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Ethnicity?

shores1  (View posts) Posted: 4 Oct 2012 11:54PM GMT
Classification: Query
I just received my results. No British Isles DNA. I don't know how that is even possible.

On my mothers side, I have 4 grandparents+ that came over on the Mayflower and the rest on the boats that came right after.

On my father's side I'm 1/2 Scottish & 1/2 German.
That I can see with 36% Central Europe.

The DNA results state I'm 40% Scandinavian.

My conclusion is if this DNA is correct? The Pilgrims were Vikings.

Re: Ethnicity?

Alison Trottier  (View posts) Posted: 5 Oct 2012 3:08PM GMT
Classification: Query
It seems that Scandinavian is being used as a catch-all for Western European, basically. Your British Isles DNA is most likely just showing up as Scandinavian. This is happening to a lot of people. Read some of the messages here and you will see that almost everyone is getting a Scandinavian result.

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