Surprising DNA Results for my husband, me and my siblings! Ancestry, 23 & Me, and Living DNA

I think on Ancestry Scottish is over estimated. I doubt siblings could have such discrepancies. I also don't think the Scandinavian is due to Vikings but possibly due to that overlap i.e. England and Northwestern Europe. Whatever is causing it is not due to Vikings as that is too old. It is due to what populations they are using for their references and I think the England and Northwestern Europe is a very broad category so a lot of people aren't going to match that in really high percentages so it's going to give some people things like Ireland or Scandinavia when they might not actually have that ancestry to compensate for the different areas of England i.e. some more leaning to Anglo-Saxon, some more Insular Celtic etc.

You’ve got to go to St Davids now…

I wonder if you send a used cigarette tip to the testers under another name…would they come back with the exact same results ?

Glad Ian did the DNA test too! Always fun to see everyone's heritage.

You and Ian have more in common than you thought! 🤪What a beautiful tribute this September.

Every American has heard that they are a least a small percentage Native American lol.

Your DNA doesn't vary - the databases of other people's DNA they are comparing it against do.

That's why a UK company, with a database of UK samples will find UK heritage.

I used My Heritage. I knew I was English, Welsh and Scots and Irish.
I am - 33.8% Scandinavian Norway/Denmark
32.2% Welsh, Scots and Irish
29.3% English
2.9% Italian
0.8% Iberian
0.8% Turkish area.
I wish they had explained the English more, and given individual amounts of Welsh, Scots and Irish. The Italian might be Roman.
My family are from North Wales, Shropshire and Liverpool. With some Scottish and Irish too.

Interesting video!! Remember your Dad could also have had Danish and Swede DNA on his German side...As well as from Vikings! Ians ancestry is typical ...DNA from a very rural area ( the Border Marches) but family from the West Midlands....During the Industrial Revolution huge numbers of people migrated to cities from local rural areas! Dara its very interesting that you have such old roots in America!! Going back to the 1600s!

I took a My Heritage DNA test and I got English 53% Azores Islands Portugal 26.4 % Irish Scottish Welsh 8.9 % Scandinavian 7.6 % East European 4.1 %

The Anglo- Saxons came from Northern Germany......

Look more towards Norway

I have Viking in me to.

Welsh from Wales in the United Kingdom .. not England.

Wales in England?

after 1 min 10 you said "Wales in England" Wales over thousands of years has fought for it's own identity as a nation with it's own language which is still spoken today - neither Wales or England are technically Countries today as they both are not sovereign States but both are constituent countries of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or The U.K - now you may know all this which I assumed but why then say Wales in England I was born in Wales and I find it insulting at worst or just very lazy speech at best - as if England were the actual Sovereign state of the UK

Do words matter or figures of speech? yes they do the words we choose to use carry a lot of extra meaning in the way we use them - thankyou your video was very interesting and I enjoyed it

The Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians came from the coasts of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.

When it comes to family DNA I think of it as a big bowl of tossed salad. There are tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber, feta cheese, and maybe a few pine nuts all tossed in a bowl tgen apportioned out into smaller bowls. Each recipient gets the Same salad just in different variations. One gets a bit more tomato, another gets a bigger piece of cucumber. Same same, but different.

You get a different mix of genes from your parents compared to your siblings. If not, you would be their identical twin.

Cor blimey! Would you Adam and Eve it! A little speck of Cockney in your ancestry!

My Grandmother and parents pretty much got my DNA right. 70% Polish/Russian rest Swedish and German. My surprise was the Russian.

People always say I’m German because of my shaped face. They say you have pointing to my jaw,
German bones. structure I guess.

He says that his ancestry is mostly English and later says about Anglo-Saxon but not all English ancestry is Anglo-Saxon!

2% or 20%?

Funny how nobody mentions their Native American DNA in all those tests. It is really funny once you start realising you KILLED THEM ALL. You really are maskereading as immigrants, which you dislike intensly, but in actual fact you are part of the eradication of Native Americans. Well done.

The thing you have to understand is that almost all "English" have some "Welsh" in them. It might be quite a small amount, but it will increase dramatically as you go west, particularly into Devon & Cornwall and those borderlands of places like Herefordshire. Herefordshire has even been part of "Wales" at points in our history and, in fact, before the Anglo-Saxons, Norse/Danes and Scots arrived, we were all basically "Welsh". Equally, many Welsh will have a proportion of Anglo-Saxon or Norman or Scandinavian DNA, or a mix of them all. It's true people moved about less but migrations did happen on land and invasions happened all around our coast going back thousands of years, and that mixing all those years ago trickles down through the ages. The way we divide "English", "Welsh", "Scottish" and even "Irish" these days has little to do with us having unique DNA and more to do with the various conquests and political alignments over the centuries. DNA wise we basically all have the same DNA in us, it is just the mix that maybe differs - As British we will usually all have some mix of Welsh (or, more accurately, Brythonic), Scot (which is basically Irish, which is basically Brythonic also), Scandinavian, Norman (which is basically Scandinavian mixed with French) or Anglo-Saxon (which is basically Germanic mixed with Scandinavian) and it is only the amount of the mix which really defines us one way or the other. These DNA tests are very accurate, but they use algorithms to define exactly what the results mean and those algorithms are usually based upon our modern interpretations of nationhood, which is a bit misleading when talking about "ethnicity" in Britain and, to be honest, across much of Europe.

