Don't have a drop of Welsh in me!

[cantoncween]

I'm Cardiff born and bred. Always seen myself as Welsh. Maybe not as Welsh as people from up North and that, but still Welsh. Used to go down the museum close by and see the old houses, imagine they was my family and that who lived in them.

Have done my family tree. All my family down to 1870 were born in Cardiff. So all of my great great grandparents are Cardiff people. But before that, they all moved in from England. Places like Herefordshire, Devon and Somerset. I'm gutted, not a single drop of 'Welsh' in me. Just English people who moved to Wales. I been reading up, and apparently this is common for Cardiff people.

DNA is just a chemical. Culture is what you experience in life. It sounds like you are Welsh to me. You are culturally and spiritually Welsh.

Anyway, I expect and least some of your ancestors were Welsh further back than that, and in cany case, go back 15 000 years ( only about 600 generations) and there were no humans inhabiting Wales, anyway

My ancestry has no Welsh at all - it is a mix of Scottish, Irish, English, German, Scandinavian and Portuguese.

<misses point of thead>