The vast majority of my matches are Americans. As many have no obvious links to the UK they cannot provide legitimate ethnicity matching.
I have no means of knowing how many UK researchers have NOT been tested. And ethnicity has to rely on enough people (like Granny) with demonstrable roots in an area. But then, it was always said that Granny's grandfather was (on the strength of his colouring) the son of a Spanish gipsy!
Should there be a wider base of UK testing (with accurate trees) there might be a better fit for our ethnicities.
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