern that I didn't realize was there. I figured there was Russian Jewish (Ashkenazi) and found out it was only about 5 or 6 generations back. The percentage of Balkan and Northern European was rather surprising. Then, from my mother came Sicilian, French and Greek as well. I guess I'm just a mongrel.
In ancient times, the Mediterranean was a frog pond of Greeks. The Greeks had settled throughout the edges of nearly all the Mediterranean, from Greece, to Egypt to Spain to Italy to France to Asia minor etc etc. So it's no suprise that many Europeans will have a small percentage of greek in them. Why are people so suprised I will never know. You just have to open a historical book to realise this.
Richard said, "I'm bi-hemispheral" LOL hilarious! It's interesting seeing DNA results for people in the UK because American history comes from Europe so it explains the mix for many Americans as well.
American history comes from Europe? Our history is much more than a bunch of old English white guys and it started way before they ever showed up. Nothing against Europeans, mind you. My grandparents came from Europe.
Why are there more precisely defined groups (English,Greek, Italian), as opposed to more loosely named one (North and West Europe, for example, which would put together French, German and Dutch, or Eastern Europe (Russian, Hungarian, Czech, etc., all together?), as well - I've been told that Poland should not be considered as part of Eastern Europe, but rather Central Europe. Thanks for any clarification.
I ve noticed that as well...i don't know why some certain countries are overrepresented...hopefully it is not politics involved...i know greece has been trying to present everyone or everything as greek for instance
I just know that myheritage clusters northern germany, netherlands and france in genetic groups that have disticly the same genes due to a special group of ancestors. That genetic clusters are different to the approximate nationalies shown here. So maybe the cluster Northern Europe because of that broader genetic group, that crosses the borders of these countries.
Stick the English onto Irish/Scottish/Welsh and that's exactly my results. I had no English whatsoever despite my family living here for generations, it's quite confusing.
@@futurez12 These results are not very accurate. My Heritage in particular is pretty notorious for throwing in false positives. Firstly, My Heritage is not the best for British (and Irish) ancestry; for that you should use LivingDNA as they use the largest sample size of modern British DNA and that makes their results more accurate (down to the county level). Also, these tests are not telling you where your ancestors are from; they are telling you the modern populations with which the DNA markers (alleles) are most commonly associated with. The DNA of English people in the west country is often much closer to Welsh, for example, than to DNA from Norfolk or Lincolnshire. Because My Heritage are not very good at picking up on these differences they seem to assign 'Irish, Scottish and Welsh' to people who are in fact English. Because they are merely looking for 'markers' of ethnicity, it is also very common for levels around 1-4% to be assigned to quite exotic ethnicities when in fact they are nothing of the sort. Many English people will carry genes that are associated with Ashkenazi Jews even though they have no Jewish ancestry. These kinds of tests see that ancestry and immediately assign you to that ethnicity as they regard it as a 'marker' of that ethnicity. In fact, you could just be an Englishman who carries an Askenazi Jew 'marker' within your DNA. It is very possible that the Iberian, Greek and Jewish results on this show are false positives. It is also very possible that they are accurate, but in my experience (I have done many of these tests) they often throw up false positives. They are pretty as a gimmicky bit of fun than serious science.
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I wish more people understood that, yes you get 50% from your father and 50% from your mother, but you don't get a full 50. You get a random 50%. The more your family that tests, the more you know.
And you don't get exactly 25% from each grandparent. The 50% from your mum might be unevenly split between her mum and dad. I got 34% from one paternal grandparent (indigenous Canadian) and 16% from the other (northwest European). The other half was mainly Ashkenazi with some Russian mixed in. Being epically outbred made tracing which came from whom fairly easy.
iam from UK, welsh...but big suprise 10% sardinian, 2%slovakian,1.5% arab,3% danish,,1% indian,1% native american,1% ashkenazi ... almost worldwide, unbelivable result..,even bigger shock, no known non european family tree...
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@@joeagius66 Humans don't get around that much. Majority of peoppe are 100% something, unless they live in former colonies (such as Australia, Canada, USA, South Africa and all countries in South America)
I got 50% English 25% Irish, Scottish,Welsh. 25% Scandinavian With the English part All from northern uk and southern Scotland 🏴❤ as I’m from the northeast uk no surprise there.
Ben probably due to the minute percentage of Greek heritage, had some ancestors that went way back to the Roman empire of middle ages (Byzantine), where English Huscarls were employed as mercenaries (battle of Dyrrachium 1081) and some of them even established their own colony in Crimean peninsula, which was also populated by Greeks. Another possibility is that an ancestor escorted Lionheart's army to the invasion of Cyprus island and returned back home with woman and children. Fascinating, right? Kate seems to have some Jewish qualities I guess.
I was born in India and all my relatives live in India. I got 88.5% South Asian, 8.5% Scandinavian and 3.3% North West European. I read that anything under 4% can be unreliable but 8.5% is quite significant and I have no idea where this came from.
I have ordered mine. Apparently "myHeritage" is pretty accurate for those in Europe, just by watching many people's results. I got it for a really cheap price. The only downfall about these DNA kits in general is trusting a company with your DNA. DNA is a complete make up of who we are and with how far science has come i just hope it isn't shared for sinister scientific reasons. That being said, i'm taking the chance and can't wait to see my results 👍
My father is Scottish and my mother is German. On both sides I can trace many branches back 5, 6 or even 7 generations. Most of my ancestors stayed put where they were born. So I have expected to have about 50% Scottish (Scottish/Irish/English) and 50% German. But I am about 80% British (43% Scottish/Irish/Welsh and 36.2% English) and only about 20% "East"-European. I wonder if the result is acurate.
