It's crazy how you felt such a call to the land, only to find out much later just how much of an ancestral connection you had to it. Not to get all mystical or anything but that's happened several times to people I know.
@@scottmartin3816 crazy how I always felt that weird connection to the northern Europe, so I did a little research on what are the odds I could have some Scandinavian genes(possibly from Goths, Lombards etc) and found out that it's quite possible. My grand grandma's father was a Italian from Lombardy, but as he got back to Italy in 1943. we don't know much of his family, my great grandmother was from realy germanised Slovene family. I took my heritage genetic test and found out that I am actually 9.7%Scandinavian and 2%Finnish
I was pretty surprised to find out I was 59% Welsh. From Northwestern Wales (Gwynedd) to be exact. That's why I started learning Welsh on Duolingo and subscribed to this channel. Although, I've recently cooled down on studies. Maybe I'll pick it up again at some point.
I just came across your videos and have really been enjoying them! Especislly the ones about the Vlachs and Romania, as an Israeli Jew of mostly Romanian ancestry. Really cool to see your ancestry and makes me want to test mine as well at some point (though Im pretty sure Ill get a boring 100% Ashkenazi Jew). Anyway, as you said, Judaism is about a lot more than blood, it is about kinship and shared destiny and a set of ideas, and it is great to see people like you who chose to join our little tribe and way of life.
It's more likely not Viking but just overlap. He could also have some more recent Scandinavian ancestry being an American. African is most likely more recent as well from US history. Some of those smaller results could disappear or change percentages when they update again.
German! :D (Austria speaking) . I found it interesting that you said in another video, that there was quite a lot of Pre-Indoeuropean languages left in German. Going to see your Cucuteni Trypillia -video next. Thank you for your work, it is inspiring ! :)
AncestryDNA uses modern references for its populations, and the map for each region with the different shades of concentration is the same for everyone. The British regions don't refer to just the native inhabitants (Picts, Celts), so it can't automatically be assumed that you're a quarter Pictland Scot, for example. So though you probably have some Briton DNA, you likely have a good bit of Anglo-Saxon as well if over half your estimate was England & Northwestern Europe (unless your family tree is over half Cornish).
Also, AncestryDNA frequently confuses English, German and Scandinavian DNA with eachother since the populations are so similar in their admixture that's it's hard to tell. Specifically, if your German ancestry is from the North of Germany, it's very likely that it was misread as Scandinavian or England & NW Europe.
Why Cornish specifically? I was under the impression that Cornish has had significant genetic influence from Anglo-Saxon genetics (to a much greater extent than Wales and Scotland). Or are you referring to England only?
Celts emerged from the Urnfield Culture of Central Europe in the late Bronze Age. At their height, they spread as far as Anatolia to the British Isles.
@@Floral_Green there’s another school of thought which is evidence based that the Celtic region and beginnings happened in the Atlantic zones, Britain, Gaul, Celtiberia etc. It’s all laid out in Britain Begins by Barry Cunliffe
That Cherokee/ Native American that you thought you had, could possibly be a mulatto ( mixed race) ancestor which is where the Senegalese is coming from. Most people who have been told by family that they have Native ancestry after taking a DNA test, usually find that they were actually, mixed race ( African/European. And that's obviously not the case for everyone, but for a good portion of results I've seen, that seems to be the case. I'm African American, was told we have Cherokee too, come to find out, my 2nd great grandfather was actually mixed African/European. And my results are 90% African and 10% European ( British, Irish and Norwegian)
I've been watching DNA videos like this on UA-cam since they first started popping up here. When they first started, everybody was told they had at least one percent African in their genetic make-up. Many of the people who posted those videos gave the explanation that since mankind came out of Africa, everybody is at least 1% African. Most DNA testing companies will give their customers updates over the years as their databases improve. I've noticed that that 1% African result has now disappeared from most white people's results. My cousin was initially told that she was 12% Ashkenazi Jewish, but now that Jewish element has disappeared entirely from her DNA profile. What most people don't know is that you only get a genetic inheritance from 120 of your ancestors in any generation. Go back eight generations, and you're getting genes from less than half your ancestors. Go back thousands of years, and you're hardly getting any genetic input at all from most of your ancestors. Thus, the idea that white people maintain 1% African ancestry from the time man migrated out of Africa is bunk. If a white person has African DNA, then they have an African ancestor in their family tree much more recently--like in the last 300 years. I know many African-American families have stories that they're part Native American, but unless they can trace their ancestry back to Oklahoma before the Civil War, the chances are that those stories aren't true.
