ANCESTRY DNA | MY SHOCKING RESULTS

[@LaineyandBen]

This is something a little new! Have you ever done your DNA? Did you get any surprises about where you're from? Let us know in the comments below 👇 For more perks and videos from us, hit the link here and become a member ==> kzbin.info/door/vLU692Wv1T9Qjz96YVhLtgjoin

[@SherryakaWimpyRamboDoc]

I did my AncestryDNA. I’m proper British as well but born in America. Our DNA is very similar.

[@reisanderson9069]

I did this and also 23&me so has my father im Jamaican I got 89% west African 11% Scottish/England/Irish

[@charlesleonard7734]

I'm thinking of doing a DNA test to see how much of what I am since I traced my family line all the way back to the late 1400s and early 1500s and most of my family line is from the British isles,Ireland,France and Germany before it united.

[@JdeeGeekyGao]

Oh yeah did mine on ancestry a few years ago. Mostly Irish, and Maori, then Scottish, Chinese, Norway. The surprise was that I was higher in Irish than Scottish when both families made me believe otherwise. also the percentage of Maori was alot higher than I was made to believe as a kid, I thought it was like 6 or 12 but it's a full 1/4 of my DNA, and considering both my mother's parents were white. it kinda made some people in the fam uncomfortable when I was asking questions.

[@SherryakaWimpyRamboDoc]

@@charlesleonard7734 Much of my Mum’s family is from Guernsey. Family surnames are Loaring (Loring), Symes and Windsor. Let me know if you discover any of those surnames in your family.😊

[@edavissmith467]

I love your reactions to your DNA results. I'm from USA. I'm African American. I, like you, have Scotland, Wales, and Norway. 🤯 Apparently, I inherited Wales from my father and Scotland from my mother. Well, now with the updated Ethnicity Estimate: both parents have Scotland and Wales. Wales I got 2% from each parent. My mother holds the lead in Scotland with 3% and now Dad has 1%. Mom is the only parent giving me Norway...so far🤔 I'm fascinated with learning more about these places. I understand that by history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and USA participation in such business, most African Americans have European DNA. I'm blown away at how much more precise the ethnicity estimates have become over time. In 2012, my European ethnicity was Scandinavian, I think 10%. Now look at me! Thanks for sharing your experiences with DNA.

[@autumnphillips151]

If you did an AncestryDNA test, I’d recommend checking out the ranges on your results to see how reliable the estimates are. It seems to me like almost no one thinks to check them, but I think they’re very enlightening and one of the best things about AncestryDNA tests in particular. For example, my grandmother got 49% English on her ethnicity estimate, but, when you click on that percentage, it says that it can actually range from 44% to 63%. And they gave her a 6% Irish estimate, but said that it can range from 0% to 11%-meaning that they’re admitting that she might not have any Irish at all. So, you can check and see which of your results do and don’t range down to 0%, and that’ll tell you which ones they’re certain that you at least have a little bit of. Out of the six results my grandmother got on her ethnicity estimate, only two are certain.

[@MangoKai]

If it's anything like mine, it'll update as time goes on. It gets more accurate. What shocked me is that, I was adopted and I do know my biological mother, I met my biological grandfather and father on ancestry. Turns out Im half Italian (and half scottish which goes back to Norway). The funny part is that my family, that adopted me, are from Sicily. My biological fathers side is also from Sicily.

[@Annabel1st]

I am adopted too I have just bought a DNA test to have a look.

[@melissabytwork7905]

Awesome!!! Im excited to do mine!! Happy for you!!🌎👍❤

[@explorinryan6588]

So awesome 🇮🇹

[@diannavoss8552]

Same here…no idea who my father is, but have the name & place of my birth mother….hopefully I will find out more something about him. This is sort of scary 😱

[@rathbonerhine1023]

I am 65% Native American. 35 % European. 3% Swedish, 10% Italian, 8%Bugarian, 7 % German and 7 % Spanish. I love it all.

[@Pkeats817]

Cool mix. 🙂

[@cross8215]

HOW..? Mix is NOT cool. There's a reason why people pay high dollar for pure bred Arabian horses and dogs. It's no different in the human world than it is in the animal kingdom. ​@@Pkeats817

[@blueinferno2952]

I am half Mexican so I got 42%native americas mexico 26% Scottish 21% English 2% sub sharan Africa 2% French 1% Portuguese 6% swedish denmark

[@cross8215]

@@Pkeats817 Being mix-ed is not cool

[@adspur]

lol.Truly we are all mutts.We’re all perfect .

[@jenniferfulkerson4060]

I LOVE that you guys did this! I did mine and found both sides of my biological family! It was surreal to find the similarities and parallels between bio and adoptive families. The question has always been Nature vs Nurture when it comes to characteristics in a person. As a person in my situation (adopted at 11 days) you'd be surprised and maybe a bit shocked at what I discovered. Lol! It was also nice to finally see and meet people that I actually look like! Love your videos but most especially just love you guys! Keep up the great work and just being the awesome people you are! ❣

[@josephinevera9966]

I just did 23 and me. My dad is Sicilian and my mom Ecuadorian. So I was shocked when aside from the results I expected I got 4.3% Portuguese and 2.8 % Egyptian!

[@arandomperson899]

The egyptian is definitely from the sicilian part.

[@josephinevera9966]

@@arandomperson899 after studying the history of Sicily I have come to that realization!

