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[shadowkat]

Hmmm...interesting, my Dad's DNA results came back with: Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Ulster, Great Britain (isn't Great Britain also Wales, Scotland and Ireland?), Iberian Pensulia (basically Spain), Jewish, Scandinavian, Western Europe (basically France and Belgium and Germany), and the Middle East.

I'm still waiting for mine.

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[kerkevik_2014]

Isle of Ulster? Ulster is a province; nine counties, three of which are in the Republic of Ireland with the remainder making up Northern Ireland (part of the UK), Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales (there is a Lesser Britain, but i couldn't tell you where it is.

There is no Isle of Ulster that I'm aware of though.

Must get around to doing one of these myself some day; my youngest sister did find that our grandmothers were Cornish, which pleased me. All I know about the rest of the family is that they came from Devon and Lincolnshire; be interesting to see where they came from before that (Lincolnshire might suggest some Norse ancestry, Danish maybe?).

[shadowkat]

From what I understand it is dependent on the information recorded in the database, both fossilized dna and others with similar DNA. Also based on regions and indigenous people of each region. So Isle of Ulster, probably was a older name for Ireland or a region? Great Britain is probably non-Celt. I haven't looked deeply into it yet.

[kerkevik_2014]

A thought occured to me on the bus into Perth a wee while ago. She couldn;t have been thinking of the Isle of Man?

There was a report on (maybe?) a science paper a year or two back that suggested the DNA of the areas, such as East Anglia, with the longest history of English royal lines actually have a 'negligible' anglo-saxon dna record; that the population is largely that which existed there before the ANglo-Saxons arrived ie British/Welsh or Celtic, though several people have pointed out that the term Celtic points to a common culture that extended over large areas of Europe for many hundreds of years until the Romans wiped it out. There were no Celts as I was taught at school.

[shadowkat]

The DNA tests can in some cases be traced back prior to Roman times. My sisinlaw was able to trace back to Clovis Man.

I don't understand the science of it. And haven't read the report yet. But that's what my mother reported. I think it's how the DNA strands are labeled in their system. Don't know, will not know until I check it out. It's actually more useful in tracings potential relations and line, than ethnicity, since a lot of that is cross-over or not distinct.