Another ethnicity eye opener or total rubbish
My paper trail goes back 5 to 9 generations on my main pedigree on maternal and paternal lines, not one single record in my pedigree is outside of England yet my ethnicity estimate is 55% Irish, 28% English and 12% Scottish plus a bit of Norway & Sweden..
t doesn't help that most of the shared DNA have either no tree or just two/three names and apart from one first cousin they are all at least 3rd or 4th cousins and only a handful are 1000+ names, those that are public share no surnames with my tree or each others but I don't have a sub so the snapshot I can see doesn't help.
I don't know whether to doubt my research, curse the minimal trees of others (and their often lengthy inactive status) or pretend I never took the flipping test.
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Joseph Goulson 1707-1780
My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid
My coal is spent, my iron's gone
My nails are drove, my work is done
Lord receive my soul
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