😂and even west African my God , you skip your African ancestors though.Dont deny you African too you weren't happy shocked.We all one percent hunting gathered blood all humans are of Africa 😂
@@emmanuelgoldspleen2905the hell are you talking about? The Romans themselves called them Keltoi, aka Celtic. Would you prefer the term Gaelic? Just curious how you're confused.
I don’t understand why people would be “scared” of their dna test results. I was surprised with a few of my outcomes, but never scared. I couldn’t wait to learn what I am made of. It’s more impressive when you learn of what you’re parents and grandparents are made of. I have a lot of mixtures in me and I love it. … Sardinia also shows up in my dad. ❤️
@@q8gyj26s This exact situation happened to my father. It’s terrible, and still a process, but my dad says that it’s better to know the truth than to continue living as someone that you’re not. Also, finding out that my grandfather is not my dad’s father has saved one of my sister’s life. Instead of her being a pin cushion and doctors searching. We were able to identify a trait that runs on the newly found grandfather’s line that is active in my sister. It’s a pain, but the truth has to be learned somehow now that the technology is available. If there’s any new truths for anyone to learn. Stay strong. My dad is nearly 70 years old and had a blow to him that was never expected. Initially, he was taking it really bad, but he’s coming around.
You have some of the Southeast USA Mix with the Sardinia, Cypriot and African (Benin and Togo). A lot of people with this mix are descendents of Indentured Servants who settled in Colonial Virginia in the 1600's. Scots, Irish and English from Europe and others perhaps from Sardinia, Cyprus and Benin and Togo all came together pre slavery and worked as indentured servants on tobacco plantations in Tidewater Virginia. They lived together and intermarried producing this mix in people with colonial Virginia and Carolinas lineage.
@@LAtheYoung61 Here is a piece on the Melungeon's that kind of sum's up how this mix got started: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon. You might also google out the "Atlantic Creoles" and "early Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia". Up to 75% of white immigrants to early Virginia and the Carolina's were indentured servants from the British Isles and Germany who worked and lived on Tobacco Plantations alongside Native American's and African's in the 1600's and this was all "before" slavery became the main thing in the 1700's involving African's when indentured servitude of European's and Native America's dropped off. These early mixed race families moved away from Tidewater Virginia in groups. One group moved down the Carolina's and into the deep south (a part of this is the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina. A 2nd group moved westward into AppalachIa (SW Virginia, NE North Carolina, NE Tennessee and SW Kentucky) and it is this 2nd group that became known as the "Melungeons" and the 3rd group followed the Quakers out of Virginia in the very early 1800's into Ohio and Indiana. Over the next 200 years these groups intermarried with recently arrived whites and each generation got whiter especially the northern branch (I am descended from this branch) and the Melungeon's and the southern branch as well. If you have a membership to MyHeritage they have a genetic group called "Southern USA" in which most people of this genetic group are descendents of these early indentured servants. Also, Many Englishmen first moved to Barbado's in the early 1600's where there was a strong Native American slave trade partly run by the Dutch and the men intermarried with these women and these families founded Charleston, South Carolina. Other's from the south of this mix were Loyalists during the American Revolution and after the war settled in Pennsylvania and Southern Ontario where they intermarried with Pennsylvania Dutch families (some of my ancestors as well). All of this is just starting to be pieced together with the developments of DNA. People of this mix usually have British Isles, French Huguenot, Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry with perhaps a little Iberian (Portuguese and Spanish), a little Native American (possibly South American from the Dutch slave trade), preslavery African (a lot have the Benin/Togo) and other odd mixes such as Basque, Sardinian, Balkan, Cypriot (allegedly marooned Turkish and Portuguese sailors left on the coast of the Carolina's who intermarried native women and moved inland.
@@LAtheYoung61 look into melungeons. I have West African, North African ( Egyptian), Arabian/Levant. They were mixed with a bunch of things... depending on the lines. Portuguese, Anatolia/Western Asian, African ( countries varies), Indigenous, Shepardic Jew... literally mixed
@@marieO07 Everyone from Britain and Ireland has Celtic roots. The English have the most Germanic DNA at around 30%, but still calling them Anglo-Saxon is a misnomer. They English gene pool is still majority Celtic.
