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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.       --       Graeme Wall       This account not read.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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