You can now call britain your ancestral homeland, having seen how much you enjoyed your trip to britain and your clear fascination with its history and culture I hope this makes you Happy, as a Brit myself id be happy to call you a Brit.
Yep, he is definitely one of us. I am also of Irish descent, on my maternal Grandmothers side. My Dad was born on St Helena, a British overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean.
JP, I believe these results are very accurate. I’ve done 23andMe and Ancestry, both give very similar results. The reason I have confidence is that I’ve been able to reconcile my DNA with research I’d already done on paper records and there’s similar descendant patterns. Just so you know, your results will show heaps of other things, such as health traits, matched up relatives. I recently met my new 1st cousin whose father is my uncle (one night stand). She was given away for adoption and never knew her ancestry until now. I’ve got 10% Scandinavian. It’s more common in eastern England from the Vikings together with the Anglo-Saxons. The west of the UK tend to have a higher Celtic ancestry.
The English hung around a long time in Ireland and 2-way migration between Netherlands and Britain/Ireland was such that there is nothing incompatible about those two statements! 😆😄
@@budapestkeletistationvoices That’s not really true. There are certain DNA markers that can be read that differentiate Irish DNA from say German. Irish DNA correlates more closely to Welch and Scottish DNA. The frequency of haplogroups in each region various as well. Now, Dutch is not considered as having distinctly different DNA markers than German or French, so German and French, as well as English DNA are all very close.
I see a lot of these Americans doing DNA tests and almost always turns out they are mostly English blood, often when they've said they're Irish or something else. Seems to me Americans focus on the unusual descendents but forget the majority original settlers and basis of Americans today were English.
I'm only 15 seconds into it and I love it (and you!) already. Inasmuch as I am an Australian living in Sydney, your passion for the UK is sweet, sincere and so very touching. Joel, you are some magic! Now, back to the video!
Hi Joel,oh wow how cool is this!!! You can now call yourself a true brit 😁🏴...proud to call you one, another great video throughly enjoyed it x again thank you Joel
In my experience your DNA results with Ancestry can alter slightly over time as they gather more data from more people. Mine has altered from 96 - 100% Welsh over time as results are refined. So check back regularly. And Cymru is pronounced Kum-ree. Celtic pronounced with a hard C, so keltic Also the nearest to eisteddfod would be eye-steth-vod.
Are you really 96 - 100% Welsh, on your result? That is amazing!!! However, we aren't even Celtic. We're Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Manx, Cornish, Breton, Galician, Asturian and so on. The whole concept of "Celt" and "Celtic" is an academic construction, created only 300 years ago. Our ancestors never recognised this word in any sense, and certainly did not identify as such.
Yes mine changed too I am now 95% English, 3% Welsh and 2% Scottish. The Scottish and Welsh appeared later, before it was just northwestern Europe and English.
Hi Joel, enjoying your Vlogs. Have you thought about researching your surname, in England surnames tend to come from specific area's, and/or related to an occupation. This can throw up some interesting results.
Names in the U.K. often fall into the following categories: Family names e.g. Robertson - son of Robert Place names e.g. Telford - a person from the town of Telford. Local names e.g. Stockley - a person who lived by a wood store in a field ( stock = wood pile, ley or lea = field) Occupational name e.g. Fletcher = maker of arrow flights. You're welcome 🙂
because it's fake, 'European Jewish' means Ashkenazi who are mostly Turkic/Slavic mix; Turkic people are not European and not all Ashkenazi identify as Jewish
They will refine the results and narrow it down more over time. There is also a number of other features on AncestryDNA that you can explore when you have some time.
I wish it were a longer video because I was interested in seeing you explore all the facets and you didn’t mention the Jewish side because that could be due to pogroms driven out from Russia or a result of previous migration.
You're one of us!!!!..... 😂😂😂.. You'd be surprised what happens with these......I am adopted...at 64 I did it...I knew I was Irish, was brought up in a very English rather posh family.....my mum always said you're completely Irish. In not how right she was...98% Irish from Connaught...just 2% Scots. Going back.....forever. It then brought up my family as my blood sister had done hers. Turned out my parents married, hurtful....and I had 7 brothers and sisters and a living mother. My father had told them on his deathbed a year ago, about them giving up their first child....
Genuinely curious as to why the Jewish ancestry was COMPLETELY ignored and not commented on? Like his eye just refused to see it! I guess there's a lot in those results that's difficult to assimilate into your sense of self.
Not really ignored! It just wasn't a high enough %! Why are you so jewish sensitive? There was a Nigerian % in his DNA which he didn't comment on too but it doesn't matter! Every human being has African DNA in them, much to their surprise and/horror especially if they are white supremacists or K...CLAN members! Religion divided, humanity connects, skin colour is superficial coating, kindness and love blessed us all! ✌️
Hey Joel, I love taking these tests and have done it three times. 23&Me gives the most for your money, even tells you which Haplo groups youu descend from and the quantity of Neanderthal variants you carry. Ancestry is good though.
I found out that I'm only 26% British, the rest is Western European, (my Mum had a Germanic maiden name) Iberian (Portugal/Spain) which surprised me, Scandanavian and 1% Native American. I know the Native American bit is true because I grew up knowing about the "Red Indian" in the family. He came over with a circus but went home soon after having a fling with my great great grandmother. He left behind some artifacts/photos and for several years we had a native drum sitting in the corner of the living room. Fascinating stuff.
I remember watching a programme of a Scottish woman who had Native American Indian ancestry and you could see it in her once they revealed her Native American family to her. It was a very similar story to yours. Might’ve been ‘Long lost family’. I believe that particular Red Indian came over with a circus too. Maybe you are related to her too 🤔
@@dee2251 There was a man whose grandfather (I think) came over with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, but who stayed and got a job in a factory, There was a photo of the factory work force and he was there in a cloth cap!
This was an interesting test to take with you and also awesome to see that you actually eneded uip being of 46% English/Northern European ancestry, but also awesome that you are of 12% ancestry, which means I can kinda call you a fellow Norwegian haha! And we both apparently have Scottish ancestry too, I'm Scottish on my mom's side. Cool video! :)
Great video Joel! In many ways it really doesn't matter, we are all human, and with the exception of blood types we boil down to be homo-sapiens-sapiens. But it is fun to explore this. A coworker who is a direct immigrant from Cambodia, was surprised to learn of a big chunk of French ancestry. I wasn't surprised. Cambodia & Vietnam were not only colonized by France but on a trade route. For me Ancestry DNA reports: 28% England and NW Europe, 26% Scotland, 17% European Jewish, 13% Wales, 6% Sweden, 5% Ireland, 3% Germanic Europe, and 2% Norway. Mostly not surprised except didn't expect as much Scottish and as little Irish (one of my maternal great-grandmother's was from Northern Ireland. Excited for the Jewish ancestry, but not surprised as one set of my paternal great grandparents were from Germany arrived in 1913. Now what's funny is that many people from Southern New Jersey swear they have Native American (Delaware/Leni Lenape) and was told this by both sides of the family, but I never believed it. Knew about the Swedish, but surprised to learn many Swedes ended up in Scotland, hence the Scottish blood. Ironically I have the Swedish Family arms tattooed on my right shoulder, so I have been thinking about getting the Scottish Family arms on the left. Well we now know where your nice brown eyes came from...just being silly.
I'm puzzled as to why you just completely ignored the European Jewish part of your genetic heritage as identified in this result. That's a significant percentage, 3rd after Norway.
Yes. My two children had a large percentage of jewish DNA in both my heritage as well as in ancenstry. I didn't have any at all. But I wasn't really surprised as my father in law was from Lithuania and always tried to disguise his heritage, although there was never a logical reason to do so.
I have Scottish friends who have Norwegian ancestry way back, resulting in one case in a medical condition involving the ligaments of the hand. In the Northern Isles- Orkney, Shetland- they still celebrate Norway's national day and the culture is very heavily overlaid with 'Viking' traces. If you haven't already, look at Uphellya'a fire festival. In passing 'Cymru' is pronounced with a hard C, 'Kumree'.
Myself and my son have the same condition, its called the Vikings disease (duptyrens contracture)we are from the north east coast of England a place often raided by the Vikings.
My sister has the viking hands thing. She's had many operations on them. When I first got my results back it said I had a percentage of Denmark and Norway. Now they've given me an update and they've changed this to Scotland. It all makes sense now why it changed to Scotland so thanks guys.
We have exactly the same condition in our family. So far as I am aware I've got no Scottish blood (mostly Irish, Welsh and English) but part of the family did come from the East Midlands, which had a lot of Viking settlement in the 9th and 10th Centuries and also, if you go back far enough, apparently some Norman blood too - and the Normans were descendants of Vikings themselves.