I just had mine done and it’s turned my world upside down. I don’t have the ethnicity that matches the genealogy. I don’t know how I’ll ever find out the truth, as the older generations are all gone. I took it badly at first, very shaken, but I’m coming to terms with the fact. But not ever being able to find out the truth will be difficult. But the fun part is that I used to live in the UK and my dna has turned out to be mostly British and Irish! I’m not supposed to be, but there it is.
Can I point out if you actually read the passages for each ethnicities! It is NOT a "English" category! It is actually a British category, it is a mix of Norman French, Viking, Anglo-saxons and ancient Briton's! This category includes Southern Scotland, Wales and England. The actual "English" DNA is under the North and West European which is "Anglo-saxon". It's a American company and they have a tendancy to mix up English with British.
The name Wallace may come from the Old French word 'waleis' meaning a 'welshman'; Richard Walensis was from the Welsh border area. But the Scottish form of the name may refer to a Strathclyde Briton - early records show the name was common in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire
Having mostly English Wales an the rest Sweden Germany. I was not to suprised till my son traced my family line back to 1505 in England. It was awsome. Lots of notable people.
John Toal - it’s not false, it’s correct at the time it was done (like mine was). The technology is still pretty new so it’ll get better over time and more detailed in its result.
As a result of my test I have managed to see how we moved around Europe and the US. My sister came back with 2% Askhanazi Jew. Now managed to go back to 1071 now.
That guy seems so impressed about his insignificant 3% greek ...i wonder is he aware of his 40% irish/scottish? I mean one of his parents may be pure irish or scottish
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Actually did 3 tests and got different results. Always thought I was mainly German and Norwegian, but had less Scandinavian and German and more English and Irish and more Eastern Europe, and one test showed 6.5% Sardinian and 2.8% Italian! Who knew?
My DNA says I only have 2% Irish, but my one set of great grandparents came from Ireland. Their name was Mc Cormack. I am thinking the lower percent does mean something!
So far have done 2 different DNA tests. both quite different results. One showed 55% German and only 2% Scandinavian along with a bunch of other European ethnicities ; My Heritage shows 47.3% Scandinavian and 39.4% North and West European (I'm assuming it means German) + a bunch of other European ethnicities. It must depend on the algorithms each company uses along with the number of people doing the tests and where they are from.
With different company's you test with the results will differ from one another... It's based on the algorithm and how they do the tests... like I could be 50% English with Ancestry and 45% English with 23andme and 65% English with my heritage... I done a test with Ancestry haven't got results back yet...
I’m 90% British and welsh and 10% Scottish and Irish on my heritage ... ancestry dna has me at 79% British welsh and 15% Ireland Scotland and 5 % Norwegian
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Any royalty ? I have studied amateur genealogy for almost 10 years now and can tell you that almost all of us hail from the seeds of Charlemagne and so will most certainly be able to link back our family tree to royalty, we would only be unique if we couldn’t.
Entertainment. I'm most amazed at the Greek and Balkan results. It fits my theories that, it seems the British, could have once lived in Asia Minor during antiquity. Have to find out someday.
Ha! I didn't really think about how boring these would be for people whose families have always been in the same country. Americans tend to get a lot of surprises.
81.1% North/Western European (Dutch/roots in Germany and France) 14.2% Wales, Scot and Irish (probably someone that cheated or just history when they left for normandy) 4.7% Finish (Don't know how)
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I know nothing about my ancestry except that my mom's maternal side is from Canada. On my dad's side I know absolutely nothing about. I was raised by my biological mother but adopted by the man I grew up thinking was my dad. Found out 17 years ago he isn't my biological father. Would love to know where I came from but I can't afford to do a DNA test from My Heritage or Ancestry. I guess I'll never know. 😞
Thankfully in Britain we use that phrase in the original friendly version in sharing of information rather than the American sense sharing of bodily fluids.
@@tweetiepie551 I think the sexual connotation to that phrase only became common in the mid- to late-'90s in the States -- I remember it used to mean not necessarily sharing information, but meeting up with someone. So I only realized that the younger crowd meant something different by it circa 1996, 1997 when I used it and some young woman got offended. (And I wasn't so old myself -- I would have been 26, 27, but the girl was like 17, 18 and thought I was propositioning her.) But the thing that shocked me when I was in the UK was hearing "When should I knock you up?" from a girl I went out with, briefly. In the US, that means impregnating someone, not awakening them! As I am male, I had no idea how she intended to do this, and by telephone, no less! And calling cigarettes "fags"! Excuse me?
@@grasmereguy5116 in the UK ' knock you up' has always meant to be impregnated and still does.. I think your young lady may have been a little confused.
