That's genuinely interesting, had always assumed you were of Indian heritage like most people probably did. Thanks for sharing with us, not that it was any of our business! Fascinating look at our history as a country too
My wife took a DNA test. She always thought her family was German, but the DNA said she's Scandanavian. Which isn't really surprising - the Scandanavians are Germanic people, and the countries are all close together geographically. Her family did indeed immigrate from Germany, but they come from a part of northern Germany where a lot of the people are of Danish ethnicity. Denmark shares a border with Germany.
That's why he said Indian bcuz she mixed when her grand father migrated and mixed but north indian have european DNA way back already without even migration. @@ninagill1407
I've thought about this many times and this video confirms it, you'd make an amazing teacher. I don't know what your non youtube job is, but god you are so well spoken and explain things so clearly you're a born teacher if you don't happen to be one already.
@@sadetwizelvewhut. So you don't understand what reporting is Reporting involved current events. Talking about the past, reporting if you'd even like to use the word, is teaching.
Writing a script for (or having your script written for you for) your entire class word for word everyday seems like a lot more work than doing occasional videos.
I'm 80% English, and I've never left America. Growing up, my family always said my maternal grandmother was Cuban, but I have 0% of any Latin countries.
There were a lot of Americans and Europeans in Cuba before the revolution. Also, if it was a grandmother and she only had a smaller portion of indigenous or Latin DNA you might just not have inherited it because each generation only passes a random 50% to the next generation. If your mother, siblings, or cousins got tested they might have inherited it.
I didn’t think I’d watch this and love every second of it but here we are on my third watch and I’m literally entranced and entertained by your genetic history. PLEASE keep just switching it up with these videos, this one was a cool one to watch
I always love hearing about geneaology and the differences/simularities between all peoples. Being able to fill in blanks to our personal histories is fadcinating.
I'm loving these non-gaming videos, too! Your essay prowess and editing is a great fit for just about any topic. Thanks for sharing a bit of your story!
There's the odd inaccuracy though, the Anglo-Saxons (I'm as close to an Angle as you'll ever find) were 4 tribes just the 2 largest were the Angles and Saxons. The 3rd largest were the Jutes who mostly settled in the region named after them (Jutland). I've forgotten who the 4th were. Next and this is a common error made to simplify the subject, no one came from Germany as it didn't exist until the 19th century, that whole region was part of the Danelaw, in fact it was considered to be Denmark itself. The Danelaw spread across continental north western Europe except Scandinavia and controlled all the islands of the north Atlantic up to and including Greenland, the only place back then that escaped the Danelaw was British Isles where the Anglo-Saxons eventually defeated the Danish invasion. Didn't last though, they were finished off by a bunch of French speaking Norwegians from Normandy.
Ancestry DNA often has trouble seeing differences in ethinicities in the British Isles because they are all so closely related. You may see this change in future updates. For example, my nephew kept coming back with very high rates of Scottish but no English. Even though his father has a ton of English. Later it was updated and came back with a high degree of English as well.
A friend of mine had a DNA test. Said she was 0.2% native American. She went out and bought every dream catcher and "faux fur" animal pelt she could find. Thing was, she came from a mining town in the north of England. Like one of those towns where it's so rare for someone to leave, that the whole town comes out to see them off.
I've seen stuff like this. I have a hypothesis I'm not educated enough in genealogy to make, but make anyway. I think stuff like that happens for ethnic groups that testing company doesn't have enough info on. I remember seeing a video of Middle Eastern people taking a DNA test, but the test they took was primarily researched for European Jews, so nearly all got a small percent Jewish, when it seems more likely that's just Middle Eastern DNA common in European Jews because of their Middle East ancestry. So in your friend's case, I think it's more likely a bunch of English people from her area went to America early on and their DNA became common enough in Native Americans to be assumed Native than an Indigenous American great-great-grandmother.
@@TheBusyJane My dad is black-Amerindian with a Jewish Portuguese maraner last name, and my mom is Volga German-Dutch with some Nenet somewhere. Whatever surprise the test has for me, I will believe it. I do wonder how much of each (white, black, Asian, Indian, latino, jew, slav) it will show.
@@TheBusyJane Seeing as Islam grew out of Judaism is it that surprising? Ethiopians are also derived from Jewish tribes that migrated there in Biblical times which recently following extensive DNA studies led to them being fully accepted as a Semitic tribe by Israel and Jewish faith leaders. Fun fact: The Qur'an was compiled by the Jews of Medina after Mohammed's death, their aim was to record his teachings for posterity as he himself was illiterate so wrote nothing down.
@@TheBusyJane As the Vikings colonised parts of North America I think it's more likely the interchange of genetics between modern northern Europeans most likely derives from them. You can't really separate the Nors, or any of the Germanic tribes due to constant migration, the first culture that became a unified culture of all Britain were the Orcadians that arrived on Orkney from Scandinavia before colonising the mainland, they were the people that built the stone circles and other monolithic structures the oldest of which are on Orkney, they also invented ball bearings which is how they moved 60 tonne stones across Britain, they didn't have those on Orkney so it is surmised they used beds of slippery seaweed to slide the stones on. There was also a large migration of Neolithic tribes that migrated to the East coast of what is now the US during the last ice age, we know this because for years one of the US's most prized archeological artifacts was a Clovis point arrowhead, these were common in Neolithic France and Spain with thousands discovered in one cave alone. Many of the tribes persecuted during the colonisation of America were from European descent. The point is that Human migration was common in the ancient World, Humans were mostly nomadic before the rise of larger communities in central Europe (the oldest known site is in the Czech Republic and it's possible that it's the place where modern Human society began, the alpha site) again during the last ice age. Discoveries at this site found the oldest hunting nets ever found and the earliest examples of specialisation, the quality of tools found there were manufactured to a standard never found at hunter gatherer sites and none as old made to this standard have ever been found anywhere else on Earth.