@@paulcollins5423 as far as I know we don't have any Scottish or Viking in the family but it came up in my DNA results. My family is from East Midlands as far back as I've got so far.
Well, that explains a lot! 😁. It'll be good to know you're coming back again and we really, really don't mind where the other bits of you originated!! Keep doing the great job, Joel. Helpful pronunciation guide from Welsh Cat. All the best from the middle of the UK. D
Remember that by the time you even get to great grandparents you have 8 of them and 16 great great grandparents - there is a tendency for Americans to focus on one particular part and say that’s where their family came from (Ireland or Germany for example) but you’ll probably find your family came from a lot of places…
@Robert Stallard Graham Norton is an example of those (many) Irish people who identify as Irish and yet have mostly English/British ancestry... (Who Dó You Think You Are? episodes & excerpts available for him and others including those who thought they were English and turned out to be of Irish genetics). A millennium of contact and some colonisation, and something close to apartheid during certain time periods, overlain by recent social changes + amnesia => little awareness of our true genetic origins.
Regarding the Nigerian, I too am roughly as British as you and Ancestry said I was 1% Chinese but that disappeared when they did their annual ethnicity update . Results change with time and updated science . I actually liked my miniscule Chinese ancestry, but it was tiny and eventually taken away .
Hey Joel, I noticed an ever so slight pause and mental skip when the category European Jewish appeared. Given that it is showing 11% it is likely that one of your great grandparents was impacted by the holocaust. This is an important part of your heritage. I respect your possible privacy concern, but I would wear this part of your heritage with pride.
That was great to see Joel and brilliant to see your high on the English side! 😁 I took the test awhile ago and the highest percentage was from the area (East Midlands) I actually live with a splash of Swedish. Danish African🤔 in fact quite a few 1%s in Europe. Strange!...I was so excited to read my results when they arrived. I did get a few people contacting me by e mail asking if I was related to them. 😁👍
These are fascinating, as someone whose Grandparents on one side were from Eastern Europe in the 2nd World War I've had DNA matches across the globe as very very distant relatives now are popping up where we shared a common ancestor. The funnest part is getting the matches and (having to pay for membership) but being able to message your matches and work out your common ancestors. I found out that about 6 generations ago on my grandfathers side a lady came to London from USA and married a man and had children that went onto result in me, but also an aunt of my grandmother moved to USA with family so about the same time a branch of the family tree developed there. Net result is about 3 different strands to USA ancestors to share stories with and work out how we are related. I think you will find it really addictive to dig and tell your own stories of what you find.
just one thing to add into the smaller portions, remember all it takes is 200 years ago for one person to leave their home, set up a family with a lady and have a family and that heritage gets passed down and watered down over time and eventually forgotten so those smaller portions are easy to forget until you actually visually do you family tree and see how far back the smaller fragments come from.
As others have noted, the Norwegian/Irish link would correlate, a lot of viking raids and settlements happened in Ireland, evident from quite a few costal communities place names ending in ford, which is a derivation of fjord Waterford, Carlingford, Strangford etc
Joel, you're in for some fun. It works great! It's linked or relinked me to multi-generational cousins in the UK, Australia, and the US. Moreover, it confirmed earlier family tree work that I did independently. Enjoy, John
Hi Joel that picture looked like Yorkshire not the Cotswolds which could explain the Norwegian DNA Yorkshire was part of Danelaw York was Jorvik so who knows you could be descended from that area
In my experience, if they are finding DNA from a certain region, you very likely have ancestors from there. The actual percentages can vary due to their sample population and the fact that they are always changing how they understand migration patterns especially between different European countries, but it's unlikely they are just pulled out of thin air. I would trust that if they are showing Nigerian, you definitely have some African ancestors several generations back. One way to confirm would be to test one or both of your parents and see if they show a greater percentage for that region. :)
In a sense it did. It said 46% England AND Northwest Europe and the map included the north of France. Probably because the Normans from northern France conquered England. I guess the English and French are therefore strongly related in their DNA.
On Ancestry dna results you can also see the ‘inherited dna split’ between your mother and father (50% from each parent). Well worth a look and would surely be of interest to them and maybe your grandparents?
Mine came back 25% neanderthal 25% Klingon and 50% Jewish. My knuckles do drag along the ground as I walk and I have an aggressive side in me so I guess it works. The Jewish ancestry though? Well that's a bit below the belt.
I love ancestry DNA. I'm 96% Scottish but as ancestry updates from time to time, my other 4% varies. Although ethnicity is of interest, the biggest gain of this test is in DNA matches and shared matches for family tree research. It was all going so well until I discovered my parents are actually distant cousins... ah the small Scottish farming communities... No more paternal and maternal lines, just one big happy family haha Matching with Luther Vandross' cousin was a bit of a surprise though. You should start recording your tree on ancestry.
British ancestry is one of the biggest in the US but it’s invisible one because no Americans hyphenate and call themselves English-American like they do Irish-American or Italian-American because it’s kind of seen as the default I guess to some extent
@@stevealexR1 That would be because they were the dominant culture. The groups that hyphenate their results is because they were not always part of the mainstream so more aware of their ethnicity and distinctiveness. A lot of Americans for example aren't aware of their English background and will usually highlight some later ancestry.
Glad to see that you're looking into your ancestry. A shame that more info didn't come through from your family, but it makes for an interesting detective journey. My cousin and I have been going through the same trip. I know that the Schiltz name is in America, presumably through the Dutch settlers from the time of New Amsterdam. My mother's maiden name dates back many centuries in my part of East Anglia, at least to Henry VIII's time, possibly further. Undoubtedly, we all have Africa in our heritage somewhere. No surprise that. We got out there and we 'danced'.
@@edenl9975 Yes indeed. I was impressed with the details in my case. One of my grandparents is from North Yorkshire and another is from South Yorkshire. The DNA test showed separate signals for these sub regions on my results!
@@littlet-rex8839 LivingDNA distinguishes between Irish and British and further distinguishes between English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, and Southern Irish.
I did a DNA test a few years ago and found out that my father was Jewish American!! ( didn't ever know who my father was) I now have 2 half-brothers and countless cousins and a 98-year-old aunt in America now and I have met some of them!! So, I'm 50% American... But I have very little English DNA it is 50% / 32% Irish/ 6% Scottish/ 3% Welsh and a tiny 9% English!! I was 75% English and 25% Irish. .How wrong could I be?!! My father was a flyer in WW2 and it seems he flew over here and left me behind!! 🤪🤪
The scots hunted haggis to near extinction, many years ago! Hunted for its succulent meat and silky fur, that scottish sporrans are made from! The haggis are famed for their swimming ability. The last herd swam to one of scotlands many islands. Forming the last known colony of wild haggis! The location is a closely guarded secret tho. Scotland has many many islands!
@@mikdavies5027 not anymore. The breeding program, altho a success at the start, soon faltered. The haggis refused to breed in captivity. The last ones were taken to the top most shore of scotland. The were released and they all swam away, all in a line in the same direction. People in boats quickly followed them, but the clever haggis submerged, changing direction underwater. The men in boats lost them! They had a picnic with them, so they just sat in their boats, bobbing about, eating salted egg and smoked fish. Washed down with dark whiskey!
I knew quite a bit of my ancestry, my grandfather was jamaican so mainly wanted to know if I was a descendant from native Jamaicans ( Arawaks/Tainos) or from Africa. Turns out it was Africa which was a high chance anyway but so glad I was able to find out. My dad's cousin is 99.8% European with 98.4% being British and Irish. You should do your family tree and see when your ancestors arrived in the US. If you do enjoy the journey it will take you on.
Totally agree. These DNA tests are just an adjunct to real genealogy. An aid. Look for MATCHES! Then try to build a family tree. You want to know the names of your ancestors, when and where they were born and when they came to the U.S. It’s fun and kind of addictive too.
I'm British American myself. When I say British I mean England, Wales and Scotland. But mostly British. Fun dna test. I'm glad to see a fellow American proud of his British heritage. Or at least inquisitive of it. That's so beautiful to see 😍
In Brtiain most people have quite a mix of heritage. Im English but have Scottish and Irish ancestry. My surname is not English though and hints at stomething more european.
