A question for those who are pure British according to known paper trail

**sql** · 09-22-2016, 07:25 PM

I think you guys are heavily Scottish admixed.

**firemonkey** · 09-22-2016, 10:34 PM

Originally Posted by Arslan

I think you guys are heavily Scottish admixed.

Catkin and I ? I think it's hard to separate Scottish and Irish. What may seem Irish may have been Scottish originally and vice versa.

**Neon Knight** · 09-23-2016, 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by Catkin

One grandad was Irish, so I have approx 25% from him. But my other three grandparents were from London, and as I trace further back into the 1800s I keep finding lines jumping back over to Ireland. So it's possible my ancestryDNA percentage isn't far off.

It's a similar story for me, especially with my paternal grandmother. It looks like many Catholic Irish immigants were absorbed into English Catholic communities.

For ancestry proportions based on a paper-trail, I go off the surname origins of 16 great great grandparents, in which case I'm 8/16 English and 7/16 Irish with one name to be ascertained. I'm also assuming my Irish grandfather was fully Irish.