People may not know this but in Sri Lanka, there is a ancient method to determine your heritage. There are specific parts of the sole of you feet that reveals where you are from. If you'll be so kind to show us you feet we can determine for sure what makes you so special. 🧐
I've watched a lot of Lady Decade building my retro library, but landed on this video on accident. Glad I did! I now know a lot more of where I come from than I did when I woke up today. Thank you!
Your DNA results are so interesting, thanks for sharing. I kinda want to get my DNA results, it makes you feel more connected with your ancestors in a way.
English DNA is tricky because it's in itself a mix of Celtic/German/Scandinavian DNA which are also groups on their own. So if a segment on your DNA is slightly more Celtic than other groups it gets assigned as Celtic (Scotland/Wales/Ireland). If your family is from York you'd probably have a higher percentage of Scandinavian than other groups on segments and thus it will be assigned as Scandinavian. Only people with a very balanced out profile between these groups in their segments (+-30% sca, +-30% celtic, +-30% german, +-10% other) will get assigned as "English", because if they loosen the strict definition for assignment a lot more of Dutch/Germans/Scandinavians would be wrongly assigned as "English" while it is the other way around. Then there is the "between" group. If your mom is from Russia and you dad is from the UK you will have a chance you'll test Polish despite having no ancestors in Poland. It's just the group what your DNA is most like as a +-50% mix of germanic/slavic.
I instantly knew Lady Decade was part Asian from the first time I saw her. For me It's as clear as day. I'm Black but I have a few relatives who are part Asian and I've had a lot of Asian friends so I can see it in Lady Decade's face. My dad is 25% Japanese and I look a lot more like him than my brother. When I meet other Black people (Mostly Women) 5 minutes in I'm always asked where am I from? Like I'm an Alien.
Me too. Although being ethnically English I get called silly names for being interested in other humans. It's built in to us I think and most don't listen to it. But I can usually tell even if someone has irish, german or other very close ancestry.
I once was digging a trench at work during the summer and was very tan. A man walked up to me and started speaking Spanish. When I looked up he jumped backwards and said oh my god I thought you were Mexican. I just said sorry to disappoint and we both laughed.
DNA tests are so weird. I remember when I took one, it said I had 0.01% Japanese DNA from a relative in the 1700s. I was confused but excited. Months later, they updated and said it was a mistake 😂 Now 100% European in origin.
Its because we still have ancient DNA that is common to vast swaths of people across different continents. When the tests run into this they just write something that will make people interested and tell their friends about it to make them want to test themselves.
I came here to say the same thing. I used to be 14% Italian and then I went to Italy where the locals all thought I was full Italian. Then later I checked my DNA results and now I’m 0% Italian. And one of the two highest results keep changing all over the continent. I have to log in periodically when people ask what am I just to confirm my latest results!~ 😂
Awesome, now that we have your DNA floating around out there, that means we can finally cop us a few ILLEEEEEGAL clones of Lady Decade from the Chinese market 😎😎😎
Definitely an interested video. I never really wondered what your heritages were since it never crossed my mind, but cool that you got to find out more about yourself. ^v^ I personally already knew what my heritages were since all my family were pretty vocal about being things like Irish, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Native American, Swedish, and such. So I never had an interest in doing the tests, but i definitely understand why people would want to, especially if their family never talked much about it.
Families can misremember/fudge the truth, of course, you know that right? ;-) It's not even a bad thing, it's just... while oral histories are indeed very important, they aren't the gold standard of evidence. You may have a large chunk of ethnicity you never knew, because that part of the family history isn't talked about/forgotten/etc.
@@mercster perhaps. I can see maybe some families may not want to be as open or supportive of some part or another of their lineage, and many may not be as open as mine has been. I'm not discouraging the idea of anyone looking into it for themselves, just mostly saying I never had the need for it myself, since my family always kept things like birth records, photos, family trees, so I know pretty much what all is there outside of maybe some stray .5% or something of that nature.
@@CrimsonDamian So they have birth records, photos, and family trees going back 1000 years? I think you may be underestimating the amount of genetic variance... someone could have birth records going back for 300 years and absolutely believe they are 100% "something"... but way back before, had admixture with something else. It's not a question of whether your family is "open" or not, it's just the huge amount of data one would need to be "sure." I mean if you don't care, I don't care... I'm just lettin' ya know "I don't need a test because my family is open and honest about our genealogy" is a rather myopic statement. It's making a lot of assumptions and diminishing the very real possibility of gaps in the knowledge, no matter how "open" they are. But hey, like I said... if ya don't care, save yourself the $80 or whatever! Doesn't matter in the end, some people are more curious than others.
There are mistakes sometimes. My DNA profile showed a small amount of Polynesian DNA, but later it was re examined and I am really mostly Scottish with Irish, English, French, Dutch and Scandinavian. In other words, genetically similar to my ancestors who settled in the New England, New York and Canadian colonies.
That was quite a fun and interesting diversion from the normal gaming content. The Tamil people I know (I've met a fair few living in South London) are quite dark so it makes sense that even one quarter Tamil is going to give you an overall skin tone and eye colour that is quite "Mediterranean" even when the rest of your genetic makeup is very Northern European.
My family has roots in America going back to the 1500s. Most recently we came out of Ireland and Austria. But i'm 400 years of grab bag American. When i lived in Germany i learned i had a lot of family in Austria. But they all felt as if i was coming to take something away from them. Gods only know what that's about. But i did get to meet one of the blacksheep. He was nice enough.
