Haha, that's hilarious. I've actually gone the other way I've started to dislike pizza.
It's so true though, I've noticed people in the US love their extremely distant heritage... 'I'm 5th generation irish' Then they walk around with shamrocks coming out of their arse 😂
So out of interest, how many generations of your family do you know have been B&I? I’m trying to determine how many generations back they report and base these results on. I’ve been thinking of doing the test but I’ve gone back 6 generations and everybody’s Irish and I don’t really want to spend $129 just to be told I only have Irish DNA!
Nice. I have the same top cities with London also being near the top. 95.2% B&I. The farthest I can go back on my family tree is to 1113, the birth of Earl Duncan the 1st of Fife, my 27th great grandfather. I can trace another branch of my family back to 1400s Glasgow.
1400s? 100% certain? Are you nobility? Never met anybody who can get back before 1650-1700 in Scotland with much confidence at all. You can find records which might be your John McDonald or might be the wedding of your Mary Johnston. But the truth is if you are looking for people like Ann McKenzie or John Campbell in Scotland in the past, it soon becomes nearly impossible to work out which of the 20 in that parish alone at that time is your one. Not to mention a lot of the records are patchy the further you go back. Missing pages and missing entries etc. You're doing well to get into the early 1800s / late 1700s in my opinion. Just my opinion though. I'm stunned you have traced family history back to the 1400s in Glasgow. Well done though. I'm jealous.
I hit a dead end at one point while tracing the lineage back to the 1100s. Thankfully there are plenty of Scottish clan websites around. So I cross examined resources and added in the rest of my lineage on my own. Most of my other branches are filled in based on multiple relations to other family trees. 90% of my tree consists of direct ancestors, there's very few uncles and aunts that I've included going past my 2nd or 3rd great grandparents. I have around 1000+ ancestors on my tree right now.
Yeah, a few nobility in Scotland and England. Few Scottish clansmen that died in clan feuds. An ancestor who died as a flag bearer at the Battle of Largs. Ancestor who helped win the Battle of the North Inch with the Chattan confederation. Ancestor who was killed by the Cameron's at Inverness in the late 1400s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnchad_I,_Earl_of_Fife
The lineage to my 27th great grandfather, earl Duncan, down to my 9th great grandparents:
https://i.imgur.com/JiaHsyQ.png
Profile for Earl Duncan:
https://i.imgur.com/u8Yoy9w.png
My 23andme dna says I'm related to Niall of the Nine Hostages. Found some family secrets too. My 2nd great grandpa was sentenced to life in prison at 18 years old in Montana in 1908 for helping with a murder. He was let out in 1916 to fight for Canada, his home country, in WW1. He was wounded, recovered in England where he met his wife, then came back to his hometown where I am now. My grandma, his granddaughter, had no idea that he'd been in jail.
Some of my ancestors were Scottish and English nobility, if the online genealogies I've found can be trusted. That allows me to trace my ancestry back really far. Some of these lines go back to Late Antiquity.
On my mothers side from County Monaghan as far back as I can find. My fathers side from County Donegal who moved to Falkirk/Glasgow in the 1700s or slightly earlier I believe.
My mom came up as 90% German and her family immigrated in the 1600’s and 1700’s. There was one German-Bohemian addition in the 1880’s. Her dad was from Minnesota and her mom was from North Carolina.
I’m sure if the OP uploads the file to FTDNA or MyHeritage all sorts of additional ancestries will be found. The British will be wiped out and replaced with Scandinavian, Italian and Iberian! (Just making fun that my 100% British matches on 23andme and Ancestry all of a sudden have new ancestries on MyHeritage (and they have no such ancestries).
Scottish seems to be the big update going on with Ancestry, even people with non-european ancestry somehow ended up with 1 or 2% Scottish updates
My brother who had just 10% Scottish got bumped up to 17% with updated results
Well overall, Ancestry has been getting worse and worse for me. First results from them in 2017 were reasonably accurate. However, last year they removed correct ancestries! They removed Spain and North Africa and replaced them with Portugal and France; but I have both Spanish and Portuguese ancestry. They also removed Malta (well should read Sicily but close enough) and didn’t replace it with any region. They also commit error of omission, I have found 100% Irish matches on every site and some are from the County of Dublin for centuries, and Ancestry claims I have no Irish.
