I was put up for adoption and i took one of these tests. 2 hours after I got my results back I was talking on the phone to my sister who was also put up for adotion. we had never seen each other. that was only last Sunday.
Congratulations on finding your sister! How exciting for you both. I hope you get to meet, hit it off and continue to be in contact for the rest of your life. Good luck. 🍀
My mom thought her dad's line was Scottish because he was born in Scotland. When she started her genealogy, she quickly discovered her grandfather was from Ireland and moved to Scotland. No one lied or kept it a secret, it was just something she wasn't aware of growing up.
He is Scottish, Northern Ireland and Scottish people have the same DNA, NI was planted by Scots in the 1600's. I am 70% Scots Irish, Originally the Scots were Irish, you can see Scotland from NI, same people, same DNA.
Yes, also called Ulster Scots. They went from N.I. to Scotland and then back to N.I. They've been back for hundreds of years but protestant rather than Catholic, which is a lot of what The Troubles were about.
I'm from Northern Ireland, during the plantation there was thousands of Scots who came here, many married native women, I find it hard to believe that there would be any real difference in the NI and Scots DNA, to go even further back, the Scots were Irish who went to Scotland, as Billy Connolly puts it "The Scots were a mentally ill Irish tribe who found somewhere even colder and wetter than Ireland". I know McWhirters in NI, they may of been here hundreds of years, but their ancestor would of come from Scotland.
I was given a DNA kit for my birthday, (65th) last year, brought up in an English orphanage, hadn't a clue who my parents were.through the results we traced my mother to Canada ,she had passed away, and my father to new mexico,also passed away, I'm in touch with my american family who didn't have a clue I existed. AMAZING results.I've know got close relatives all over north america.trying to work out am I English or what ???
John Schroeter ,hi john,of course your right, my ancestry is northern European, English/Scottish on my mothers side, English/ German on my father's side, I think my point is if I had been born in either Canada or the US then my roots would have been the same whatever, but having parents that have no recent connection to England or Europe ,and would give there nationality as north american ,I'm heading out to america this autumn (fall ) ,and really looking forward to it.
hey? have i seen you on another youtube comment before or did you do a vid of your results? i think my question was. "a canadian and american parents how did you end up being english"? My saying is "DNA is what you are made of, Culture and upbringing is who you are"
You traced your mother to Canada, but when did she go to Canada? After you were born? I would also venture an educated guess that if your father was an American, that he was a member of the US military and most likely US Air Force or possibly US Navy. If you traced your mother to Canada, ,then where did her parents originate? Odds are that they are most likely English/British.
Hi, we think my mother ( Irish by birth) emigrated to Canada a few months after I was born, my mothers family , mum dad and 5 sisters move from Ireland to the south of England in the mid 1930s, my father as you correctly guessed was in the US airforce, based in the London area, he stayed in England for nearly 7 years before heading back to New Mexico, this March I meet up with my Canadian brother in Corpus Christi Texas, my wife and myself were due to head out to Ontario and stay with my brother for a couple of weeks, that’s now been put on hold till the new year (2021) hope that fills some of the gaps, I appreciate your interest, regards Mark Lane,
I´m Icelandic and I can trace my ancestry back 31 generation back here in Iceland (as in all were born in Iceland), as well as generation 32 and 33 back to Norway. That´s pretty solidly Icelandic to me. However I know that Iceland was settled mostly by Norwegian/Danish (Scandinavian) men, up to 2/3 parts. And that a similiar portion of the women where of British/Irish stock, most of them slaves. I´ve been interested in taking such a DNA-test but I´ve never done it PRECICELY because I don´t like the idea of some company having my entire genetic code.
Funny story. A few years ago I did the Ancestry test and I ended up seeing a lot of Irish and no Scottish heritage. Gosh - my mom was wrong! Or was she? Fast forward to an update in the last year, I log in at the beginning of 2021 and lo and behold there is Scottish being represented. 🤷🏻♀️ This man’s dad could’ve been correct the whole time. I wonder how his ancestry update turned out.
It isn't so much how badly history is taught in the US. Various school systems for various reasons would like to leave certain things out of US history because it is horrible. They think that not talking about the horrible stuff means people can move on. They think that talking about all of US history will create a certain type of tension in race relations. White people did some fucked up things to a whole lot of people in the past including each other. The motto for the US is to sweep it under the rug, act like it didn't happen and move on.
There is nothing funnier than following a group of American tourists, there's always a loud 'expert' who happily reinvents the history. My latest favourite was in Rome where an idiot was loudly explaining that the colloseum had all those windows without glass because they filled it with water and had no plug so had to drain the water out of the stone arches in case the spectators drowned. The Colloseum, biggest bathtub in history.
tweetie pie I’m not sure I believe that story, but if you’re telling the truth, then did you ever consider the fact that perhaps the guy wasn’t being serious?