A great video, really interesting and your usual funny self. I guess it just shows that you're a great youtuber and I think that if you're passionate about what you're talking about, it's unskippable for me.
Ahah, you always seemed so familiar to me, and now that you mentioned other people think you have a resemblance to Marina Sirtis, I realize that's exactly why! Very cool to hear your results.
1. These tests use quite a small part of your DNA, and two siblings might get quite different results because even though they're 50/50 of their parents they're a different combination of that 50/50 2. Greek/South Italian might actually be Etruscan (which were Greek city-states in Italy) or from Magna Graecia rather than Roman.
I'm 69yrs old one of my Grandparents actually descended from one of Seven families named in Magna Carter of people living in London, But Nobody lived in the British Isles, when they were buried under a half-mile thick sheet of Ice, Appart from Woolly Mammoths
She wouldn't be confused with mexican? I'm Hispanic from the east coast, I have very pale skin (like, anemic looking lol) and I can only imagine what californians would think about me. This woman looks north Indian to me. Or maybe mixed with Punjab and White.
I did 23&me. I had a bit of surprise because I have family who are First Nation. I did not have that in my results. On my father's side, he and one of my brother's met a cousin who is First Nation. The family oral history, although not much is known, is that everytime there was a sentence when my father was growing up, that they gave them a different European country each time to protect the family. This was during the residental school days when Native kids were removed from their home and forced to go to a boarding school to try and remove their culture. So the DNA results gave different information. I knew that we are Irish and English, just not the percentages. I used to daydream that I was switched at birth when I was a kid. I was not. The test showed that I was indeed my parents biological daughter. The test also showed that I was almost 50% Irish and 50% English. I have a pinch of generic Scandinavian, as well. It was still interesting, but I didn't expect those percentages.
Ngl, your Greek/Southern Italian dna, though a smaller percentage, definitely went hard in the paint, because the first time I saw one of your videos (about 2 hours ago, before I started my binge, lol) I immediately thought you reminded me of Mirina Sirtis 😂
I did like to hear these things about your Ancestry Lady! :) To be honest our Ancestry doesn`t matter to us cuz you not being more or less... I wanted to say you`re beautiful. :)
I'm a similar amount Scandinavian. 14% last time I checked. The rest is English, Scottish or Welsh. The precise numbers do change a little bit with updates. Since I don't have a recent Scandinavian relative I assume it's just general mixing that a lot of us in the UK would have like you said.
I don't know what company you used but for 23andMe they actually consider British and Irish the same thing so they just have a category called British and Irish and they said Im 95% that. I think they put a half a percent of some random stuff in just to keep people interested or something.
Something to keep in mind with scandinavian ancestry is that in addition to the vikings Norway at one point had the worlds 3rd largest merchant fleet, and during WWII the norwegian army in exile were stationed in Scotland.
I've considered trying one of these tests out. I hit a couple roadblocks trying to piece together my family tree and that was only going back a few generations; to the best of my knowledge, both sides of the family came from Europe late 19th into early 20th century, but I couldn't make much progress there. While this likely wouldn't help sort through some of those issues, it'd be something to add on to the side.
I got a DNA test and then some people in black suits and sunglasses showed up at my house and I had to slip out the back. Now I'm on the run and going by the name sonofdormammu. I thought it was weird that my mom always told me NOT to get a DNA test before she hopped on this weird round plane for a "business trip". I haven't seen her since. It feels so good to get that off my chest. Thanks!
Interesting! Yeah I always wondered, I thought maybe South Asian or Persian. 😏 I did one of those tests too, I'm 52% French/German, 15.7% British/Irish, and 26.8% Polish. Curiously it also says 0.2% North Indian/Pakistani, which... I'm white as a ghost. I think those trace things are either statistical anomalies or, some very slight hint of the Indo-European peoples coming through from tens of thousands of years ago or whatever. Thanks for the video.
Actually not all ancient Britons were celts. The celts mainly settled in Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and migrated originally from Brittany and Iberia but the oldest tribes of ancient Britain (known as the beaker people because of their pottery) were here a long time before that and there is much debate about where they came from.
The Celts were a mid European continent tribe and a few of them made it to Britain long after it was fully settled from quite a few places over many thousands of years. In the mid 18th century the name was co-opted for commercial reasons.
When I started watching your videos, I knew that some of your ancestors were from India. You are just a lovely person all around, sense of humor, articulation, and intelligence. Just be you.
I had the same result in my “English” ancestry (which should have been roughly 25%)-none of it was actually “English”. It was a combination of Welsh (native Briton?), Scottish, and Norwegian (Viking?). Like you, I get the “where are you from?” thing a lot, in spite of the fact that I was born in Washington DC, I didn’t set foot outside the United States until I was 26, my parents were both born in the states, and some of my ancestors arrived in the colonies in the early 17th century. My most abundant ethnicity is actually Nordic (some via my putative British line and most via my grandmother, whose parents immigrated from Norway); however, my Sicilian and Jewish genes determined my phenotype. When I get angry and someone makes a comment about my fiery Italian temper, I say, “no-it actually comes from my pillaging Viking ancestors!”
Well keeping in mind we share about 60% of our DNA with a Banana. Nothing really surprises me. Plus if you think about it really hard and go back far enough, we are all related in 1 way or another.
This was really cool to watch, Lady Decade! Thanks! As an American, I've learned more history about the world watching this video than listening to a fellow American talk about it!