@@tweetiepie551 Really? I'm sure she used it in the context of to wake someone up. I just checked an online dictionary and I see it's use meaning to wake someone up in the UK. Maybe the American usage is gaining ground? My story is from back around 1989 -- are you perhaps much younger than me? Anyway, here's some links that show British English does use (or used to) "knocked up" to mean "to awaken" someone" www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/knock-up _b. to wake (someone), as by knocking at the door_ www.jstor.org/stable/453610?seq=1www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=knock%20you%20up Apparently, there literally once was a profession of people who would wake people up by knocking on their doors www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35840393
@@grasmereguy5116 I can honestly say that not once in my entire life have I heard it used this way and I have been around since Nixon was in office. However I did have a look and yes you are right it is American in origin but gaps been used here I. That sense in Britain since the 1860s
I never knew who my Birth Father was as I was adopted into Dr.Barnardos at 6 weeks so guess I will NEVER know as untraceable,I have discovered.....:( ALL TRUE....BUT Had The Greatest Parents in the World, thereafter and DID find out on my Birth Mothers side that her previous 3 Boys were all Professional Conmen or Criminals so had the luckiest escape ever....HOW LUCKY AM I !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :):):):):)
Does it matter for two reasons. You are who your mother is. M a t h e r cause to be the agent mother the route the origin. The main cell cell dividing a canoe being pick your patter is really a donor of alternating DNA. Still more importantly. You're adopted you had someone care for and nurture your body into the best shape it can be. You had someone who raised you and helped hone in your skills. Someone who taught you and shared his wisdom with you. Your dad is more important than your donor
I recently had my done. My father is not my father. I was told I was half Lebanese. Turns out no middle eastern whatsoever. I'm 53% English, 28% French, 15% Scottish, 3% Germanic and 1% Jewish. So who the he'll is my father?
My brother is 56% english and 44% scandinavian. It's a strange result because there are absolutely no englishmen in our family for many generations back? Only danes and swedes. Makes you wonder what it means to be english?
My family are "purely" English going back to the late 1700's. However, my dna results show me as being only 52% British, 11% Scandinavian, 15% French/German, 1% Iberian and 21% undefined North-Western European. Following successive raids into Britain by the Romans, Angles, Saxons, Normans etc, it would seem that there are probably very few English people that are 100% English. The Welsh are probably the most British as their communities were less exposed to foreign invasion. But yes, in summary, and in agreement with you, to be English is a mixture of many European influences. Strangely, your brother is more English than I am!!!
I'M English and no English, but 47.8% Scandinavian. It is because we were invaded by Scandinavians battle of 1066, Normans, Anglo-Saxon, Jutes and Vikings from Denmark and Norway, we are you lol!
Apparently the Danes and the British are pretty much the same people. There is a guy on here with a channel called Survive The Jive and his uni in the UK and a Danish one looked at their dna and he said there was not much difference.
Danes (Vikings) and the English (Anglo-Saxons) share a lot of similar genes, but there are minor differences on the Germanic Haplotype groups. The database is mixing up the two. So, you are really Scandinavian.
I'm 93% British, and my family has been in the USA since the 1700s.
What parts of British
@@DirectorHMAN Cuddington, UK
True brit
@@boriszawotski1392 Never even been there.
You're more British than 99% of Brits lol
I got 100 % Scandinavian. I live in Norway.
87% Scandinavian here. 61% Swedish and 26% Norwegian. And I live in Minnesota USA. We have a huge Scandinavian population that settled here.
I got 50% English 30% Scandinavian 16% Irish Scottish ,welsh 3% Italian and I’m from England
I live in Norway, my results are:
55,9% Scandinavian
36,4% Finish
2,8% North and Western european
2,8 % eskimo/ inuitt and
1,1% Sentral asian!
I knew about the finishpart, my great grandfather on my moms side was apparently from Finland
You are viking ultra pro max .
@@Dimensionalalteration 🤣 i have stopped raiding and pillage. I am not a viking,but a Norseman😉
I got my results today:
Irish, Welsh, & Scottish- 70.2%
Balkan- 15%
Eastern European- 13.5%
West African- 1.3%
mine is probably a mess
did you know of the west african in your family? if not then go use another company or go on gedmatch. myheritage gives many people west african but it disappears in other tests or analytic tools.
Myheritage constantly slips some African into the results of white people, no doubt to reinforce the highly dubious 'Out of Africa' theory. Scammers.
@@CrankCase08 it is also very likely that someone down the line mighve been with someone from Africa....not as unlikely as you may think
@@vanessasevilla9094 I am not African. I don't have any African ancestry.
I got 99% Scandinavian, and 1% from Papua New Guinea. I feel like either it’s incorrect or, if it’s true, it probably wasn’t a beautiful love story. I think people should that keep in mind when recieving their DNA test results while gushing about how ”exotic” they suddenly are.
MyHeritage uses tons of marketing trace results. Basically just random 1-3%'s of "exotic results" that create attractions for customers. So the 1% Papuan is almost certainly wrong.
Jeez I bet you're fun at parties
whaat, thats such a wierd mix, i never saw that........ i saw some finns have a few percent siberian opr eskimoe and that makes sence, but 1% papua new guinea is super stramge, sweden hasnt had any reason to be there ever really, we havent, very hard to see how it could be possible.... but u never know, its not impossible that 1 person from p.n.g. would somehow get all the way to scandinavia, in like the 1600s? 1500s? very odd
@@sykes2698 really? :( thats so bad if true. but ive watched many dna result videos and most of the time it is explainable and makes sence. for example some scandinavians and other europeans can get like 2% south asian, and are startled, but thats most often romani genes, eastern european romani have waaay higher percentage ofcourse, while for example a finnish kale roma might have 7% indian like here th-cam.com/video/Eil5ZJCVngY/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=SariannaRimpel%C3%A4inen
but this Papua New Guinean is the waay strangest Ive heard so far, very difficult to make sence of.
hard to believe that the company can fake "throw in there" some dna that isnt there, but maybe... hm
One of your great great great grandmothers messed around with a papuan either one child was adopted...
this is sooo fun to watch! I love these videos- I wish My Heritage would come to our Genealogy Seminar in Springfield Missouri to teach people about not only my heritage and how to use it but about your DNA research!
