Ancestry now splits your ethnicity between parents

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by maggie_4_7

That's interesting but has thrown up more mysteries for you.

Have they got any Irish?

Emma has 68% England and North Western Europe - of which 35% is me
15% Scottish - 8% me
3% Northern Italy - all her dads side
3%France - all her dads side
3% Wales - all from me
3% Ireland - all on her dads side
2% Sweden and Denmark - all from me
2% Norway - all from me
1% Greece and Albania - all her dads side

Lorna has England and North Western Europe 77% - 43% from me
Scotland 14% - 7% from each us us
Northern Italy 9% - all from her dad

My paper research doesn’t move out of England

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[Anstey Nomad]

One day we'll get him Marg. One day.

There were Italians in Rotherham around the time of his birth.

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Anstey Nomad

One day we'll get him Marg. One day.

There were Italians in Rotherham around the time of his birth.

Emma and Lorna’s DNA matches seem to work with anything we can trace but it seems nobody in his family has tested.

If only his army record hadn’t been ‘weeded’ (their words not mine). Only summarises his earlier service pre 1913 when he was called up again