Agree with you both.
My DNA is half English, half Irish, according to Ancestry. In fact, it's half Scottish according to my paper research which goes back on one line to 7 x ggps, all Scottish, living and dying in Scotland. I know, from paper research, that there is a mt DNA connection with Iceland but Ancestry don't mark this.
I don't understand how Ancestry decides where DNA geographically comes from. Presumably from random research projects, matching one man's DNA in England with another found in Zululand or whatever - but you are born where you are born, you die where you die. I will die in Cornwall but that does not mean I have any DNA which would identify me as being Cornish. Equally, if some future researcher looks for me in Scotland they won't find me because apart from a couple of years as a child, I've always lived in England.
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