neems 2,406 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 it's pretty well established kanny,just google 'out of Africa theory debunked' and take your pick. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bosun11 537 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 On my fathers side, almost all Jock. On my mothers, almost all Taffy. So the same as Astanley, pure Celt. Though I like to think of myself as 100% Scouse! Gt Grandfather was the youngest son of a fairly big house and lands up in the land of the Jocks. Inheriting nothing he ran away to sea age 14, we have all his old sea papers including the SS Gt Britain, the first iron ship, built by Brunnell. He ended up in Liverpool where he met a Scottish girl and they had a family. His son, my grandfather, also married a Liverpool girl of Scottish decent..! My mothers maiden name is Jones, and my Gt grandparents on her side were Welsh speakers that moved to Anfield as the suburbs of cheap working class houses sprang up there at the latter half of the 18 hundreds. My mother can remember, as a little girl being taken on trips back to Wales and listening to the language. Me, I was born in the old Oxford St hospital, almost in the city center, right by Paddy's wigwam, so I'm about as Scouse as you'll get. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 21,600 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 it's pretty well established kanny,just google 'out of Africa theory debunked' and take your pick. I'll have a look later Quote Link to post Share on other sites
neems 2,406 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 it's pretty well established kanny,just google 'out of Africa theory debunked' and take your pick. I'll have a look later http://wakeup-world.com/2013/12/16/dna-evidence-debunks-the-out-of-africa-theory-of-human-evolution/ We'll obviously have common ancestors further down the line,there's another theory that humanity could have originated in Australia. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
treecreeper 1,136 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 (edited) My grandma did our family tree back donkeys years. Some distant relatives got in touch and come over from America and kicked it off and they have spent years on it between them. Edited July 28, 2016 by treecreeper Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flipbull 1,139 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 People with Neanderthal genes have a gene that Africans don't apparently there are significant differences between africans and most other races Heard that myself. Africans don't have tail bones like some white people. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Seeker 3,048 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 I've done the ancestry DNA test it's quite good. I did it because I'm researching my family tree and wanted to have as much info as possible I'm 70% British 18% Western Europe (France, Germany, Northern Italy excludes Spain) 5% Irish 6% Scandinavian 1% Eastern Europe 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sandymere 8,263 Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 Surnames give a good clue for the male side of ones more recent heritage, mine is Norman French etc. For the longer picture were a bunch of mongrels of very mixed breeding see link. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28687-new-species-of-human-may-have-shared-our-caves-and-beds/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,907 Posted January 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) I've done the ancestry DNA test it's quite good. I did it because I'm researching my family tree and wanted to have as much info as possible I'm 70% British 18% Western Europe (France, Germany, Northern Italy excludes Spain) 5% Irish 6% Scandinavian 1% Eastern Europe Dragging this back up.... Anyway, so for Xmas I was given one of these Autosomal DNA tests from Ancestry. The results...... 40% Europe West 28% Scandinavia 12% Ireland 10% Great Britain 8% Italy/Greece 2% Iberian Peninsula Compared to the average Brit from the East Mid's... 41% British 21% Europe West 16% Irish I'm a f***ing ethnic immigrant! LOL. I'm now wondering if I should have voted Remain seeing as apparently I have more in common with the Europeans than my 'own' British! HA. Anyway, I found this quite interesting and raises a lot of questions about my families ancestry. Just a conclusion to this thread really. Cheers Edited January 4, 2017 by Born Hunter 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lurcherman 887 13,425 Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 English german and american so im told. But want to do one of the dna tests this year Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BGD 6,437 Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 f**k off back where you came from Born!! :laugh: 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 49,696 Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 My Dad was Magic Johnson and my mum was Ghandis sister........bet you never saw that coming ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marshman 7,758 Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 I'd like to do one one of those dna test things but from what my family have traced back most of mine died either in the workhouse or prison . Got some good names in there though like Sage Tysoe Shadrack and Kushie lol 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,907 Posted January 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) For anyone interested in the DNA tests, just a heads up, when you read into the analysis of it all there's a fair degree of ambiguity and error. You just have to look at it as a rough idea rather than a precise evaluation. Personally I find it hard to believe that I'm only 10% British (Anglo Saxon) but 40% West European. To the uninitiated such a thing could prompt a very awkward conversation with your mother! Edited January 4, 2017 by Born Hunter 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DogFox123 1,379 Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 I'm confused here, doesn't Western Europe include northern Germany where the Angles and Saxons originated??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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