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   Graeme Wall to All   
   Re: Ancestry   
   11 Dec 23 08:25:31   
   
   From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 10/12/2023 17:10, JMB99 wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Hardly surprising.   
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