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.
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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Yeah. The other problem is that the DNA just matches modern populations rather than the populations generations back. So it creates problems when we apply it to the past. Genealogies are better IMO, despite problems of alterations.
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