[@AdultThirdCultureKid1971]

I did my DNA with MyHeritage in May 2018 and I did get a few shocking results. One is that I'm not actually Arab, another is that I have Iberian Peninsula DNA, and I have Welsh as well as Irish and Scottish.

[@baokachi9767]

Iberian Peninsula is linked to celtic, they pretty much go hand in hand as the normans conquered iberia... not super shocking

[@zellah]

Don’t count Ireland in British

[@71jstevenson]

My wife got me one for Christmas and I got my results within 8 weeks. I'm 53% England/Northwestern Europe, 20% Irish, 17% Scottish, 10% Wales, 3% Benin/Togo, 2% Mali, 1% Swedish. I'm a red head with freckles and I have 5% West African DNA

[@Steve-xl8fk]

Those are low confidence regions your probably not.

[@celticmulato2609]

@@Steve-xl8fk Lots of Whites have a little Sub Saharan African ancestry. I have 1% Native American and I can trace her back. If he did both parents he will find one or both may have a little admixture.

[@aleqrobinson2876]

​@@Steve-xl8fkLow confidence doesn't mean it's not there, I'm African American, 1% Scottish, and have alot of distant cousins in Scotland. My 3rd cousin ( who is listed as my 5th-8th on ancestry) is 12% Scottish. Our 2nd great grandfather was part white, and I know most of the Scottish is coming from him. So don't discount low confidence regions. I think people say that because they themselves don't want to accept the little pieces of DNA they inherent.

[@aleqrobinson2876]

Btw, I have lots of DNA cousins who are white with distant African ancestry, they are apart of a multiracial ethnic group called Melungeons.

[@sukikerridge6453]

Looking at you (I don't know where in the UK you are from as yet, it's my first time coming across you both) I'd have said, "Germany, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, England, Scotland & Ireland maybe with some Northern European thrown in. Now I'm going to watch the results! Exciting stuff!

[@leehughes1104]

Just come across your video, love the enthusiasm knowing about your ethnic makeup, I was the exact same when I got mine 😂😂 I am 41% England and Northwestern Europe, 30% Irish, 12% European Jewish, 8% Scottish, 7% Welsh and 2% German. Good luck with your DNA journey 🎉

[@davidweyant9356]

Thanks Lainey and Ben for another great video. This was really interesting.

[@LaineyandBen]

Thank you for watching David!! We’re so glad you enjoyed!!

[@lauraoneill937]

Mine is pretty similar to yours Ben. 57% English and North western Europe; 16% Irish; 14% Scottish; 5% Welsh; 4% Norwegian; 4% Swedish and Danish. My Dads family is from the South, predominately Kent, Middlesex, And Cornwall and my Mum’s family are all from Durham and Northumberland so I wasn’t really surprised by the results.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Your results are similar to mine. Though im American. 37% English. 30% Scottish 14% Irish 9% Welsh. 6% Danish 2% Norwegian 2% German However my text updated hundreds of times since 2018 so percentages changes or are reinterpreted. Though from my family tree I can trace 500 ancestors 500 years back mostly in various parts of England and sometimes other parts of Britain and Ireland in general and on a rare occasion in continental Europe.

[@Fireyvedel]

I really should do this as it fascinates me so much ! Thank you for sharing !

[@FollowingTheDream455]

My DNA estimates is 54% North Eastern Europe and English, 16% Scottish, 14% Irish, 5% Basque, 4% Welsh, 2% Spanish, 2% Benin and Togo (West African)1% Senegal (West African), 1% Mali(West African) and 1% Germanic Europe. I was always told the color that I have is Mohawk Native American. I've never known of any relatives in my dad's family who were black

[@helendonnelly8726]

Did it for my dad a few years back.83% Ireland/Scotland/Wales and other parts of Europe.The biggest surprise was He has Native American DNA.

[@AdultThirdCultureKid1971]

The Native American DNA for your father is quite a surprise.

[@helendonnelly8726]

@@AdultThirdCultureKid1971 yes it certainly was,ancestors from ulster/Scotland headed to Canada and parts of the United States in the 1800’s(the movie The Revenant comes to mind when I think about it).You never know what your going to find😊

[@daniellecardenas128]

Came over from tiktok because of your last video. I'm all in for what you have!

[@LaineyandBen]

Nice! Thank you for coming over!

[@williammackay3321]

Mate your dna is just FIT and that’s it

[@TaxingIsThieving]

Gay

[@SherryakaWimpyRamboDoc]

So you two got me curious, I went and looked up my DNA Results again: 69% England and Northwest Europe 12% Scotland 5% Sweden and Denmark 5% Ireland 3% Norway 2% Germanic Europe 2% Portugal 2% Wales

[@LaineyandBen]

No way!!! That’s crazy and pretty similar to me. Only you’ve got a bit more of Europe

[@SherryakaWimpyRamboDoc]

@@LaineyandBen It was so similar I checked because I thought maybe we were related. Nothing would surprise me regarding relatives anymore. 😂

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

If your parents and all your living grandparents did a DNA test, your own results would be more accurate.

[@cookielady7662]

You could be absolutely correct about which parent is which. However, I have researched my ancestry for decades and was convinced I knew which parent was which. I was totally shocked when I found out I was wrong. You can tell by comparing cousins' surnames that appear in your DNA matches when ancestry pairs them with your parent 1 and parent 2 results, assuming you know the main surnames in both of your parent's sides. Just found you and enjoyed the video very much. Thanks!

[@patriciamitchell9365]

Which parent is #1?

