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I'm 47% French/German

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PupInAPram · 24/02/2022 21:44

I got my DNA results back and I'm 47% French & German and 44% British & Irish. It's a complete mystery to me how!

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balalake · 25/02/2022 09:58

I don't know if true, but there is an estimate that 1 in 10 people do not have the biological dad they think they have. You may not know your family history more than 200 years ago.

juneybean · 25/02/2022 10:00

Well I've been doing my family tree for the best part of 20 years and did my DNA last year to discover my great-grandad is not my great-grandad at all. A whole line incorrect Shock great-grandma was a floozy!

TabithaTittlemouse · 25/02/2022 10:01

This is why I won’t do a test! Too scared of uncovering skeletons in the closet!

Justkeeppedaling · 25/02/2022 10:02

to be nearly 50% of something, you must have a pretty near relative parent who has that descent. Hmm

LizBennet · 25/02/2022 10:09

Hmm.. 🤔 that is an odd surprise, unless you were adopted?

foreverandalways · 25/02/2022 10:11

I am French/German/British

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 25/02/2022 10:11

@PupInAPram

I got my DNA results back and I'm 47% French & German and 44% British & Irish. It's a complete mystery to me how!
Just out of interest, what’s the other 9%?
NightmareLoon · 25/02/2022 10:15

Yeah... I'm not sure those percentages mean very much. It just means that you have genes consistent with people on the continent. Given how close they are to us, maybe 40% of your forebears had European ancestry. Or it could all be a bit of guesswork.

Yugi · 25/02/2022 10:25

Could your grandparents have immigrated during one of the world wars and concealed their background? It wasn’t unusual

WhenPushComesToShove · 25/02/2022 10:27

Had a good giggle when our results arrived. I'm 1% Arab and my OH has 1.7% Kazakhstan genes - most unexpected

TheYearOfSmallThings · 25/02/2022 10:28

I think that just means you're white and from Northern Europe. There are not massive genetic differences between those countries.

BestZebbie · 25/02/2022 10:55

Which company did you use? I tried out three simultaneously as an experiment and one came back "correct" (exactly what I expected from my fairly boring white british ancestry), one said I am half German and the third one lost the sample and faffed me around for three months... I assume the half German result is either very confused by British people having genetic input from Anglo-Saxons or very confused by being derived from some kind of skewed sample of DNA taken from Americans with European ancestry and not including enough British people to register properly.

NobodysGonnaKnow · 25/02/2022 10:55

Interesting!

MostIneptThatEverStepped · 25/02/2022 11:03

My daughter did this a while back. Was a bit baffling because although from my side there should have been approximately 12.5% of English there was none at all. Which presumably means that the English grandparent of mine was of non English descent?
Impossible to work it out as on her dad's side it's a total medley of different European heritage anyway.

PupInAPram · 25/02/2022 11:08

@Yugi that seems like the most likely explanation. Two World Wars with massive movement of population, immigration, troops overseas combined with people changing their names to 'fit in'. @BestZebbie, I used 23 and me, because I wanted the health reports. @GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER Scandanavian, Southern European.

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TheYearOfSmallThings · 25/02/2022 11:09

I tried out three simultaneously as an experiment.

Very good idea - I have doubts about some of these companies.

ErrolTheDragon · 25/02/2022 11:11

What exactly do they mean by 'English' though?

WhenPushComesToShove · 25/02/2022 11:47

Interesting that PP has asked 'what is English'. English means someone whose ancestral heritage is white and from the southern part of the British Isles. You wouldn't ask what Scottish, Welsh or Irish is would you?

ErrolTheDragon · 25/02/2022 11:59

@WhenPushComesToShove

Interesting that PP has asked 'what is English'. English means someone whose ancestral heritage is white and from the southern part of the British Isles. You wouldn't ask what Scottish, Welsh or Irish is would you?
I might, though they're probably not quite so heterogeneous. I'd imagine 'Scottish' might include a variety of inputs including Nordic.
Sophiebrown85 · 25/02/2022 12:10

I did a genetic analysis and I got the following

15%- German ( I assume somewhere down the line this was the case)
20%- Moroccan ( the surprising part, had no bloody clue about this!)
55%- English (No justification needed)
8%-Indian Dravidian ( I was not surprised because of my darker hair and knowing that mums grandma (on her dads side) was an Indian)
1%-Dutch
1%-Arab

PupInAPram · 25/02/2022 12:18

@Sophiebrown85 mine seems pretty boring next to yours!

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AuxArmesCitoyens · 25/02/2022 12:20

It's all bollocks anyway. There's no such thing as French or German DNA.

StopStartStop · 25/02/2022 12:22

If it's Ancestry, don't panic. It changes every few months.

x2boys · 25/02/2022 12:48

@PupInAPram

I got my DNA results back and I'm 47% French & German and 44% British & Irish. It's a complete mystery to me how!
What did you think it would throw up? I have never done one but as my Dad is Irish and my mum English ,but with Irish heritage I assumed mine would be mainly Irish / British ?
PupInAPram · 25/02/2022 12:51

@x2boys I expected 99.9 % white British/Irish. I'm that boring 🤣 I'm happy to be mixing it up a bit

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