Who isn't my ancestors from Europe too .I'm mix race colored .I look too fair brown hair , had blue eyes as baby change too light brown.our ancestors were Vikings alright and Anglo Saxon , Celtic, Nordic I'm partly from Southern African cause of Jan van riebeeck was enslaving Khoisan people and sleeping 😂with his khoi women 😂.Europe had spread globally all over thd the world India, Indonesia, australia, new Zealand , china , japan , africa etc.nothing new that all humans can have celtic blood😂
As a half Greek Cypriot myself, just something that might help familiarize you more with what Cyprus is, it was the first stop of the Apostle Paul's ministry outside of Israel on his trip around the Greek world in spreading the good news of the Savior Jesus Christ, it's mentioned in the Bible in Acts 13, all the best on your journey discovering more about your heritage!
I always enjoy watching Americans' ancestry results. They always have a large mixture of different countries. After I did my test, I got my American father (African American)to do a test and my Irish mother to test. My father came back as predominantly Cameroon,followed by Nigerian, followed by English, then a bunch of other stuff in Africa and Europe. My mother came back as 100% Irish (despite having a Scottish surname, which I suppose isn't that uncommon here in Ireland). My wife(also 100% Irish) and I tested our daughters DNA too and she came back as 88% Irish and 12% Nigerian. Our son hasn't tested yet, but he looks like he likely inherited a little more African from me, but he has flaming curly orange hair and blue eyes, unlike my daughter who has jet black hair and green eyes. Both my wife and I have 1 redheaded Grandparent, so I'm assuming we both have one allele for red hair despite the both of us having dark hair. As interesting as the DNA aspect is when it comes to AncestryDNA, the actual family tree research you can do,especially if you have early American heritage is insane. I was able to trace some of my father's European heritage back to the Puritan migration in the 1600s. I was also able to find out what our surname would be had our surname stayed along the paternal line. It would be Åkesson
Globally we all British cause if British colonization all over the Africa and Europe and the far east and Arabia and middle east and America south , Mexico to north , west whatsoever cause the British like to control . China , Indonesia etc . Egypt, west Africa , etc .
Hello, I took the DNA test and it came out. 70% Native American 🇺🇸 10% Mesoamerican and Andean 10% canada and russia 10% ethnicities Italy Brazil China I was surprised by my DNA test 😱 my grandparents are natives of the USA who emigrated to South America I didn't know anything about this 😂 I now have American nationality and live in New York🇺🇸😊
@@theoctoberredhead I wouldn’t take the results too literally. I did the same test 2 years ago. The results from then to now due to Ancesty.dna “updates” is about 95% different to my original results. Completely different ethnic groups in my results now. And each time there is an update the results change again. I think these tests are about as accurate as getting a palm reading.
Mine was 50% Central European Jewish, through my mother. It was 31% Scottish, 18 % Irish, and 1% Germanic European through my father. Very accurate as my Mother’s family are Hungarian and Jewish.
Hey, my maternal family is part Cypriot as well! And the percentages from Africa and the Aegean Islands as well as Sardinia and Italy are probably all coming from the same ancestor. A lot of Cypriots also get Italian DNA results and Southern Italians often get Greek and Middle Eastern readings. So all that combined probably comes from your Italian grandfather.
@@theoctoberredhead you African too😅.Don't skip your African ancestors great grandad travelled out of west Africa as slaves to America that is really crazy ain't it😂.I'm south african mix race mainly south east Asia, european , british all of Britain irish ,Scottish,english and German, Dutch, Netherlands and bushman hunting gathered of south africa i wonder if you west african bantu blood then i must have it too❤
Well technically Italians do not have African DNA so not really. What I see that its mainly Americans that have that West African DNA actually. Europeans do not have that. The simple explanation is slavery. I as 100% European do not have any African at all. America is different then many other places because its so mixed. Because West Africans, natives and all kind of Europeans went there. Especially nowadays there are all kinds of people in America, from Chinese to India to African to Europe. My ancestors barely mixed and if they did it was with neighboring countries XD
This is really cute:) I love that you want to integrate your family's cultural practices into your lifestyle, such a great way to honor your heritage. As others have said about your Italian ancestry, the family member that originated from there probably descended from other people who came from similar areas close by. The same way people today move for jobs, people migrated back then for other opportunities, or because of war or weather related disasters. I remember a professor in college saying to think of people migrating through time like just people moving further down the beach one day, over time it adds up to a lot of distance. Best of luck in your research!