I think it depends on two factors. The quality of the DNA processing and the reference archive/data. So for example Ancestry gave me 1% Jewish but Myheritage with a bigger Jewish database bumped it up to 3.8% with matches. So it pays to have comparative DNA uploads
I don't care of skin color because I'm brazilian and most of brazilian people is, at least , product of 4 etnical groups: bants, angolans, portugueses and native brazilians like the Tupi-Guarani tribes, your semblances of indian women never lied to me, because there are so many indians and other people that migrated to my country, and there mixes of blacks, browns and white people in the entire country. It's really very common couples of white blonde women and a black man here. However if my wife didn't unfertile, we'd a son or daughter blond of pulled eyes, my wife is at great part descendant of japanese. My like and subscryption at your channel is guaranteed. I liked very much of your videos, so congratulations about this one!
That's interesting. I always thought you were "British Indian" myself. I figured it would be weird/rude to ask, though, unless you brought it up yourself. Thanks for sharing.
I guessed by looking at you that you were a mixture of European and Asian. Had a bunch of friends with that mixture while growing up in the Philippines. Always thoght that mixture made the most beautiful people I ever knew.
That's very interesting! I wouldn't have guessed that. I'm partly Welsh and Scottish, as far as I know. My grandmother was Bahamian. But otherwise, I don't know
DNA now on file. A necessity for gracious cloning. In all seriousness, as an American, I found your presentation here very interesting. My smol brain grew 3 sizes that day.
The Mesoamerican DNA- The Caribbean happens to have an Indian minority. Is it possible you had ancestors who were Caribbean Hindi & some of them moved back to Sri Lanka?
Mrs Decade, what service did you use? As a pasty white Englishman who has Welsh and Irish lineage with a smattering of Maltese heritage but also has parents with French derived surnames but also a blood type mostly common in India I'm more than a touch curious about my clearly Heinz 57 background!
I always wonder these tests are. Populations move over centuries. Frontiers and names vary a lot through history. It’s stricking to see how fine the distinctions between european populations can go whereas people from Africa are often seen just as « african ». That’s why the historical reminders in this video are very important for contextualization.
African borders were lost pretty thoroughly due to Europeans dividing it up and the nations mostly having oral history instead written history. And it would cause way more issues to put the borders back. Seems a lot of tribes lived across multiple nations borders even before Europe.
@@mirianakovachevic748 On which criteria are european people more more diverse than african ones ? I am not sure. The continent is many times bigger and is the source of the whole human branch for what we know. It would make sense for more diversity to be in Africa, even if, to european eyes, all black people might seem alike. Because europeans colonised the world, we tend to get a very european-centric vision.
I always thought you looked very South Asian, but didn't realize you were only about a quarter Sri Lankan, and mostly otherwise white. (Another British UA-camr I often watch, Toy Cat, is also a quarter Sri Lankan)
That's genuinely interesting, had always assumed you were of Indian heritage like most people probably did. Thanks for sharing with us, not that it was any of our business! Fascinating look at our history as a country too
The DNA test just proves most Scots are Indian.
I’m of Indian heritage (North Indian Punjabi) and have exactly the same colouring as her.
My wife took a DNA test. She always thought her family was German, but the DNA said she's Scandanavian. Which isn't really surprising - the Scandanavians are Germanic people, and the countries are all close together geographically. Her family did indeed immigrate from Germany, but they come from a part of northern Germany where a lot of the people are of Danish ethnicity. Denmark shares a border with Germany.
That's why he said Indian bcuz she mixed when her grand father migrated and mixed but north indian have european DNA way back already without even migration. @@ninagill1407
I've thought about this many times and this video confirms it, you'd make an amazing teacher. I don't know what your non youtube job is, but god you are so well spoken and explain things so clearly you're a born teacher if you don't happen to be one already.
How? She doesn't TEACH anything,she reports...She'd make a good journalist and reporter because of the research she does and presenting it.
*slight curtain pullback*
She and her husband are both teachers 🐢
@@sadetwizelvewhut. So you don't understand what reporting is Reporting involved current events. Talking about the past, reporting if you'd even like to use the word, is teaching.
Writing a script for (or having your script written for you for) your entire class word for word everyday seems like a lot more work than doing occasional videos.
Lol, I love the phrase "non-UA-cam job" 😂
When I look at you I see the Greek.
Mirina Sirtis is EXACTLY what I thought. And you sound like her too.
"You're all German, really."
Me:
I'm 80% English, and I've never left America. Growing up, my family always said my maternal grandmother was Cuban, but I have 0% of any Latin countries.
Do you have Spanish? The Cuban ancestor might have been fully Spanish by blood, then no latin countries would show up
There were a lot of Americans and Europeans in Cuba before the revolution. Also, if it was a grandmother and she only had a smaller portion of indigenous or Latin DNA you might just not have inherited it because each generation only passes a random 50% to the next generation. If your mother, siblings, or cousins got tested they might have inherited it.
I didn’t think I’d watch this and love every second of it but here we are on my third watch and I’m literally entranced and entertained by your genetic history. PLEASE keep just switching it up with these videos, this one was a cool one to watch
Dhalsim’s theme. Too good!
So can she breathe fire then? 😉
I always love hearing about geneaology and the differences/simularities between all peoples. Being able to fill in blanks to our personal histories is fadcinating.
I'm loving these non-gaming videos, too! Your essay prowess and editing is a great fit for just about any topic. Thanks for sharing a bit of your story!
She's going red pill
There's the odd inaccuracy though, the Anglo-Saxons (I'm as close to an Angle as you'll ever find) were 4 tribes just the 2 largest were the Angles and Saxons. The 3rd largest were the Jutes who mostly settled in the region named after them (Jutland). I've forgotten who the 4th were. Next and this is a common error made to simplify the subject, no one came from Germany as it didn't exist until the 19th century, that whole region was part of the Danelaw, in fact it was considered to be Denmark itself. The Danelaw spread across continental north western Europe except Scandinavia and controlled all the islands of the north Atlantic up to and including Greenland, the only place back then that escaped the Danelaw was British Isles where the Anglo-Saxons eventually defeated the Danish invasion. Didn't last though, they were finished off by a bunch of French speaking Norwegians from Normandy.