[@melissabytwork7905]

I just ordered my kit!! Ill share with you guys the out come!! Fun fun fun

[@Aliciae411]

Didn’t get any shocks about where I’m from but got a few shock close relatives 😂

[@LaineyandBen]

Really?! I did too actually. Some people from some time periods you’d never suspect

[@JessicaReyes94]

Here from TikTok! Subscribed ❤️

[@LauraSmith-my5cn]

I got mine back yesterday. 80% American, 8% German, 10% British, 2% French

[@dashingwomble]

I love it that you remember the North, East, South, West as Never Eat Shredded Wheat. Just the way I was taught as a kid back home in England many many moons ago 👍

[@Aithis.]

I’ve just caved in and ordered mine. My mum has always told stories about how her family have been mistaken for being Asian a suspicious amount of times. I myself have been asked quite a lot in casual convo if im part Turkish, Syrian, Japanese, Chinese and what have you. I think it’s far more likely though that I’m just British and Irish as far back and we just have darker features(all my grandparents had Irish, Scottish, and English surnames).

[@rridderbusch518]

What did your DNA test reveal? I thought I was all German, but I'm a bit Asian, too!

[@Aithis.]

@@rridderbusch518 I’ve still got about 2 weeks until the test comes back. I’ve only been able to trace back my grandads side on a family tree to about 1775 who are all English (London, Reading, Berkshire). It seems like family history is a bit secretive with older generations however and you’d never know completely.

[@rridderbusch518]

@@Aithis. OK. I've just subscribed so I don't miss it. It took me 3 different tests and uploading my raw data to GEDmatch to find out that one of my grandfathers (b.1893) was a serial rapist. I now have 2 extra uncles. Best of luck to you! :-)

[@erikalynn1981]

So you're not an alien? That's a relief 😂 Haven't felt well at all today. Not to mention work had to be insane on top of it. Sorry I missed the premiere.

[@LaineyandBen]

😂😂 can confirm that I’m not! Don’t worry about not being there! We really hope you feel better soon!

[@erikalynn1981]

@@LaineyandBen I actually feel much better, thank u 🤗

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Dna can sometimes confuse and misidentify ethnicity results. If your German ancestors were from the lower Saxony Bundaslander for example (that's German for province) some of your German dna can get misidentified by the company and group it with England. You are from the Saxon and Jutish settled area of England. So your German ancestral dna could just of been grouped with the English Kent dna community because it looks the same so ancestry can decide the labeling. It's like asking a Belgian Dutchman mix man to get his dna tested and assume he'll surely have ancestry nail down his results with a genetically identical people on a 23&me test or whatever he'll bloody use.

[@gothmamasylvia462]

My DNA results are very similar to yours, and I can tan. The ability to tan is a mix of complex factors, so the ability to tan is not necessarily linked to where your DNA comes from. I'm American, and my DNA results were 64% English, 15 % Scottish, 9 % German, 8% Irish, 4 % Welsh. The native Celtic Britons were mainly brunette. Then you get the Romans for a few centuries, leaving behind some swarthier genes. Then starting in the 500's the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes came from the Jutland peninsula (and a bit of northern Germany), then about 3 centuries later you get the Vikings coming from Norway and Denmark, bringing in an infusion of blood from fairer-skinned people. After a couple of centuries, you get the Normans invading from Normandy, who were a mix of French and Viking, and you get a population that ends up becoming 'English', a mixed group of people with a variety of skin tones, hair color, and eye color. The Romans even had some centurions that were African in origin, but that's too far back for it to have an effect on the modern DNA, as your DNA test reflects about the last six generations of your family.

[@planetbea]

i can't wait to get my results!! i know for a fact i have scottish and canadian in me, but my grandad was adopted, so his whole side is a mystery!

[@LaineyandBen]

Oooooh that’s really interesting actually! You may find a few surprises!

[@planetbea]

@@LaineyandBen i'm hoping so! my mum is boring and isn't interested, i'm hoping the results will change her mind

[@sbug2705]

Mine was 50% Central European Jewish. Next was 31 % Scottish, 18% Irish, and 1% Germanic European. It is accurate, as I am Jewish. I was born in Australia, and my mother’s family are Hungarian and Jewish.

[@ranashxx2672]

Ayeee I came from your tiktok :]

[@SherryakaWimpyRamboDoc]

You can elect to share DNA Results with anyone 😊 For example your sister Lainey… etc

[@LaineyandBen]

No way! That’s so cool!

[@HybridCoaster]

The islands that you were hovering your cursor over are the Faroe Islands, they are in the kingdom of Denmark, but ethnically, like Iceland, their ancestors were Norwegians and Gaels

[@mr-vet]

I’m from the US, did my AncestryDNA test several years ago…have received a number of updates. My current estimate is 46% England & NW Europe, 30% Scotland, 8% Wales, 7% Ireland, 6% Germanic Europe, and 3% Norway.

[@yaaaaiiiittttsssskkkkkkkkk6745]

Very similar to mine 45% England / NW EUR 34% Scotland 8% Wales 7% Ireland 4% Sweden and Denmark 2% Norway

[@RandomlyLosty]

I used the My Heritage DNA test, heres what my results came back as Ethnicity: 79.3% North and West European 13.9% Iberian 3.8% Balkan 3.0% Finnish Genetic groups (5 in total): • English (3 genteic groups) > England #13 > North West England and Italy > South Eastern and Eastern England • Irish, Scottish and Welsh (1 genetic group) > North West Wales (Gwynedd)) • Italian (1 genetic group) > Italian (Sicily), Malta, England and France

[@LaineyandBen]

Wow this is incredible! Tank you so much for sharing this with us!