I'm American and I have 68% English so I have more English DNA than Benjamin
Leticia Francisco a lot of white Americans are from the uk
I’m 79% and have met dozens from America with around 80% English dna
And the Celtic blood got mixed in. There are parts of certain Eng cities like Birmingham that have Irish for example (liverpool as well)...so no surprise.
I know this is false, I am a white american and know that from documents (haven't done DNA testing yet), I am
3/8 german
1/8 Bohemian (Czech, Bohemia is a region in Czechia)
2/8 Slovene
2/8 who knows, maybe some English, Scandinavian, Arabic, French, Dutch, who really knows. That's the part of my family that has been in the United States the longest.
@@MauriceTarantulas About 10% of English people have Irish
100 % human. Expected that and pleased about it.
Well you could have been a monkey 😂
This is such an advertisement. Was on every show. Crazy how many people happily gave their DNA to a private company.
41 percent Irish
35 percent : Polish
21 percent: Italian
nice mix
Got my results last week:
English - 46.3%
South Asian - 23.8%
Ashkenazi Jewish - 15.7%
Scandinavian - 6.3%
North and West European - 3.3%
Central Asian - 3.1%
Italian - 1.5%
From what I've already learned about my background from family members. The list is pretty much spot on, but culture wise, I'm as British as you can get.
I am 45% Italian - Greek, 40% West Asian, 10% Jewish of north Africa and 5% Ashkenazi Jewish. Sounds like I am Alexander the Great haha
I'm from Alabama, USA, and I am 86% English. It's wild that I am more English than someone from England.
Born in Paris raised in Paris , I knew my family was a bit greek / britain , but french and in France since forever
Results :
56,6% spanish/portuguese
28,5% English
12,7% britain irish welsh scottish
2,2% greek & italian
Yes , I’m 0% french 😂
Wow !
My brother results
Nigeria 57.1% Me: 46.4%
Kenya 27.0% Me: 36.8%
Sierra Leonne 4.8% Me: 11.4%
Centre Afrique 4.5% Me: 1.2%
Ouest African 1.7% Me: 0%
Scandinave 1.6 Me: 0%
Italian 1% Me: 0%
South Asia ( india) 1.4 Me: 1.5
Phillipia, malaisya, Indonesia 0.9 Me: 0%
But I have irish,Scottish whales and britain ( from France Bretagne) : 2.7%
My parents come from congo Kinshasa but my grand grand father from my mom side was melting.
My grand grand grandfather from my dad side was American south Carolyn, a missionary, working in Congo my family called him By water, and my grand grand father was indian from India( from my dad maternal)
I born and live in France 🇫🇷 and I am a fresh speaker... ahahha
Same Laure. I’m born in the UK my family are from the UK I got Irish and Scottish. 9% English haha
Hola 👋 como estás?
I seen alot French dna and usually they don’t have high French dna I think it’s harder to detect French dna.
I ve noticed that with a lot of french people...they get more iberian or british than french
I’m American from the Southern states. I’m 69% UK, 5% Irish, 5% Italian- Greek, 1% Russian Finnish, 15% Scandinavia rest is West Europe.
American me
34% Denmark & Sweden
26% Germanic Europe
14% England & North West Europe
12% Scotland
11% Eastern Europe (Slovenia)
3% Ireland
I'm assuming u live in upper Midwest?
Ancestry update
40% Sweden & Denmark
33% Germanic Europe
13% Eastern Europe (Slovenia)
7% Scotland
5% Ireland
2% England & Northwest Europe
@@nikgeo8690 central California. Thankfully my Danish ancestors broke the trend of Scandinavians going to Minnesota and opted for Solvang California instead. So grateful to them for that.
Mine is East African, West African, North African, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Japanese and Korean 😁 and matched DNA from many nations 😁
I just received my results this week. I was expecting some african (specifically Nigeria) but ended up with so much more from areas in the U.K., Libya, Egypt, MesoAmerica areas, France and Italy. Essentially, as a black american I'm a proud mut 🙂
My Friend had this done and found out that he was descended from a long ine of Mathematicians,
He told me his DNA was : 55% English...35% Celtic 7% Eastern European and 6% Scandinavian.....
103% of DNA He have??
One thing I found out from being on ancestry website and doing DNA testing is that, contrary to what I had assumed about ancestry and such being a feminine interest, men are actually the ones all over these websites tracing DNA and creating these large pages about family, and tracing ancestors. It’s very nice to see
I've just ordered my heritage kit! Excited to see how English I am
Nathan Tisdale why would you be excited about being English?!!!! Any way there is not really any definable English dna it's admixture because you guys were invaded by celts, Romans, Irish, then viking, then Norman's, also iberian celts after the first wave of Franco Belgian celts, also Danes and freisians, all this is genetic markers for the average white English.
john kelly Anglophobe detected.
Archibald Maule Ramsay no just telling it as it is,
Archibald Maule Ramsay yup 🙄
EXTREME GLB and you’ve been reported.
I had mine come back a couple of days ago. I'm 47.8% English / 45% Irish, Scottish and Welsh / 7.2% Scandi. I must say, it was quite a surprise, as I'd grown up always believing I had A fair bit of Italian from my father's side. I guess not! From what I've seen, unlike a lot of people, I'm quite pleased to be almost wholey a British Isles lad.
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I did a MyHeritage DNA test.
I am.
56.3% English.
40.1% Irish, Scottish and Welsh
3.6% Nigerian (the percentage of Nigerian shocked me) I'm pale blonde and have blue eyes.
Like Paris Jackson and Vanessa Williams, both beautiful women.
It's only 3.6%.