As a red haired blue eyed 1%'er I really should get my DNA done. I can't believe Zack wasn't over top of you likea hawk when you got those results.. good for you hun. Y'all have a great time abroad. - Surry Virginia
I’m Scottish and Irish and when I first saw this video I thought that you had At least some Scottish or Irish in you judging from your physical looks….
@@steveboy7302 and yes British man that came to America and destroyed the Native red Indian took their land .Yes the also bring African slaves to America too work on cotton farms and do hard labour raped and slept with west African men and women yes children were born in those times .They have at least 1 or 10 percent black blood from Africa.Yes you are not scientist or did check all the white Americans genes.You will surprise what you find even Native red Indian and mexican Spanish blood🤣
Remember half’s . Your part African ! I’d think that would make you want to know how that happened and when ! Beautiful part of the world . Congratulations
If you add up your southern Italian, Sardinian, Aegean Islands, and anything else around the Mediterranean. That is probably your "Italian". I have a varied family, I have some 100% Irish cousins, 100% Norwegian cousins. But never 100% Italian cousins. Look at the other cousins in common who are Italian and look at their mix. I have great aunt's and uncle's who are supposed to be 100% Italian and they are mixed with everything and anything around the Mediterranean lol. A lot of history of people coming and going.
You’ll figure out where by doing your tree . When you find a relative google their name and place and date in that place . Then you figure out your stories and how and why your family moved .
Sardinia is an island that is part of Italy. Sardinians have their own language which is much closer to Latin than other modern Romance languages. Sardinian autosomal DNA is quite unique. Your Italian ancestry would be represented by Southern Italy, Sardinia, Aegean, and Cyprus. Italians can cluster with Greeks, and Cypriots.
I'm 7% Benin and Togo, 4% England and Northwestern Europe, 2% Scotland, 1% Sweden and Denmark, 1% Germanic Eurpoe. We're pretty much sisters if you squint your eyes hard enough 😂 lol.
Your Cyprus, Sardinia, Aegean Islands are probably all via Southern Italy… possibly also your Benin & Togo. Though that is more likely, in your case, to be from Colonial America. Great mix :)
Age-ans pronounced Aegean is Greek … the Greeks traded for centuries with west Africa it’s noted in the Cretan history especially in Knossos I must admit I was wondering if you would have some Russian or Uzbek as there they have a sizeable red haired population and your features do look very central Asian … but from your dna you are very Celtic Scottish Welsh northern France and Irish … it’s always your smallest percentage dna that highlights ones features … also research green eyes
In regards to he 'Italian' part of your autosomal DNA, you can add the 3% Cyprus and the 2% Sardinian and 1% Aegean Island under the South Italian . South Italy was largely settled by Ancient Greeks, around the Iron Age. SO in a way it could be said that you're 11% South Italian or it could also be seen as 5% South Italy and 6% 'Mediterranean Islander', since both Sardinian and Cyprus and Aegean populations share quite a bit of a common, ancient Early European Farmer (EEF) related roots w/ one another. And you could even probably separate them a bit , Sardinian as 'West Mediterranean islander' and Cyprus and Aegean as 'East Mediterranean Islander', since Cyprus and Aegean population also has some 'East Mediterranean' ancestral component in their mix, which is somewhat closer to Levant, (in the case of Cyprus) and West Asian/Anatolian (in the case of the Aegean). No one component is total 100% isolates, it's all about 'gradients' like a continuum.
You explained this so well. I have 100% Irish cousins, 100% Norwegian cousins, but my Italian cousin's are always a mix of the Mediterranean and sometimes little bits of other things.
Yeah partly. I can see some of that for sure. But when she said she has a little bit of Italian, that makes sense too. Faces can be quite subtle. A great mix!