@@johnritter6864 that's not surprising. Britain is descendants of Celts. Than its no surprise when some Frenchmen or Belgian immigrates here. The Islands around Scotland and England are descendants of Anglo-Saxons and Norsemen. So it's no surprise if some English have more recent Dutch, Danish or English ancestry. Conclusion it's no duh that British results are diverse. That's why I said British incompassing the whole isles not English
Well now JPS we know why you are interested in Britain 🇬🇧. But as viking blood carrier carry on concerning British Isles I welcome you to our clan 😉. So now you know you are not American, you can leave and come to Britain to follow your ancestry and join the viking clan 😂😂😂. Good video Joel as always 👍 Good luck with your studies and more updates please. Thanks 🛶🪓🇧🇻🇩🇰🇸🇪
Hi Joel, is it possible that your 11% Jewish came from your German grandmother? Maybe she or her parents were of Jewish heritage? A lot of Jewish people left Germany in the 20th Century for obvious reasons.
Maybe. But maybe he has a problem with Israeli politics, and does not want to comment on that or be involved with it. The label ‘Antisemitic’ is thrown at people much too often, at a pace nowadays that even not voting for Israel in Eurovision is antisemitic.
Morning Joel, it's a lovely autumn morning here in Hertfordshire. The mist is rising in the valleys, the sun is coming up, and I have been watching a Jay eating acorns. There is also a rook sitting in the top of the Oak tree opposite my house. My dad's side of the family came from East Yorkshire, mums from Northamptonshire, with a great grandad from the Netherlands. Now I'm going to walk down to the cafe for brekkie. Have a good day, T
I did this recently I was 90 % southern English, and very specific area in England. Yours is very diverse and broad, wow! Even your English heritage covers the whole of England, I took it you have some Norman blood as Viking settlers they came from northern France.
Explains the French and Norwegian dna. I did a DNA test, and expectedly I have Norse blood, but 0% French dna. Yet as 30 family tree surnames i traced are Anglo-Saxon 20% are French. Mostly 1066 Norman, Flemish, Breton, Anjou or Picarde, regions Normans recruited from. Yet 0% French detected like it was bred out. Im like 4% French at least not 0. It's weird.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 the borders of what counted as “La France” ie the kingdom thereof, have moved/varied greatly over time. Franks ruled in part of what is now France but not always all, and Frankish/Franconians did not speak exclusively what we call “French”. We have to stop imposing 19th-21st century maps on the more distant past!
Damn Joel, I'm actually English, born in England to two English parents, and you got 1% more on your "England and Northwestern Europe" heritage than I did on mine!
Hi, after 65 years of not knowing who my parents were my daughters got a DNA test kit for my birthday ( I was handed over to the national childrens home at birth)y mother an Irish Canadian and my father from New Mexico USA. Not much British blood .
Hiya Joel, I hope you realise that if you got your brother to do the test, his may have added or even some DNA different to yours. What you need to do is have a look at your inherited ethnicity on your results, it will show you which parent gave you what! Unfortunately though you will have to work out which is the mother and which is the father by what you already know of their ancestry, also remember when doing these tests, each of your parents will only pass down to you 50% of their DNA . Hence why your brother could have something else added or missing compared to yours. But if you had both your parents do the test you will be'able to see what 50% each of their parents passed down to them, and you will be'able to go further back in your ancestry.
Of course you are half british!! I knew that the first time I ever saw One of your videos on youtube. The traits stand out, a mile off. You have the flag behind your head, for a start.. I'm so happy you have found your answer. K.
I did mine 3 years ago. I am 49% Scottish . 34% Irish and the rest English. I have connected with many 2nd cousins from all over the world . Love doing our family tree. Fascinating stuff
How exciting (and well done, Brian, for the idea 👍) See...you are nearly one of us 😁 I agree that when it gets down to 1% in the breakdown that those seem negligible, but a total of 19% of Scandinavian is interesting, isn't it....
It's depends on what that 1% is. Getting 1% SSA may very well be accurate and I have seen people lose European ethnicities with updates some quite significant. Also you can gain a good percentage of an ethnicity you previous didn't have. Watch things like English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Scandinavian etc change with updates.
There is a video on TH-cam somewhere where identical twins do a DNA Test like this and get very different results, so I’m not sure how accurate they really are but like horoscopes most people can interpret a link if they look for it. But technically identical twins the result of an egg splitting should have the same results.
The Norway element is where the Vikings came from. They invaded the UK and they also inhabited Normandy in France. We were conquered by the Normans/Vikings in 1066
Thanks Joel, I really enjoyed that, if nothing else it's more information to go away with and think about ( please don't do Ben, I'm not sure I could cope with the possible results ). It''s made me think a little bit about my own background, my father was Scots, my mother English and they met during WW2 ( I am of that generation who has one A. Hitler to thank for being here the war being the reason they met) That said even being born opposite ends of the country, Dad Lanarkshire, Ma in Lancashire, my family seems to have an alphabetical obsession, they both grew up in tight knit communities where people didn't travel in and out, weren't as mobile as they are now. When people did move it tended to be less often and if they did it was for a longer distance. I can see for a few generations back the DNA could be quite condensed inside a relatively small geographical area. It's one to ponder about, thanks again Joel ( Hmmmm, whisky, nearly time to sort out my birthday bottle 👍👍)
My dad is really into ancestry maybe it can be a side project on the channel to trace your Family tree. Its really popular in the UK since there are TV programs where famous people trace their ancestors.
"I never thought in all my life I'd be spitting into a tube and posting it onto the internet." It could have been worse Joel - they might have wanted a urine sample! Cymru is pronounced like Kum-ray by the way. There's a theory that everyone originates from Africa, which might be the Nigeria connection. TH-camr Bruce Fummey did this with several members of his family - and the results were absolutely hilarious, as Nigeria is considered to be the England of that region - and not only did he have a lot more English DNA than he's thought - he also had lots of Nigerian, which he said makes him 'English' twice over! He is a good supporter of all things Scottish, incidentally. When you look at the detailed versions of the results, you'll probably find there's a moveable ethnicity scale - I didn't even know it was there until about a year after I'd taken that test; but using it helped me understand it all a lot better. Hopefully there will be some tool that you can relate to as well. Have you tried doing any ancestral research, by the way? First port of call is your older relatives - what do they know of their parents and siblings - what were their mother's maiden surnames? Can they remember any old aunts, uncles and cousins from previous generations...? Then take the earliest ones and look them up on one of the genealogy sites. It's a massive undertaking to note them all down properly, but very fascinating and almost addictive! I have managed to get back 11 generations (to the early 1700s) in some cases.
@@nillyk5671 And the tests only go back 8 generations anyway, about 240 years. Not 50,000 years. And, it’s not a theory that all humans originated from Africa. It’s a scientific fact if you’re looking at 100,000+years ago.
The Nigerian ancestry is very possible given the fact that you have southern ancestry. At that percentage level it means that somewhere in your family there's an ancestor who was mixed. My cousin has 5% African and her daughter is about 1 or 2 percent. My Great grand mother was her grand mother. She was mixed. She came to the USA, passed for white and married an American man. She always kept in contact with her first daughter though. So my cousin's daughter is almost 100% European, but she has an African maternal haplogroup.
@@littlet-rex8839 Interesting. The West African comes as no surprise to me, but the Egyptian does. I didn't inherit the maker but my Dad's sister and brother did. What surprises me is the fact that until recently, Egyptians really HATED to travel. But I'm seeing a lot of people coming up with small Egyptian percentages, meaning it was a long time ago. So what was happening that made them migrate?
@@littlet-rex8839 I don't know. Because Sardinia is a distance from Egypt and an extremely different culture. Egyptians have always been notorious for loathing migrating. For example, compare them to Lebanese and Syrians. They're literally everywhere. There's Levantines like dirt all over the Caribbean and Latin America. Egyptians, literally crickets. So I'm really surprised to see how many people have it.
@@TRUTHTEACHER2007 interesting, I really expected the African DNA, the Egyptian was surprising, it also mentioned Arab and Levantine, it would interesting to know the story behind it
Many TV programmes have investigated these DNA companies. I remember watching one were identical twins sent their samples (under their married names etc.) - The results came back totally different !? In other shows they sent the same person's samples to several different DNA Testing Companies and the results compared, none agreed (some not even closely). All I'm saying is, take EVERYTHING with a 'pinch of salt' - LOL! EDIT: Due to spelling error.
Yes I’ve done two different companies and although a lot of similarities it was still a bit different, I think it’s more some companies are specialise in different areas
50% of DNA comes from the father and 50% from the mother so siblings can have different amounts of DNA from the same parents. Siblings get DNA from their parents but not necessarily the same DNA. You are correct that DNA (like all science) is a work in progress. As more people test they will have more info to extrapolate from.
@@dorothydotson7154 You are right: that is the case with my two siblings yet I know with certainty that we are all full siblings as we all match with cousins on our mother's and father's sides of the family. Identical twins, however, have identical DNA so the analyses should come up with identical results so, if that is not happening, there is presumably something wrong with the procedures being undertaken by the company.