@Centurion X like your existence
I think your DNA results are right even that you are blond a I think you have some Nigerian charcteristics that conects you with Nigerian people's like your nose and construct of your figure,and than your are a light dark.
@wild one That's really interesting, it wouldn't surprise me at all in the current political climate, if that turned out to hold some truth, may I ask do you know of any sources where I can look it up please. Things are so crazy now, I have to vet everything myself. Thanks.
Kate and her 3rd cousin actually resemble....DNA is amazing
I connected to a 2nd half cousin and she has a high forehead like me and similar eyes this is exciting
I'm American and had no clue as to my ethnicity. My Heritage results: 48% Scandinavian/ 44.2% Irish-Scottish-Welsh/ Italian 4.6%/ Finnish 3.2%.
There is no such thing as Italian ethnicity. Italian can be anything from Germanic in the north to Greek in the heel. You've been hoodwinked.
Bob el Silencioso Yes, there is cultural ethnicity, too. But, of course, DNA testing certainly could not pinpoint that. There probably is some DNA differences between different European ethnicities, certainly a Dane is different from, say, a Bulgarian, BUT despite their claims, the ancestry DNA tests cannot yet really pinpoint that, either.
I'm from South-east England and I got 73% Scandinavian, 23% Europe West, 2% Great Britain & 2% Finland/Northwest Russia...
Ahh, Finnish, that's dope.
Soo most of your ancestors are Scandinavian (Norwegian, Viking is a mixture anyway). Cool. Go visit, the air is probably nicer ☀🍃
I did mine, I'm 52 % English, 8% Welsh, 30% Irish & 10% German, so 100% north western European
I got my DNA done by both MyHeritage and Ancestry. I found MyHeritage was more complete. Ancestry had about 5 listings but MyHeritage was fuller with more precise percentages. It listed Middle Eastern that I didn't realize was there. I figured there was Russian Jewish (Ashkenazi) and found out it was only about 5 or 6 generations back. The percentage of Balkan and Northern European was rather surprising. Then, from my mother came Sicilian, French and Greek as well. I guess I'm just a mongrel.
Being a mongrel than being inbred for human beings.
Yh myheritage is better for Europe
The balkan and greece were part of the ottoman empire hence the middle Eastern connection
In ancient times, the Mediterranean was a frog pond of Greeks. The Greeks had settled throughout the edges of nearly all the Mediterranean, from Greece, to Egypt to Spain to Italy to France to Asia minor etc etc. So it's no suprise that many Europeans will have a small percentage of greek in them. Why are people so suprised I will never know. You just have to open a historical book to realise this.
Costas Patralis I am Norwegian and I got 7.5% greek and 92.7% scandinavian and 0.8%
Why become hostile? I study history, specifically the British isles and this would not be that true for British people
@@floightoficarusw4329 why is that?
@@floightoficarusw4329 are you d@mb or something? He said Mediterranea, is England there?
U can not go beyond 1000 years with these dna tests...
Richard said, "I'm bi-hemispheral" LOL hilarious! It's interesting seeing DNA results for people in the UK because American history comes from Europe so it explains the mix for many Americans as well.
American history after colonisation.
American history comes from Europe? Our history is much more than a bunch of old English white guys and it started way before they ever showed up. Nothing against Europeans, mind you. My grandparents came from Europe.
I am approximately quarter English, quarter Scots, quarter Welsh and quarter Irish. 2% German.
Why are there more precisely defined groups (English,Greek, Italian), as opposed to more loosely named one (North and West Europe, for example, which would put together French, German and Dutch, or Eastern Europe (Russian, Hungarian, Czech, etc., all together?), as well - I've been told that Poland should not be considered as part of Eastern Europe, but rather Central Europe. Thanks for any clarification.
I ve noticed that as well...i don't know why some certain countries are overrepresented...hopefully it is not politics involved...i know greece has been trying to present everyone or everything as greek for instance
I just know that myheritage clusters northern germany, netherlands and france in genetic groups that have disticly the same genes due to a special group of ancestors. That genetic clusters are different to the approximate nationalies shown here. So maybe the cluster Northern Europe because of that broader genetic group, that crosses the borders of these countries.
Would it be cool if they visited those recently discovered relatives in person.
Kate and Laura look so much alike, they could be sisters. What a crazy world.
Mine told me that I'm,
50 percent Irish, Scottish and Welsh,
30 percent Scandinavian,
20 percent English
Stick the English onto Irish/Scottish/Welsh and that's exactly my results. I had no English whatsoever despite my family living here for generations, it's quite confusing.
@@futurez12 These results are not very accurate. My Heritage in particular is pretty notorious for throwing in false positives. Firstly, My Heritage is not the best for British (and Irish) ancestry; for that you should use LivingDNA as they use the largest sample size of modern British DNA and that makes their results more accurate (down to the county level). Also, these tests are not telling you where your ancestors are from; they are telling you the modern populations with which the DNA markers (alleles) are most commonly associated with. The DNA of English people in the west country is often much closer to Welsh, for example, than to DNA from Norfolk or Lincolnshire. Because My Heritage are not very good at picking up on these differences they seem to assign 'Irish, Scottish and Welsh' to people who are in fact English. Because they are merely looking for 'markers' of ethnicity, it is also very common for levels around 1-4% to be assigned to quite exotic ethnicities when in fact they are nothing of the sort. Many English people will carry genes that are associated with Ashkenazi Jews even though they have no Jewish ancestry. These kinds of tests see that ancestry and immediately assign you to that ethnicity as they regard it as a 'marker' of that ethnicity. In fact, you could just be an Englishman who carries an Askenazi Jew 'marker' within your DNA. It is very possible that the Iberian, Greek and Jewish results on this show are false positives. It is also very possible that they are accurate, but in my experience (I have done many of these tests) they often throw up false positives. They are pretty as a gimmicky bit of fun than serious science.