According to Ancestry, I am 50% England & Northwestern Europe; 38% Scotland; 4% Sweden & Denmark; 4% Norway; and 4% Wales. This is what I know, from paper trail. My paternal grandfather was born in England; my paternal grandmother was born in Scotland, her paternal grandfather was born in Ireland. my maternal grandfather was English; my paternal grandmother was Welsh and French (Quebec & France). Also, I confirmed who my maternal 2xgr-grandmother's father was on here. She was born in Wales out of Wedlock, all except her birth record has Jonathan Prothero as her father, and her name as Elizabeth Prothero (b. 1853 and parents married in 1855), except her birth reg has Prosser, with my matches I did a search for Prothero in Wales. One was a descendant of Samuel Prothero, Jonathan's brother and the other was a decedent of Jonathan's father's sister, so I say that this confirms that Jonathan is biologically Elizabeth's father.
Except, reparations have never happened in the States and likely never will. Black Americans never even got their originally promised 40 acres and a mule. Not sure what point you were trying to make.
I live in rural Australia. My results were:- *54% Scottish *25% Welsh *13% England/ Northwestern Europe *5% Irish *3% Norwegian On top of this, I had DNA matches in the UK, Canada, NZ, other parts of Australia, Kansas, Georgia, Florida, Minnesota, California, New Jersey, Mississippi and Florida. Of course, I've never heard of these people, but there they were on the database, smiling back at me in their stills. I'm shocked that you're shocked that your so Scottish and Irish, given your red hair. I doubt that pure breed English, Scottish and Welsh people still exist.........even in England, Scotland and Wales themselves, due to soft internal borders that have enabled people to move around quite freely for centuries.
There is no such thing as pure breed English, as the hunter gatherers migrated into these lands when the ice retreated around 12,000 years ago, then the Neolithic farmers came here around 6000 years ago and they migrated across Europe from Anatolia, then around 4500 years ago the Yamna from the steppe eastern Ukraine migrated here and they replaced the Neolithic farmer population by 93% and that is who we are today. The reason i havent included any of the more recent DNA input is because the Yamna conquered pretty much the whole of Europe so the genetic differences between R1b and R1a haplogroups is very small and they both where part of the same people on the steppe before they migrated. The Roman Empire at its height what it conquered Gaul and England that is basically the map of R1b haplogroup but they couldnt conquer R1a haplogroups going into Germany which is very interesting...
@@dreddykrugernew Same for Scottish and Irish. All Europeans descend from the same threeway admixture of Proto-Indo-Europeans, Western Hunter-Gatherers and Early European Farmers and have continued to mix every since that Bronze Age admixture event (which was only 5,000 years ago).
I have 66% Irish, 20% English and 14% Welsh DNA. It’s not surprising though as my mum is from the Republic of Ireland, and my dad is English. My paternal grandmother had Welsh and English parents. At one point the result showed some Scottish DNA, but this has disappeared as they’ve refined the results.
My auntie's Ancestry had 100% Scottish but now 98% since the update. (We're in Scotland). DNA research in 2019 by Edinburgh University showed people in Scotland lived in the same area as their direct ancestors from the dark ages and hadn't moved around much.
@@kev1n726 Scotland has the highest hunter gatherer DNA of the British Isles, what is strange is that the Irish Scotti came over and conquered the Picts at the same time Anglo Saxons where conquering England so it was a busy time on the islands back then. Fast forward 1500 years a lot of the Scottish return to Ireland with a different religion to the native Irish and all hell breaks loose...
I'm 32% Scottish too, says the DNA test, given that my ancestry is 7/8 the Scottish seems a bit low, but fair enough there's British Isles there as well and disentangling the races on these Islands is going to be tricky. What I can't explain is my 17% Eastern European.
Fun fact: Any admixture percentage you get on these tests is at most from 8-10 generations back. The reason is that admixture from 8 or more generations back no longer is part of your admixture or hardly even shows up and has such little bearing. Here is an admixture to ancestor ratio for you all so that you get an idea: 50% admixture = Parents 25% (For example it says you are 25% Irish or something) = Grandparents 12.5% =Great Grandparents 6.25% = 2nd Great grandparents So basically it gets halved each generation until something like lets say 0.4% would be from your 6th great grandparents. Oh also, this is the reason I personally like Haplogroups and tracing Haplogroups myself instead of admixture. Because Admixture is basically just saying you look like these people today or those people over there or whatever. But it doesn't really tell you anything about the history of your ancestors, how they spread across the world, where they were a thousand years ago or anything like that. With Haplogroups you get more "history" about your grandfathers fathers fathers fathers fathers.... line all the way back to maybe where he could have been a long time ago. Anyway I hope you all have fun no matter the reason.
