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Figaro
01-21-2015, 08:18 PM
She was adopted. My dad's other "side" is strictly German, and does not go back extremely long to Germany (so not much room for "surprises"- no colonial roots or anything.)

A paste of my own on his 23andme thread-

"It's looking relatively clear that my dad's mother was some kind of Scando-British Isles mix. I assume the 12.7% British and Irish on 23andme cannot be noise- sure if it was a percent or so, it would perhaps be...but that seems entirely too high to not be reflecting some amount of descent from there. Now where exactly?

Well, I get all or basically all British Isles type names coming up as frequent ones on the DNA Relatives- all fourth cousins and more distant, mind you. Still interesting, nevertheless. Here are his top 10 on that-

Higgins
Cole
Norman
Boyd
Ellis
Holland
Gallagher
Adams
Hopkins
Walker

Some are Irish, and some can be Irish, or easily Scottish septs of historically Hebridean clans. Some CAN also be English.

Makes a lot of logical sense, as there is a genetic continuum particularly tightly so with west isles Scots and the Irish.

Higgins in Ireland is considered to be an O'Neal sept. Kin close to those folks would have been spearheading the Dal Riata folks
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She might also have been part Danish. There is a family lore hint that she was given up by a young, unwed Danish girl.

Figaro
01-21-2015, 08:34 PM
bump indeed

Not a Cop
01-22-2015, 06:28 PM
Vane
Stokes
Norton
Mills
Nichols
Jordan
Turner
Kelly
Green
Brown
Wright
Allen
Williams
Taylor
Anderson
Davis
Smith
Johnson



My list, i may indeed have British ancestry, but that would be in 1850, so i wouldn't really rely on that tool.