Lady decade is lady decade. Her beauty, feet and games are all that matters.
I agree lol
and her colour. everything is better in colour ;-)
Her feet, lol! 😆
You're such a f simp.
Lmfao good one 😂
Ancestry DNA often has trouble seeing differences in ethinicities in the British Isles because they are all so closely related. You may see this change in future updates. For example, my nephew kept coming back with very high rates of Scottish but no English. Even though his father has a ton of English. Later it was updated and came back with a high degree of English as well.
Unless it's done professionally its just nonsense. All these websites are a waste of time.
@@54356776It's not. It's quite accurate.
That's the key, as more people try their service, the library grows and the results become more fine tuned.
Misattributed paternity is an extremely common thing and has been for centuries.
@@rymic72 No he has like 25% DNA in common with me.
I'm English, but genetically 56% Nordic, 34% gaelic, and the remaining split between Iberia and Italy!
A friend of mine had a DNA test. Said she was 0.2% native American. She went out and bought every dream catcher and "faux fur" animal pelt she could find.
Thing was, she came from a mining town in the north of England. Like one of those towns where it's so rare for someone to leave, that the whole town comes out to see them off.
I've seen stuff like this. I have a hypothesis I'm not educated enough in genealogy to make, but make anyway. I think stuff like that happens for ethnic groups that testing company doesn't have enough info on. I remember seeing a video of Middle Eastern people taking a DNA test, but the test they took was primarily researched for European Jews, so nearly all got a small percent Jewish, when it seems more likely that's just Middle Eastern DNA common in European Jews because of their Middle East ancestry.
So in your friend's case, I think it's more likely a bunch of English people from her area went to America early on and their DNA became common enough in Native Americans to be assumed Native than an Indigenous American great-great-grandmother.
@@TheBusyJane My dad is black-Amerindian with a Jewish Portuguese maraner last name, and my mom is Volga German-Dutch with some Nenet somewhere.
Whatever surprise the test has for me, I will believe it. I do wonder how much of each (white, black, Asian, Indian, latino, jew, slav) it will show.
One American or Canadian a few generations back could account for it.
@@TheBusyJane
Seeing as Islam grew out of Judaism is it that surprising? Ethiopians are also derived from Jewish tribes that migrated there in Biblical times which recently following extensive DNA studies led to them being fully accepted as a Semitic tribe by Israel and Jewish faith leaders. Fun fact: The Qur'an was compiled by the Jews of Medina after Mohammed's death, their aim was to record his teachings for posterity as he himself was illiterate so wrote nothing down.
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As the Vikings colonised parts of North America I think it's more likely the interchange of genetics between modern northern Europeans most likely derives from them. You can't really separate the Nors, or any of the Germanic tribes due to constant migration, the first culture that became a unified culture of all Britain were the Orcadians that arrived on Orkney from Scandinavia before colonising the mainland, they were the people that built the stone circles and other monolithic structures the oldest of which are on Orkney, they also invented ball bearings which is how they moved 60 tonne stones across Britain, they didn't have those on Orkney so it is surmised they used beds of slippery seaweed to slide the stones on. There was also a large migration of Neolithic tribes that migrated to the East coast of what is now the US during the last ice age, we know this because for years one of the US's most prized archeological artifacts was a Clovis point arrowhead, these were common in Neolithic France and Spain with thousands discovered in one cave alone. Many of the tribes persecuted during the colonisation of America were from European descent. The point is that Human migration was common in the ancient World, Humans were mostly nomadic before the rise of larger communities in central Europe (the oldest known site is in the Czech Republic and it's possible that it's the place where modern Human society began, the alpha site) again during the last ice age. Discoveries at this site found the oldest hunting nets ever found and the earliest examples of specialisation, the quality of tools found there were manufactured to a standard never found at hunter gatherer sites and none as old made to this standard have ever been found anywhere else on Earth.
People may not know this but in Sri Lanka, there is a ancient method to determine your heritage. There are specific parts of the sole of you feet that reveals where you are from. If you'll be so kind to show us you feet we can determine for sure what makes you so special. 🧐
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hahahahahahah AMAZING, hats off to you :)
Was in tears trying to read this comment out to my partner, well done 😅
Very rarely does a comment make me laugh, or even get a smirk out of me. You, kind fellow, made me snort. Thank you
I've watched a lot of Lady Decade building my retro library, but landed on this video on accident. Glad I did! I now know a lot more of where I come from than I did when I woke up today. Thank you!
I always thought you were Indian but regardless you are an amazing person. Your videos are very informative and fun.
Your DNA results are so interesting, thanks for sharing. I kinda want to get my DNA results, it makes you feel more connected with your ancestors in a way.
She's Welsh 😬😬🐢
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Farmers, lock up yer sheep
@@OrunitaViviwhy? Because you're horny...😂
@@OrunitaViviThat's just what welsh ladies look like.
I have never watched Lady Decade and do not know why she popped up in y recommends but she's charming. So I subbed.
I always stumble on to your videos, and I always end up learning something
A really interesting video. I never really gave it too much thought, but I assumed her ethnicity was Indian.
Awesome video, thanks for sharing some of your history.
Oh snap? Lady Decade now does world history! Just an idea. I'd definitely be down for it.
Good to know.
This explains why she's gorgeous! Love her skin tone.
English DNA is tricky because it's in itself a mix of Celtic/German/Scandinavian DNA which are also groups on their own.