It seems common for a light skinned African American in the past to claim to be Native American, and pass into White America. The only thng is that Senegal is further north than the usual places like Nigeria where many slaves were purchased for sale to Americans.
@@BenLlywelyn Back in 2006, PBS ran a brief TV series titled _African American Lives._ To the best of my knowledge, it was the first of these TV shows where people have a DNA test and then their ancestry is discussed on the show. Since the records of slaves in America was not kept in very much detail, this was the motivation for using DNA--so that the guests on the show could get some info on their heritage before 1865. One of the guests on the show was comedian Chris Rock. He and the host (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) discussed the frequently mythic tale in many African-American families that they have Native American ancestry. Chris Rock made the comment, "You know, it's easier for us to say that we have Indian heritage than it is for us to say that we got r@ped a few times." Again, I stress that those are Chris Rock's words, not mine. But he has a point. White masters frequently had relations with their female slaves--with varying degrees of willingness on the woman's part. This also happened in Oklahoma, where the masters were Native Americans rather than white men. Thus, the descendants of such unions do have Indian blood--but the level of love between the two groups would have been no higher than it was anywhere else where this was going on.
@@BenLlywelyn The ancestor somewhere in your family tree could have been a white sl@ve owner who slept with a woman of Senegalese ancestry. Most descendants from the African diaspora in the United States and Brazil have some European ancestry. There's this young guy from Rio de Janeiro who speaks Russian very well and also has a UA-cam channel. When he went to Russia, he met some Angolans. He was very light-skinned compared to them. According to AncestryDNA, I have 6% Indigenous Mexican ancestry, and those who closely share that ancestry with me have 1-3% Western African ancestry, with Senegal included. "Bleaching" by racially mixing is very common in Latin America, but it also happened in the United States. My Cherokee great-great-grandmother might have married my Irish great-great-grandfather to get off the reservation in Oklahoma and have whiter offspring who could potentially lead lives with more opportunities, even though there was no prestige in being Irish either at the time.
I have not gotten a DNA test, but I recently followed my family back, father to son, to very ancient, quasi mythical native British characters that I had actually heard of before. Imagine how surprised I was, we were in the B.C. range at that point.
A dna test won't tell you anything about your ancestry going to B.C, it tends to peter out about 300 years from your birth. The reason is that every conception gets half of each parents dna, and you'll pass on half your dna to your children. If you are not inbred you should have 128 5th great grandparents, and if they passed on dna to you equally it would be just 1/128th. Not much is it. The problem is that dna from your ancestors isn't passed down equally, from many of your forebears you received nothing. Some time ago a black African sailor decided to stay in Iceland, married, had lots of children, but you'd be hard pressed to find one Icelander who has any black African dna today.
@@Ponto-zv9vf Neither one seems particularly accurate to me. One is a single line, going straight back, which is then intersected by lots of other lines. The DNA test is s way of identifying the most recent set of intersecting lines. I have found myself impressed by the way that, as we look back in time, so many of these lines compress down into a set number of individuals. In the same way, from another perspective, so many lines have compressed down to create each and every one of us.
I'm profundly disappointed to see you using the title 'z10n1s7' to describe yourself after the past year's events. I've really enjoyed some of your videos in the past, but you are supporting now the exact thing I've seen you lament in your past videos. This has truly been a revealing year, in many ways.
Zionism isnt the thing you think it is. You think its another word for "Nazi" its not, It literally means that Jewish People have a Right to stay in Israel. Zionism has lost all meaning in that sense.
@@BenLlywelynZionism is not a core part of the Jewish faith. It is an 3thn0-n4tionalist ideology that originated in Europe in the 1800s. There's dispute within the Jewish community about this, particularly within Ultra-Orthodox sects such as the Haredim. I don't know if you were uninformed about this or if you simply don't consider these communities to be 'really' Jewish, since you've said you consider Zionism to be a 'core part' of the Jewish faith. Either way, this does not ameliorate my opinion.