[@celticmulato2609]

My heritage is the most inaccurate dna testing site!!

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Dna tests can also show ranges. Not sure if you saw that

[@Arische234]

I got 52% German, 22% England and NW Europe, 10% Sweden and Denmark , 9% Scotland, 6% Ireland and 1% Anatolian and the Caucasus , I couldn’t believe it

[@drrd4127]

I got 100 percent British and Irish. LOL. I was hoping to be "exotic" 🤣😂🤣😂

[@francoisdaureville323]

You are exotic more than any asían or african asians and africans make make up 60% and 22% of the world White people only make up 12 % of the world everytime i hear a White Person saying i want to be more "exotic* i cringe 😂😂😂

[@Cosmicfraud3209]

Maybe other dna test show you are 0.4 percent Iberian or Italian ? Then you be a tiny teeny bit more exotic 😊😎😁

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

13:29 why? And don't say Roman empire

[@bryanwolfe6975]

Southern European does not equal tan 💁🏻‍♂️ that is a huge stereotype 👌🏻 My family is from Northern Spain and they are very white with blonde hair and blue eyes. I am not blonde but I am very white and I have hazel eyes.

[@petera618]

Very true. An accurate observation is to see Mediterraneans in the dead of winter vs in the middle of summer with all the sun exposure at the beach. The difference in skin tones can be quite dramatic. I was born with blond curly hair and hazel eyes and I am 100% Sicilian.

[@balddadgamer.]

literally just done mine,i reckon ive got a bit of swedish in my history, kinda hoping for a bit of italian too.

[@JoesGirl82]

I just turned in my DNA test yesterday and I have a feeling my results might be similar to yours.

[@European-Gain]

What did you get

[@ericwilson9457]

Can get a lot more information if you can get a parent on there. Also for the matches section it will tell you if the relative is from your mom's side or your dad's side

[@LaineyandBen]

😯😯 we didn’t venture that far! I need to look into that!

[@thenglar]

I took the test lately. Although Ancestry absolutely nailed the homeregion of my parents in northwestern Germany, I actually had some rather surprising results. 27% Sweden and Denmark (possible 1-30%), 27% Germanic Europe (possible 27-63%) and 42% England and Northwestern Europe (possible 31-60%). I'm astonished about the wide range of possible percentages in especially the last two regions. Obviously I inherited genes, that are common to both Germany and England (Ancestry regions). I strongly suspect, they come from a border area between both of them, e.g. the Netherlands. The nation has seen centuries of work migration from Northern Germany and I still have distant relatives there.

[@carokat1111]

Lots of historic germanic migration into Britain. Your results are quite common. My sister inherited a version like yours but mine is 100 UK. That’s the beauty of DNA inheritance!

[@thenglar]

@@carokat1111 Yes - earlier Anglosaxon migration might play a role. At the momen I can trace back my ancestors until 1080 - with a bottleneck around 1490. Except two Hessian GGfathers my ancestors could hardly be more Lower Saxon.

[@thenglar]

A short update here. Ancestry did change their ethnicity estimates today to 55% (48-100) Germanic Europe (+28), 26% (0-33) Sweden and Denmark and 11% (0-35) England & Northwestern Europe (-31). The most noticable change was to remove the Netherlands from being somewhat "contested" between England and Germany and moving it to Germanic Europe's core area. So my first assumption of a Dutch element - prob. after 1650 - seems to be true and the most logical direction it happened is through emigration into the much more prosperous West. {For the regions, where my ancestors came from, the target changed in the 1830s to America.}

[@yuccacatow8335]

I’m 28%Russian, 19%Hawaiian ,13%Native American North, 12%indigenous Arctic,10%Māori, 5%Tibetan, 5%English, 3%Tonga, 2%Baltics, 2%Japanese, 1%Baltics

[@FengLong]

That sounds like what unicorns are made of

[@lisawatson7696]

I did my DNA and I'm 45.1% English 27.9 % Scottish, Irish, Welsh 23.2% Scandinavian and 3.8% Eastern European. I'm tracing my family tree, and so far I've got my English ancestors and some Irish ancestors that go back to the 1200s. Their ancestors were from the Welsh/English border area so that's possibly the Welsh bit. I've not found a connection for Scandinavia or Eastern European yet and Scotland may be on my Nan's side of the family but I've only got as far as North Yorkshire and the 1600s. Lainey, as you're from up north I reckon you will have a high percentage of Scandinavian in your DNA as the Danes and Vikings ruled that part of England. Have a look at GEDMATCH, you can down load your DNA results and it links you up to hundreds of people with the same genes. There's even a link to ancient burials that have been found that have had their DNA tested. Good luck with your searching, you'll be hooked now 😆 x

[@jfrancobelge]

4:29 that's western Belgium and the northwestern tip of France, very similar from the ethnic point of view.

[@renskevanderhaagen5813]

Hey watford! That’s funny I lived in England as a child we lived near Watford. My dad made a family book and dove in genealogy and made a huge book with our family history. Really interesting!

[@LaineyandBen]

Ah no way! Crazy that we used to be that close! Small world. It really is so interesting!