So if a segment on your DNA is slightly more Celtic than other groups it gets assigned as Celtic (Scotland/Wales/Ireland). If your family is from York you'd probably have a higher percentage of Scandinavian than other groups on segments and thus it will be assigned as Scandinavian.
Only people with a very balanced out profile between these groups in their segments (+-30% sca, +-30% celtic, +-30% german, +-10% other) will get assigned as "English", because if they loosen the strict definition for assignment a lot more of Dutch/Germans/Scandinavians would be wrongly assigned as "English" while it is the other way around.
Then there is the "between" group. If your mom is from Russia and you dad is from the UK you will have a chance you'll test Polish despite having no ancestors in Poland. It's just the group what your DNA is most like as a +-50% mix of germanic/slavic.
English and northwest European includes Normandy, Franco German borders down to Switzerland. Genetics blends unlike borders
I thought you were Indian because… to me, you look Indian, and with that the British accent also made a lot of sense.
I instantly knew Lady Decade was part Asian from the first time I saw her. For me It's as clear as day. I'm Black but I have a few relatives who are part Asian and I've had a lot of Asian friends so I can see it in Lady Decade's face. My dad is 25% Japanese and I look a lot more like him than my brother. When I meet other Black people (Mostly Women) 5 minutes in I'm always asked where am I from? Like I'm an Alien.
Lol they have a preference for mixed black guys, that’s why they asked. They like you, not that they think you’re an alien 😉
This was genuinely interesting, thank you, enjoyed it
I'm Eastern European Jewish, Greek, Italian, Turkish and from all over the Middle East. I'm proud of everything that I am.
This was a very informative video. As a black guy here in the UK it is always interesting to see what peoples exact ethical backgrounds are
It would be interesting, if it worked, which it doesn't
@@patsk8872Why doesn't it work?
Why do I keep getting recommended this page
@@patsk8872
Except it absolutely does.
Mildly interested to find out why you think otherwise though.
Me too. Although being ethnically English I get called silly names for being interested in other humans.
It's built in to us I think and most don't listen to it. But I can usually tell even if someone has irish, german or other very close ancestry.
I once was digging a trench at work during the summer and was very tan. A man walked up to me and started speaking Spanish. When I looked up he jumped backwards and said oh my god I thought you were Mexican. I just said sorry to disappoint and we both laughed.
No matter what you are, you’re 100% Lady Decade!
DNA tests are so weird. I remember when I took one, it said I had 0.01% Japanese DNA from a relative in the 1700s. I was confused but excited. Months later, they updated and said it was a mistake 😂 Now 100% European in origin.
Its because we still have ancient DNA that is common to vast swaths of people across different continents. When the tests run into this they just write something that will make people interested and tell their friends about it to make them want to test themselves.
Black Irish have Moorish ancestry.
@selrahc2061
No. The name comes from their hair colour being darker than the typical brown, red, and later blond heads.
@@nealjroberts4050 Tradition says they came from Spain.
@@loosilu
Not only is tradition wrong but it's also not where Moors come from.
I did a DNA test back in 2017 and my results keep changing.
Someone has invented a time machine and is having fun with your ancestors.
I came here to say the same thing. I used to be 14% Italian and then I went to Italy where the locals all thought I was full Italian. Then later I checked my DNA results and now I’m 0% Italian. And one of the two highest results keep changing all over the continent. I have to log in periodically when people ask what am I just to confirm my latest results!~ 😂
Lady D, like many British things such as Tea or Whiskey is blended to absolute perfection 😁
I'm half Swedish and half Sri Lankan. My grandparents were from Tamil Nadu.
This was really cool. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome, now that we have your DNA floating around out there, that means we can finally cop us a few ILLEEEEEGAL clones of Lady Decade from the Chinese market 😎😎😎
Sounds creepy.
May I place an order?
Found the white knight 😅
Found another 🤣
Definitely an interested video. I never really wondered what your heritages were since it never crossed my mind, but cool that you got to find out more about yourself. ^v^ I personally already knew what my heritages were since all my family were pretty vocal about being things like Irish, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Native American, Swedish, and such. So I never had an interest in doing the tests, but i definitely understand why people would want to, especially if their family never talked much about it.
Families can misremember/fudge the truth, of course, you know that right? ;-) It's not even a bad thing, it's just... while oral histories are indeed very important, they aren't the gold standard of evidence. You may have a large chunk of ethnicity you never knew, because that part of the family history isn't talked about/forgotten/etc.
@@mercster perhaps. I can see maybe some families may not want to be as open or supportive of some part or another of their lineage, and many may not be as open as mine has been. I'm not discouraging the idea of anyone looking into it for themselves, just mostly saying I never had the need for it myself, since my family always kept things like birth records, photos, family trees, so I know pretty much what all is there outside of maybe some stray .5% or something of that nature.
@@CrimsonDamian So they have birth records, photos, and family trees going back 1000 years? I think you may be underestimating the amount of genetic variance... someone could have birth records going back for 300 years and absolutely believe they are 100% "something"... but way back before, had admixture with something else. It's not a question of whether your family is "open" or not, it's just the huge amount of data one would need to be "sure." I mean if you don't care, I don't care... I'm just lettin' ya know "I don't need a test because my family is open and honest about our genealogy" is a rather myopic statement. It's making a lot of assumptions and diminishing the very real possibility of gaps in the knowledge, no matter how "open" they are. But hey, like I said... if ya don't care, save yourself the $80 or whatever! Doesn't matter in the end, some people are more curious than others.
There are mistakes sometimes. My DNA profile showed a small amount of Polynesian DNA, but later it was re examined and I am really mostly Scottish with Irish, English, French, Dutch and Scandinavian. In other words, genetically similar to my ancestors who settled in the New England, New York and Canadian colonies.