It's all very believable Joel...most People who've lived in the UK their whole lives have saxon and viking blood, so that's the German Norway and Denmark covered. English blood is almost always mixed with Scotish Irish and Welsh blood. And if its true that all humanity emerged from the African continent then we should all have a distant trace of African blood.
We don't all have a distant trace of "African blood". If he has "Nigerian" on this fresh update of results in 2022, then it's because of an enslaved ancestor.
That's not really how this is working, it's taking DNA from modern West Africans. This likely means he has probably about a 4th Great Grandparent who was African. Seeing as he's American, this is likely due to the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.
While most people will have Scandinavian blood,mit's not usually that high. That 12% Norwegian could easiy be representing a great grandparent who was fully Norwegian, while 7% is equivalent of a great great grandparent. It would be more interesting to see the estimate on which side it came from, (with no parental dna in the systemically just asign parent 1 and parent 2, butni've found mine to be very accurate based on what I've found researching my tree.) Andre's, we all have distant African, but that is thousands of years back for most, and is represented by the haplogroups, where as this is test more recent DNA from the roughly the last 150-200 years or so. That said 1% is fairly low, and is likely gonna have low confidence, unless he can test his parents for more info, or combines it with researching his tree/checking out matches etc. 1% could be representative of a 4 or 5 x ggp, so 5-6 generations back, depending how they span out, that can take his line back to around the mid 1800s, so not impossible that some slave owner did shit they shouldn't,mor maybe a newly amancipated slave had some fun, could be any mpnumber of scenarios, records are good enough that he might be able to track it back far enough (depending how unlucky he is with names and areas, eg unsurprisingly, my illegitimate John Smith & his mother Elizabeth went nowhere when trying to trace them in the middle of England lol. I guess it just depends how interested he is in finding 🤷
I'm 77% English. As more tests are taken it will change. I was only 55% a year or two ago. As these become more popular, more people take them. Your father is usually on the left and your mother on the right. My dad is why I'm indigenous.
Just looked and spotted that you are a 22 centimorgan DNA match to my dad - it's coming up with your name and these exact ethnicities! So hello (distant) cousin! You're a shared match with others who link through my Irish "Ferrall" or "Farrell" ancestors - and one of them had a daughter who married a Simpson.
Grandfather "on mother's side" was Romanian with a Polish-Jewish background, Grandmother "on mother's side" was Scottish, never knew Grandfather on Dad's side but his mum, my other grandmother was from London and way back in the past when the Normans invaded England that's where my surname comes from, originally just Jer apparently. So I'm European and proud :) I believe that we all originate from Africa, where life began on Earth. See ya tomorro Doc, have a wonderful day dude.
Give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's just a bit of a shock. Some people are like that when they find out they're one of the tribe. Who knows. I'm not willing to judge him for it. Let it sink in and learn how f**king amazing we are :P
Enjoyed this Joel! "Welcome to the club" well sort of you are more English than me and I was born here with British parents (Mam English - Dad Irish / Scottish) I got only 4% ENGLISH - my mother must not have known she had Scottish ancestry, even more than my dad! It's interesting to see where your Ancestors came from eh?
Hi Joel, great video. I think this is more or less what I would have expected to see in your DNA profile. Most Caucasian Americans have a fair amount of British/Irish blood with some Scandinavian, Jewish and other mixed in; plus most Americans - White or not - have some Black heritage too from centuries ago in some cases. So it's not surprising that Nigeria comes up as 1%, as that's probably reflecting distant African American/slave mixing into your gene pool. In my own profiles - as a Brit of Indian origin - I too have a trace of DNA from an "unexpected" place: Finland. This must be back thousands of years ago, with some Suomi steppe traveller perhaps making his or her way to Asia.
True about some White Americans occasionally having some small African ancestry (usually under 5%), but that’s normally Americans whose ancestors lived in the U.S. South, the slave States. Black Americans typically have 75-80 % African ancestry and 20-25% European ancestry , again because of the U.S. slave trade. Don’t forget these tests don’t go back more than 8 generations, or 240 years. So, your Fin reading is definitely not thousands of years ago. No way. These tests can only test recent ancestry (thousands of years ago is not recent). There could be a myriad of reasons for your Fin reading. A trace reading is usually less than 2%, sometimes 3%, but it’s highly speculative and is often just a wrong reading from a DNA segment. There’s a margin of error of 1% in these tests too.
That was great, really enjoyed your share. I'm guessing your Norwegian heritage will come from your Scots ancestors or perhaps the area of England known as Danelaw.... the Skandawegiens got just about everywhere in the British Isles. I sent for a kit for myself & my eldest daughter a while ago & we still haven't got round to doing it.... think we should get my butts into gear.
You can now call britain your ancestral homeland, having seen how much you enjoyed your trip to britain and your clear fascination with its history and culture I hope this makes you Happy, as a Brit myself id be happy to call you a Brit.
Yes, this makes you more than an 'honorary' Brit now.... 😁
Yep, he is definitely one of us. I am also of Irish descent, on my maternal Grandmothers side. My Dad was born on St Helena, a British overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean.
He's white and American so the chance of him having British DNA is quite high ...
Someone from Bagladesh or Japan can come to Britain and apply to be British. DNA is irrelevant.
@@bobblue_west I rather think you are missing the point.
JP, I believe these results are very accurate. I’ve done 23andMe and Ancestry, both give very similar results. The reason I have confidence is that I’ve been able to reconcile my DNA with research I’d already done on paper records and there’s similar descendant patterns. Just so you know, your results will show heaps of other things, such as health traits, matched up relatives. I recently met my new 1st cousin whose father is my uncle (one night stand). She was given away for adoption and never knew her ancestry until now.
I’ve got 10% Scandinavian. It’s more common in eastern England from the Vikings together with the Anglo-Saxons. The west of the UK tend to have a higher Celtic ancestry.
Oooooh! I love a good DNA Ancestry video. It’s nice to learn the history of human migration.
Congratulations Joel! There had to be some reason you're so respectful to the UK and us Brits! 😁😁😁
As a bonus you are more English, congratulations.😀
I worked in Tennessee with a guy who's grandfather told him the family were Dutch/Irish. His DNA came back 98% English.
The English hung around a long time in Ireland and 2-way migration between Netherlands and Britain/Ireland was such that there is nothing incompatible about those two statements! 😆😄
Being Irish is a cultural and not a genetical thing
@@budapestkeletistationvoices That’s not really true. There are certain DNA markers that can be read that differentiate Irish DNA from say German. Irish DNA correlates more closely to Welch and Scottish DNA. The frequency of haplogroups in each region various as well. Now, Dutch is not considered as having distinctly different DNA markers than German or French, so German and French, as well as English DNA are all very close.
I see a lot of these Americans doing DNA tests and almost always turns out they are mostly English blood, often when they've said they're Irish or something else. Seems to me Americans focus on the unusual descendents but forget the majority original settlers and basis of Americans today were English.
I'm only 15 seconds into it and I love it (and you!) already. Inasmuch as I am an Australian living in Sydney, your passion for the UK is sweet, sincere and so very touching. Joel, you are some magic! Now, back to the video!
I’ve done that too. Being English/ Scot, in common with most people, I have Scandinavian heritage, so probably Viking. 😊
Hi Joel,oh wow how cool is this!!! You can now call yourself a true brit 😁🏴...proud to call you one, another great video throughly enjoyed it x again thank you Joel
In my experience your DNA results with Ancestry can alter slightly over time as they gather more data from more people. Mine has altered from 96 - 100% Welsh over time as results are refined. So check back regularly.
And Cymru is pronounced Kum-ree.
Celtic pronounced with a hard C, so keltic
Also the nearest to eisteddfod would be eye-steth-vod.
Are you really 96 - 100% Welsh, on your result? That is amazing!!!
However, we aren't even Celtic.
We're Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Manx, Cornish, Breton, Galician, Asturian and so on.
The whole concept of "Celt" and "Celtic" is an academic construction, created only 300 years ago.
Our ancestors never recognised this word in any sense, and certainly did not identify as such.
Well I'd be proud of Wales a lot more if we got rid of that useless drip as worst minister. He makes me ashamed
Yes mine changed too I am now 95% English, 3% Welsh and 2% Scottish. The Scottish and Welsh appeared later, before it was just northwestern Europe and English.
are you hoping he'll become more Welsh as time goes by???
@@SimSim-zf9if 😂😂😂
Hi Joel, enjoying your Vlogs. Have you thought about researching your surname, in England surnames tend to come from specific area's, and/or related to an occupation. This can throw up some interesting results.