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Northwest Europe is Belgium, Netherlands, its southwest German sliverland and a northeast France sliverland. I think

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

I remember my first results. Though different from current results. I'm 51% England, Wales and Northwest Europe. 38% Irish and Scottish. 5% Germanic Europe. The rest is Scandinavian. This was my 2019 results. I remember it plainly and clearly. So I'm mostly British. With a little continental Europe ancestry. But mostly the British isles. Hello from the United States. Yes I'm American. My current results are very different but I don't care to remember the percentages in this update

[@FiercedeityBrad]

I was incredibly surprised I was so much German 😆 34%. Prussian and russian was a big surprise. 30% indigenous arctic and 6% indigenous northwest.

[@emmaashton]

I did mine a few years back. I'm from the wirral near Liverpool and my dna doesn't even have 0.5% English dna! All Scandinavian, iberian, Greek, Italian, Irish and Jewish! I was blown away x

[@francoisdaureville323]

What dna test did you take.? My heritage?? That dna test is useless 23 and me le ancestry us way more accuarate, specially with your surname

[@emmaashton]

@@francoisdaureville323 My surname is my married name. X

[@LaineyandBen]

That’s amazing! You’re far more cultured than I am 😂

[@francoisdaureville323]

@@emmaashton whats your real surname then?

[@emmaashton]

@@francoisdaureville323 Sutton, my mums maiden name was Morrell

[@dianagregory8084]

Woop woop Denmark in da house🫶🏻😂 I think Lainey has some greek in her. Or egyptian, like the queen that she is🫶🏻

[@jeffsaxton716]

I did this as a guy from Utah. The results were not a big surprise. 58% British, 12% Nordic, then German and French. The only surprise was 1.5% North African. I'm still dangerously pale and melanin deficient, though. The only advantage is that I can guzzle dairy products all day and not get the shits.

[@SherryakaWimpyRamboDoc]

I found a full blooded Uncle, a Half Sister, a full blooded Cousin and a bunch of half Cousins. All of whom I never knew existed, my results rocked my world.

[@LaineyandBen]

No freakin way! This is what I was hoping for too but that never happened for me sadly! It must’ve been crazy to have found a full blood relative!

[@hildekrtoerlen]

Wow!!😳 hope everything was positive 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🫣

[@SherryakaWimpyRamboDoc]

It could still happen, I was already on AncestryDNA, then my sister tested a few years later. That’s how we found out about each other. I was SHOCKED! My half sister was born there in Surrey. My Mum is from Wimbledon. I was very upset because my only sibling died when I was 14. My Dad never telling me about my sister broke my heart. He saw my tremendous grief over my brother and still kept his secret. My sister and I met and it was amazing! Unfortunately she died from Covid last year and my Uncle just passed a couple days ago. I am so incredibly grateful that I was able to meet them. So, don’t rule it out, a family member can pop up at ANY TIME!

[@theadventurousallotmenteer6582]

When you said your grandfather was German.. the blue chromosone bar at the top pretty much confirms it , about that first bar of Sweden & Denmark (this should be read as Germany)... the top bar should, in most cases, show the most recent ancestry, so that would link to your grandparents. Swedish and Denmark often is mistaken for German in these tests, due to the amount of mixing going on back in history. So it would appear your grandfather really was ethnically German!

[@sukikerridge6453]

I did quite well in my estimation eh? haha! My biggest shock was from being born in Newcastle with an English mam and Scottish dad (Irish grand parents) I was 57% Irish!! I thought that was a lot - only 4% was English AND NORTH WESTON EUROPE. When they updated the results I was 40% Irish and only 2% English & North Weston Europe. They are updating them again on the 22nd of this month so it could all change again...

[@francoisdaureville323]

the british isles are all mixed up, that is normal, you realize you all live in one little area of the world right??? it would be surprising If you were majority eastern europe or something like that irish people will have many english welsh english etc.. same with english people will have many irish welsh socttish etc.. british isles ancestry pretty much

[@AndreaHausberg-yt5qx]

I seriously wonder what happens if I ate a chickensandwich beforehand 😅

[@PumpkinEater2024]

Im from usa and my ancestry dna results are: 39 % Scotland 28% England & N.W Europe 14% Norway 7 % Sweden & Denmark 3 % Finland 7 % Wales 2 % North American Indigenous

[@DinaHanson-bh1mv]

I was 100% European. 80% Norwegian and the rest English. No mixing at all for me too lol

[@Pkeats817]

I’m 63% England, 21 % Ireland, 5% Norway,4% Germanic Europe, 4% Scotland, and 3% Wales. Surname Keats. All of my ancestors are European.

[@claytonwaynejohnson5315]

You're American right?

[@Pkeats817]

@@claytonwaynejohnson5315 Nope, not U.S. American. Canadian. My grandparents were considered British when they were born because my island was still a dominion of England. With that being said, my people were and are a mix of British and Irish, but have been on this side for about 270 years or so.

[@Kat-Astrophe79]

Omg you're not my brother are you.......🤣 I've read most comments and I've noticed that most people have Scottish blood, always knew Scotland is the best 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@RandomlyLosty]

I wish my half sister does a my heritage dna test, it'll tell her that we're half sister's on our biological father's side, its a long story, all i can say is I've been told to promise to keep this a secret from her for 12 years and I AM SO GOD DAMN DESPERATE TO TELL HER THE TRUTH, its got to the point were I have to distract myself from it or holding myself back to not tell her

[@LaineyandBen]

Oh no, this must be really difficult for you. It’s a shame that she doesn’t know and I guess the DNA test would tell her the truth

[@hildekrtoerlen]

I would send her a “free” test😘 must be so hard to keep something so big a secret 🥺♥️

[@RandomlyLosty]