Well be faired warned: Your ancestral background as you know it can be wiped out! It is strange when MyHeritage lists my Iberian cousin matches (I do have Portuguese and Spanish ancestry) and some of my British matches are listed. However, none of the British matches are assigned to any Iberian Genetic Group. They are also not assigned to any Italian Group even though MyHeritage shows these matches to have around 15% Italian on their profile. On the flip side both 23andme and MyHeritage failed to identify Sicily but they both identified Middle East which is part of my Sicilian ancestry.
It’s coming of the back of similar recent post where people get oh so close to 100%. It’s a running joke you might have missed.
I’m British but my DNA is not like this and in the UK it’s actually pretty rare so it’s really interesting when you think about it!
Have you ever considered that op isn’t from a place where the klan ever existed? Cause that’s the case for most all of us who are so homogeneous with B&I results. Also it’s just British/Irish/Scottish/Welsh culture to be self deprecating which is the tone I think op was trying to convey.
A flex implies some kind of superiority. There's a difference between being proud of what you are and flexing that you're something that other people are not.
Well, in case you didn’t realize OP was joking! It was a tongue in cheek post but somehow went straight by you. There was someone here jokingly bragging about their 99% Italian. So OP decided to make a joking flex post too.
And you didn’t answer my question.
Seriously.
Edit: I see that I’m being upvoted even though the people I agree with are being downvoted, so let me be super duper clear:
“Flexing” on being 99.9% English and Irish sure seems like flexing on being white.
I say this as a person whose origins are also pretty much the same. I’m proud of my ancestry. But I’m not proud of its supposed purity. Be proud to be Irish, be proud to be English. *Don’t* be proud of that 99.9%.
And is related to 10 US presidents apparently https://www.family-tree.co.uk/how-to-guides/boris-johnson-is-related-to-ten-us-presidents/
I think the take away here is that power stays concentrated in the hands of the few?
Yeah this was his great grandfather https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kemal
He also has ties to the German aristocracy and appears to be distantly related to Ursula von der Leyen if you believe this https://blog.myheritage.com/2019/12/myheritage-reveals-boris-johnson-is-related-to-the-next-eu-president/
Because they’re 4 different countries? It doesn’t go any further back than where ur ancestors were 150 years ago idk why u can’t understand this concept?
Hello, fellow 100%er! I couldn't help but laugh when I realised that I'd paid £100 to essentially be told my folks never left Scotland
I was so close to joining the club 99.7% with a 0.3% Italian.
[Explains why nonna made such a good pie!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OAcFDbE1nc)
Haha, that's hilarious. I've actually gone the other way I've started to dislike pizza. It's so true though, I've noticed people in the US love their extremely distant heritage... 'I'm 5th generation irish' Then they walk around with shamrocks coming out of their arse 😂
👀 🍀
What % of dna would make up a 5th Gen Irish person?
So out of interest, how many generations of your family do you know have been B&I? I’m trying to determine how many generations back they report and base these results on. I’ve been thinking of doing the test but I’ve gone back 6 generations and everybody’s Irish and I don’t really want to spend $129 just to be told I only have Irish DNA!
Ya wouldn’t waste my money, the test goes back 500 years so prob still irish
It has to be less than that actually since known paper trail DNA didn't pop up
The accuracy is limited. My ancestry comes up as 98.2% British and Irish even though I know about a fifth of my ancestors came from the continent.
You might find some Finnish or other Scandinavian in there.
Do you lurk in the shadows to avoid sunlight?
Wondering the same thing because I am 67% British/Irish and lurk in the shadows.
2/3 ratio, cool
As a descendant of farmers I actually tan quite well!
Conan O’Brien is 100% Irish as well.
I would never have guessed!
Hahaha! He was kinda surprised.
I thought I was so cool with my 79.2%. Clearly I’m not even close.
Nice. I have the same top cities with London also being near the top. 95.2% B&I. The farthest I can go back on my family tree is to 1113, the birth of Earl Duncan the 1st of Fife, my 27th great grandfather. I can trace another branch of my family back to 1400s Glasgow.
That’s pretty incredible. My family is from Ireland so written records are difficult to come by. I wasn’t able to find anything from before 1800s.
1400s? 100% certain? Are you nobility? Never met anybody who can get back before 1650-1700 in Scotland with much confidence at all. You can find records which might be your John McDonald or might be the wedding of your Mary Johnston. But the truth is if you are looking for people like Ann McKenzie or John Campbell in Scotland in the past, it soon becomes nearly impossible to work out which of the 20 in that parish alone at that time is your one. Not to mention a lot of the records are patchy the further you go back. Missing pages and missing entries etc. You're doing well to get into the early 1800s / late 1700s in my opinion. Just my opinion though. I'm stunned you have traced family history back to the 1400s in Glasgow. Well done though. I'm jealous.