Names in the U.K. often fall into the following categories:
Family names e.g. Robertson - son of Robert
Place names e.g. Telford - a person from the town of Telford.
Local names e.g. Stockley - a person who lived by a wood store in a field ( stock = wood pile, ley or lea = field)
Occupational name e.g. Fletcher = maker of arrow flights.
You're welcome 🙂
Why did the guy ignore the 11% Jewish result??? He literally mentioned everything else but that… that was actually the most interesting in my opinion.
and it found communities and everything
Yes! I know. It's a fascinating and ancient lineage that should be acknowledged and celebrated. We're fab! :D
@@Problembeing I was actually disappointed that I didn't get any Jewish in my DNA test.
@@sabrinagilmusic it's ok, we can adopt you 😁
because it's fake, 'European Jewish' means Ashkenazi who are mostly Turkic/Slavic mix; Turkic people are not European and not all Ashkenazi identify as Jewish
They will refine the results and narrow it down more over time. There is also a number of other features on AncestryDNA that you can explore when you have some time.
I wish it were a longer video because I was interested in seeing you explore all the facets and you didn’t mention the Jewish side because that could be due to pogroms driven out from Russia or a result of previous migration.
Yeah why did he ignore the Jewish part? Not good...
agreed…
.....and Nigeria. I thought you were different to most white Americans but looks like you are in denial.
There is no such thing as Jewish ethnic! Judeism is a religion. It's like me saying Christian or Muslim
@@adsheff Because he is anti Semitic? Go and try to cancel him 🤦🏽♂️
Joel you’re now an honorary Brit.
Welcome to the Madhouse!
You're one of us!!!!..... 😂😂😂.. You'd be surprised what happens with these......I am adopted...at 64 I did it...I knew I was Irish, was brought up in a very English rather posh family.....my mum always said you're completely Irish. In not how right she was...98% Irish from Connaught...just 2% Scots. Going back.....forever. It then brought up my family as my blood sister had done hers. Turned out my parents married, hurtful....and I had 7 brothers and sisters and a living mother. My father had told them on his deathbed a year ago, about them giving up their first child....
Genuinely curious as to why the Jewish ancestry was COMPLETELY ignored and not commented on? Like his eye just refused to see it! I guess there's a lot in those results that's difficult to assimilate into your sense of self.
yup…
Very strange - seems the guy's a low-key anti-semite
Not really ignored! It just wasn't a high enough %! Why are you so jewish sensitive? There was a Nigerian % in his DNA which he didn't comment on too but it doesn't matter! Every human being has African DNA in them, much to their surprise and/horror especially if they are white supremacists or K...CLAN members! Religion divided, humanity connects, skin colour is superficial coating, kindness and love blessed us all! ✌️
He didn’t comment on that Jewish stuff because he didn’t like it! Can’t blame the guy. It’s like a dark stain on your ancestry.
Not surprised by the Norwegian bit. You're crazy grounded, open minded and humble.
You did a great job presenting the ancestry results.
Fascinated you mentioned every DNA result except the Jewish ancestry. Is that because it was such a shock ?
Hey Joel, I love taking these tests and have done it three times. 23&Me gives the most for your money, even tells you which Haplo groups youu descend from and the quantity of Neanderthal variants you carry. Ancestry is good though.
I found out that I'm only 26% British, the rest is Western European, (my Mum had a Germanic maiden name) Iberian (Portugal/Spain) which surprised me, Scandanavian and 1% Native American. I know the Native American bit is true because I grew up knowing about the "Red Indian" in the family. He came over with a circus but went home soon after having a fling with my great great grandmother. He left behind some artifacts/photos and for several years we had a native drum sitting in the corner of the living room. Fascinating stuff.
I remember watching a programme of a Scottish woman who had Native American Indian ancestry and you could see it in her once they revealed her Native American family to her. It was a very similar story to yours. Might’ve been ‘Long lost family’. I believe that particular Red Indian came over with a circus too. Maybe you are related to her too 🤔
@@dee2251 There was a man whose grandfather (I think) came over with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, but who stayed and got a job in a factory, There was a photo of the factory work force and he was there in a cloth cap!
@@Lily-Bravo 😂😂 😂
This was an interesting test to take with you and also awesome to see that you actually eneded uip being of 46% English/Northern European ancestry, but also awesome that you are of 12% ancestry, which means I can kinda call you a fellow Norwegian haha! And we both apparently have Scottish ancestry too, I'm Scottish on my mom's side. Cool video! :)
11% is probably coming from one fully Jewish great grandparent I’d imagine your german grandmother was half Jewish?
There was so many Jews in london also for a very long time.
Great video Joel! In many ways it really doesn't matter, we are all human, and with the exception of blood types we boil down to be homo-sapiens-sapiens. But it is fun to explore this. A coworker who is a direct immigrant from Cambodia, was surprised to learn of a big chunk of French ancestry. I wasn't surprised. Cambodia & Vietnam were not only colonized by France but on a trade route.
For me Ancestry DNA reports: 28% England and NW Europe, 26% Scotland, 17% European Jewish, 13% Wales, 6% Sweden, 5% Ireland, 3% Germanic Europe, and 2% Norway. Mostly not surprised except didn't expect as much Scottish and as little Irish (one of my maternal great-grandmother's was from Northern Ireland. Excited for the Jewish ancestry, but not surprised as one set of my paternal great grandparents were from Germany arrived in 1913. Now what's funny is that many people from Southern New Jersey swear they have Native American (Delaware/Leni Lenape) and was told this by both sides of the family, but I never believed it. Knew about the Swedish, but surprised to learn many Swedes ended up in Scotland, hence the Scottish blood. Ironically I have the Swedish Family arms tattooed on my right shoulder, so I have been thinking about getting the Scottish Family arms on the left.
Well we now know where your nice brown eyes came from...just being silly.
I'm puzzled as to why you just completely ignored the European Jewish part of your genetic heritage as identified in this result. That's a significant percentage, 3rd after Norway.
Yes. My two children had a large percentage of jewish DNA in both my heritage as well as in ancenstry. I didn't have any at all. But I wasn't really surprised as my father in law was from Lithuania and always tried to disguise his heritage, although there was never a logical reason to do so.
yayyyy Joel I am so excited about this. I can't wait for the results. The results are great. wherever your from your awesome. 😃
Agree with the awesomeness
I am British with a mix of English, Scots, Irish, Scandinavian and Germanic. A fairly common assortment, I would think, given our country's history
Same here
I have Scottish friends who have Norwegian ancestry way back, resulting in one case in a medical condition involving the ligaments of the hand. In the Northern Isles- Orkney, Shetland- they still celebrate Norway's national day and the culture is very heavily overlaid with 'Viking' traces. If you haven't already, look at Uphellya'a fire festival. In passing 'Cymru' is pronounced with a hard C, 'Kumree'.
Myself and my son have the same condition, its called the Vikings disease (duptyrens contracture)we are from the north east coast of England a place often raided by the Vikings.
I’m from Orkney, and yes, I saw a lot of those hands growing up.
My sister has the viking hands thing. She's had many operations on them. When I first got my results back it said I had a percentage of Denmark and Norway. Now they've given me an update and they've changed this to Scotland. It all makes sense now why it changed to Scotland so thanks guys.
We have exactly the same condition in our family. So far as I am aware I've got no Scottish blood (mostly Irish, Welsh and English) but part of the family did come from the East Midlands, which had a lot of Viking settlement in the 9th and 10th Centuries and also, if you go back far enough, apparently some Norman blood too - and the Normans were descendants of Vikings themselves.
@@paulcollins5423 as far as I know we don't have any Scottish or Viking in the family but it came up in my DNA results. My family is from East Midlands as far back as I've got so far.
Well, that explains a lot! 😁. It'll be good to know you're coming back again and we really, really don't mind where the other bits of you originated!! Keep doing the great job, Joel.
Helpful pronunciation guide from Welsh Cat. All the best from the middle of the UK. D
Never in my life I would of thought I'd be watching someone spit into a tube on the internet 😂
I did that test last year and it was very accurate from my understanding.
Remember that by the time you even get to great grandparents you have 8 of them and 16 great great grandparents - there is a tendency for Americans to focus on one particular part and say that’s where their family came from (Ireland or Germany for example) but you’ll probably find your family came from a lot of places…
@Robert Stallard Graham Norton is an example of those (many) Irish people who identify as Irish and yet have mostly English/British ancestry... (Who Dó You Think You Are? episodes & excerpts available for him and others including those who thought they were English and turned out to be of Irish genetics). A millennium of contact and some colonisation, and something close to apartheid during certain time periods, overlain by recent social changes + amnesia => little awareness of our true genetic origins.