The Irish and Scottish share a common origin. When King James cleared out the original Irish in N.Ireland, many Scots, English and even French Hugonauts migrates into the area. Before 1600, there is a good chance his ancestors were living in the Lowlands of Scotland.
@Peacelily More correctly Anglo-Saxon as the lowlands were settled by them, the English themselves are a mixture. In parts of Cumbria they spoke old Welsh until as late as the 14th C.
My family history also mentions a Cherokee woman. I was born and raised in So Cal, but my mother and her family came from Texas. I found a book about the TX county where my maternal grandparents came from and it mentions them by name (GF born 1875 and GM born 1880) along with other family members and a brief history. It also mentions a Cherokee ancestor.
I found out that I am not Scottish either! I am actually French on three sides of my family! Plus I have never thought that I was Native American but I am! Sachems and chiefs and everything! Crazy! My mother even has an Indian name and I never put it together. She is even born in Oklahoma. Did not know we got there on the Trail of Tears. I actually wondered if I had Mexican or African blood since I can get so tan
Has this fellow never heard of "Ulster Scots"? And just because many Ashkenazi Jewish folk today share ancestors with you- does NOT mean your ancestor was Jewish! At all! Rather it means that the Ashkenazi Jewish population have many connections to German ancestory. "Ashkenazi" literally means "German Jewish", and these common ansetors occured thousans of years ago....in the case of the Ulster Scots- they WERE Scots- imported into Ireland about 250 years ,[so recently ], before they migrated to the US. That is not long enough to lose your identity as a Scot - and the native Irish [understandably ] had not forgotten either!
He’s missed the social history. Scots were enticed to Ireland to take up free land and opportunities. The plantation of Ireland by the British. His father was more than likely right . It’s just that his family tree was probably only documented for 200 years and he needed to go back 300 years. He needs to use another DNA service to help reveal the history further. Ancestry.com is a bit blunt.
Wasn’t just Jewish population that they changed names, I had a friends from Poland, when they came through Ellis Island, the ones in charge shortened their names to easy spelling & pronounced. Please remember, we are all members of the Human Race, and hence related to each other!! Be proud of who you are! 🇨🇦🇨🇦💐✝️☮️
If you go back far enough, a lot of people changed their names or ended up with a surname that was a nickname. My family is from Azores, Portugal, and besides Portuguese ancestors, there were settlers in the area who were Sephardic Jews, Flemish, Dutch, Celtic, etc. My grandfather's last name was Dutra. Likely a misspelling / shortening of De Utrecht or D'Utrecht (which means from Utrecht, Netherlands/Holland directly or indirectly via a Flemish ancestor of the Van Huerter family -- which became De Huerter etc). There are people with green or blue eyes and varying shades of blonde hair on that side of my family. I also know someone who shortened their longer Romanian name to something simpler when they immigrated to Canada.
It is not just science. It took a lot of hard work on the part of our predecessors in creating and verifying family trees and busting the myths before hand. That including DNA testing in various locations around the world verifying that information or disproving the information in those records used to substantiate the family trees, etc. It is not scientific wizardry, but a lot of hard research and scholarship. I would venture to state that if this persons family was Irish, that they were probably Scottish before they were Irish, and that their family migrated through what is now Northern Ireland. You should note that then (when this report was done) as well as now that when those results were listed as Irish/Scottish.
But wasn't there a massive influx of Scottish people into Northern Ireland at some point long ago and wouldn't that mean that his Northern Irish ancestors could very well have been of Scottish descent? This ambiguity reveals the weakness of this type of testing.
The speaker's father was undoubtedly of staunchly Protestant stock in N. Ireland. The family name certainly indicates that - Ulster-Scots Presbyterian. His people would have been ardent enemies of Catholicism, especially in the north of Ireland. It was their reason d'etre. So, it is not at all ironic or surprising that his father hated Notre Dame. It is exactly what anyone with a knowledge of the history of Ulster and Ireland would expect. The speaker is betraying his own ignorance.
He's exactly right about why most people have a DNA test done. I have a cousin that was obsessed about our family being part Native American so she had the test. We are Irish, English and German. Good enough for me but our black hair, dark complexion had her convinced it was Native American.
this makes me again wish I could be on that show Finding Your Roots, sadly with such a common last name we have never been able to find out a lot about my dads side of the family on my grandpas side
Scots Irish are usually lowland Scots transplants, Jewish is part Of every world culture except the Inuit and if you looked hard enough you'll probably find at least a few Inuit/ Jewish mixes!
