Clovis Merovingian
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Meta-Ethnicity: Anglo-American
Ethnicity: Deep Southerner
Country: My State and my Region are my country
Region: The Deep South
Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
Taxonomy: Borreby/Alpine/ Nordid mix
Y-DNA: R-S660/R-DF109
mtDNA: T1a1
Politics: Conservative
Religion: Christian
Hero: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk
Age: 30
Philosophy: I try to find out what is true as best I can.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Jun 4, 2018 8:03:30 GMT
So the 23andMe DNA test yielded results that are not that surprising. I'm about equal parts British and Irish and Britain and France. However the most interesting result from my test is that I have 12% Scandinavian blood. The country that the test comes back to is Sweden. I know of no Scandinavian ancestors that I have but the ancestry of my mother's biological father is unknown save that her mother said he was "of German and Irish ancestry" which is a common lineage in the heavily German and substantially Irish Pennsylvania. However Pennsylvania is also in close proximity to the former New Sweden colony in the colonial era and its not impossible that I have ancestors from that colony. Anyways the problem is that the ancestry.com test does not list Scandinavian DNA as anything but trace low confidence regions. So can anyone who knows anything about these tests tell me the likelihood that I actually have Scandinavian ancestors?
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Post by Διαμονδ on Jun 4, 2018 9:28:39 GMT
This is the result of the invasion of the Vikings..
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Clovis Merovingian
Prestige/VIP
Elder
Posts: 2,689
Likes: 1,757
Meta-Ethnicity: Anglo-American
Ethnicity: Deep Southerner
Country: My State and my Region are my country
Region: The Deep South
Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
Taxonomy: Borreby/Alpine/ Nordid mix
Y-DNA: R-S660/R-DF109
mtDNA: T1a1
Politics: Conservative
Religion: Christian
Hero: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk
Age: 30
Philosophy: I try to find out what is true as best I can.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Jun 4, 2018 9:34:02 GMT
This is the result of the invasion of the Vikings.. Oh, well... I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand I"M DESCENDED FROM FREAKING VIKINGS!  On the other hand, I hope my Viking ancestors asked for consent first and y'know, didn't rape anybody. I am a bit confused though; the Vikings in Britain were Danish and Norwegian, not Swedish. The Swedes would mostly have been hanging out around your neck of the woods. |
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Post by AmericanCharm on Jun 4, 2018 9:52:22 GMT
This is pretty common for people of British/Irish desent, it is most likely as Diamond stated a result from Viking invasions. For me I had no Scandinavian in my test results despite being nearly half British.
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On the other hand, I hope my Viking ancestors asked for consent first and y'know, didn't rape anybody. I am a bit confused though; the Vikings in Britain were Danish and Norwegian, not Swedish. The Swedes would mostly have been hanging out around your neck of the woods.