Americans with pure (or near that) English colonial ancestry...

[Mingle]

I've seen families where one parent is Sicilian and the other is Irish. The Sicilian parent scores 15% Middle Eastern, while the child scores 0%.

How is this possible?

[Karol Klačansky]

Must be remembered that 98% of the people in America calling themselves "Irish" have no Irish ancestry at all, just relatives who came TO America from Ireland, after fucking it up. So just about anyone who calls themselves "Irish" or "scots irish" can be safely assumed as colonial English. None of them are Irish or Scottish nor were their ancestors. And of course EVERYONE who was born and raised here is an American and nothing else.

What a bunch of garbage. My grandmother's maiden name is Duffy. Me being three quarters Slovak and only a quarter American scores 20% Irish on ancestry dna, so I'm a fifth Irish. I've seen other white Americans score over 70 percent on ancestry DNA. Of course there are ridiculous Americans who claim to be Irish though they are only like an eighth Irish, but to just say they have none is absurd. Ireland is a country of like 5 million people, it wouldn't have won independence from England or be as famous as it is with out the support of Irish Americans.

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[WyattCollins00]

The first picture is my grandfather; all of his ancestry traces to colonial Massachusetts Englishes except one line that traces to Nova Scotia and is also English. He called himself a "Swamp Yankee".
The next is a drawing from the early 1800s of Lyman Benson, born in 1783 in Berkshire County MA, my grandfathers great great great Uncle. His face shows the distinctive head shape of my grandfather among other features.
The next is my maternal great grandfather, a member of the huge and semi-famous Bouldry family of Bridgewater MA, and his ancestry is colonial English.
Next is a picture of me, being about 7/16 Colonial English, 1/8 other English, 1/16 Swedish, and 3/8 Irish. I am 17 but I think my face is not really fully developed yet. BTW if anyone is interested in fly fishing, or fishing in general, that is a 17" rainbow trout I caught on a soft hackle fly, a pattern that originates in medieval England.
Edit: The first and second pictures are switched.
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[Óttar]

New England and Virginia.

There are plenty of Irish-American Catholics in New England. And certainly not all Scots-Irish are English. That's complete nonsense.

[WyattCollins00]

Actually I think this is a better representation of what my grandfather looked like.
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[Grace O'Malley]

What a bunch of garbage. My grandmother's maiden name is Duffy. Me being three quarters Slovak and only a quarter American scores 20% Irish on ancestry dna, so I'm a fifth Irish. I've seen other white Americans score over 70 percent on ancestry DNA. Of course there are ridiculous Americans who claim to be Irish though they are only like an eighth Irish, but to just say they have none is absurd. Ireland is a country of like 5 million people, it wouldn't have won independence from England or be as famous as it is with out the support of Irish Americans.

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The Irish got their independence themselves. Irish-Americans did give financial help and ammunition but they were otherwise not involved. De Valera was US born and that saved him from execution for his involvement in 1916. The Irish born were not so lucky. America was a big help in orchestrating the Good Friday Agreement though. This is why Clinton will always have high regard in Ireland.

[WyattCollins00]

The Scots-Irish are probably about half and half Northern English and Lowland Scottish (the ancestry of which are almost the same). Just cause the border is there it doesn't mean the dna changes right there.

[WyattCollins00]

How is this possible?

DNA tests aren't what people think they are. Genes are passed down randomly so the genes that are used as locational markers may or may not be passed to offspring. Siblings frequently have surprisingly different dna results because of this.

[Karol Klačansky]

The Irish got their independence themselves. Irish-Americans did give financial help and ammunition but they were otherwise not involved. De Valera was US born and that saved him from execution for his involvement in 1916. The Irish born were not so lucky. America was a big help in orchestrating the Good Friday Agreement though. This is why Clinton will always have high regard in Ireland.

Again contradicting statements, Eamon de Valera raised over 5 million dollars when touring the u.s in 1919 and 1920 ( a big amount in of money back then) All from Irish Americans. I'm not down playing the Irish's role in their own independence but it's insulting to Irish Americans to just dismiss them the way modern Irish people do. The u.s was the only other nation even named in the Irish republic's proclamation in 1916, Ireland at that time had a massive kinship and respect for Irish Americans I don't know what happened to that in modern Ireland.

[brennus dux gallorum]

I have a read that Americans with some ancestry before civil war are already less than 50% of the country