That was quite a fun and interesting diversion from the normal gaming content. The Tamil people I know (I've met a fair few living in South London) are quite dark so it makes sense that even one quarter Tamil is going to give you an overall skin tone and eye colour that is quite "Mediterranean" even when the rest of your genetic makeup is very Northern European.
Bravelle! These types of videos are always so interesting, kind of like living history books.
My family has roots in America going back to the 1500s. Most recently we came out of Ireland and Austria. But i'm 400 years of grab bag American. When i lived in Germany i learned i had a lot of family in Austria. But they all felt as if i was coming to take something away from them. Gods only know what that's about. But i did get to meet one of the blacksheep. He was nice enough.
A great video, really interesting and your usual funny self. I guess it just shows that you're a great youtuber and I think that if you're passionate about what you're talking about, it's unskippable for me.
Ahah, you always seemed so familiar to me, and now that you mentioned other people think you have a resemblance to Marina Sirtis, I realize that's exactly why! Very cool to hear your results.
1. These tests use quite a small part of your DNA, and two siblings might get quite different results because even though they're 50/50 of their parents they're a different combination of that 50/50
2. Greek/South Italian might actually be Etruscan (which were Greek city-states in Italy) or from Magna Graecia rather than Roman.
Thank you for sharing and doing so in a fun and informative way.
A lot of the comments didn't get to the end of the video, because you are part Sri Lankan. Interesting video, thank you!
I always enjoy your gaming videos, but it's fun to see you do something completely different and I'd be happy to see more of it. 🙂
I'm 69yrs old one of my Grandparents actually descended from one of Seven families named in Magna Carter of people living in London, But Nobody lived in the British Isles, when they were buried under a half-mile thick sheet of Ice, Appart from Woolly Mammoths
Only in a super pale place like England would anyone consider Lady Decade "brown" here in California she'd be called olive skinned.
She wouldn't be confused with mexican? I'm Hispanic from the east coast, I have very pale skin (like, anemic looking lol) and I can only imagine what californians would think about me. This woman looks north Indian to me. Or maybe mixed with Punjab and White.
Oh that is cool ! Thanks for sharing :)
The editing with all the context images and gifs, and the meme reactions is engaging. Your dresses are fun too. Keep it up ^_^
I did 23&me. I had a bit of surprise because I have family who are First Nation. I did not have that in my results.
On my father's side, he and one of my brother's met a cousin who is First Nation. The family oral history, although not much is known, is that everytime there was a sentence when my father was growing up, that they gave them a different European country each time to protect the family. This was during the residental school days when Native kids were removed from their home and forced to go to a boarding school to try and remove their culture.
So the DNA results gave different information. I knew that we are Irish and English, just not the percentages.
I used to daydream that I was switched at birth when I was a kid. I was not. The test showed that I was indeed my parents biological daughter.
The test also showed that I was almost 50% Irish and 50% English. I have a pinch of generic Scandinavian, as well.
It was still interesting, but I didn't expect those percentages.
Great video and thanks for sharing more about yourself!
Interesting! Great outro music too
Streetfighter Zero/Alpha 3, Dhalsim. What an epic soundtrack
I'd never really thought about it! Just tend to come for the scintillating gaming content. Though that was interesting, thanks for sharing it!
Ngl, your Greek/Southern Italian dna, though a smaller percentage, definitely went hard in the paint, because the first time I saw one of your videos (about 2 hours ago, before I started my binge, lol) I immediately thought you reminded me of Mirina Sirtis 😂
I did like to hear these things about your Ancestry Lady! :) To be honest our Ancestry doesn`t matter to us cuz you not being more or less... I wanted to say you`re beautiful. :)
I'm a similar amount Scandinavian. 14% last time I checked. The rest is English, Scottish or Welsh. The precise numbers do change a little bit with updates. Since I don't have a recent Scandinavian relative I assume it's just general mixing that a lot of us in the UK would have like you said.
This was such and informative video in Britain history. Thanks for sharing some of your personal background!!!! Ur mad cool!!
I don't know what company you used but for 23andMe they actually consider British and Irish the same thing so they just have a category called British and Irish and they said Im 95% that. I think they put a half a percent of some random stuff in just to keep people interested or something.
Something to keep in mind with scandinavian ancestry is that in addition to the vikings Norway at one point had the worlds 3rd largest merchant fleet, and during WWII the norwegian army in exile were stationed in Scotland.
I'm looking forward to this video. I've been curious about your ethnicity for awhile lol
I found this to be really cool! Thank you for sharing with us!
You bear a resemblance to Charlie Murphy, so 100% British.
I'm Rick James bitch lol
I've considered trying one of these tests out. I hit a couple roadblocks trying to piece together my family tree and that was only going back a few generations; to the best of my knowledge, both sides of the family came from Europe late 19th into early 20th century, but I couldn't make much progress there. While this likely wouldn't help sort through some of those issues, it'd be something to add on to the side.
Im considering too because i dont know shit about my family history, im adopted and i dont know my real parents.
What these vidz overlook is the cousin matches...
You can pass for my Puerto Rican cousins in NYC
I got a DNA test and then some people in black suits and sunglasses showed up at my house and I had to slip out the back. Now I'm on the run and going by the name sonofdormammu. I thought it was weird that my mom always told me NOT to get a DNA test before she hopped on this weird round plane for a "business trip". I haven't seen her since.
It feels so good to get that off my chest. Thanks!
Interesting! Yeah I always wondered, I thought maybe South Asian or Persian. 😏 I did one of those tests too, I'm 52% French/German, 15.7% British/Irish, and 26.8% Polish. Curiously it also says 0.2% North Indian/Pakistani, which... I'm white as a ghost. I think those trace things are either statistical anomalies or, some very slight hint of the Indo-European peoples coming through from tens of thousands of years ago or whatever. Thanks for the video.
