Ancestry now splits your ethnicity between parents

Originally Posted by Kit

You are not assuming, you are working it out.



No. For my Dad parent 1 is his mother, parent 2 is his father. My paternal Grandfather has Indian heritage so it is easy to determine with parent is which. Without that I wouldn't know.

I realise they can't know who is mother and who is father so it is random and the only way is to work it out but that may be difficult for some.

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

So, do we think parents 1 is father and parent 2 is mother?

I don't think, we can unfortunately.

I did notice on mine that I inherited more DNA from my father which is obvious to me already so I know he is Parent 1 but my cousin seems to have Parent 2 as father because of her inherited DNA which is mostly English on her father's side because he has more English how accurate that will turn out to be I don't know.

Also my Scottish/Irish DNA is way higher than I ever expected when I had a DNA test but they have Parent 2 my mother with 17% which I cannot fathom and probably accounts for my Scottish DNA being very high!

It has prompted me to go back and have a look at her ancestors!

[Phoenix]

Until they abandon their notion of Scottishness, and do area grouping for each parent, I won't have a clue as to which parent is which. Mum is 50% East Anglian. DNA follows the paper trail. So she ought to have some degree of East Anglian roots to pass on to me.

Originally Posted by Phoenix

Until they abandon their notion of Scottishness, and do area grouping for each parent, I won't have a clue as to which parent is which. Mum is 50% East Anglian. DNA follows the paper trail. So she ought to have some degree of East Anglian roots to pass on to me.

They do areas though all my Scottish seems to come from the lowlands and borders apparently and the Irish from Nothern Ireland.

The English side seems widespread they originally had the East Coast region but seem to have abandoned that.

Originally Posted by maggie_4_7

I don't think, we can unfortunately.

I did notice on mine that I inherited more DNA from my father which is obvious to me already so I know he is Parent 1 but my cousin seems to have Parent 2 as father because of her inherited DNA which is mostly English on her father's side because he has more English how accurate that will turn out to be I don't know.

Also my Scottish/Irish DNA is way higher than I ever expected when I had a DNA test but they have Parent 2 my mother with 17% which I cannot fathom and probably accounts for my Scottish DNA being very high!

It has prompted me to go back and have a look at her ancestors!

Deleted - don't think it's right.

[Margaret in Burton]

I can work out on my daughters results which is me and which is their dad by comparing it to mine. OH parent 1 and me parent 2. Don’t have a clue on mine.

Emma has 1% Greek or Albanian.

[Margaret in Burton]

My daughters between then have Northern Italy, France and Albania or Greece. That adds up to 16%. Must be connected to their great grandfather Peter Henry Harrison. I recall my father in law telling me that when his dad worked down the pit they called him ‘the little Italian’. He hated it. I reckon there’s some truth in it with his ancestry.

[ElizabethHerts]

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

My daughters between then have Northern Italy, France and Albania or Greece. That adds up to 16%. Must be connected to their great grandfather Peter Henry Harrison. I recall my father in law telling me that when his dad worked down the pit they called him ‘the little Italian’. He hated it. I reckon there’s some truth in it with his ancestry.

I had a thought.

Was Peter Henry Harrison born as Pietro or Petrus?
These are the Italian and Latin names for Peter.

I'm probably clutching at straws, but as you have had such trouble finding him I thought I'd look at RC baptisms.

I haven't found anyone likely to be him. although I did get rather excited over one man, only to find he married someone in 1911.

However, if he had Italian ancestry, RC records could well be worth looking at.

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by ElizabethHerts

I had a thought.

Was Peter Henry Harrison born as Pietro or Petrus?
These are the Italian and Latin names for Peter.

I'm probably clutching at straws, but as you have had such trouble finding him I thought I'd look at RC baptisms.

I haven't found anyone likely to be him. although I did get rather excited over one man, only to find he married someone in 1911.

However, if he had Italian ancestry, RC records could well be worth looking at.

Yes I agree. He said he wasn’t wanted though.

He doesn’t appear to be on the 1891 or 1901 census although born in 1885.
His children were brought up Methodist

[ElizabethHerts]

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

Yes I agree. He said he wasn’t wanted though.

He doesn’t appear to be on the 1891 or 1901 census although born in 1885.
His children were brought up Methodist

I wonder if he went into an orphanage?