Pathfinder
10-10-2023, 05:34 PM
I was fooling around with GED match again, and I find this really strange but one thing that seems to come up quite frequently is German estimate results, which is different from the other DNA tests I took seperately, which are MyHeritage and Ancestry DNA.
Yo, I get bloody British ancestry predominately a lot on this shite, but that always confused me, no offense but I look at a place like Scotland and I imagine what it's like to live their and what the predominate surrounding culture is like and I just can't see it. I have lived in Canada my whole life and it has no short of a lie or exageration been like a bloody holocaust to me, I don't know why that is specifically, it doesn't really make much sense, but needless to say there are just a lot of reasons why results like that seem a little puzzling. It makes me conclude there is a lot about history that I don't know, specificially about these reigions, or my ancestors were nothing like me, but that's a strange thing to be that different from your ancestors. Personally I wonder if Britian used to be like the equivalent of America or somethin', but I hear people say "BRITIAN CONQUERED MOST OF THE KNOWN WORLD, IT IS NOT UNUSUAL THAT MANY PEOPLE HAVE BRITISH DNA" but I was still left feeling hesitant believing that, especially since my results are so divergent.
But see, I even get Orcadian on GEDmatch, which seems to somehow be some kind of middle ground between whether or not I am British or German/Scandinavian.
"Orcadians, also known as Orkneymen,[2] are an ethnic group native to the Orkney Islands, who speak an Orcadian dialect of the Scots language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history, culture and ancestry.[3] Speaking Norn, a native North Germanic language into the 19th or 20th century,[4] Orcadians descend significantly from North Germanic peoples, with around a third of their ancestry derived from Scandinavia, including a majority of their patrilineal line.[5] According to anthropological study, the Orcadian ethnic composition is similar to that of Icelandic people; a comparable islander ethnicity of North Germanic origin.[5]
Historically, they are also descended from the Picts,[6][a] Norse,[8] and Lowland Scots.[9]"
Boy that makes a lot of sense, I can kind of more easily see that for some reason, it makes a little bit more sense but it makes me laugh. But I get German quite a bit on GEDmatch. I feel like this just makes me question the whole nature of these DNA tests in general.
Yo, I get bloody British ancestry predominately a lot on this shite, but that always confused me, no offense but I look at a place like Scotland and I imagine what it's like to live their and what the predominate surrounding culture is like and I just can't see it. I have lived in Canada my whole life and it has no short of a lie or exageration been like a bloody holocaust to me, I don't know why that is specifically, it doesn't really make much sense, but needless to say there are just a lot of reasons why results like that seem a little puzzling. It makes me conclude there is a lot about history that I don't know, specificially about these reigions, or my ancestors were nothing like me, but that's a strange thing to be that different from your ancestors. Personally I wonder if Britian used to be like the equivalent of America or somethin', but I hear people say "BRITIAN CONQUERED MOST OF THE KNOWN WORLD, IT IS NOT UNUSUAL THAT MANY PEOPLE HAVE BRITISH DNA" but I was still left feeling hesitant believing that, especially since my results are so divergent.
But see, I even get Orcadian on GEDmatch, which seems to somehow be some kind of middle ground between whether or not I am British or German/Scandinavian.
"Orcadians, also known as Orkneymen,[2] are an ethnic group native to the Orkney Islands, who speak an Orcadian dialect of the Scots language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history, culture and ancestry.[3] Speaking Norn, a native North Germanic language into the 19th or 20th century,[4] Orcadians descend significantly from North Germanic peoples, with around a third of their ancestry derived from Scandinavia, including a majority of their patrilineal line.[5] According to anthropological study, the Orcadian ethnic composition is similar to that of Icelandic people; a comparable islander ethnicity of North Germanic origin.[5]
Historically, they are also descended from the Picts,[6][a] Norse,[8] and Lowland Scots.[9]"
Boy that makes a lot of sense, I can kind of more easily see that for some reason, it makes a little bit more sense but it makes me laugh. But I get German quite a bit on GEDmatch. I feel like this just makes me question the whole nature of these DNA tests in general.