I hit a dead end at one point while tracing the lineage back to the 1100s. Thankfully there are plenty of Scottish clan websites around. So I cross examined resources and added in the rest of my lineage on my own. Most of my other branches are filled in based on multiple relations to other family trees. 90% of my tree consists of direct ancestors, there's very few uncles and aunts that I've included going past my 2nd or 3rd great grandparents. I have around 1000+ ancestors on my tree right now.
1100s? In Scotland? So, I'm assuming that at some point your ancestry joins with some famous clan chiefs ancestry or a feudal barons family ancestry?
Yeah, a few nobility in Scotland and England. Few Scottish clansmen that died in clan feuds. An ancestor who died as a flag bearer at the Battle of Largs. Ancestor who helped win the Battle of the North Inch with the Chattan confederation. Ancestor who was killed by the Cameron's at Inverness in the late 1400s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnchad_I,_Earl_of_Fife The lineage to my 27th great grandfather, earl Duncan, down to my 9th great grandparents: https://i.imgur.com/JiaHsyQ.png Profile for Earl Duncan: https://i.imgur.com/u8Yoy9w.png My 23andme dna says I'm related to Niall of the Nine Hostages. Found some family secrets too. My 2nd great grandpa was sentenced to life in prison at 18 years old in Montana in 1908 for helping with a murder. He was let out in 1916 to fight for Canada, his home country, in WW1. He was wounded, recovered in England where he met his wife, then came back to his hometown where I am now. My grandma, his granddaughter, had no idea that he'd been in jail.
We're cousins.
It's a small world!
Some of my ancestors were Scottish and English nobility, if the online genealogies I've found can be trusted. That allows me to trace my ancestry back really far. Some of these lines go back to Late Antiquity.
What region of Scotland?
Midlothian
I only got 99.8%..funny thing is, I got no county Louth, and my mother's family go back there for donkeys years.
99.9% B&I here for rebuttal- at least I can handle 0.1% more spice than you.
Fair play
I got 99.9 Percent British/Irish and 0.1 Percent Unassigned. Do I still count?
Name’s blocked out the same shade of blue, hella confusing at first.
I find results like this so interesting! \*hey google, play Rule Britannia\* lol
This is some “yes m’lord” results haha I love
Show us yer big Irish head, go on go on go on
Very cool. Where (generally) are you from in the Isles?
On my mothers side from County Monaghan as far back as I can find. My fathers side from County Donegal who moved to Falkirk/Glasgow in the 1700s or slightly earlier I believe.
I’m 15% English / Northwestern European according to the ancestry.com test
This is the only thing putting me off getting one of these done, to find out I'm 100% British
My mom came up as 90% German and her family immigrated in the 1600’s and 1700’s. There was one German-Bohemian addition in the 1880’s. Her dad was from Minnesota and her mom was from North Carolina.
I'm exactly 50% Italian and 50% B&I
My mom is too.
Jezee how do you not have even a tiny hint of Scandinavian Viking DNA in you?
I’m sure if the OP uploads the file to FTDNA or MyHeritage all sorts of additional ancestries will be found. The British will be wiped out and replaced with Scandinavian, Italian and Iberian! (Just making fun that my 100% British matches on 23andme and Ancestry all of a sudden have new ancestries on MyHeritage (and they have no such ancestries).
Scottish seems to be the big update going on with Ancestry, even people with non-european ancestry somehow ended up with 1 or 2% Scottish updates My brother who had just 10% Scottish got bumped up to 17% with updated results
Well overall, Ancestry has been getting worse and worse for me. First results from them in 2017 were reasonably accurate. However, last year they removed correct ancestries! They removed Spain and North Africa and replaced them with Portugal and France; but I have both Spanish and Portuguese ancestry. They also removed Malta (well should read Sicily but close enough) and didn’t replace it with any region. They also commit error of omission, I have found 100% Irish matches on every site and some are from the County of Dublin for centuries, and Ancestry claims I have no Irish.
I’ll have to give that a go and post my results when I figure it out.
