In Australia you have English, Scottish and Irish criminals who all had something in common. :P
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On the distaff side, from Norway. I can trace my father's ancestry no further than Massachusetts. There are no 12/12 matches to my Y-DNA.
"O brave new world that hath such people in it." - William Shakespeare
In England the Irish formed ethnic enclaves, the Welsh did too to a smaller extent.
The Protestant ones assimilated quickly, the Catholics usually assimilated by marriage to lower class English and worked their way up from there.
Once most people became secular it didn't matter so much.The Irish are generally well liked, once they loose their accents they become indistinguishable from the English.
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all from the heart of Europe.
mine came somewhere from europe.
MATERNAL
Poland and USSR (probably Ukraine)
PATERNAL
Dauphine, France
Netherlands
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Iberia.