Actually not all ancient Britons were celts. The celts mainly settled in Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and migrated originally from Brittany and Iberia but the oldest tribes of ancient Britain (known as the beaker people because of their pottery) were here a long time before that and there is much debate about where they came from.
Benny Lava is the King of the Tamil people!!
As a fellow Welch, welcome to the family.
Amazing video! You've sparked my imagination and want to discover who I am!!!! Thank you for this!
The Celts were a mid European continent tribe and a few of them made it to Britain long after it was fully settled from quite a few places over many thousands of years. In the mid 18th century the name was co-opted for commercial reasons.
That view is being challenged recently. Celts may have come from the west.
When I started watching your videos, I knew that some of your ancestors were from India. You are just a lovely person all around, sense of humor, articulation, and intelligence. Just be you.
*We was here first..* 💀
*Also:*
*Love the Ricky Gervais mini clips you added!*
I had the same result in my “English” ancestry (which should have been roughly 25%)-none of it was actually “English”. It was a combination of Welsh (native Briton?), Scottish, and Norwegian (Viking?). Like you, I get the “where are you from?” thing a lot, in spite of the fact that I was born in Washington DC, I didn’t set foot outside the United States until I was 26, my parents were both born in the states, and some of my ancestors arrived in the colonies in the early 17th century. My most abundant ethnicity is actually Nordic (some via my putative British line and most via my grandmother, whose parents immigrated from Norway); however, my Sicilian and Jewish genes determined my phenotype. When I get angry and someone makes a comment about my fiery Italian temper, I say, “no-it actually comes from my pillaging Viking ancestors!”
Well keeping in mind we share about 60% of our DNA with a Banana. Nothing really surprises me. Plus if you think about it really hard and go back far enough, we are all related in 1 way or another.
This was really cool to watch, Lady Decade! Thanks! As an American, I've learned more history about the world watching this video than listening to a fellow American talk about it!
Loved this vid. Great history lesson. Interesting juxtaposition with the GB GBC and GBA on your book shelf tracking its lineage.
I think it depends on two factors. The quality of the DNA processing and the reference archive/data. So for example Ancestry gave me 1% Jewish but Myheritage with a bigger Jewish database bumped it up to 3.8% with matches. So it pays to have comparative DNA uploads
I don't care of skin color because I'm brazilian and most of brazilian people is, at least , product of 4 etnical groups: bants, angolans, portugueses and native brazilians like the Tupi-Guarani tribes, your semblances of indian women never lied to me, because there are so many indians and other people that migrated to my country, and there mixes of blacks, browns and white people in the entire country. It's really very common couples of white blonde women and a black man here. However if my wife didn't unfertile, we'd a son or daughter blond of pulled eyes, my wife is at great part descendant of japanese. My like and subscryption at your channel is guaranteed. I liked very much of your videos, so congratulations about this one!
That's interesting. I always thought you were "British Indian" myself. I figured it would be weird/rude to ask, though, unless you brought it up yourself. Thanks for sharing.
I guessed by looking at you that you were a mixture of European and Asian. Had a bunch of friends with that mixture while growing up in the Philippines. Always thoght that mixture made the most beautiful people I ever knew.
Which DNA testing service did you use?
My Heritage xx
I watched this once already, but I just noticed the music in the opening LOL ❤
That's very interesting! I wouldn't have guessed that. I'm partly Welsh and Scottish, as far as I know. My grandmother was Bahamian. But otherwise, I don't know
DNA now on file. A necessity for gracious cloning.
In all seriousness, as an American, I found your presentation here very interesting.
My smol brain grew 3 sizes that day.
That was super GOOD!
I did my DNA and live in USA but I’m not Native American I found out I’m 98% European.
The Mesoamerican DNA- The Caribbean happens to have an Indian minority. Is it possible you had ancestors who were Caribbean Hindi & some of them moved back to Sri Lanka?
I always figured Lady Decade was Indian was because she reminds me of that character from Thin Blue Line.
I knew you had some sub continent and some UK/Norse.. thank u for sharing. I am encouraged to do a test.
Mrs Decade, what service did you use? As a pasty white Englishman who has Welsh and Irish lineage with a smattering of Maltese heritage but also has parents with French derived surnames but also a blood type mostly common in India I'm more than a touch curious about my clearly Heinz 57 background!
I always wonder these tests are. Populations move over centuries. Frontiers and names vary a lot through history.
It’s stricking to see how fine the distinctions between european populations can go whereas people from Africa are often seen just as « african ».
That’s why the historical reminders in this video are very important for contextualization.
African borders were lost pretty thoroughly due to Europeans dividing it up and the nations mostly having oral history instead written history. And it would cause way more issues to put the borders back. Seems a lot of tribes lived across multiple nations borders even before Europe.
@@arnezbridges93 You are right, Ethnicism and citizenship are really two différent matters, particularly when frontiers come from colonialism.
Europeans are more diverse.
@@mirianakovachevic748 On which criteria are european people more more diverse than african ones ? I am not sure. The continent is many times bigger and is the source of the whole human branch for what we know. It would make sense for more diversity to be in Africa, even if, to european eyes, all black people might seem alike.
Because europeans colonised the world, we tend to get a very european-centric vision.
@@sebastienkneur1280 Number of haplogroups.
Awesome video
As I like to say:
*_"You DO choose your FRIENDS."_*
*_"You DO NOT choose your DNA."_*
I always thought you looked very South Asian, but didn't realize you were only about a quarter Sri Lankan, and mostly otherwise white. (Another British UA-camr I often watch, Toy Cat, is also a quarter Sri Lankan)