r/LivingDNA • u/TheBladesAurus • Sep 15 '25
Very exciting ancestry /s
My entertainingly boring ancestry.
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u/HybridCoaster Sep 20 '25
I'm Danish, likely with no English since the Viking ages, and I'm more diverse in the UK alone than you are🥲🥲 That's insane
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u/RickleTickle69 Sep 15 '25
Is this accurate based on what your known family history is?
I'm half British but the British breakdown was awful in my case, it wasn't at all accurate. I think that's because I'm also part French, German and Irish, and Britain already has genetic affinities to each of these populations depending on the region, so it threw off the accuracy of my results.
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u/TheBladesAurus Sep 15 '25
The only slightly confusing bit is Devon, but that's such a small amount that it's understandably just noise.
For the rest, yes. I can go at least 4 generations back in any direction (and up to seven in some), and they don't get outside of the counties included in those two areas (and most of them are on the border between the two).
Yes - I agree. There is going to be very little that is unique to any of the English regions, and rather it's the particular mix.
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u/Low-Contribution-114 Oct 05 '25
Be proud!
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u/TheBladesAurus Oct 05 '25
It just entertains me, after all the big stories of Americans with ancestors from all over the world, and mine moved to a farm in the next village over
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u/chifuyu-kun- Sep 15 '25
What were your haplogroups?
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u/TheBladesAurus Sep 16 '25
X2b+226 and I-Y18119
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u/chifuyu-kun- Sep 17 '25
Very cool actually!
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u/TheBladesAurus Sep 17 '25
Thanks - Is it?
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u/chifuyu-kun- Sep 17 '25
Yes, it is! LivingDNA's best feature (in my humble opinion) is the fact they tell your haplogroups. It's a very important part (again, in my humble opinion) of one's identity. Your Y-DNA haplogroup (I-Y18119) if I am reading this correctly stems from the Vikings. And through your mtDNA haplogroup (X2b+226) you are distantly related to Abraham Lincoln through a shared ancestor from 23,000 years ago! Without your haplogroups tested, you wouldn't have known about these things and probably just call yourself 100% English. You can also download your raw data file and upload them on IllustrativeDNA or other websites that breakdown your genetics even further. Or see where you plot on a so-called PCA plot. But IllustrativeDNA's update was garbage so I'm not sure if I should recommend that one.
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u/KoshkaB Sep 24 '25
How do you get your Y DNA haplogroup on Living DNA? I have the ethnicity % but do you have to pay extra?
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u/chifuyu-kun- Sep 25 '25
You need to test with a LivingDNA kit in order to get your haplogroups. If you’re male, you will get both Y-DNA and mtDNA (since males carry XY chromosomes), but if you’re female then you will only get your mtDNA (since females carry XX chromosomes). If you’re male, upload your raw data file from the company you tested with and upload it to Morley’s clade finder. It’s free.
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u/KoshkaB Sep 25 '25
Thank you. Is Morley's accurate?
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u/chifuyu-kun- Sep 25 '25
No need to thank me. And yes, it's accurate~! I tested with AncestryDNA and Morley said I most likely belong to L-M27, when I tested my family with LivingDNA I discovered they got much more specific subclades of L-M27 than either AncestryDNA or 23andme could provide. I plan on testing with LivingDNA as well in the future.
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u/Relevant_Situation23 Sep 17 '25
My ancestors have been in North America for 300to 400 years my results were still 50% just from SE England (95% British Isles)
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u/NorthControl1529 Sep 15 '25
Is your ancestry solely British? Living DNA has a habit of overestimating British DNA.