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   JMB99 to J. P. Gilliver   
   Re: Ancestry   
   10 Dec 23 17:10:48   
   
   From: mb@nospam.net   
      
   On 09/12/2023 22:56, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > Yes, I suspect a lot are _either_ people who got it as a present and did   
   > it (and sometimes a token amount of research) in order to not hurt the   
   > feelings of the giver, _or_ (mostly USians) people who did it for the   
   > "ethnicity estimate". (Pretty useless: mine's "47% England &   
   > Northwestern Europe, 22% Scotland, 21% Wales, 9% Ireland, 1% Sweden &   
   > Denmark" - yet of my 32 G3GP, only one is Wales and one is Scotland,   
   > rest all England.)   
      
      
      
   I think the UK is particularly difficult for them.  There seems to be a   
   lot of genetic overlap between Wales, North of England, Ireland and   
   parts of Scotland.   
      
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