Gencove Ancestry Results Update

**Albannach** · 01-15-2018, 02:55 PM

I don't think this is accurate at all, the worst calculator for me so far, although I get quite different results on all of them. Calculators feel quite pointless at this stage with inconsistent results. How is 8% northern British even possible for someone with 50% Scottish ancestry? the other 50% being Irish.

71% Northern and Central Europe
16% Scandinavia
8% Northern British Isles
5% Northern Italy

**Grace O'Malley** · 01-15-2018, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by Albannach

I don't think this is accurate at all, the worst calculator for me so far, although I get quite different results on all of them. Calculators feel quite pointless at this stage with inconsistent results. How is 8% northern British even possible for someone with 50% Scottish ancestry? the other 50% being Irish.

71% Northern and Central Europe
16% Scandinavia
8% Northern British Isles
5% Northern Italy

Hi Albannach - They appear to have put some of your Northern British Isles into Scandinavia. Also Northern and Central Europe is Irish, British and German.

These are my results:

68% Northern and Central Europe
21% Northern British Isles
11% Scandinavia

**Albannach** · 01-15-2018, 03:49 PM

Wow 21% Northern British Isles! though to be fair I have seen Poles with twice as much as me. Not sure what the Northern British isles cluster even represents, or what makes it distinct from the Northern and Central Europe cluster? maybe some kind of Celtic/Scandinavian hybrid?

**Peterski** · 01-15-2018, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by Albannach

Wow 21% Northern British Isles! though to be fair I have seen Poles with twice as much as me.

Yeah I got 15%. Poles are the new Brits. LOL.

**oszkar07** · 01-15-2018, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by El Litvino

Yeah I got 15%. Poles are the new Brits. LOL.

The calc cant be very good, Im half British and it gives me 5 % North British ...Litvin is more British than me .

**~~kingjohn~~** · 01-15-2018, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by oszkar07

The calc cant be very good, Im half British and it gives me 5 % North British ...Litvin is more British than me .

**Peterski** · 01-15-2018, 04:00 PM

But remember that Northern and Central Europe also includes British and Irish:

Northern and Central Europe
Reference populations: British, Irish, German.

Northern British Isles
Reference populations: British, Orcadian, Scottish.

I wonder what's the difference between 1st British and 2nd British references?

**Peterski** · 01-15-2018, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by oszkar07

The calc cant be very good

Calc is good, Brexit was bad. Poles are more British than Brits!

**Peterski** · 01-15-2018, 04:03 PM

My NW Euro is apparently very Un-German. So I get North British in Gencove, Scando in K29 Geneplaza, Danish in DNA.Tribes. Instead of German. It predates the "Ostsiedlung". Probably from ancient Celts and Goths.