Cymru pronounced more like Come Ree, and Celtic is pronounced with a hard C, Keltic, Love your channel 🙂
You're one of us now dude !
Regarding the Nigerian, I too am roughly as British as you and Ancestry said I was 1% Chinese but that disappeared when they did their annual ethnicity update . Results change with time and updated science . I actually liked my miniscule Chinese ancestry, but it was tiny and eventually taken away .
I hate when they take something away during updates! But if its 1% or less it’s kinda negligible I guess
@@nameisamine Yeah , but then 23&Me gave me some East Asian,so maybe it is there.
No mention of the 11% Jewish.
@@samadams219 Probably the German influence, but could just be two people getting together and the DNA combines
@@samadams219 He has the same amount of Jewish as my niece so I guess he might have had a fully Jewish great-grandparent.
Hey Joel, I noticed an ever so slight pause and mental skip when the category European Jewish appeared. Given that it is showing 11% it is likely that one of your great grandparents was impacted by the holocaust. This is an important part of your heritage. I respect your possible privacy concern, but I would wear this part of your heritage with pride.
Excellent idea for a video!!
That was great to see Joel and brilliant to see your high on the English side! 😁 I took the test awhile ago and the highest percentage was from the area (East Midlands) I actually live with a splash of Swedish. Danish African🤔 in fact quite a few 1%s in Europe. Strange!...I was so excited to read my results when they arrived. I did get a few people contacting me by e mail asking if I was related to them. 😁👍
This doesn't surprise me tbh, but I almost feel proud of you!!! I'm actually quite chuffed!
The amizing thing is... you got on an aircraft and found it. ❤️🇬🇧
These are fascinating, as someone whose Grandparents on one side were from Eastern Europe in the 2nd World War I've had DNA matches across the globe as very very distant relatives now are popping up where we shared a common ancestor. The funnest part is getting the matches and (having to pay for membership) but being able to message your matches and work out your common ancestors. I found out that about 6 generations ago on my grandfathers side a lady came to London from USA and married a man and had children that went onto result in me, but also an aunt of my grandmother moved to USA with family so about the same time a branch of the family tree developed there. Net result is about 3 different strands to USA ancestors to share stories with and work out how we are related. I think you will find it really addictive to dig and tell your own stories of what you find.
just one thing to add into the smaller portions, remember all it takes is 200 years ago for one person to leave their home, set up a family with a lady and have a family and that heritage gets passed down and watered down over time and eventually forgotten so those smaller portions are easy to forget until you actually visually do you family tree and see how far back the smaller fragments come from.
As others have noted, the Norwegian/Irish link would correlate, a lot of viking raids and settlements happened in Ireland, evident from quite a few costal communities place names ending in ford, which is a derivation of fjord Waterford, Carlingford, Strangford etc
Good luck with the Passport application 🤣🤣
Joel, you're in for some fun. It works great! It's linked or relinked me to multi-generational cousins in the UK, Australia, and the US. Moreover, it confirmed earlier family tree work that I did independently. Enjoy, John
Hi Joel that picture looked like Yorkshire not the Cotswolds which could explain the Norwegian DNA Yorkshire was part of Danelaw York was Jorvik so who knows you could be descended from that area
In my experience, if they are finding DNA from a certain region, you very likely have ancestors from there. The actual percentages can vary due to their sample population and the fact that they are always changing how they understand migration patterns especially between different European countries, but it's unlikely they are just pulled out of thin air. I would trust that if they are showing Nigerian, you definitely have some African ancestors several generations back. One way to confirm would be to test one or both of your parents and see if they show a greater percentage for that region. :)
congratulations mate!
imagine if it said you were French! 😉
😂🤣🤪😂🤣
In a sense it did. It said 46% England AND Northwest Europe and the map included the north of France. Probably because the Normans from northern France conquered England. I guess the English and French are therefore strongly related in their DNA.
No dont!
It's good being French !
@@charles1413 Good one mate 🤣
He totally blanked the Jewish DNA. A bit weird.
On Ancestry dna results you can also see the ‘inherited dna split’ between your mother and father (50% from each parent). Well worth a look and would surely be of interest to them and maybe your grandparents?
Mine came back 25% neanderthal 25% Klingon and 50% Jewish. My knuckles do drag along the ground as I walk and I have an aggressive side in me so I guess it works. The Jewish ancestry though? Well that's a bit below the belt.
I love ancestry DNA. I'm 96% Scottish but as ancestry updates from time to time, my other 4% varies. Although ethnicity is of interest, the biggest gain of this test is in DNA matches and shared matches for family tree research. It was all going so well until I discovered my parents are actually distant cousins... ah the small Scottish farming communities... No more paternal and maternal lines, just one big happy family haha Matching with Luther Vandross' cousin was a bit of a surprise though. You should start recording your tree on ancestry.
British ancestry is one of the biggest in the US but it’s invisible one because no Americans hyphenate and call themselves English-American like they do Irish-American or Italian-American because it’s kind of seen as the default I guess to some extent
Well said! English people have never felt the need to show off our nationhood unlike others!
I'm English American. 😂
Don't say "no" you don't speak for me
@@stevealexR1 I think we're the greatest ethnic group on the planet
@@stevealexR1
Nobody would celebrate yours.
@@stevealexR1 That would be because they were the dominant culture. The groups that hyphenate their results is because they were not always part of the mainstream so more aware of their ethnicity and distinctiveness. A lot of Americans for example aren't aware of their English background and will usually highlight some later ancestry.
Glad to see that you're looking into your ancestry. A shame that more info didn't come through from your family, but it makes for an interesting detective journey. My cousin and I have been going through the same trip. I know that the Schiltz name is in America, presumably through the Dutch settlers from the time of New Amsterdam. My mother's maiden name dates back many centuries in my part of East Anglia, at least to Henry VIII's time, possibly further. Undoubtedly, we all have Africa in our heritage somewhere. No surprise that. We got out there and we 'danced'.
Joel - it is good you think of yourself as an American-American.
I bet will has got British blood,. His tea making skills prove that
Haha definitely agree
I recommend the LivingDNA test. It's particularly accurate for people with British ancestry, even specifying regions within England.
Yes LivingDNA is amazing! It breaks it up into regions and I'm so glad I did that :D
@@edenl9975 Yes indeed. I was impressed with the details in my case. One of my grandparents is from North Yorkshire and another is from South Yorkshire. The DNA test showed separate signals for these sub regions on my results!
Not like 23&me which lumps Britt's and Irish together 🤔
@@littlet-rex8839 LivingDNA distinguishes between Irish and British and further distinguishes between English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, and Southern Irish.
@@Paul.Morgan it did say southern Irish, and implied that it was most likely Britt, which doesn't surprise me. My 3rd Grandfather left Wales in 1855
I did a DNA test a few years ago and found out that my father was Jewish American!! ( didn't ever know who my father was) I now have 2 half-brothers and countless cousins and a 98-year-old aunt in America now and I have met some of them!! So, I'm 50% American... But I have very little English DNA it is 50% / 32% Irish/ 6% Scottish/ 3% Welsh and a tiny 9% English!! I was 75% English and 25% Irish. .How wrong could I be?!! My father was a flyer in WW2 and it seems he flew over here and left me behind!! 🤪🤪
He doesn't like jews, you didn't get he ignored it
The scots hunted haggis to near extinction, many years ago!
Hunted for its succulent meat and silky fur, that scottish sporrans are made from!
The haggis are famed for their swimming ability.
The last herd swam to one of scotlands many islands.
Forming the last known colony of wild haggis!
The location is a closely guarded secret tho.
Scotland has many many islands!
PREZZER UK. I hear there are quite a few in zoos!
@@mikdavies5027 not anymore.
The breeding program, altho a success at the start, soon faltered.
The haggis refused to breed in captivity.
The last ones were taken to the top most shore of scotland.
The were released and they all swam away, all in a line in the same direction.
People in boats quickly followed them, but the clever haggis submerged, changing direction underwater.
The men in boats lost them!
They had a picnic with them, so they just sat in their boats, bobbing about, eating salted egg and smoked fish.
Washed down with dark whiskey!
@@prezzeruk4054 I'm devastated with this news!!
I knew quite a bit of my ancestry, my grandfather was jamaican so mainly wanted to know if I was a descendant from native Jamaicans ( Arawaks/Tainos) or from Africa. Turns out it was Africa which was a high chance anyway but so glad I was able to find out. My dad's cousin is 99.8% European with 98.4% being British and Irish. You should do your family tree and see when your ancestors arrived in the US. If you do enjoy the journey it will take you on.
