Muffled
Jesus in me
No doubt but I have never seen it as late as 1500. The latest I have is 1097 Aethelred, a son of King Malcolm of Scotland.
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Who are your ancestors?
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No doubt but I have never seen it as late as 1500. The latest I have is 1097 Aethelred, a son of King Malcolm of Scotland.
I know it's rare, but it's from a poor family who never went very far until reaching America. Then they graduated to "lady of the night" in the 1600s. Fun fact; on one of the Christening things around 1699-1701 or so, one of the prostitutes(my great-something grandmother) lists the child's father as one "Edward Thach" in one instance and "Edward Teach" in another. And this was in the right area for the Carolinas. I may be a grandson of Blackbeard, *****es.
I am ethnically hebrew, the people you read about in the bible, from the tribe of levi and a kohen zadokite. we have kept our historical genealogy, which is presently in the possession of my uncle, who is the patriarch now after my father's death, that goes back to the 13th century. i do not practice judaism but follow sufi islam. jews are not necessarily hebrews and according to the most recent genetic studies almost 80 percent are not. at one time being jewish meant being hebrew but that time was before the diaspora. now being jewish means a follower of judaism. therefore if you want to be a jew you can convert to one of the sects out there, but if you mean hebrew then one can only be born a hebrew, a descendant of jacob. if you read the history of the hebrews you will notice that we were not really a very smart group. we quarreled with each other, did not produce any scientific works like the greeks, english, germans, romans of those times. if you go by the bible we angered G-D so many times and got punished for our transgressions and promises to G-D. the point of all this is that, we hebrews are not any special people and the things you mentioned about jews is simply because as a small religious group they tend to act as one, which is difficult with islam or christianity, and the intelligence and nobel prizes are due to genetic mixing with the europeans which is also the reason they look european and not like me.
Likewise! Albeit MacDonald of Clanranald, we think.
For my overall ancestry - my paternal grandfather was Chilean, of mostly British extraction if you go back another three or four generations.
My paternal grandmother was about as English as they come, a Norman name.
My maternal grandfather was born in Canada, to parents Lowland Scottish and Dutch American (they'd been in New England for a long time by this point).
My maternal grandmother was half Scottish (that's where the MacDonald comes in, her father came down from Lossiemouth to be Prime Minister of the UK a few times, shouldn't be hard to figure out who he was) and half English, don't know much about the English part though.
My father was born in Argentina, and grew up in Ecuador, Ethiopia and the UK. My mother was born in Swansea, but like myself, also born in Wales, never really identified as Welsh. Non-denominational British is plenty.
I used to consider myself British, or Chilean British. Now I don't really consider myself as anything.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Ditto on that! I don't want to post my last name but it's a very common name within MacDonald of Clanranald.
nazz
Doubting Thomas
Got my ancestrydna results back.
Not entirely sure how to interpret them.
My percentages break down as follows:
85% European
8% Native American
5% West Asian
2% African
The Euro genes break down as:
66% Great Britain
9% Iberian Peninsula
5% Ireland
2% East Europe
1% Scandinavia
<1% Italy/Greece
<1% Finland/Northwest Russia
<1% European Jewish
The notes explain that people from Great Britain are very admixed and include elements from many other European nations. My father was Swiss and Irish so maybe that is getting put into the general British genetic category. That's also probably where the Scandinavian comes in due to Viking invasions of England.
The Iberian and Native American heritage accounts for my Mexican/Indian ancestors.
The other European influences were quite surprising and I can't account for any of that in what I know of my ancestry. But I relate to Jewish and Greek cultures very well like its in my blood. Apparently it really is.
The African is North African (Moorish) and that probably ties into the Iberian connection as Moors occupied it.
West Asian includes Arabs (another culture I easily identify with) and that might also have to do with Muslim occupation of Spain.
More surprising was that I have some connection to the Caucasus region (3%) which covers a region encompassing Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and parts of other countries in that region. Maybe some mixing with the Arabs there.
Not entirely sure how to interpret them.
My percentages break down as follows:
85% European
8% Native American
5% West Asian
2% African
The Euro genes break down as:
66% Great Britain
9% Iberian Peninsula
5% Ireland
2% East Europe
1% Scandinavia
<1% Italy/Greece
<1% Finland/Northwest Russia
<1% European Jewish
The notes explain that people from Great Britain are very admixed and include elements from many other European nations. My father was Swiss and Irish so maybe that is getting put into the general British genetic category. That's also probably where the Scandinavian comes in due to Viking invasions of England.
The Iberian and Native American heritage accounts for my Mexican/Indian ancestors.
The other European influences were quite surprising and I can't account for any of that in what I know of my ancestry. But I relate to Jewish and Greek cultures very well like its in my blood. Apparently it really is.
The African is North African (Moorish) and that probably ties into the Iberian connection as Moors occupied it.
West Asian includes Arabs (another culture I easily identify with) and that might also have to do with Muslim occupation of Spain.
More surprising was that I have some connection to the Caucasus region (3%) which covers a region encompassing Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and parts of other countries in that region. Maybe some mixing with the Arabs there.
robtex
Veteran Member
Matt, mine our too! My mother's side of the family lives in Germany. She was a first generation American. My father's great grandmother immigrated from Ireland. I have Swedish in my family line too--but I don't know as much about them. I speak German somewhat well--I get lost on the slang.