@@JackNailon I haven't compared Zionism to Nazism, and your definition is lacking. Zionism is not the right for Jewish people to *stay* in Israel/Palestine. There were already Jewish communities there at the end of the British mandate, and they had been living there, in far more safety than European Jews had been. Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people have the right to a Jewish state. Not simply the right to stay there, as you've said. It's the belief that Jewish people have the exclusive right to have full control over the area known as Israel/Palestine. This is very different from saying that it is the belief that Jewish people have the right to remain in the area.
@@BenLlywelyn I tell you what Y dna haplogroup you have but dont take it as a blood test. Your haplogroup is E1b, its considered ethnic jew and its common among the germanics. Hitler, Ramses,( these 2 were ethnically jews and hated jews the most) Einstein-famous jew, Nelson Mandela. Napoleon also was E1b but with a rare subclade. Thats why your short and you look like saxon.
@@BenLlywelynIm pretty good at identifying haplogroups just by looking at people. Found out that Trump has same haplogroup as Leopold the #2 😂. And they have such similar ideas. If id tell this to Trump he would have a shock 😂.
@@BenLlywelynY DNA is interesting because it can give you a history of how your paternal line traveled in ancient times and, if you are lucky, in modern times. If your Y DNA “matches” your surname you’ll probably find your paternal ancestors settled in Britain around 2500 BCE.
@@mihaiilie8808 You can't "see" a haplogroup. It is not a manifestation of phenotype (outward appearance. The phenotype is the result of random genetics. I'm mostly Ashkenazi Jewish with Norwegian genetics as well. My haplogroups are typical of Near Eastern origins on my maternal side and of the Altai people (Siberian native) on my maternal side. What should I look like .... I can tell you what I DO look like. Very fair skin, blue eyes and reddish blond hair. You would take me for a stereotypic Swede.
Looking at autosomal DNA (like the one you've done) shows you a snapshot of where your ancestors were living and what populations they were apart of ~500 years ago. So for the British Isles that will likely include a certain amount of Norman, Anglo-Saxon, and Roman ancestors whose genetic material were well assimilated into the English/Cornish population by 1500 CE. If you were hoping to see some link to Judaism in your results don't be too discouraged. The results would have shown if you had ancestors as part of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi populations circa 1500 CE, but it is still well within the realm of possibility that within the last three thousand years you have some ancestral line leading back to Israel, it just wouldn't show up in this. The map shows where the populations that look "Scottish" and look distinctly "Norwegian" are concentrated, not necessarily where your ancestors hail from. So this can mean you don't have recent ancestors from Calais or Caithness per se. Those Scottish ancestors could have been concentrated in the Lowland or Isles, the map wouldn't show that as it doesn't have that kind of certainty. Its worth point out that the percentages lower than 5% could all be flukes, *but* it is also possible there is a Senegambian-American ancestor in your up line. Thanks for sharing your results for us to take a fun look over.
Jews have been part of a Europe since at least as far back as 600BC. Most people of European extraction have at least some Ashkenazi genetics. The only person I know that has no Ashkenazi genetics (of non Jewish people of European extraction that have been tested) is my wife. She is mainly Scot/Irish with a large chunk of Bavarian. I'm almost all Ashkenazi.
Hello Ben, Thank you very much for another fascinating twist into your intricate personality, background, heritage and interest field. Being an avid visitor and lifelong devotee of Barmouth (Abermaw), please would you kindly consider some insight into: 1, The history of Gwynedd (the tales told at a Harlech Castle are a good starting point). 2, The conflict between sea and rail along the Mawddach Estuary. 3, How Wales' economy is formed. From a basic, rather uninformed view, it seems tourism and farming are north wales' only lifeblood. What about the rest of the country? Thank you very much indeed, Ben - your prodigious work is hugely appreciated and would be willing to talk to you about local government (am a long serving councillor).
Thank you very much. A relative of mine was a councillor for something like 40 or 50 years and never missed a meeting and I do have an interest in governance, though I know little about it. If you want Gwynedd's history, I do have some history videos in my catalogue which may be at your liking.
