XPost: soc.culture.irish, soc.culture.british, uk.politics.misc   
   XPost: soc.genealogy.britain   
   From: tms@nj.net   
      
   Energy wrote:   
   > dwilcox wrote:   
   >   
   >>I thought it was only recently they'd decided we were mainly descended   
   >>from the Ancient Britons with the A/S and the Celts having little input.   
   >   
   > The original Celts seem to have had an almost entirely negligible   
   > genetic inpact on the British Isles. The Welsh and Irish resemble   
   > Basques genetically much more than they do people from around the areas   
   > of the Hallstatt and La Tene cultures.   
      
   That's because the Celts migrated; they did not stay in Central   
   Europe, and other peoples moved in.   
      
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   Thomas M. Sommers -- tms@nj.net -- AB2SB   
      
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