Why do the English pass better in the Isles than anywhere else?

[Oliver109]

Depends what you mean by pure. If having 16/16 English great great grandparents counts, not at all rare, especially in the older generations.

I mean going back at least 3-400 years or rather as long as one can trace their ancestors so maybe from the early 19th century.

[ecptr]

based on all the Dutch MPs on the webpage they look more similar to the English (both in colouring and facial features) than to Danes.

[Creoda]

I mean going back at least 3-400 years or rather as long as one can trace their ancestors so maybe from the early 19th century.

All I can say is I had no problem finding hundreds of people with fully English gedcoms going back 4-6 generations, or as far as they documented. At a guess they were at least half of those I found whose parents were born in England.

[Oliver109]

All I can say is I had no problem finding hundreds of people with fully English gedcoms going back 4-6 generations, or as far as they documented. At a guess they were at least half of those I found whose parents were born in England.

Thats interesting, where was this?

[Creoda]

Thats interesting, where was this?

From gedmatch.com, randomly finding family trees through DNA matches. The database skews baby boomer because they are mainly the ones into genealogy. I had much more trouble finding English people with genealogy fully from one region or county (what I was looking for), but even that is not that uncommon. The POBI study was based on thousands (tens of thousands?) of English people with genealogy specific to one county - so it can't have been that hard to source.

[Oliver109]

From gedmatch.com, randomly finding family trees through DNA matches. The database skews baby boomer because they are mainly the ones into genealogy. I had much more trouble finding English people with genealogy fully from one region or county (what I was looking for), but even that is not that uncommon. The POBI study was based on thousands (tens of thousands?) of English people with genealogy specific to one county - so it can't have been that hard to source.

That's really interesting, what proportion would you say were dark Brits i.e with alpine or med features?

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

That's really interesting, what proportion would you say were dark Brits i.e with alpine or med features?

This actually made me laugh out loud. If I didn't know better, I'd think that was high-level humor.

[~Elizabeth~]

I don't know the difference in appearance between English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish. I've never been to the British Isles. Maybe it would help me understand the differences if you posted photos. I have some ancestry from England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (Ulster Scot).

[Anglo-Celtic]

Depends what you mean by pure. If having 16/16 English great great grandparents counts, not at all rare, especially in the older generations.

I wonder how that would translate to Americans of English descent. Going by that model, I might be a sixteenth pure English.

[Anglo-Celtic]

I don't know the difference in appearance between English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish. I've never been to the British Isles. Maybe it would help me understand the differences if you posted photos. I have some ancestry from England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (Ulster Scot).

You don't have one known ancestor from the Republic of Ireland? I have links to all five countries on all four sides, so my gene pool is like a map of most of the British Isles (not much eastern English or western Irish).