@@LaineyandBen yeah there's no reason why she wouldn't want to do one, she found out that the father section on her birth certificate is blank, just like mine, and she always questioned her mum if she was adopted or have a different father to her siblings, and her mum anyways denied it, she started questioning it even more since we met, and its not like her mum can stop her either since she and her boyfriend have a place of their own together, the reason why her mum denied it is because of her mental health problems and all her life, she believed that the father of one of her siblings was her father, however I've never had someone to refer to as dad, my uncle is the only father-like figure in my life but I don't see how that should be an "excuse" to blatantly lie to someone about who their dad is because I have adhd, autism, severe anxiety and severe social anxiety and probably depression and I was fine when my mum told me the brutal honest truth, in fact I got excited and wanted to meet her, there's litterally no reason why she shouldn't know, especially now

[@RandomlyLosty]

@@hildekrtoerlen the only thing I can do is indirectly hint for her to do it by posting about my results on facebook, making it look like a casual thing that I randomly felt like posting or something, and say that it also shows who you're dna matches are and what that person is to you, i.e, parent, grandparent, aunt/ uncle, half sibling, cousin, 2nd cousin etc

[@RandomlyLosty]

@@hildekrtoerlen yeah it's is difficult to keep it a secret at all, let alone for 12 years, done well so far, I'm hoping for her to say something about it to me first, she hasn't said anything so far

[@babybluebells]

I took one a few years ago I was extremely shocked! I used a company called my heritage. I'm 56% Scandinavian 32% Irish/Scottish Celtic basically 11% west Asian Can I add I was born and bred in England

[@babybluebells]

@B Sell I don't y, I've found genuine relatives on there and confirmed that my great grandfather was Asian, after speaking to an uncle it turns out my great grandmother did the dirty with her sisters husband (the Asian man) which resulted in my grandfathers birth

[@babybluebells]

Know*

[@autumnphillips151]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@robertolang9684 False. The only true Celtic people are those who have DNA from at least one of the six Celtic nations-Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany-and speak at least one of the six Celtic languages-Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. Celtic is an ethnolinguistic group. If you don’t speak a Celtic language, you’re not a Celt, and even Turks have Celtic DNA, but literally no one from Switzerland, Iberia, or Italy speaks a Celtic language, so none of them are Celts-it’s very simple.

[@autumnphillips151]

⁠​⁠@@babybluebells Do you mind if I ask what part(s) of England your English ancestors were from? My grandfather, from whom I got the Phillips name, also did a DNA test with MyHeritage and, like you, didn’t get any “English” in his results (although parts of southern, western, and northern England are included in the “Irish, Scottish, and Welsh” category, which was his top result), and I’m pretty sure that’s not right. We’re American, and English is the top DNA result in the U.S., and I’m pretty sure the majority of our DNA is from England, but his results were 45.7% “Irish, Scottish, and Welsh”, 36.4% Scandinavian (not as high as yours, but still higher than expected, even taking into account Viking DNA in the British Isles), and 17.9% Iberian (which I’m pretty sure is wrong, as he has more DNA matches from pretty much every other area of Europe, with 71% of his European matches being from the U.K., 9% being from the Nordic countries, 7% being from Ireland, 4% being from France, and less than 1% being from Spain or Portugal, with even the majority of that 1% appearing to be of English descent, not Iberian). My best guess is that the Celtic part of English DNA was lumped into what functions as the Celtic category, and the Anglo-Saxon part of English DNA was lumped into the Scandinavian category. I did read before that it’s very difficult to distinguish Anglo-Saxon from Danish, as the Anglo-Saxons came from what would later become Denmark, so the only real difference between the ancient Anglo-Saxons and Danes is that Danes have some Swedish DNA mixed in. Or, another possibility is that they don’t have many samples from certain areas of England-maybe the areas that your ancestors and mine came from. “English” is the top DNA result in the U.K. as well, so it seems like plenty of other English people are showing up as English. I remember seeing a map post that showed what parts of Britain the British people who colonized what would later become the U.S. came from, and I think that would be useful to this discussion, but, sadly, try as I might, I haven’t been able to find it again, and I can’t remember what it showed.

[@babybluebells]

@@autumnphillips151 I'm from the west midlands ☺️

[@stefbarringer5409]

Where did you buy this from? Would love to get one? I did my genealogy and traced my family history on my mothers side to the 1700’s in Somerset and Devon haven’t done my dads as he died when I was 21. My mum died 7 years ago and I was lucky enough to be able to share the family history I had found with her we visited graveyards and found all her ancestors. Would love to be able to do a DNA test as I’m sure we have some Mediterranean blood in us dark skinned dark haired on my mums side. So interesting xx

[@lauraoneill937]

This is AncestryDNA. I did mine with the same company last year

[@Hayley-db2pz]

Lainey never eat shredded wheat 🌾😂

[@021om6]

My results came in and I am from 11 world regions! I span from Nepal and the himalayas all the way to Iceland! 😂

[@lisaevans7400]

Here from Tik tok

[@katierhi6528]

Can lainey do hers

[@sandram6828]

Ethnicity is just an estimate. I've had 3 tests and all were totally different.

[@autumnphillips151]

Something I’ve noticed about AncestryDNA that seems to be unique to their tests, though, is that you can check and see what the ranges on the results in your ethnicity estimate are. So, you can check and see which of your results do and don’t range down to 0%, and that’ll tell you which ones they’re certain that you have at least a little bit of. My grandmother got 49% English with a range of 44% to 63%; 39% Scottish with a range of 17% to 39%; 6% Irish with a range of 0% to 11%; 3% “Baltics” with a range of 0% to 3%; 2% Welsh with a range of 0% to 8%; and 1% “Germanic Europe” with a range of 0% to 20%. So, it’s possible that they could be wrong about all of the exact percentages, and it’s possible that they could be wrong about her having any DNA at all from Ireland, Wales, or Continental Europe, but the English and Scottish are absolutely guaranteed to make up the majority of her DNA.

