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If you want to change the title to something less confusing, Kite, please feel free.
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I know the birthplaces of all my ancestors back to the start of censuses and nothing in my DNA matches suggest that my female ancestors were playing away. My one Irish ancestor is born somewhere in the 1700s, probably in southern Ireland.
With surnames like Rice, Adams and Edwards, I can imagine that some of my Devon ancestors originated from Wales. But 11% Scottish? This has to be ancient DNA, widespread across England. I cannot see how it relates to any recent ancestors. I wonder what surprising new ethnicity the next update will introduce. Portugese? Mongolian?
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My English has gone down, which makes sense. They have separated my Scottish and Irish which makes sense. But they took my German away. Who the heck is my great grandmother then?
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Mine has changed as well, I have picked up 7% Welsh from somewhere, without a Jones, Davies or Evans anywhere in my tree
I have lost my Swedish tiny % and am now 6% Norwegian, The rest is 32% Scottish, 29% Irish and 26% English and North Western European Given that according to my research, my father was 75% English 25% Scottish and my mother 75% Irish and 25% English, the mix does not quite add up.
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The interesting change for me is that Dad and I have different parts of India in our ethnicity. Given all my Indian connection comes from Dad, I find that a little strange.
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An interesting blog on Ancestry explaining the new UK ethnicity results -
https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/...v-AMGVJ4LNmU_s
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It surely only demonstrates how untrustworthy current results are. I now wonder whether that Scottish slice of my results is actually my Norfolk lot. It was said that my Daglas ancestors may have been Scottish drovers. As they were already in Norfolk by the 1640s, they can't account for much.
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I now have 13% Scottish despite going back to the 17th century with most of my lines and back further with some of them. The furthest north is North Norfolk, which isn't in Scotland as far as I know.
Every time Ancestry updates it seems to get less and less likely.
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I do wonder whether eastern England shares a lot of ancient DNA with Scotland. By the C19th my East Anglian ancestors are whizzing up and down the coast. I get the feeling that half of Sunderland has Norfolk roots.
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An interesting theory, Phoenix. I had a Norfolk great uncle who went to work at Armstrong's munitions in Newcastle.
But it probably started with the Vikings raiding along the east coast, raping and pillaging.
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