I did a test and it said I'm 30% Scottish which was interesting as we're not aware of any Scottish family!

My Ancestry results are 52% English, 27% Irish, 13% Scottish, 5% Swedish, 3% Welsh. I only know where the English and Irish come from, but the Irish is about three times as high as I would’ve thought it was. I’ve done my family tree, and all of the direct ancestors I’ve found were from England and Ireland. I would like to find out where the other percentages come from, especially Scotland, because it is pretty high, but it doesn’t seem like it was fairly recent.

yes, and those "100% xy" grandparents are probably not even true. also, how could they be so sure who their ancestors slept with secretly or otherwise? 😂

Actually it's the opposite. DNA tests compare you to the present population because that's how the results are sourced. Some tests do take into consideration specifically alleles that are typically present historically in regions, but unless tests are only given to those whose families have been in the area for many generations the current population influences the results.

Me too

So true. People need to learn about this. Too many people define their selves as Mexican but are ignorant to the fact that Mexico is a just a place. The majority of Mexicans are mostly native Americans that mixed with Europeans and Africans due to slavery of natives and Africans. Know your history!

It’s because a lot of the Hispanics that take this test grew up in the United States (trying to ship 23andMe to Mexico is crazy expensive). They aren’t taught a lot about central and southern American history. It is unfortunate. They also associate Native American with “United States of America” rather then the Americas. Just what I’ve noticed at least. Proud Mexican here. Lol thankfully my mom and grandma taught me a lot about the history. Otherwise I’d be in the same boat.

Bernadette Banner?

@@lushiousification I’ve watched her but not really who I thought of. Abby Cox and Karolina Żebrowska were among my first thoughts...after just "corsets...what do corsets have to do with....oh, never mind" lol

They haven't been to Europe and experienced the vast amount of different cultures and all that.

As a european it makes me so irritated...These idiots have no idea...If there was ever one part of the world that is not boring, its europe.

Exactly. I find it so confusing.

Thats pretty much 100% of what I am lol

I'm proud of my N W European Ancestors.. it's not boring at all.

People want to be surprised I guess. Its not self hate

Wokeism and mainstream media shove down all americans' throats that you're either a "bad white colonialist" or an "oppressed black"... it is so ridiculous to classify all european ethnicities as "white" whereas each european ethnicity has offered so much(almost everything) to humanity

In the US.. it's considered R@CIST to have pride with those roots.. or any European ancestry

@@chillthompson3387you’re spot on plus here in the states those of us that have British are considered colonizers and slave owners. Marxist 101

I'm Cuban too my whole family is from Havana and Santiago. And it's hard to believe you don't have a couple of Congos on that tree as well. I don't know any Cubanos whatever they look like, without some sangre Africana. After all even the patron saint of the island is mulata😂💪🏾🇨🇺

Yeah that makes sense, a variety of predominantly white countries

Thanks for the feedback!

Well that’s why these DNA databases link you with your relatives from around the world. To help with that piece. Typically for every immigrant that came to America there were multiple family members that stayed behind.

That's where DNA comes into it... I've done family history research and will be doing the DNA test, and find out more since I'm struggling to get back any further in certain lines..

Glad you enjoyed! I'm planning to do a lot more of these, and a few each time, so you'll get a little mini-binge each time I upload. I'm not quite familiar with an exact definition of trace results, although I usually view it as anything under 2%, but just because it is trace doesn't necessarily make it untrue. Sometimes those little 1% reads are correct and verifiable through research. As well, I have seen larger size inferences disappear after an update by companies. So when you are dealing with any single digit percentages it's best to view it with some skepticism while understanding it still may hold some truth.

GeneaVlogger ok, that makes total sense. As I tell my family, it’s not about being ‘plain’ - as they like to put it. It’s about finding those stories, like you said. All our lines, and I mean ALL 😂, go back to at least The Revolutionary War with good documentation. There the records begin to really thin and it is hard to see our exact people group starting point from outside the states.

it is kinda funny. I knew enough of migrations in northern european (namely the anglos going from Germany to Brittan) so when i got British/irish on my test results I was surprised but then went they're probably just picking up on the anglo-saxon blood in my dna that actually stayed in Germany when the others fled. My sister was so set that we had ancestry from british isles (had to tell her no, they are probably picking that up cuz where a certain line of our german family came from)

I live in America, there is no real concept of ethnicity, or background, or history beyond the U.S. all there is is white, black, brown, etc. I never liked using colors to generalise people into specific groups, I honestly think color labels should be abandoned entirely.

It's really sad isn't it!? But that's what society has created. You are supposed to feel ashamed of being white.

cultural brainwashed people, a sad evolution of western society kind of ultrapostmodernist when you hate your identity

Yeah I thinking that mysel

Your admixture looks to be essentially 99% british isles, so not much to dig there. If you are looking to get health information, or to have cousin matches using the database of a popular service, 23andme is a nice addition, otherwise, I personally wouldn't do it for the percentages - the only service that may be helpful in your case is LivingDNA's regional breakdown in the isles.