[@lismar2378]

I didn’t look at the comments yet. I predict, Irish, Scottish, Brit, Norwegian, Polish, Northern Italian and 1% African.

[@Nekotaku_TV]

5:02 That's the Faroese Islands.

[@LeeKirkman88]

Our family tree goes back to Scotland we are related to Rob Roy Macgregor yet i have family around Norfolk and Yorkshire where i was born. My great Grandfather was a Scottish Freemason. My mothers side where Romany Gypsies

[@European-Gain]

Did this test too and found out im not just irish im italian and Lithuanian 😅

[@angeddy7998]

I am 50% england and northwestern Europe and 29% scotland 10% wales 7% ireland 2% norway 1% Sweden and denmark 1% Basque I did get a surprise because my mom always said we had Blackfoot Indian and I don't see any lol

[@LaineyandBen]

That’s madness! That’s very similar to what I got actually which is crazy too!

[@angeddy7998]

@@LaineyandBen I thought it was crazy too how close it was with yours!

[@jennyb8106]

That was amazing, so interesting, I thought you had some German in you.

[@LaineyandBen]

I thought so too! I knew I had it on my dads side but I wasn’t sure how much!

[@liamtuffy8493]

My dna turned out with 54% Scottish all my family are from England or Ireland that we knew of yet I only got 28% Irish so in total the others was 9% Welsh which I also didn’t know then 7% English which is a big surprise it being so small and then 2% Norway I’m 91% Gaelic and 54% Scottish was a big shock to me yet my map on ancestry covers majority of the world for births deaths marriages ancestry is crazy

[@TaxingIsThieving]

You should be proud

[@TruthSeeker8147]

Scandinavian 55% 10% African 35%British

[@guardmommad5084]

I'm new here. Can anyone tell where the video is that names Dave and Andy as the ghosts? Please? Thanks!

[@jackieblue1267]

Your ethnicity estimate is based on modern populations and does not go back 1,000 years. It only goes back about 6 generations and is based on reference panels. Your results will likely change with updates especially when they increase references from more areas. If England was split between north and south it would change your results. England and Northwestern Europe is quite a big area. At one time they used to have Ireland and Scotland as one category but they split these countries. Ancestry should be able to separate England and Northwestern Europe. Take some of the trace regions with a pinch of salt unless you have a paper trail.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

You can find out what literal skeletons you descend from in MyTrueAncestry which I mentioned earlier. Which shouldn't be confused with Ancestry. This one app.

[@Solsortemor]

YES 7 % viking!! Velkommen til Skandinavien PS The Faroe Islands is part of Denmark (not Norway)... but we are all brothers and sisters ;-) I´m 85% Scandinavian myself... and the rest is Western Europe and Eastern Europe... But hey - Ben, the Vikings was actually not blond and tall with blue eyes... I read an article about that some months ago (a Danish article)...

[@LaineyandBen]

Ah no way! I never knew that, thank you for the knowledge!!

[@sionandjess]

I was sort of right I said Swedish. You are 1% welsh get in there!!!! Welcome to wales Ben xx

[@LaineyandBen]

😂😂 great guess!!

[@lismar2378]

I have dark curly hair and as far I knew, I was just Serbian, Polish and German. Disappointed I was only 1% African and found out there’s Northern Italian and Norwegian. Nothing shocking for me. 😕

[@leehallam9365]

That was a good video considering you were starting cold trying to figure out what you were looking at. Its a pretty typical set of results for an English person. If you look at your matches, and better yet build a tree, you should be able to figure out just how much German ancestry you have, you did say you thought your grand parents were partly German, it rather depends if that's both of them or one. If it's one Grandparent whose half German that is only 12% of your DNA, and some of that Scandinavia DNA might actually have come with that. My biggest surprise, was the message from a 33 year old man looking for his father who had no idea he existed and was my first cousin. I had to contact him. You never know what secrets you might turn up with this.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Germanic Europe doesn't mean Germany. It means Germany. And Netherlands. It covers two countries not one.

[@jamiechurchley6915]

If you want to know where you're from you should build your family tree. I've gone back generations and only found people in England yet my ethnicity results give an array of countries around Europe, my mothers DNA even more so. It's a nice niche but finding out the stories of your Ancestors and preserving the memories of their lives are where the real interesting part comes.

[@vaimende]

I consider you fully English 😊

[@autumnphillips151]

I disagree. I’m not at all interested in the things that you find interesting, I don’t care in the slightest about who my ancestors were, I only care about knowing where my DNA developed. And family trees are always going to be filled with lies-all it takes is one strange man slipping into one of your female ancestors’ houses for a few minutes while their husband wasn’t home, and then you could have DNA from any number of strange places. Not to mention the fact that babies have been accidentally switched, which is something that has on multiple occasions been discovered by tests like these. The people who you think are your ancestors were liars and believed lies and didn’t know what the truth was for other reasons as well. But DNA doesn’t lie. DNA tests are the only way to really know for certain what any part of your DNA is-even though they’ll never be able to pinpoint where every part of your DNA is from with 100% certainty, most people will still have some DNA that’s guaranteed to come from a certain place, and that’s the only thing anyone can ever know for sure about where they came from.

