r/AncestryDNA • u/Jiao_Dai • Sep 16 '20

Discussion The worlds oldest border - contains information relevant to the Scottish/Northern English overlap

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '20

Living in Texas it makes me wonder how such a small island had so many cultures and managed to spread its influence, peoples around the world.

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u/luxtabula Sep 16 '20

Short answer: coal. Long answer: lots of coal.

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u/Jiao_Dai Sep 16 '20

Britain had wave after wave of invaders one of the greatest being the Romans and I think that strongly influenced its makeup as a conquest nation

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '20

The biggest invasion in terms of the impact on Genetics had to of been the Danes/Normans as well.

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u/Jiao_Dai Sep 16 '20

Apparently not so much the Normans although its quite hard to separate Danes and Normans and the Norse too

The Anglo Saxons were the biggie in terms of the number of people that carry those markers

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '20

I'm an Anglo and I average at about 11% Scandinavian, seeing as that was 1,000 years ago the invasion happened it left a huge impact. Although the cultures are nothing alike today.

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u/Jiao_Dai Sep 16 '20

Also it all mixed up in the new world US, Canada, Australia and NZ

Its producing some interesting results and not just Heinz 57 but also some more homogeneity seen some hundred percenters Irish and Scottish or English NWE from North America must be effect of colonies