I took AncestryDNA and my results are shocking none of the family I was aware of came up not one name do I recognize I even have Native American in my DNA meaning it’s a close Grandparent this is shocking and the thought of my ancestry journey is breathtaking
@@RWebster325 a relative that came up that I didn’t know had been tracing for years n she gave me info to start off bc I was stuck n all lead back to my maternal grandparents followed by birth certificates of my mother n grandmother n descendants of my great great grandfather but for my dad all I have is my mothers words n a possible step brother that were communicating w me until I asked for a sibling dna then all communication stopped could be the royalties idk but that’s not my purpose identity that’s a huge secret is important to me but I’m stuck n have no help so I gave up..I need to know who I am but no need w o further info
@@LadyBug-yu9je Good for you. Unlike many others on this type of journey, you at least started out with a plan. I have seen so many others that were more than clueless since they did not have anything to compare against. Tell you what, if you are still interested in trying to break through that brick wall that you have come up against contact me on Ancestry.com (RobertWebster58) and I will see what I can do to assist.
@@RWebster325 I sure will bc I really need to know atleast who the other half of me and my mom as of The 19th will have been passed on 2yrs and she didn’t talk and would not y’all accept the little she gave me repeatedly therefore I really need help thank you
Sorry to tell this fellow this but northern Ireland Protestants descended from Scotts the Brits moved there to take over their land for sheep grazing. The term my ancestors from northern Ireland used was Scotts-Irish. They were Irish who descended from Scotts.
@@Dandelionfleur Thanks for feedback. Should have been more precise in my question. Are Family DNA test results like Ancestry, etc. admissible as evidence in court, or do they impose a higher bar, thus requiring a more stringent and rigorous test at possibly a higher cost?
@@PuchoWebSolutions They can now use DNA to match criminals to family members. That is how they caught the Golden Gate killer, they used his DNA found at the scene and uploaded it to the Ancestry data-base, they found a cousin and then went from there eliminating other family members until they found him. It is not hard to do this now, they are using it all the time and catching criminals who have committed crimes years ago. They are admissible in court as DNA can not lie, unless you are an identical twin.
One lie that keeps getting perpetuated is that the customs officers changed people's names at Ellis Island. They absolutely did not ever do that. The name that the person gave as they boarded the ship in the old country is the name they were admitted to the US with. Names may have been changed by the owners of those names either before they left or after they arrived. But not by government officials at Ellis Island.
My mother always knew where her lineage and culture was from...two DNA labs later, and she was absolutely correct; Portuguese and Spaniard. Now my dad has been a little more difficult to pinpoint, but I might truly have indigenous roots from the Caribbean on paternal side. I love my blending from both parents.
Cameron is a Scottish family name, not an Irish one. His ancestors were most likely Ulster-Scots - Scottish Presbyterians who settled in the north of Ireland to displace the native Catholic Irish in the early 1600s.
This lady is worried about the security of her DNA. She doesn't reaize that if someone really wanted her DNA, they need only grab a glass she has used, a fork, a shoe of hers, anything that has been relatively intimate to her; conceptually, they could vacuum her DNA up in her office. The they spend the same $100 you do to get the fancy DNA file.
Sure, but that would not be voluntary. If you send in a test they use that one act to extend an assumption of willingness beyond the original intent. So this is an issue because of legal shenanigans on the part of government.
Do you have any proof of this happening? AFAIK the companies who do this testing have a lot more at stake in being honest about their work than they could possibly gain by scamming anyone or even any thousand people. they also don't have anything to do with the government. No one of them comptrols enough of the market to make it likely their input alone would be enough. I think you are just bit by the conspiracy bug.
I don’t really trust these tests, I did two: Ancestry said 6% Ireland/Scotland/Wales and then I did MyHeritage and it came back as 42.5% Ireland/Scotland/Wales..... so um yeah that’s a big jump.
I trust Ancestry because I already knew my family tree on one side back to 1700 and the other side I knew some of it, and the Ancestry DNA results matched with most of what I already knew, with a few surprises like small percentages of Finnish, Asian, and Jewish.
I also trust Ancestry because I, my mother, two of my sisters and a paternal uncle did tests through them at different times with different names eg married names. We also knew my father's side had cousins in SF. My mother came up in my results teo years after my test as "PY" is your Mother! My father's cousin as my 2nd cousin and his daughter and granddaughter as my 3rd and 4th cousins. That was a known fact. My 2 sisters, maternal uncle and maternal cousin came up correctly after they did tests at various times also.
i trust ancestry more then myheritage. ancestry has a way bigger database more regions. plus myheritage does not show any of my European ancestry at all and i do have some.
