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DNA update
Nov. 20th, 2018 11:45 amSo ancestry.co.uk have refined their laboratory techniques and I'm no longer 20% Scandinavian but only 2% from Norway...most disgruntled. I am no longer more Irish (42%) than British (20%) but am 30% Irish/Scots/Welsh and 68% British but as their map of Great Britain overlaps their map of Irish/Scots/Welsh by an appreciable amount, am I supposed to take it that I am, in fact, 68% English? No idea.
Also, they've removed all the tiny %s that made me interesting! No longer do I have a drop of Mediterranean or a drip of Finnish blood and my 12% Western Europe has disappeared, as well! Really odd as their map shows Great Britain as encompassing the north of France, part of Germany and all of Belgium and the Netherlands *facepalm in exasperation. I'm sure the Brexiters would be horrified by that, haha.
www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/E1321671-D7F7-4392-80B9-547F0AF674B2/transition/overview
However, my LivingDNA result has told me that our female mitochrondrial DNA line has descended from 'Velda', which is very rare in the UK and rare in Europe, except for the top of Finland, where the Sami people live (Laplanders).
I can still think fondly of my female ancestor millennia ago, who started the long migration of my mDNA from the cold wastes of the far North, via Scandinavia with the Vikings, into Ireland with the Danes, across the Irish Sea to Lancashire, about a thousand years ago, when the Irish threw the Danes out of Dublin and Belfast, and so down the centuries to me, still in Lancashire. I applaud you, 'Velda', and as there are four next generation females in my family, including my own daughter, and one of them has had a girl, 'Velda' lives on!!!
Also, they've removed all the tiny %s that made me interesting! No longer do I have a drop of Mediterranean or a drip of Finnish blood and my 12% Western Europe has disappeared, as well! Really odd as their map shows Great Britain as encompassing the north of France, part of Germany and all of Belgium and the Netherlands *facepalm in exasperation. I'm sure the Brexiters would be horrified by that, haha.
www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/E1321671-D7F7-4392-80B9-547F0AF674B2/transition/overview
However, my LivingDNA result has told me that our female mitochrondrial DNA line has descended from 'Velda', which is very rare in the UK and rare in Europe, except for the top of Finland, where the Sami people live (Laplanders).
I can still think fondly of my female ancestor millennia ago, who started the long migration of my mDNA from the cold wastes of the far North, via Scandinavia with the Vikings, into Ireland with the Danes, across the Irish Sea to Lancashire, about a thousand years ago, when the Irish threw the Danes out of Dublin and Belfast, and so down the centuries to me, still in Lancashire. I applaud you, 'Velda', and as there are four next generation females in my family, including my own daughter, and one of them has had a girl, 'Velda' lives on!!!