My father and my mother are from Guatemala and I have 15 % wales 30 % spain 10% jewish 40% indigenous América 5 % north África I'm really surprised about my dna . I dont think is true because all the family I know we are from Guatemala . But my ancestors were white and blue eyes.

Dara: you look very Welsh

Great editing!!! You must spend hours!!!

I have a cousin, well, he’s the grandson of my grandmother’s brother, so whichever cousin you choose to call him, he is extensive into genealogy. Capable of more than me. Our Finnish great great grandmother was born in Norway. So, he says she was Norwegian. 🤦‍♀️. Not if both her parents were Finnish. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️. And apparently she never learned English. I don’t know when she came to America but my mom said she only spoke Finnish.

I’ve always been interested in doing these test as I was adopted. Don’t think I want to know the results😂

The differences between male and female participants in D.N.A. sampling, is that women only have their mother’s mitochondrial D.N.A. traced, the X chromosome . Men’s D.N.A., is traced through their father’s Y chromosome. The Y chromosome is what makes men male, yet they too have their mother’s mitochondrial D.N.A.. Look up Autosomal dominant vs. autosomal recessive genetics as well. 😊

Hi Dara, I was born and raised in Northumberland County, VA. I'm now living in Kilmarnock in the neighboring county of Lancaster VA.
Anytime you want to visit my beautiful part of the Chesapeake Bay area, I'd be happy to help you find where your ancestors lived here.

Hi from Northern Germany! My northern German mom has as much as 40 percent Scandinavian DNA, without any Scandinavian ancestors in 7 generations. So your Scandinavian DNA results will be part of your fathers northern German ancestry. The same for the Eastern European/russian DNA: Many Germans have more or less Eastern European DNA mixed in.

Only Americans...

Giving nations ot DNA is odd to me. Celtic, Anglo Saxon and Scandinavian would be more logical. Some historians are disputing "Celtic" preferring 'Ancient Britons'. But there are Celtic languages.

49% welsh
45% english
4% sweden denmark
2% norway

= 49% celt + 51% germanic = probably one of the first results of an englishman that had no scottish or irish in them! :)

I was hoping to learn of something exotic. Nope, I tested 100% Northern European. Thank God for sunscreen.

Wales in England! Please1

My family has a Welsh surname which comes from Shrewsbury in Shropshire England. Offa's Dyke was not an exact boundary between the Anglo-Saxons and the Welsh. Some Welsh-speaking communities existed right across England, even in Kent until the Norman Conquest

being WELSH is an act of god

North Germany usually maps with very hight Scandinavian and/or English because of the Germanic migrations from Scandinavia and then the Anglo-Saxon migration to England. So your 20% Scandinavian is probably north German… and of course originally Scandinavian in origin 😉❤

I have done my heritage and I want to do ancestry next because my heritage gives me a very low percentage for Scottish and my maternal grandmother is 100 percent Scottish.

I love this sort of genealogy. But my understanding is that many of the commercial tests have to be taken with a grain of salt. They are getting more accurate as more people do it but they are really comparing your DNA against populations of people with known ancestries. So for some regions of the world it can be reasonably accurate and for other's there's not enough people to who have done a test to compare. Having said that, we did a test almost 20 years ago as part of research thing done by National Geographic. They essentially said your DNA shares traits with various populations around the world given as a percentage. So for me they said most of it was north western Europe, Germanic tribes, which included the British isles and Scandinavia, with a smattering of Mediterranean and middle east. Which makes sense. Most of my mother's side of the fam is Irish. Dad's is northern England and French. Which tally's up with the DNA test. But that is specific as it got. Michelle's is more interesting. She had a small percentage that share traits with populations from Asia - specifically China and Japan. The majority though was similar to mine. Which again makes sense because her father's ancestry is similar to mine, but the big difference was Michelle's mum is Ukrainian. Much of that part of the world was conquered by the Mongol hordes back in the 1200s. In fact something like 8% of men, something to do with the Y chromosome, from areas of the former Mongol empire are descended from one man - thought to be Genghis Khan.
We've been meaning to do an updated test, perhaps with the kids because they share our DNA, to see what we can come up with. We tell the kids they are descended from Vikings and Mongol warriors in the meantime. 😂
It is was interesting how far your family goes back in the Americas. 17th Century is as good as it gets. So you have a nice mix of new and old. Like you I was hoping for a bit of indigenous blood but the DNA test shot that old legend full of holes. My family has been here from shortly after the founding of the colony though. Yes, convicts. Mum's Irish ancestors got here a few years later. We have no idea where both dad and mum's ancestors came from before that other than a very non specific British Isles. But now my brother has rejoined the Germanic tribe and his kids are German. The family is circling back to its roots. 😂
Great stuff, I look forward to your chat with your brother.

Northumberland is now part of England, Newcastle is now part of Northern Ireland, and Isle of Wight is now part of England

Chubby jaw's genetics is different..

It is from recombination at conception. You take 50% DNA from your mom and dad, but each sibling takes their own 50% which can vary. I have five siblings and we are are all different. Some of us have DNA the other did not get at all. I got Wales and Baltic but my sister did not get any....she got Basque and Norway and I got none of these....we just each took a different 50% when recombination happened...the rest of the sibling all have different amounts of both.

Most DNA testing companies only go back about 8 generations.

You and your siblings get a random 50% from your mother and father, which is why you have differences in your ethnicities. But keep in mind, these are only estimates. I have an identical twin and we share 100% of our DNA - however, because ethnicity is an estimate, we have slight differences in our ethnicity.