I'm 47% French/German

[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!

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.

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 great-grandma was a floozy!

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

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

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

I am French/German/British

@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%?

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.

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

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

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

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.

Interesting!

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.

@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.

I tried out three simultaneously as an experiment.

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

What exactly do they mean by 'English' though?

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?

@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.

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

@Sophiebrown85 mine seems pretty boring next to yours!

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

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

@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 ?

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