Ancestry

[Astanley 11,588]

Mother was a jock ,old fella off Irish stuff so I reckon I'm mostly Celt .

[Born Hunter 17,837]

 

That's interesting as my wife said a very similar thing when researching my looks as I have dark skin black hair but green eyes... Everyone on my dad's side is dark with green eyes but I do know like I said they were Romany barge gypsies they used to run coal along the trent before the trains took over

 

 

I think green eye's are very typical of Celtic and Northern European. Darkish skin and dark hair most folks seem to relate to Asian or Southern European, which I guess is true but not exclusively. I think those areas tend to be associated with brown eyes too?

 

My family has typically thick dark hair, oily skin that tans easy. I've got Hazel eyes, which apparently doesn't tell you much other than European.

 

I think folks read a bit too much into phenotype traits though.

[walshie 2,804]

I read somewhere that a lot of the Irish are related to the Basques, which would explain how dark some of them are. The ginger pasty ones (the rest ) must be of Norse heritage.

[Silversnake 1,099]

My blood is about as mixed as blood can be, mostly French and Irish but also a little bit of aborigine, English, Scottish, gypsy and Norwegian. I have had relatives do these DNA tests and the results are very interesting to say the least, how dna history is traced through different tribes I never even knew existed from parts of the world that we never knew we had any connection to.

[Wales1234 5,568]

My mothers side is most all South Wales miner family's and so on my fathers side is abit more spread his grandmother on his mothers side was Irish and Spain on his fathers ! All the men in that side of the family including me and my brother have dark hair blue eyes and we tan real easy

[skycat 6,174]

My dad was Yorkshire, and on my mother's side there is Scottish and Welsh blood: I guess you could say that I'm truly British

[neems 2,406]

Interesting, what was here before the Saxons invaded were we more related to Celts etc or was it something else?

 

Celtic is more of a cultural than ethnic group,the Irish,Scottish and Welsh have had more admixture from invaders and settlers than the English.

If we look at Roman accounts of northern Europe they were reported to be tall with blonde or sometimes red hair and blue eyed.

 

Me and the Mrs done one of the tests,mine was about about 50% English 25% Scandinavian and the rest Italian,French and German and 1.2% Algerian

hers was English,Scandinavian and Spanish in near equal parts,no mud blood present.

 

i'm not sure how much I trust it though,my ancestors conquered the world,they may well have left a few coffee coloured sprogs in their wake.

[Malt 379]

 

 

Interesting, what was here before the Saxons invaded were we more related to Celts etc or was it something else?

To the best of my knowledge it was the tribes of Britons, who were the descendants of the original settlers of the UK from the last ice age. I think they are Celts but I'm not sure?

The first Celts were from the Iberian Peninsular and the first to come here after the last ice age.. That's why I reckon they've left it out, they couldn't write an article about 'native British' being mostly from some area in England if they included the group that arrived on these islands long before the group they're calling the original Britons.. The Angles and the Saxons were from Germany and came here a considerable time after the Romans left.. That article is a load of bollocks..

[kanny 21,100]

 

 

Interesting, what was here before the Saxons invaded were we more related to Celts etc or was it something else?

 

Celtic is more of a cultural than ethnic group,the Irish,Scottish and Welsh have had more admixture from invaders and settlers than the English.

If we look at Roman accounts of northern Europe they were reported to be tall with blonde or sometimes red hair and blue eyed.

 

Me and the Mrs done one of the tests,mine was about about 50% English 25% Scandinavian and the rest Italian,French and German and 1.2% Algerian

hers was English,Scandinavian and Spanish in near equal parts,no mud blood present.

 

i'm not sure how much I trust it though,my ancestors conquered the world,they may well have left a few coffee coloured sprogs in their wake.

We are all out of Africa brother :

[Silversnake 1,099]

 

 

 

Interesting, what was here before the Saxons invaded were we more related to Celts etc or was it something else?

 

Celtic is more of a cultural than ethnic group,the Irish,Scottish and Welsh have had more admixture from invaders and settlers than the English.

If we look at Roman accounts of northern Europe they were reported to be tall with blonde or sometimes red hair and blue eyed.

 

Me and the Mrs done one of the tests,mine was about about 50% English 25% Scandinavian and the rest Italian,French and German and 1.2% Algerian

hers was English,Scandinavian and Spanish in near equal parts,no mud blood present.

 

i'm not sure how much I trust it though,my ancestors conquered the world,they may well have left a few coffee coloured sprogs in their wake.

We are all out of Africa brother :

My family members who did the dna tests said those exact words.

[neems 2,406]

 

 

Interesting, what was here before the Saxons invaded were we more related to Celts etc or was it something else?

Celtic is more of a cultural than ethnic group,the Irish,Scottish and Welsh have had more admixture from invaders and settlers than the English.

If we look at Roman accounts of northern Europe they were reported to be tall with blonde or sometimes red hair and blue eyed.

 

Me and the Mrs done one of the tests,mine was about about 50% English 25% Scandinavian and the rest Italian,French and German and 1.2% Algerian

hers was English,Scandinavian and Spanish in near equal parts,no mud blood present.

 

i'm not sure how much I trust it though,my ancestors conquered the world,they may well have left a few coffee coloured sprogs in their wake.

We are all out of Africa brother :

 

 

In the interest of keeping this thread on topic,I'll just say probably not.

[Nik_B 3,790]

People with Neanderthal genes have a gene that Africans don't apparently there are significant differences between africans and most other races

[Silversnake 1,099]

 

Mother was a jock ,old fella off Irish stuff so I reckon I'm mostly Celt .

well bred stan

That is a claim I can never make, but I am from a long line of worker to worker lol

[jacknife 2,005]

 

 

 

Interesting, what was here before the Saxons invaded were we more related to Celts etc or was it something else?

 

Celtic is more of a cultural than ethnic group,the Irish,Scottish and Welsh have had more admixture from invaders and settlers than the English.

If we look at Roman accounts of northern Europe they were reported to be tall with blonde or sometimes red hair and blue eyed.

 

Me and the Mrs done one of the tests,mine was about about 50% English 25% Scandinavian and the rest Italian,French and German and 1.2% Algerian

hers was English,Scandinavian and Spanish in near equal parts,no mud blood present.

 

i'm not sure how much I trust it though,my ancestors conquered the world,they may well have left a few coffee coloured sprogs in their wake.

We are all out of Africa brother :

I don't mind being a white African

[kanny 21,100]

DB be on shortly no doubt he can trace his back to adam an eve

Mitochondrial eve whose dna we all share.... Except neems of course