[@jamiechurchley6915]

⁠​⁠@@autumnphillips151Genealogists know that ancestors lied on documents, that’s why for years they’ve been using he genealogical proof standard and we use DNA now to verify relationships through triangulation. If you think modern genealogy is purely paper trail you’re sorely mistaken. You don’t learn anything about where your DNA really comes from with an Ancestry DNA test because it’s constantly changing as new samples come in and their estimates are based on family trees, and since as you say a lot of people use old methods and believe lies/don’t abide by the genealogical proof standard, it means it seeps into the DNA estimates. Crista Cowan the corporate genealogist at Ancestry stated yesterday during her RootsTech keynote that these estimates change as more people are tested who use their platform, the modern day reference panels are literally people and their family trees. Our research is now proven by DNA. DNA doesn’t lie, but these platforms that claim they know your ethnicity do.

[@aundrealauzon]

Very cool!

[@LaineyandBen]

Isn’t it!!

[@purplepanther2771]

Have you taken 23andMe? I got 97% "British & Irish" on that, but I heard that Eastern English people get much less than that.

[@SherryakaWimpyRamboDoc]

I’m going with all over the United Kingdom, Scandinavian Countries and Germany

[@LaineyandBen]

Well… this comment is ageing like a fine wine

[@tysonmck]

My huband and I did our DNA recently. We are both English/Irish/Scottish etc. However my husband who is pale skinned with reddish/brown hair was shocked to find he had 3% West Asian...wtf!!

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

3% west Asian could be from a Jewish ancestor. West Asian is middle eastern. Or west Asia middle-east same thing. It can also be another case of a crusader who brought home a local middle-east Christian wife or a capturedMuslim. Both cases happened.

[@fabbie3862]

I got west Asian too but at 4%. No idea where it comes from.

[@rayman17578]

Ben looks like my brother

[@richardjohnston3359]

I did a Ancestry test I'm English but it come back I'm more Irish then English. 42% Irish .....38% English....13 % Scottish and the rest Sweden and Denmark 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@francoisdaureville323]

British isles basically most british People Will have the same results the british isles are a very small are of the World

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

The only thing that surprises me is how I don't have French dna but like 20 different ancestors from Norman surnames. But I guess it's too far back to trace so I don't care. I still got the French Norman ancestry even without French dna. So my shock shouldn't be that shocking.

[@FengLong]

The Normans originally arrived in Normandy, France from Norway - they weren't actually Franks or whatever. Norman is Man of the North, from Norway. That probably accords a lot more closely with your own ethnicity, I'm guessing.

[@Armed-Forever]

Ppl act like being ethnically british isn't badass, uk is mixed with germanic blood, plus celts

[@autumnphillips151]

Right? I love being Germanic and Celtic. 8 of my top 11 favorite countries in the world-Australia 🇦🇺, Canada 🇨🇦, Iceland 🇮🇸, the Netherlands 🇳🇱, New Zealand 🇳🇿, Singapore 🇸🇬, Sweden 🇸🇪, and the U.S. 🇺🇸-speak a Germanic language as their main language. And the best holiday ever-Halloween-which is every day for me, is Celtic in origin.

[@edstar83]

Just British? Our Indo European ancestors fought and died defending West and East Europa from peaceful Islamic immigration for centuries. The blood of our ancestors still runs through our veins. As a Spaniard of Galician heritage, today I'm Christian and speak Castilian aka Spanish instead of Arabic praying to Allah 20 times a day thanks to Visigothic Nobleman Don Pelayo. Valiant warrior King of the North. King of Asturias. Crowned KIng by the loyal men who fought alongside him. Seeder of the Reconquista and their descendants who continued forming small Christian Kingdoms in the North, fighting and resisting for 700 years. Generation to generation. (Instead of running away into France) slowly expanding until the whole of Iberia was free of the peaceful messengers of islam in 1492AD, when the remaining Christian Kingdoms united to become Spain. 🇪🇸 (Except for the Kingdom of Portugal 🇵🇹 because they're special but I still love them.) Muslims like to brag how they "ruled Iberia for 800 years. " But what they fail to mention is that the Reconquista pretty much started straight away. And that the tiny Christian Kingdoms of the North were not part of Al Andalus. They also fail to mention that but the 12th century (1100s) half of Hispania was back in Indo European Christian hands. And by the mid 13th century 96% of Hispania had been reconquered. They fail to mention that the islamic kingdom of Granada was allowed to remain as long as they paid tribute to the Kingdom of Castile. Until they made the mistake of attacking a Christian settlement in the late 15th century. Today the gates of Toledo have once again been opened into Europa and the West... *Reconquista II Intensifies* DEUS VULT!

[@xlr8.ftbl5628]

Ireland isnt really British. Iceland isnt Norway, they just share ancestry. That was on the border of Belgium and France

[@lisaduncan3772]

I’m American however, I am mostly Scottish, English and Irish.

[@LaineyandBen]

That’s so cool! Were you born in America?

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

@@LaineyandBen America has 380 million people. At least 100 million people have at least one ancestor from England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales within Britain / U.K and Ireland / British isles. Rather the percentage is 1% or 100%. Your average American, and including Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders have British ancestry.

[@Tanya-dylexisic-fingers]

I want to do it even more now! But I am sure it will be Brittish AF too. Lol, but you never know where a surprise can come up

[@LaineyandBen]

You don’t ever know actually! I never suspected what I ended up getting!