From: mb@nospam.net   
      
   On 11/12/2023 16:02, Colin Bignell wrote:   
   > I wouldn't expect that level of precision from a commercial DNA test. It   
   > would need a very large number of samples from people with a long   
   > background of living in the area, which the commercial companies usually   
   > don't have.   
   >   
   > Ancestry can tell me that my DNA shows links to East of England, but not   
   > that they are to North Norfolk, let alone which towns or villages my   
   > ancestors came from.   
   >   
   > The problem is that DNA gets passed in chunks, not a nice even division   
   > of 50% of everything each of your parents had in their DNA. This means   
   > that even siblings might have different ethnicity estimates, depending   
   > upon which chunks they got.   
      
      
   Might have hoped with the amount of interest in Irish ancestry from   
   Americans that might have built up a lot of data.   
      
   One of the TV DNA programmes did manage to identify a village in Ireland   
   and family of someone but I think they did some DNA testing of people in   
   the area.   
      
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