It definitely helps lean towards it possibly not being noise but it's hard to say for sure at such low amounts unfortunately. If you decide to research your family tree and find hints towards a family connection in Eastern Europe then that might be where the DNA is coming from but it is also likely that in researching your family tree you find no direct connections to Eastern Europe.

@@GeneaVlogger Thank you

That makes a bit sense because of the slavery so most Africans have at least tiny amounts of European dna

@Larissa Brewington @GeneaVlogger Larissa, your individual European percentage may be higher than 3%. Jared, feel free to correct me 👌🏽 The percentage ancestry shown on 23 and me is not recent ancestry, or the individual's recent ancestral percentage. I'm pretty sure the percentage ancestry throughout the individual's Ancestral line going many generations back.. It seems that people taking those tests assume that it's themselves who have those percentages, when it's the total percentage makeup from their earliest determined ancestor to the individual.. Let's look at the 'black' girl with the 2.3% ancestry having 2.3% of her total mother lode of ancestors that are white. If she wants to find out what he actual percentage of 'other! she is, she would take a test that analyzes her recent ancestry to the last 2-3 generations before her. Let's say you have 250 generations of ancestors then that means 1000 ancestors total. If your white ancestors (0.03 x 1000 x 100% = 30 white ancestors in total per 1000 ancestors were close to the middle of your ancestral line, your percentage of recent European ancestry may likely be incremental. But say your mother or father has a white great grandmother, your recent ancestry might show 12.5% European. Or a white grandmother would show you to have 25% European ancestry. In other words, if you had European grandparents in the last 2-3 generations, your individual white ancestry would be much higher than 3%. I am biracial/mixed race. In my case, my CRI Genetics total ancestral timeline to date shows 92% African and 3.6 European over more than 40 generations. But my recent ancestry (last 2-3 generations) shows 52% European, 40% African, 8 % West Indies, with German as the highest percentage of all at 21%. My 23 and me ancestry results shows German at 0.8% which looks like a trace amount over the Ancestral line . But my German grandparent was born 2 generations before me , which explains the percentage of my recent German ancestry.. Recent ancestry is much more representative of the tested individual's ancestral makeup than what 23 and me shows there. It'd be good for 23 to feature recent ancestry in this test. I'm curious to know who named you Larissa. As I learned from friends having that name, it's Russian and Ukrainian.

But I guess that also isn't always true... Since we are all so close, most European countries ar small, the borderd changed a LOT and Europeans have been around here and migrating and intermarrying for quite some time. It won't be as "exotic" as in America. But I don't think most of us are totally pure blooded without any traces of something else...

No

Trace results can be useful but not always. In no way am I saying to ignore trace results but anyone going through their results should understand that any trace results could very likely be noise. Having analyzed hundreds of DNA results across all the companies since 2013, it is extremely common for these small trace results to disappear when the companies update their algorithm for results.

@@GeneaVlogger Yes, the ethnicity estimates are a very inaccurate science still... and I think that some of them are moving in the wrong direction. They seem to be more concerned/obsessed with guessing your nationality correctly (which most people know already... if they have a passport) rather than getting your ethnic admixture as accurate as possible. But, to be fair I don't envy them. Trying to figure out what the "original" cocktail was that went into the cocktail, that went into the cocktail, that went into the cocktail that is you! Regardless, it's cocktail all the way down!... so which is the original cocktail LOL ;-P

@@sgjoni I agree, depending on your own individual history trace results are useful Although I know it’s probably not 100 percent accurate my trace results make a lot of sense considering where I know my grandparents to be factually from

Society has made people feel bad for being European because of colonisation. And they think Europeans have no culture but in reality it’s because our culture spread everywhere from colonisation and white Americans have lost the connection of European culture. Also European history is amazing, people should be proud to be any ethnicity.

Because they are stupid people and victim of the politically correct.

I did get 2% Scandinavian on 23andme but it disappeared after an update and none of the other tests I took had it so Im not sure if that's accurate or not. Would be pretty cool if it is though. I'm assuming its just from invasion type stuff back in the day haha

Being Irish is cool, you had your own language and religious mythology. the issue with many northern Europeans is that you guys killed your own uniqueness by inventing the concept of “race” and inventing “white racial alliance” to justify colonialism That is partly why many “white” people think their results are “boring” Celtic history is very cool

But Irish culture and history is one of the best European.

Since in America, being 100% white (esp. if 100% x or y specific ethnicity) just demonstrates that all your ancestors since colonial times have avoided mixing with any other group... yikes.

Celtic/Anglo-Saxon/Norman/British etc IS cool. There's nothing boring there at all, that is a huge amount of rich history to uncover. I don't understand what people want from a DNA test, everyone has a fascinating culture and story - you should come visit the UK and soak it up. We may only be a small island, but we've got up to a lot in the last 1000 years!

Ye if youre 100% british and in the americas since colonial times, it means your family has been marrying within their group only since colonial times lmao. If you're european then I guess it isn't as bad a sign tho, not moving away from home tends to be seen as less bad than moving away and not mixing at all with others there.