The ancestor from Northern Ireland was probably indeed Scottish - Ulster Scots descended from Scottish Presbyterian "panters" who displaced the native Catholic Irish in the early decades of the 1600s. All the Irish-American US presidents except John F. Kennedy were Ulster Scots.
The “Mc” prefix is a shorten form of “Mac”. As is M’ or M. When looking at written records you will discover they were all interchangeable. Once records became computerized they stuck.
Wow,done my DNA with Ancestry.com,best money spent+now have new family in the USA,I.m in the UK but as the gentleman said,upon entry into the USA,changed their faith,they were Jewish but put they were Christians😥Interesting he said it was better to say you were Scottish rather than Irish,thought the Irish were welcome,I am half Irish.
There used to be a lot of anti-Catholic discrimination in the US, whereas White Anglo-Saxon Protestants ran the establishment. Many US presidents up until the early 20th century were Ulster-Scots Presbyterians. Most Irish were Catholic, but the speaker's family was undoubtedly of staunchly anti-Catholic, Ulster-Scots, Protestant lineage. So, it makes perfect sense to me that the first ancestor from that background landing in America would not wish to be tainted by the Irish Cathoicism which he probably loathed anyway and would seek to benefit from being associated with British Protestantism, and so put down largely Protestant Scotland as his place of birth.
He makes a few factual errors of assumption. Some are addressed already in the comments below. One glaring error is the misunderstanding that these commercially available tests “map your entire genome.” They, in fact, do not. It is also entirely possible to be related by birth to distant ancestors in the paper records but not have that show up in these tests due to the genetic shuffling that takes place with every generation. However, I’ve done two of the most popular tests and am pleased with the amount of information we do receive. These are tools but one must still do your due diligence. And the family tree information on sites like Ancestry are only as good as the careful (or not) data that people put in them. You have to be a very good detective.
Northern Ireland is Scottish or Scott-Irish. England took their land for sheep grazing and moved them off to Ireland but yes originally they WERE Scottish. That is why they are not Catholic.
The Ulster Plantation began in the first decade of the 1600s. James Leyburn wrote a book on the subject of the “Scotch” or more correct Scots-Irish. The reason Northern Ireland is part of the UK and Ireland is not, is because NI is predominantly Protestant while Ireland is Catholic. My surname has English origins even though I have documented my ancestors lived in NI as early as 1608. I also have French Hugonaut DNA, so Northern Ireland had a lot of immigrants from Scotland, England and different parts of Europe.
The one thing I learned from getting my DNA results is My Family had no Idea of Our true Bloodline and Roots, I had never Celebrated St. Patrick's Day, then I got my results and found out that I was almost 70% Irish, I was totally caught off guard. I've never been a fan of the Irish, never wore Green on St. Patrick's Day, but with the results, I was left to face the Facts, I'm not French, Native American, or German, it's so crazy how wrong my Family was... I am 100% European...?
@@melvawages7143 you have to trace your Family Tree, it shows through Records exactly where your Family has had Roots.... We had several Family members working on different Branches of the Family Tree, it helps to get it done a little faster... Good luck...
When I consider that a few centuries ago large numbers of the Scots tribe moved from Ireland to the land of the Picts and renamed it Scotland and some centuries after but still a few centuries ago in our past large numbers of Scots and other Brits settled in Northern Ireland his results are no surprise. Indeed it is possible that he's still Scottish, the family name suggests that he is. If there are Presbyterians on his paternal line, he's ethnically Scots. The Scots and the Irish are very interrelated, why do you think that have such a history of feuding?
If the immigrant couldn't read or write and the person filling out the paperwork didn't know how to spell it or didn't understand the accent then the spelling was changed to their interpretation.
Chinese companies are buying DNA profiles from the companies that offer DNA analysis. The companies are compiling thousands of USA citizens DNA profiles. The plan is to change the way Americans deal with health care in the future. Do you still want to have your DNA analyzed then, sold?
I could point out that the scots colonised scotland from ireland after the romans left. The native picts were Brythonic relatives of the people in England and Wales. The two are genetically identical outside of the Viking settled areas in the North..
Read Stephen Jay Gould's book, 'The mismeasure of man'....super interesting stuff....if your flk came through ellis Island....and the rampant racial discrimination of the jokers that ran Amerikan immigration...
A couple of things to note: Jews were very common in Germany going back to before the Middle Ages and over the years they intermarried with local non Jews. That is how the Ashkenazi came into existence. The other thing is that Northern Ireland was settled by Scottish people kicked out of Scotland by English invaders. If his ancestor was from Northern Ireland, there is a strong likelihood he was of Scottish descent.
