Genology & ancestry

[kanny 21,626]

Mine ...I can live with that lol 

[Borr 7,679]

4 minutes ago, kanny said:

Mine ...I can live with that lol 

Ve are Vikings.....

[mushroom 14,052]

21 minutes ago, Borr said:

Ve are Vikings.....

'kin cnuts never made it to my ancestors though

 

[Astanley 11,631]

Mine came back mostly Irish ,a big chunk of Scottish ,and 10% Welsh ,which was a surprise and a smidgen of Viking ,...the ancestry thing is so interesting ,I wasn't expecting royalty or anything but the phrases "penal servitude " .. " habitual criminal " crop up with depressing regularity ,I even found a great great grandma who got sent to Australia and did 21 years in Darlinghurst prison  in Sydney .

[mushroom 14,052]

1 hour ago, Seagull said:

You need to read up on it, seriously. So you are claiming to be mainly of Celtic blood, where do you think they originated? And it doesn't even matter really as around 4500 years ago, before the Celts, almost all the entirety of Europe, including Britain, had nigh on a full population replacement by people's from the Steppes. 

Someone who says "you need to read up" isn't starting a conversation in the right way.

I'm saying I don't have any markers from what you've just posted. Can I say I'm pure Briton etc? No I can't. Just trying to have a normal conversation. 

Please, for once keep it to the topic. It's not political, racial or anything apart from history and knowledge of our families

 

[Seagull 387]

35 minutes ago, mushroom said:

Someone who says "you need to read up" isn't starting a conversation in the right way.

I'm saying I don't have any markers from what you've just posted. Can I say I'm pure Briton etc? No I can't. Just trying to have a normal conversation. 

Please, for once keep it to the topic. It's not political, racial or anything apart from history and knowledge of our families

 

I think the chances of someone alive today being of pure Celtic blood is slim to none, whatever that actually means, because the further back we go, the more entangled we become. Still, there's a lot you can get from these tests, and they are accurate as I know of a few members that are my closest genetic matches and the data says so as I haven't really done anything on the genealogy side of things, I was just interested in the genetics.

[TOMO 28,460]

Mine came back as 100% Ogre...

 

[Halfhound 36]

What’s the best site to use?

[Seagull 387]

They are only as good as the database and I believe Ancestry has got the largest database.

[Seagull 387]

10 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Mine came back as 100% Ogre...

 

We could have told you that before the test...

[Francie, 2,765]

I must be related to the people than came from the Spanish armada,iv swarthy skin an tan easily

[Bosun11 537]

Never done the full genealogy thing, but traced my family lines over 100+ years on both sides.

My mother's side is all Welsh but moved to Anfield Liverpool in the 1850's. Where they married only fellow Welsh folk. Though my lot thought they'd hit the jackpot, when my Nan married a real Welshman who was in the RAF before the war. Thing is, he was a total cnut alcoholic. He hated his new life in Liverpool and lethered his wife and his new born daughter when drunk, and that was frequent. They split, and through 'shame' my Nan went to work in the Isle of Man through the War, and my mum was brought up by her Nan, and was there during the Blitz.

My Dad's side is all Scottish. My great grandfather sailed out of a hamlet called Garlieston on the western shore. Went round the globe for a long time and ended up in Liverpool, where he met a Scottish bird. I have every sea paper, of every ship he ever sailed in, including the SS Great Britain, the first iron ship, thanks to IK Brunell. They were Wed and my Grandad ended up married to another Scotch bird (really!!).

So tracing my roots, I went up to Garlieston a couple of years back.

I really don't know was expecting, maybe being welcomed back like a lost son. Tales of Border Reivers, Pirates, explorers, hunters etc.

Instead we found the most quiet, boring place I've ever visited. Where no one knew my surname, and if they did, they couldn't be fecked to talk to me..!! We actually met 4 people, they were all that were awake that day! 

One pub, no shops open, and feck all to see... We got in the car and headed back to civilisation, Dumfries, land of the 'smack head'. A far cry from those romantic Reivers, or anyone with a full set of teeth, for that matter...! One night there and we fecked clean off back to lovely Liverpool.

Ancestry done..!!

50% Welsh

50% Scottish

100% Scouse....

 

 

[mitre 254]

Well it makes you wonder what stock and ancient ancestors we all have come from even from the stoneage medieval days and through the centuries from Europe France or even more local areas such as Ireland and Scotland 

[harryshounds 1,382]

Most people can only go back about 3/4 generations but we've modern humans have at least 300 generations in their make up. We're all made up of different waves of immigration at different times over the millennium. No one is pure blooded anything.

[Borr 7,679]

5 minutes ago, Bosun11 said:

Never done the full genealogy thing, but traced my family lines over 100+ years on both sides.

My mother's side is all Welsh but moved to Anfield Liverpool in the 1850's. Where they married only fellow Welsh folk. Though my lot thought they'd hit the jackpot, when my Nan married a real Welshman who was in the RAF before the war. Thing is, he was a total cnut alcoholic. He hated his new life in Liverpool and lethered his wife and his new born daughter when drunk, and that was frequent. They split, and through 'shame' my Nan went to work in the Isle of Man, and my mum was brought up by her Nan.

My Dad's side is all Scottish. My great grandfather sailed out of a hamlet called Garlieston on the western shore. Went round the globe for a long time and ended up in Liverpool, where he met a Scottish bird. I have every sea paper, of every ship he ever sailed in, including the SS Great Britain, the first iron ship, thanks to IK Brunell. They were Wed and my Grandad ended up married to another Scotch bird (really!!).

So tracing my roots, I went up to Garlieston a couple of years back.

I really don't know was expecting, maybe being welcomed back like a lost son. Tales of Border Reivers, Pirates, explorers, hunters etc.

Instead we found the most quiet, boring place I've ever visited. Where no one knew my surname, and if they did, they couldn't be fecked to talk to me..!! We actually met 4 people, they were all that were awake. One pub, no shops open, and feck all to see... We got in the car and headed back to civilisation, Dumfries, land of the 'smack head'. A far cry from those romantic Reivers, or anyone with a full set of teeth, for that matter...! One night and we fecked clean off back to lovely Liverpool.

Ancestry done..!!

 

The road to hell and all that, life is in the now history isn't all that....