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I wish more people understood that, yes you get 50% from your father and 50% from your mother, but you don't get a full 50. You get a random 50%. The more your family that tests, the more you know.
I got full 40 irish 41 percent slovak and 14% of craziness makes no sense and 5% british. I'm Welsh scottish and Balkans what the heck is that?
And you don't get exactly 25% from each grandparent. The 50% from your mum might be unevenly split between her mum and dad.
I got 34% from one paternal grandparent (indigenous Canadian) and 16% from the other (northwest European). The other half was mainly Ashkenazi with some Russian mixed in. Being epically outbred made tracing which came from whom fairly easy.
Could the Greek be from Roman stock?
Got one for myself this year and just waiting results.
iam from UK, welsh...but big suprise 10% sardinian, 2%slovakian,1.5% arab,3% danish,,1% indian,1% native american,1% ashkenazi ... almost worldwide, unbelivable result..,even bigger shock, no known non european family tree...
Broo
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I am 100% Baltic on My Heritage. Not a surprise.
Shamanka Ilona I'm 2% baltic. Hi cousin
we all have a ton of Baltic too
Are you a fish?
I doubt if anyone is totally 100% anything really ???
@@joeagius66 Humans don't get around that much. Majority of peoppe are 100% something, unless they live in former colonies (such as Australia, Canada, USA, South Africa and all countries in South America)
It is a great thing to do! We are all family..
I got 50% English
25% Irish, Scottish,Welsh.
25% Scandinavian
With the English part All from northern uk and southern Scotland 🏴❤ as I’m from the northeast uk no surprise there.
I got 35% Italian and I'm Italian! The rest a mixture of invaders 😂
Ben probably due to the minute percentage of Greek heritage, had some ancestors that went way back to the Roman empire of middle ages (Byzantine), where English Huscarls were employed as mercenaries (battle of Dyrrachium 1081) and some of them even established their own colony in Crimean peninsula, which was also populated by Greeks. Another possibility is that an ancestor escorted Lionheart's army to the invasion of Cyprus island and returned back home with woman and children. Fascinating, right? Kate seems to have some Jewish qualities I guess.
I'm 66.5% Welsh, Irish and Scottish
26.2% Scandinavian
7.3% English
I was born and raised in England!
So what would you identify as?
@@aadamkhan5217he identifies as brown
Got my results today I’m 95.8% English 4.2 Iberian
95% maybe from celtic not from english
Maybe
@@rudavathsai1048 Wrong lol
Hola 👋
This was so fun!
Wow she is 76% english omg she is real english girl
I was born in India and all my relatives live in India. I got 88.5% South Asian, 8.5% Scandinavian and 3.3% North West European. I read that anything under 4% can be unreliable but 8.5% is quite significant and I have no idea where this came from.
Some Viking ancestor
The aryan connection?
I got 20% Scandinavian and I’m Pakistani weird isn’t it?
You probably have a British great great grandparent.
I have ordered mine. Apparently "myHeritage" is pretty accurate for those in Europe, just by watching many people's results. I got it for a really cheap price. The only downfall about these DNA kits in general is trusting a company with your DNA. DNA is a complete make up of who we are and with how far science has come i just hope it isn't shared for sinister scientific reasons. That being said, i'm taking the chance and can't wait to see my results 👍
Who keeps the data , that's always my worry
They should have their relatives on tv and have a small meetup. That be awesome
I just ordered a kit. cant wait to see the results
Mesopotamian KurdishGirl youre goung to se the results in 6 weeks
Did you do it? If so, what are your results!
Got my results today…
100% British and Irish
that means ur inbred
My father is Scottish and my mother is German. On both sides I can trace many branches back 5, 6 or even 7 generations. Most of my ancestors stayed put where they were born. So I have expected to have about 50% Scottish (Scottish/Irish/English) and 50% German.
But I am about 80% British (43% Scottish/Irish/Welsh and 36.2% English) and only about 20% "East"-European.
I wonder if the result is acurate.
I’m American born, in the deep South.
My DNA came back Scots, British, Viking and Irish - in that order.
Sooooooo very cool.
It literally said Viking?
@LaLa - so your result was basically 100% British Isles.
british probably means english as scots is same-ish
In the USA they use British to mean English. You work it out...
What is British ethnicity?
I just had mine done and it’s turned my world upside down. I don’t have the ethnicity that matches the genealogy. I don’t know how I’ll ever find out the truth, as the older generations are all gone. I took it badly at first, very shaken, but I’m coming to terms with the fact. But not ever being able to find out the truth will be difficult. But the fun part is that I used to live in the UK and my dna has turned out to be mostly British and Irish! I’m not supposed to be, but there it is.
What background were you hoping for?
Can I point out if you actually read the passages for each ethnicities! It is NOT a "English" category! It is actually a British category, it is a mix of Norman French, Viking, Anglo-saxons and ancient Briton's! This category includes Southern Scotland, Wales and England.
The actual "English" DNA is under the North and West European which is "Anglo-saxon".
It's a American company and they have a tendancy to mix up English with British.
He is a Native Briton?
Got mine. Wonderful! So proud! I have absolutely no English bloodline whatsoever! All Irish and Scottish. Oh Yes!
Well, with your name (if that is really your name), not surprising.