Totally agree. These DNA tests are just an adjunct to real genealogy. An aid. Look for MATCHES! Then try to build a family tree. You want to know the names of your ancestors, when and where they were born and when they came to the U.S. It’s fun and kind of addictive too.
I'm British American myself.
When I say British I mean England, Wales and Scotland. But mostly British. Fun dna test.
I'm glad to see a fellow American proud of his British heritage. Or at least inquisitive of it. That's so beautiful to see 😍
Hi. I'm Spanish.
@@damnerherrera4830 hello Spaniard.
In Brtiain most people have quite a mix of heritage. Im English but have Scottish and Irish ancestry. My surname is not English though and hints at stomething more european.
@@johnritter6864 that's not surprising. Britain is descendants of Celts. Than its no surprise when some Frenchmen or Belgian immigrates here. The Islands around Scotland and England are descendants of Anglo-Saxons and Norsemen. So it's no surprise if some English have more recent Dutch, Danish or English ancestry.
Conclusion it's no duh that British results are diverse. That's why I said British incompassing the whole isles not English
@@johnritter6864 Ritter is German
Face it - you're a Viking!
Well now JPS we know why you are interested in Britain 🇬🇧. But as viking blood carrier carry on concerning British Isles I welcome you to our clan 😉.
So now you know you are not American, you can leave and come to Britain to follow your ancestry and join the viking clan 😂😂😂.
Good video Joel as always 👍
Good luck with your studies and more updates please. Thanks 🛶🪓🇧🇻🇩🇰🇸🇪
Hi Joel, is it possible that your 11% Jewish came from your German grandmother? Maybe she or her parents were of Jewish heritage? A lot of Jewish people left Germany in the 20th Century for obvious reasons.
Any reason for totally ignoring your 11% Jewish dna?
Right? 🤷♂
@@Problembeing He’s an antisemite? 🤣🤣🤣
It’s not that deep 🤣 personally, I don’t understand how Jewish people can have DNA. What DNA does an idea have? I could be Jewish
@@hewitt7615they’re a distinct race not just a religion.
Maybe. But maybe he has a problem with Israeli politics, and does not want to comment on that or be involved with it. The label ‘Antisemitic’ is thrown at people much too often, at a pace nowadays that even not voting for Israel in Eurovision is antisemitic.
As Welsh Cat said, keep checking it as it will adjust/change over time a little. I had 1% Papua New Guinea at one point which has now gone.
Morning Joel, it's a lovely autumn morning here in Hertfordshire. The mist is rising in the valleys, the sun is coming up, and I have been watching a Jay eating acorns. There is also a rook sitting in the top of the Oak tree opposite my house. My dad's side of the family came from East Yorkshire, mums from Northamptonshire, with a great grandad from the Netherlands. Now I'm going to walk down to the cafe for brekkie. Have a good day, T
The ItsJps Urge to show a box and then drop things.
(Before you think I’m judging him, this is also me lmao)
I did this recently I was 90 % southern English, and very specific area in England. Yours is very diverse and broad, wow! Even your English heritage covers the whole of England, I took it you have some Norman blood as Viking settlers they came from northern France.
Explains the French and Norwegian dna.
I did a DNA test, and expectedly I have Norse blood, but 0% French dna. Yet as 30 family tree surnames i traced are Anglo-Saxon 20% are French. Mostly 1066 Norman, Flemish, Breton, Anjou or Picarde, regions Normans recruited from. Yet 0% French detected like it was bred out. Im like 4% French at least not 0.
It's weird.
He's more broad because he's American.
Well like me
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 the borders of what counted as “La France” ie the kingdom thereof, have moved/varied greatly over time. Franks ruled in part of what is now France but not always all, and Frankish/Franconians did not speak exclusively what we call “French”. We have to stop imposing 19th-21st century maps on the more distant past!
Damn Joel, I'm actually English, born in England to two English parents, and you got 1% more on your "England and Northwestern Europe" heritage than I did on mine!
Hahaha lol
Hi, after 65 years of not knowing who my parents were my daughters got a DNA test kit for my birthday ( I was handed over to the national childrens home at birth)y mother an Irish Canadian and my father from New Mexico USA. Not much British blood .
Hiya Joel, I hope you realise that if you got your brother to do the test, his may have added or even some DNA different to yours. What you need to do is have a look at your inherited ethnicity on your results, it will show you which parent gave you what! Unfortunately though you will have to work out which is the mother and which is the father by what you already know of their ancestry, also remember when doing these tests, each of your parents will only pass down to you 50% of their DNA . Hence why your brother could have something else added or missing compared to yours. But if you had both your parents do the test you will be'able to see what 50% each of their parents passed down to them, and you will be'able to go further back in your ancestry.
Of course you are half british!! I knew that the first time I ever saw One of your videos on youtube. The traits stand out, a mile off. You have the flag behind your head, for a start.. I'm so happy you have found your answer. K.
You are now proud of being Half-British 🙂
I did mine 3 years ago. I am 49% Scottish . 34% Irish and the rest English. I have connected with many 2nd cousins from all over the world . Love doing our family tree. Fascinating stuff
On my late fathers side our ancestry is traced back to France and Scotland we even have our own coat of arms which comprises three foxes
How exciting (and well done, Brian, for the idea 👍) See...you are nearly one of us 😁 I agree that when it gets down to 1% in the breakdown that those seem negligible, but a total of 19% of Scandinavian is interesting, isn't it....
It's depends on what that 1% is. Getting 1% SSA may very well be accurate and I have seen people lose European ethnicities with updates some quite significant. Also you can gain a good percentage of an ethnicity you previous didn't have. Watch things like English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Scandinavian etc change with updates.
Your roots are calling to you Joel.
Obviously NOT the Jewish ones... 😂😂😂 He skipped that totally ! Just saying. 😎
I can see your English DNA just by looking at you. If I saw you in the street I'd definitely think you were from round here.
There is a video on TH-cam somewhere where identical twins do a DNA Test like this and get very different results, so I’m not sure how accurate they really are but like horoscopes most people can interpret a link if they look for it. But technically identical twins the result of an egg splitting should have the same results.
That was the Canadian Broadcasting Company.....conclusion from that program was that DNA results from these tests are simply recreational science!
The Norway element is where the Vikings came from. They invaded the UK and they also inhabited Normandy in France. We were conquered by the Normans/Vikings in 1066
Thanks Joel, I really enjoyed that, if nothing else it's more information to go away with and think about ( please don't do Ben, I'm not sure I could cope with the possible results ). It''s made me think a little bit about my own background, my father was Scots, my mother English and they met during WW2 ( I am of that generation who has one A. Hitler to thank for being here the war being the reason they met) That said even being born opposite ends of the country, Dad Lanarkshire, Ma in Lancashire, my family seems to have an alphabetical obsession, they both grew up in tight knit communities where people didn't travel in and out, weren't as mobile as they are now. When people did move it tended to be less often and if they did it was for a longer distance. I can see for a few generations back the DNA could be quite condensed inside a relatively small geographical area.
It's one to ponder about, thanks again Joel
( Hmmmm, whisky, nearly time to sort out my birthday bottle 👍👍)
My dad is really into ancestry maybe it can be a side project on the channel to trace your Family tree. Its really popular in the UK since there are TV programs where famous people trace their ancestors.
"I never thought in all my life I'd be spitting into a tube and posting it onto the internet."
It could have been worse Joel - they might have wanted a urine sample!
Cymru is pronounced like Kum-ray by the way.
There's a theory that everyone originates from Africa, which might be the Nigeria connection. TH-camr Bruce Fummey did this with several members of his family - and the results were absolutely hilarious, as Nigeria is considered to be the England of that region - and not only did he have a lot more English DNA than he's thought - he also had lots of Nigerian, which he said makes him 'English' twice over! He is a good supporter of all things Scottish, incidentally.
When you look at the detailed versions of the results, you'll probably find there's a moveable ethnicity scale - I didn't even know it was there until about a year after I'd taken that test; but using it helped me understand it all a lot better. Hopefully there will be some tool that you can relate to as well. Have you tried doing any ancestral research, by the way? First port of call is your older relatives - what do they know of their parents and siblings - what were their mother's maiden surnames? Can they remember any old aunts, uncles and cousins from previous generations...? Then take the earliest ones and look them up on one of the genealogy sites. It's a massive undertaking to note them all down properly, but very fascinating and almost addictive! I have managed to get back 11 generations (to the early 1700s) in some cases.
This is an autosomal DNA test. His 1% Nigerian has absolutely nothing to do with that theory you mention.
