Should "Noise Ancestry" Count?

[Grace O'Malley]

Respect British authority :

It would still be interesting to know how long your family has been in the US as that would help with tracing the SSA.

[Roy]

Brexit was partially caused Polish immigration to the UK. But I AmeriKwa and Australia Polish people are just 'white' ( TM).

G25 Polack science :

Target: Kevin_scaled
Distance: 2.4859% / 0.02485930
80.2 Norway
11.8 Ireland_&_Scotland
6.0 Levant_Philistine
0.6 Cameroon_Congo_&_Southern_Bantu_Peoples
0.6 Elamite
0.4 Melanesia
0.2 Indigenous_Americas-Andes
0.2 Southern_&_Eastern_Africa_Hunter-Gatherers.

Target: Kevin_scaled
Distance: 2.4911% / 0.02491114 | ADC: 0.25x RC
80.8 Norway
11.4 Ireland_&_Scotland
5.8 Levant_Philistine
0.6 Elamite
0.6 Melanesia
0.4 Ghana
0.4 Southern_&_Eastern_Africa_Hunter-Gatherers



Distance to: Kevin_scaled
0.02865262 Germanic_Europeutch
0.02966312 Norway:Norwegian
0.03097093 England_Wales_&_Northwestern_Europe:Welsh
0.03128912 Ireland_&_Scotland:Irish
0.03153596 Ireland_&_Scotland:Scottish
0.03173767 England_Wales_&_Northwestern_Europe:English
0.03424261 England_Wales_&_Northwestern_Europe:English_Cornwa ll
0.03554655 Norway:Icelandic
0.03738947 Germanic_Europe:German
0.03825792 Sweden:Swedish

https://www.exploreyourdna.com/calcu...r-alwakeel.htm

WASP British science (TM):

This is bullshit. Brexit was largely caused by a lot of blatant lies being spread first and foremost.

[JamesBond007]

It would still be interesting to know how long your family has been in the US as that would help with tracing the SSA.

Sorry, Grace for the knee jerk reaction there. My relatives came to the USA in the mid to late 1800s. I think you are underestimating LivingDNA both AncestryDNA and LivingDNA are Titans in the industry both have their strengths and weaknesses.


"Every human can trace his or her origins all the way back to Africa, and Living DNA’s Full Ancestry Report arguably provides more detail about your African geographical origins than any other DNA test. It also breaks its ancestry results down into particularly high resolution for other areas, including the British Isles and Europe.

Despite the focus on some specific regions, Living DNA in total compares your DNA to that of people from over 150 regions worldwide.

Living DNA’s value-added ancestry features:

Specialist African Ancestry for 72 sub-regions
Specialist British Ancestry for 21 sub-regions
Specialist European Ancestry for 9 sub-regions"

https://www.dnaweekly.com/blog/livin...s-ancestrydna/

^Sorry, Grace but I am going to trust LivingDNA on this one. AncestryDNA is probably better for most Americans as modern day Americans are not mostly British isles. Australians are more British isles. You probably don"t like LivingDNA because there is no regional breakdown for Ireland.

Ancestrydna had me as the vast majority Irish and Scottish ignoring all English ancestry etc...so, Livingdna is best for me.

[JamesBond007]

This is bullshit. Brexit was largely caused by a lot of blatant lies being spread first and foremost.

Brohamulous , Eastern European immigration was definitely a factor. England is not the USA , Canada or Australia. This is the English mentality:

[Anglo-Celtic]

Yes some cross over results and it also depends on their population panels. Also with Ancestry you're going to get the correct GC because they use IBD for those. If you get an English GC it will be correct etc. I don't think they are finding Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Viking like some people believe. It is obviously based on modern population panels and some populations will also have more overlap. They also are just going back approx 6 generations. They might possibly be able to be more accurate with some populations in the future. They are on the right track though. 23&Me do not split up the British & Irish whereas Ancestry does and this is still not 100% accurate due to overlap.

To look further back you need to look at shorter segments of dna. I'm sure they might be able to use some rare markers in the future to see if people descend from older populations.

I'm waiting impatiently for that Anglo-Saxon study to be released and getting more information on the samples.

Constant intermarriage muddies the waters too. There's a long line of "mixed marriages" in my family tree, and I'm not fish nor fowl, so it might be down to a roll of the genetic dice. My last immigrant ancestor was an Irishman with deep roots in Donegal. He married an English woman from Dorset, and their "mixed race" son fought in the Civil War.

[Anglo-Celtic]

True, an English person can be up to 25% German not just Saxon. The bottom line is LivingDNA is excellent for both European (especially British) and African ancestry. It gives me 0% SSA :

Guess what? You're a little over half Irish, and "Irish" is at the top of the list, so ask Grace if she'll welcome you home.

[Anglo-Celtic]

Assuming you mean trace ancestry, I vote no. I prefer to ignore my ~2% Welsh.

You assume right. It's a shame that you discount your Welsh because Wales speaks highly of *you*.

[Anglo-Celtic]

Yes it should unless the sample is of poor quality.

I don't know. I'd feel a bit silly if I put a Finnish flag in my posts.

[Zlatan]

Cherish every single bit damn it. We only get one go-around in this world.

[Grace O'Malley]

Guess what? You're a little over half Irish, and "Irish" is at the top of the list, so ask Grace if she'll welcome you home.

He's no Irishman despite what he might be ancestrally. An Irishman has pride in his heritage and most Irish people treat others decently. He's one of yours. His family has been in the US a long time. He hasn't got the pedigree of Conan.