The name Wallace may come from the Old French word 'waleis' meaning a 'welshman'; Richard Walensis was from the Welsh border area. But the Scottish form of the name may refer to a Strathclyde Briton - early records show the name was common in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire
Having mostly English Wales an the rest Sweden Germany. I was not to suprised till my son traced my family line back to 1505 in England. It was awsome. Lots of notable people.
Am I suspicious of those who do not want to dna tests a bit.
I love how Kate dissed Piers. 😂
sure , really brave.
I got 99% Irish and 1% Greek. I was surprised To have so much Irish.
John Toal - mine was high to start but it’s updated since the technology has become a little more interesting.
missymouseuk1 Do u reckon mine could be false? I don’t think I have 99%
Holy moly that's very irish
John Toal - it’s not false, it’s correct at the time it was done (like mine was). The technology is still pretty new so it’ll get better over time and more detailed in its result.
My Dna sounds similar to Ben although havent tested but parents from Birmingham and Welsh on my mums side.
I got 54% English, the rest was Scottish, Welsh, Irish Swedish Norwegian and Danish.
As a result of my test I have managed to see how we moved around Europe and the US. My sister came back with 2% Askhanazi Jew. Now managed to go back to 1071 now.
That guy seems so impressed about his insignificant 3% greek ...i wonder is he aware of his 40% irish/scottish? I mean one of his parents may be pure irish or scottish
I got 76%Southern Indian,14%Eastern Indian,6%western Indian rest is Indus Valley
84% British(3% Ireland & Scotland) :( 8% Swedish, 2% Norway, 3% European Jewish :)
Broo
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Actually did 3 tests and got different results. Always thought I was mainly German and Norwegian, but had less Scandinavian and German and more English and Irish and more Eastern Europe, and one test showed 6.5% Sardinian and 2.8% Italian! Who knew?
@Scott - I thought that also, but I had someone else look at my brother's results when 3% French/German came up and they confirmed definitely French.
My DNA says I only have 2% Irish, but my one set of great grandparents came from Ireland. Their name was Mc Cormack. I am thinking the lower percent does mean something!
Is entirely possible that over time your family had moved into Germany and Norway and from there to wherever you live now.
So far have done 2 different DNA tests. both quite different results. One showed 55% German and only 2% Scandinavian along with a bunch of other European ethnicities ; My Heritage shows 47.3% Scandinavian and 39.4% North and West European (I'm assuming it means German) + a bunch of other European ethnicities. It must depend on the algorithms each company uses along with the number of people doing the tests and where they are from.
With different company's you test with the results will differ from one another...
It's based on the algorithm and how they do the tests... like I could be 50% English with Ancestry and 45% English with 23andme and 65% English with my heritage... I done a test with Ancestry haven't got results back yet...
So nice to see family from Soo far away
I'm just 96% Welsh/ Briton
I found out my biggest portion was Welsh and was so proud..
Cymru am byth!
That’s awesome
I’m 90% British and welsh and 10% Scottish and Irish on my heritage ... ancestry dna has me at 79% British welsh and 15% Ireland Scotland and 5 % Norwegian
I’m an all Welsh Australian and not surprised. 🙄
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Giving a private company my DNA, no thanks!
I was surprised to find out I'm not English at all! Welch and Austrian and Jewish
Jim Bogey austrians and English people are very similar ethnicities
Jim Bogey ... *Welsh, not Welch.
@Alpha - no such thing as Europe and Romans, the land was empty and people came in from africa......
you were downgraded.
solatiumz Jesus the hate for English people is really strong on this thread. Wtf?
100% Northwestern European
I want to know more about these paracas mummies and their DNA
Aw.... it's so cute how people are so excited to find out......... they're human 🙄
Kebab isn't Greek if you said that you like gyro or suvlaki it's much better
I’m Irish (Dublin) & These Are My Results;
72.2% Irish, Scottish & Welsh (Eastern Ireland & England)
13.9% Ashkenazi Jewish (Eastern Europe: Mostly Lithuania, Poland & Belarus)
10.6% Eastern European
2.3% Central Asian
1.0% Iberian
Any royalty ? I have studied amateur genealogy for almost 10 years now and can tell you that almost all of us hail from the seeds of Charlemagne and so will most certainly be able to link back our family tree to royalty, we would only be unique if we couldn’t.
Why didn't her Normandy background come up Scandinavian?
Guess where the Normans originated?
Sid Griffith Exactly. So why didn't her Normandy background come up Scandinavian?
I've taken three test so far. All are different. It's an evolving science for sure. Only thing they agree on is I'm 100% European.
Normans mixed with French for over 200 years by the time they came to England.
I did my DNA test with my heritage and im
🇹🇷:58,1%
🇬🇷🇮🇹20%
🇮🇹14,3
🇸🇾7,70
The second is only greek, south Italy was greek. The first, is what? West Asian or Central Asian, because turkic tribes come from central Asia
I'm a America Southern grill from the time they stepped off the boat here in God bless America
so you're Native American?
Are you covered in ancient, dried barbecue sauce?
I bought my daughter one and we’re still waiting for the results.
@@HolyHolyHoly777 99 0/0 English
Entertainment. I'm most amazed at the Greek and Balkan results. It fits my theories that, it seems the British, could have once lived in Asia Minor during antiquity. Have to find out someday.
I'm American and I'm more English than Ben.
That’s the good thing about keeping the race pure.
@@catherinedilaurentis4069 No such thing silly, if you go back far enough we're all out of Africa, you included poor thing!
it would be good to have these days back, what a great team.