My Mom’s Dad Is Irish,and Sicilian But Sicily Has A Confusing History so The Sicilian People Will Sometimes Have A Bit Of Other Things In Their DNA Like Greek,Bosnian,African Or Arab!!❤️
Ethnicities are not the same as nationalities. Country borders are political, not ethnic. Each of the DNA companies divide up the geographical areas differently. On AncestryDNA, the Scotland geographic area now includes Northern Ireland, the northern third of England, and down into Brittany in France. I hope you'll continue your research and build a family tree. I enjoyed your video. Good presentation.
I got 25% scottish on mine so are you saying some of that could be northern Ireland? I recently went to both of those countries and the beauty awes me I truly felt home in both of those places!
@@FollowerOFtheNAZARENE Yes. The ethnicity estimates were originally intended to tell where your ancestors lived 500 to 1000 years ago, before inter-continental travel. Since there are no living people that old, each of the DNA companies create reference populations based on living users who claim that all four grandparents were born in a specific place. Each of the DNA companies update their reference panels from time to time as they get more users and can refine their algorithms. Some modern country names did not even exist 500 to 1000 years ago, and people migrated without regard to imaginary borders. Like you, I've been lucky enough to travel to England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. These are truly beautiful places. I got to see the little Quaker church in Northern Ireland where my ancestors lived before immigrating to America. But I suspect he was not ethnically Celtic. If you're on AncestryDNA, you can build as many research trees as you want for free. Best wishes.
My mother is from Galicia in Spain, while my dad is of French heritage. My grandfather on my mother's side is from Italy... I think I have red hair after my dad, as his sister have it too... 😮
Thanks for sharing. It's a big world. I don't have woes about finding family members. I know who they were. Yet I still want to see what Scottish percentage I get someday. Just because.
I’m 39% English&Northwestern European,26% Danish&Swedish,13% Irish,8% Scottish,5% Norwegian,2% Bosnian,2% Southern Italian Which Is From Calabria&Sicily In Southern Italy, 1% Sardinian which Is from Sardinia In Southwestern Italy,1% Jewish which Is From Central Europe,1% Welsh Which Is From Wales Is Britain,1% Lebanese Which Is from Lebanon In Asia,and 1% Senegalese Which Is From Senegal In Africa,and I’m A Ginger!!🧑🏻🦰
I have 1% Russian 1% English 15% Irish and Scottish 25% Scandinavian 36% German and 46% eastern European polish and Romanian. But I wish I had more Greek and Arabian instead of German, Irish and English.
I'm from Northern Ireland with English dad, catholic Irish grandfather and protestant Irish grandmother if you ever decide to come over for a trip I can recommend some places to go 😊 it's easy enough to travel between Southern Ireland, Northern Ireland and mainland England and Scotland
@@marieO07 your the one who decided to comment on my post from a month ago. You were also rude and and didn't need to bother saying anything. Your what's wrong with the world.
Pretty much all Scottish have Viking and btw, your Italian , no Italian are full Italian remember the Romans and slavery and also the invasion of the moors , so you African is as likely from the invasion as from you being descended from a slave, just for the person that thinks that , though both is possible my great grandmother was one of the brides that married English in Victorian times she was from kentucky and Virginia , so mine could be either too, though mine is Nigerian so more likely slavery , mytrue ancestry also tells you your royal ancestry as a European you for sure have at least a little, I have a lot
A lot of southern Italians match with Island Greeks, at least it says that in 23andme’s descriptions of regions, so that might be the association there. You might not have ancestry from those islands and it might be the southern Italian (which you know you have) coming up with that result d/t statistics
so many people have said that. i’m seeing sardinia and aegean islands on my italian family matches as well so i think it’s safe to say i can count those two ethnicity groups as italian.
@@theoctoberredhead it’s such an interesting puzzle haha. I submitted my sample a few weeks ago and got the results, & now piecing through everything has been so much fun & a lot to learn about the world and history!
It’s A Gee un . Like gee whiz ! We have similar ethnicities but I don’t have the Greek Sardinia or Africa! You would never guess benign and Togo Cyprus is a Greek island
