So periodically Ancestry sends me an email to tell me they have enough population info to update my ethnicity estimate. What I find hilarious about it is that I keep getting whiter and more genetically British.
Almost guaranteed the Germanic Europe stuff is likely from admixture from the Continent to GB and Ireland, although to be honest I am unsure as to how they are classifying the locations. Genetics are tricky.
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Population bottlenecks in times of plague will also tend to make even moreso of a mix, but with invasions and trade and just moving around it is inevitable.
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Yeah and I do not regard it as particularly accurate except insofar as it corroborates the historical record we've been able to find. Where there's a discrepancy, it's gonna be in the DNA results.
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