Ulster Scott's were protestant lowland Scott's who immigrated to Northern Ireland. I have a Scott's Irish background and part of then are Ulster Scott's Protestants who hate the Irish Catholic and Jacobite side with great vengeance.
The testing ISN'T accurate for ethnicity. It's VERY accurate if you're trying to find close familiar matches. But ethnicity is NOT. If you have a sibling, you share the exact same ethnic heritage. But the ancestry results will be vastly different. I only share about 37% of dna with my sister, and our ethnicity estimates are completely different, even though we're full siblings. That means that we are both 1/8 native, 1/32 African, but nothing shows up for her and only African shows up for me. It ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT tell you where your ancestors came from. It just sorta guesses. They don't sample enough of your dna, they don't sample enough of an ethnicity's dna, and ethnicities aren't homogeneous enough for you to be able to identify ethnicity with one test. Some of your recent ethnicities may disappear completely just because of recombination. Mine did. And many ethnicities (like English) naturally contain subpopulations. Like an ethnic English person might have test ancestry from the Iberian peninsula and Norway, even though none of their ancestors ever left England. It's just the local admixture. In that case, if you see "Iberian" and think you're Spanish, you're wrong. You're just English. English people are generally x% Iberian or Norwegian or whatever.
I wonder if most people who take DNA test are not native American so where are the native Americans. My children have a second great grandmother who was reported native American yet no one shows native American in their generation. I have found census of the siblings of the second grandmother on a Indian reservation in Montana .
Kinda like growing up as the youngest of two children only to find out I have the second oldest of AT LEAST eight. That's right. My mother had 6 children in the late 80s and 90s and placed all of them up for adoption. On average she had a child every 2 years.
I find that also wrong, when Ancestry miss your Indigenous and North African DNA. You have paperwork that follows your family tree. If there's a paper trail then you must have Indigenous and have one 10th great grandmother African you should show a small amount of DNA. 23xandme shows my Indigenous DNA.
Perhaps that's the reason why quite new Swedish scientific study is suggesting that "Vikings" were not actually Scandinavians but their origin was from both Central Europe and Finland/Northwest Russia.
These test are also full of shyt. Examples; I am 1 of 3 triplets. We can trace our family to 1340 Scotland. Now when we did this similar test w/ ancestry. My sister, who never left Scotland, except to go to France in 2018. Ancestry said that she main heritage was 58 again and that they found someone who could be an biological child living in the states. My brother was from Top Basque region of France. And as for myself, It's showed that I came from the northern regions of Canada. Mind you all We never left Scotland until 1989
Yes it is silly to worry about your dna... like some one mentioned, if someone really wants you dna. grab her cupped she used... grab her lipstick. grab her chewing gum she threw away("Bones" reference)
I have been told that my great grandfather that came here on a boat that his parents died on the way here so another family took him in and gave him their sir name. Not sure if this is true or not.
Northern Irish ARE Scottish, they are not of Irish ethnicity. They are called Ulster Scots. This is why Northern Ireland voted to stay part of the United Kingdom, when southern Ireland wanted independence. Ulster Scots identify with Scotland, not Ireland. These differences caused all of the Irish/Northern Irish conflict, violence from the IRA, etc. This man’s father is NOT Irish, and it makes sense for him to hate Notre Dame!
These Irish immigrants came first. They were the ones who instigated the Revolutionary war. The Irish Nationist (Catholic) came as a result of the famine.
N Ireland is the original homeland of the Scots people, aka the Scottish of popular knowledge Then James 1/6 resettled Scots from the borderlands to N Ireland. Those are the Ulster Scots aka the Scots-Irish of American White colonization. So?? - you probably are Scots.
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This guy is a dolt. Jewish is a religion and so someone can still be German as a nationality if they are born in Germany. Plus the Scots originally come from Ireland.
Amerikans want to to be......the whiter the better....met a woman of Sicilian ancestry ....she toldme that her family came fm a village where everybody was norman....jejejejeje....
he had to do dna to find that out ? his mother looks jewish , very jewish in fact, as for mc verses mac, really sometimes in the 1800's mc and mac were down to who took the information down so an a could be put in the mc making it mac he looks more irish than scottish anyway , i do not see how this is shocking , so he is irish celt not scottish celt , so what ? so he is german jew not german , so what ? why does it even matter other than it means he is by jewish law now a jew , lol a human is just a human , i have all the celts in my mothers line , and romany and jewish and mexican en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_Mexican_Cultural_Society, thats how i got the mexican, you do not even want to hear how many races i have when you add in my father hahahahahaha