My family are brickmakers going back on both sides 1752 is the earliest we could trace - a brickworks in Essex and one in Leominster.
I am 70 % central asian i.e iran uzbekistan, turkmenistan, and 30 % native indian
You must be very good looking
Ha! I didn't really think about how boring these would be for people whose families have always been in the same country. Americans tend to get a lot of surprises.
Got mine today 47%north west European (german) 31%English 16% Irish and Scottish and whales 5% central asian I live in western canada
3% Greek? Most people have that much Neanderthal.
I want to do mine I know I have a lot of mix
I did the test and I have DNA from ALL OVER THE WORLD 😍😍😍
What were your results
81.1% North/Western European (Dutch/roots in Germany and France)
14.2% Wales, Scot and Irish (probably someone that cheated or just history when they left for normandy)
4.7% Finish (Don't know how)
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I know nothing about my ancestry except that my mom's maternal side is from Canada. On my dad's side I know absolutely nothing about. I was raised by my biological mother but adopted by the man I grew up thinking was my dad. Found out 17 years ago he isn't my biological father. Would love to know where I came from but I can't afford to do a DNA test from My Heritage or Ancestry. I guess I'll never know. 😞
Lots of tv people and polititians are multinational
Meet your cousin to "hook up"? Lol
Thankfully in Britain we use that phrase in the original friendly version in sharing of information rather than the American sense sharing of bodily fluids.
@@tweetiepie551 I think the sexual connotation to that phrase only became common in the mid- to late-'90s in the States -- I remember it used to mean not necessarily sharing information, but meeting up with someone. So I only realized that the younger crowd meant something different by it circa 1996, 1997 when I used it and some young woman got offended. (And I wasn't so old myself -- I would have been 26, 27, but the girl was like 17, 18 and thought I was propositioning her.)
But the thing that shocked me when I was in the UK was hearing "When should I knock you up?" from a girl I went out with, briefly. In the US, that means impregnating someone, not awakening them! As I am male, I had no idea how she intended to do this, and by telephone, no less! And calling cigarettes "fags"! Excuse me?
@@grasmereguy5116 in the UK ' knock you up' has always meant to be impregnated and still does.. I think your young lady may have been a little confused.
@@tweetiepie551 Really? I'm sure she used it in the context of to wake someone up. I just checked an online dictionary and I see it's use meaning to wake someone up in the UK. Maybe the American usage is gaining ground? My story is from back around 1989 -- are you perhaps much younger than me? Anyway, here's some links that show British English does use (or used to) "knocked up" to mean "to awaken" someone"
www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/knock-up
_b. to wake (someone), as by knocking at the door_
www.jstor.org/stable/453610?seq=1www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=knock%20you%20up
Apparently, there literally once was a profession of people who would wake people up by knocking on their doors
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35840393
@@grasmereguy5116 I can honestly say that not once in my entire life have I heard it used this way and I have been around since Nixon was in office.
However I did have a look and yes you are right it is American in origin but gaps been used here I. That sense in Britain since the 1860s
I never knew who my Birth Father was as I was adopted into Dr.Barnardos at 6 weeks so guess I will NEVER know as untraceable,I have discovered.....:(
ALL TRUE....BUT Had The Greatest Parents in the World, thereafter and DID find out on my Birth Mothers side that her previous 3 Boys were all Professional Conmen or Criminals so had the luckiest escape ever....HOW LUCKY AM I !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :):):):):)
Does it matter for two reasons. You are who your mother is. M a t h e r cause to be the agent mother the route the origin. The main cell cell dividing a canoe being pick your patter is really a donor of alternating DNA. Still more importantly. You're adopted you had someone care for and nurture your body into the best shape it can be. You had someone who raised you and helped hone in your skills. Someone who taught you and shared his wisdom with you. Your dad is more important than your donor
Vac Aspen If it didn’t matter no one would do DNA tests
95% Dutch...what a surprise :)
I recently had my done. My father is not my father. I was told I was half Lebanese. Turns out no middle eastern whatsoever. I'm 53% English, 28% French, 15% Scottish, 3% Germanic and 1% Jewish. So who the he'll is my father?
In addition, I have always had a fascination with England. I love anything British, I visited England on a vacation. Strange, to say the least.
My brother is 56% english and 44% scandinavian. It's a strange result because there are absolutely no englishmen in our family for many generations back? Only danes and swedes. Makes you wonder what it means to be english?
My family are "purely" English going back to the late 1700's. However, my dna results show me as being only 52% British, 11% Scandinavian, 15% French/German, 1% Iberian and 21% undefined North-Western European. Following successive raids into Britain by the Romans, Angles, Saxons, Normans etc, it would seem that there are probably very few English people that are 100% English. The Welsh are probably the most British as their communities were less exposed to foreign invasion. But yes, in summary, and in agreement with you, to be English is a mixture of many European influences. Strangely, your brother is more English than I am!!!
I'M English and no English, but 47.8% Scandinavian. It is because we were invaded by Scandinavians battle of 1066, Normans, Anglo-Saxon, Jutes and Vikings from Denmark and Norway, we are you lol!
Apparently the Danes and the British are pretty much the same people. There is a guy on here with a channel called Survive The Jive and his uni in the UK and a Danish one looked at their dna and he said there was not much difference.
Not quite right., Danes & the English (Anglo/Saxons) and even then much of England has large celtic DNA populous.
Danes (Vikings) and the English (Anglo-Saxons) share a lot of similar genes, but there are minor differences on the Germanic Haplotype groups. The database is mixing up the two. So, you are really Scandinavian.
He must have that Greek manhood 😂