@@nillyk5671 True. The comments on the Nigerian ancestry were ridiculous.
@@nillyk5671 And the tests only go back 8 generations anyway, about 240 years. Not 50,000 years. And, it’s not a theory that all humans originated from Africa. It’s a scientific fact if you’re looking at 100,000+years ago.
The Nigerian ancestry is very possible given the fact that you have southern ancestry. At that percentage level it means that somewhere in your family there's an ancestor who was mixed. My cousin has 5% African and her daughter is about 1 or 2 percent. My Great grand mother was her grand mother. She was mixed. She came to the USA, passed for white and married an American man. She always kept in contact with her first daughter though. So my cousin's daughter is almost 100% European, but she has an African maternal haplogroup.
Mine had Nigerian, west African and Egyptian all in 1 1/2 % . A great grandmother was half native American,,,, I show .5%
@@littlet-rex8839 Interesting. The West African comes as no surprise to me, but the Egyptian does. I didn't inherit the maker but my Dad's sister and brother did. What surprises me is the fact that until recently, Egyptians really HATED to travel. But I'm seeing a lot of people coming up with small Egyptian percentages, meaning it was a long time ago. So what was happening that made them migrate?
@@TRUTHTEACHER2007 there is some Sardinian in the European mix , I'm thinking that's where the Egyptian came in
@@littlet-rex8839 I don't know. Because Sardinia is a distance from Egypt and an extremely different culture. Egyptians have always been notorious for loathing migrating. For example, compare them to Lebanese and Syrians. They're literally everywhere. There's Levantines like dirt all over the Caribbean and Latin America. Egyptians, literally crickets. So I'm really surprised to see how many people have it.
@@TRUTHTEACHER2007 interesting, I really expected the African DNA, the Egyptian was surprising, it also mentioned Arab and Levantine, it would interesting to know the story behind it
You can see who bred with whom on that map. People really get around the estate don't they? I guess this video was a banger.
“I never thought in all my life I’d be spitting into a tube and posting it onto the internet” 😂
Many TV programmes have investigated these DNA companies. I remember watching one were identical twins sent their samples (under their married names etc.) - The results came back totally different !? In other shows they sent the same person's samples to several different DNA Testing Companies and the results compared, none agreed (some not even closely). All I'm saying is, take EVERYTHING with a 'pinch of salt' - LOL!
EDIT: Due to spelling error.
Yes I’ve done two different companies and although a lot of similarities it was still a bit different, I think it’s more some companies are specialise in different areas
50% of DNA comes from the father and 50% from the mother so siblings can have different amounts of DNA from the same parents. Siblings get DNA from their parents but not necessarily the same DNA. You are correct that DNA (like all science) is a work in progress. As more people test they will have more info to extrapolate from.
I've tested with 5 companies. For someone with UK heritage like myself, Ancestry is the most accurate.
@@dorothydotson7154 You are right: that is the case with my two siblings yet I know with certainty that we are all full siblings as we all match with cousins on our mother's and father's sides of the family.
Identical twins, however, have identical DNA so the analyses should come up with identical results so, if that is not happening, there is presumably something wrong with the procedures being undertaken by the company.
@@MrBulky992 Definitely identical twins is odd. It probably was an error of some kind.
You are definteley from Northern Europe. This has given me a really cool Christmas present idea for the other half. Thanks mate. She will love this :)
Cymru is prononced com roo, with the first vowel being very short also pronounced as u. this was interesting, no wonder you took to tea so quickly
I KNEW YOU LOOKED BRITISH !!! HAHAH !!
Welcome to the UK !
It's all very believable Joel...most People who've lived in the UK their whole lives have saxon and viking blood, so that's the German Norway and Denmark covered. English blood is almost always mixed with Scotish Irish and Welsh blood. And if its true that all humanity emerged from the African continent then we should all have a distant trace of African blood.
We don't all have a distant trace of "African blood".
If he has "Nigerian" on this fresh update of results in 2022, then it's because of an enslaved ancestor.
This is an autosomal DNA test. It has nothing to do with the origins of humanity.
That's not really how this is working, it's taking DNA from modern West Africans. This likely means he has probably about a 4th Great Grandparent who was African. Seeing as he's American, this is likely due to the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.
While most people will have Scandinavian blood,mit's not usually that high. That 12% Norwegian could easiy be representing a great grandparent who was fully Norwegian, while 7% is equivalent of a great great grandparent. It would be more interesting to see the estimate on which side it came from, (with no parental dna in the systemically just asign parent 1 and parent 2, butni've found mine to be very accurate based on what I've found researching my tree.)
Andre's, we all have distant African, but that is thousands of years back for most, and is represented by the haplogroups, where as this is test more recent DNA from the roughly the last 150-200 years or so. That said 1% is fairly low, and is likely gonna have low confidence, unless he can test his parents for more info, or combines it with researching his tree/checking out matches etc. 1% could be representative of a 4 or 5 x ggp, so 5-6 generations back, depending how they span out, that can take his line back to around the mid 1800s, so not impossible that some slave owner did shit they shouldn't,mor maybe a newly amancipated slave had some fun, could be any mpnumber of scenarios, records are good enough that he might be able to track it back far enough (depending how unlucky he is with names and areas, eg unsurprisingly, my illegitimate John Smith & his mother Elizabeth went nowhere when trying to trace them in the middle of England lol.
I guess it just depends how interested he is in finding 🤷
Allegedly they can trace it back to one individual from somewhere in East Africa
I'm 77% English. As more tests are taken it will change. I was only 55% a year or two ago. As these become more popular, more people take them. Your father is usually on the left and your mother on the right. My dad is why I'm indigenous.
Just looked and spotted that you are a 22 centimorgan DNA match to my dad - it's coming up with your name and these exact ethnicities! So hello (distant) cousin! You're a shared match with others who link through my Irish "Ferrall" or "Farrell" ancestors - and one of them had a daughter who married a Simpson.
Grandfather "on mother's side" was Romanian with a Polish-Jewish background, Grandmother "on mother's side" was Scottish, never knew Grandfather on Dad's side but his mum, my other grandmother was from London and way back in the past when the Normans invaded England that's where my surname comes from, originally just Jer apparently. So I'm European and proud :) I believe that we all originate from Africa, where life began on Earth.
See ya tomorro Doc, have a wonderful day dude.
Did I miss something , or did you carefully avoid the suggestion that you were 11% Jewish , do you have
a problem with that ?
Yeah that was odd
Give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's just a bit of a shock. Some people are like that when they find out they're one of the tribe. Who knows. I'm not willing to judge him for it. Let it sink in and learn how f**king amazing we are :P
Enjoyed this Joel! "Welcome to the club" well sort of you are more English than me and I was born here with British parents (Mam English - Dad Irish / Scottish) I got only 4% ENGLISH - my mother must not have known she had Scottish ancestry, even more than my dad! It's interesting to see where your Ancestors came from eh?
Hi Joel, great video. I think this is more or less what I would have expected to see in your DNA profile. Most Caucasian Americans have a fair amount of British/Irish blood with some Scandinavian, Jewish and other mixed in; plus most Americans - White or not - have some Black heritage too from centuries ago in some cases. So it's not surprising that Nigeria comes up as 1%, as that's probably reflecting distant African American/slave mixing into your gene pool.
In my own profiles - as a Brit of Indian origin - I too have a trace of DNA from an "unexpected" place: Finland. This must be back thousands of years ago, with some Suomi steppe traveller perhaps making his or her way to Asia.
very interesting,..Sweeperboy...that's not your real name?
True about some White Americans occasionally having some small African ancestry (usually under 5%), but that’s normally Americans whose ancestors lived in the U.S. South, the slave States. Black Americans typically have 75-80 % African ancestry and 20-25% European ancestry , again because of the U.S. slave trade. Don’t forget these tests don’t go back more than 8 generations, or 240 years. So, your Fin reading is definitely not thousands of years ago. No way. These tests can only test recent ancestry (thousands of years ago is not recent). There could be a myriad of reasons for your Fin reading. A trace reading is usually less than 2%, sometimes 3%, but it’s highly speculative and is often just a wrong reading from a DNA segment. There’s a margin of error of 1% in these tests too.
It’s awesome that you have English & Irish ☘️☘️☘️✨
One of our own 🏴
That was great, really enjoyed your share. I'm guessing your Norwegian heritage will come from your Scots ancestors or perhaps the area of England known as Danelaw.... the Skandawegiens got just about everywhere in the British Isles.
I sent for a kit for myself & my eldest daughter a while ago & we still haven't got round to doing it.... think we should get my butts into gear.