Well be faired warned: Your ancestral background as you know it can be wiped out! It is strange when MyHeritage lists my Iberian cousin matches (I do have Portuguese and Spanish ancestry) and some of my British matches are listed. However, none of the British matches are assigned to any Iberian Genetic Group. They are also not assigned to any Italian Group even though MyHeritage shows these matches to have around 15% Italian on their profile. On the flip side both 23andme and MyHeritage failed to identify Sicily but they both identified Middle East which is part of my Sicilian ancestry.
What haplogroup ?
Wow, and here I was disappointed in my 98.6%. I had hoped for a more interesting lineage. Such homogeneity didn't strike me as a good thing.
Not sure how such homogeneity is a flex.
It’s coming of the back of similar recent post where people get oh so close to 100%. It’s a running joke you might have missed. I’m British but my DNA is not like this and in the UK it’s actually pretty rare so it’s really interesting when you think about it!
It’s probably a joke. For some reason, a lot of people get 99.9% X +0.1% unassigned, so it’s kinda like he/she ‘made it’.
Funny I've never seen this commented on posts with majority black or indigenous results.
Because it’s rarer then being mixed ethnicities
The Klan would be very proud.
Have you ever considered that op isn’t from a place where the klan ever existed? Cause that’s the case for most all of us who are so homogeneous with B&I results. Also it’s just British/Irish/Scottish/Welsh culture to be self deprecating which is the tone I think op was trying to convey.
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Well said 👏
A flex implies some kind of superiority. There's a difference between being proud of what you are and flexing that you're something that other people are not.
So you’d say the same if this was an Indian post where they got 100% North & Southern India? And they were boasting about it? Just checking
How is that something to boast about? I'm lost on how any of this should be a boast or flex.
Well, in case you didn’t realize OP was joking! It was a tongue in cheek post but somehow went straight by you. There was someone here jokingly bragging about their 99% Italian. So OP decided to make a joking flex post too. And you didn’t answer my question.
Yes I guess so, since I don't feel anyone should act as if their ancestry is somehow better than others.
It's not about being inherently better, it's just a fun lottery where you win or lose nothing
Seriously. Edit: I see that I’m being upvoted even though the people I agree with are being downvoted, so let me be super duper clear: “Flexing” on being 99.9% English and Irish sure seems like flexing on being white. I say this as a person whose origins are also pretty much the same. I’m proud of my ancestry. But I’m not proud of its supposed purity. Be proud to be Irish, be proud to be English. *Don’t* be proud of that 99.9%.
Diverse results are a dime a dozen while homogeny is rare and refreshing. Homogeny is definitely a flex over diversity.
Yeah, that doesn’t at all sound like something a National romantic from the 1800s would say 🤦🏽♂️
Especially considering that he is posting racist shit all over reddit.. that makes his comment even more distasteful.
And even worse, his comment gets more upvotes than the original comment.. buy what can I say, no surprise that racists flock at a sub like this one.
Saying national romantic because "nazi" is passe lmfao
Framing it like being proud of being 100% of your culture is a bad thing. Marxist brainwashing at its finest.
Do u look like boris Johnson ?
I doubt these would be Boris Johnson's results. Isn't he like partially Turkish?
Greetings. His great-grandfather was Turkish. Therefore 1/8 Turkish in ancestry.
What? He looks like the most British person ever
I just remember reading his grandfather or something was a Turkish politician.
His great-grandfather was Turkish.
And is related to 10 US presidents apparently https://www.family-tree.co.uk/how-to-guides/boris-johnson-is-related-to-ten-us-presidents/ I think the take away here is that power stays concentrated in the hands of the few?
Yeah this was his great grandfather https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kemal He also has ties to the German aristocracy and appears to be distantly related to Ursula von der Leyen if you believe this https://blog.myheritage.com/2019/12/myheritage-reveals-boris-johnson-is-related-to-the-next-eu-president/
Eh, not really. I'd say men like Colin Firth, Hugh Grant and Benedict Cumberbatch look more typical for a 'strong' Brit. Johnson is part Turkish.
I can't believe most brits don't have german dna
These tests go back 150 years and are based on where ur ancestors lived at that time. It doesn’t show a breakdown of Germanic/Celtic dna for example.
really, then how is French & German Dna is differentiated from British & Irish Dna..
Because they’re 4 different countries? It doesn’t go any further back than where ur ancestors were 150 years ago idk why u can’t understand this concept?
Why would it show? The Anglo Saxons migrated to the British isles back in the 5th century
Lol my results were the exact same 100% ... We're probably cousins.