@@BenLlywelyn Excellent Ben, will search your catalogue. In terms of local government - you can contact me anytime. Ted Parton on a search will get you there!
Here's a good one for you. I know that my surname arrived in the south of England in 1124, presumably Norman. However, one of the family crests is exactly the same as Agirre clan from Bizkaia. ( I spent some time there before I found out)
I had a DNA test through 23&Me. My results had changed a bit after about 1.5 years to 2 years. They first told me I was 39-point-something % "British & Irish," with the London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin and Cork areas strongest in my DNA, 8% Scandinavian, 29% "French & German," more specifically Bavarian (consistent with family history, as my paternal grandfather was born in the Oberpfalz in eastern Bavaria near what is now the Czech border), some 11% broadly North & Western European, 0.9% Italian, and 0.2% "Spanish & Portuguese." When the results had changed, my DNA results had become 53% "British & Irish" same places), 35% "French & German," some smaller percent "Broadly N & W European," 0.2% East European, and 0 1% Anatolian, and 0.1% unassigned. My maternal haplogroup remained H31, my Y haplogroup remained R1a-CTS3042. (Interestingly, that made me a distant cousin of Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, and some 5 Russian nobles or landed gentry. Well, the part if Bavaria whence my paternal grandsire had come is known as "Bavaria Slavica." Meanwhile, one of my mother's ancestors, who'd come over from Ireland, was surnamed "Parnell." I had read somewhere, do not recall in what source, that all the Parnells in Ireland, English Ascendancy all, were descendants of one Englishman from somewhere in Southwest England and are thus related. So I guess that makes me kin to Charles Stewart Parnell, "the Liberator.")
The costs would pile up but I think a better level of certainty can be gathered by taking 3 tests by 3 seperate companies to see if they tallied. Because I've seen a few consumer reviews that throw up slightly different results especially where the trace DNA is concerned. But I'm a mug just like you, and I sent off to Livingdna not a week back. Damned if I'm paying 300 quid just to be sure.
Yeah, 300 to just be sure sounds like a bit much, doesn't it. But I think in the future I may do another one just to check the difference. If youtube picks up!
I am from Shetland, so if you have UK Scandinavian lineage, then some part of your family probably moved through Shetland or Orkney at some point. How are you doing, brother from another mother?
English and Northwestern European is not Pre Roman Celtic. Its just English, the modern population of the english people which is a mix of anglo saxon and celtic. The real celtic bits are welsh and irish, scottish in some case also but modern scotts also have a high germanic signal. Often german dna gets also pushed into the scandinavian category or into the english one, so we can say at the end that you are a mixed northwestern european man mainly
About three months ago Ancestry 'updated' DNA results, in my case this stripped away my 3% Scottish and 2% Norwegian, changing it to the pretty vague Germanic. Luckily they didn't mess with my 95% Welsh, else they would have got a very annoyed email :).
Yo Nice. It woulf be so cool if youd learn german. I am from Germany and mostly of germanic ancestry with a bunch of West slavic and a Little bit of baltic ancestry. It would be so cool if you would learn german. Despite the Stereotype of it being very rude its actually very beautiful. And as somebody who is very interested in linguistics I am very proud of our long words like Bundesumweltministerium or Brotschneidemaschine. It might be a little difficult at first (also because of the three grammatical genders in german) but its definitely worth the effort. (+ if you come to Germany you are going to get to know the best bread in the world) Thanks for the great work you put into your videos. They are really interesting. Greetings from Nordrhein-Westfalen!
The 'German DNA not being German'-thing happened to me, too. I'm totally German and my results are even more German than most other German results. My paternal haplogroup is connected with the megalitic culture and ice age hunter/gatherers. So, the father of my father of my father (...) was 20.000 years ago one of the first people who resettled northern and central Europe after the ice went away and he did like his stone circles big and tall. My matrilinear DNA on the other hand is connected to those people who first introduced bronze and metallurgy to Europe and probably originated in North Africa (hint, hint!). This haplogroup travelled by sea near the coastline over Portugal, Cornwall (Cornish tin was an important trade good!) to the Seine and Rhine Valley and was later connected with the Celts. Southern and Central Germany were in fact part of the celtic world until a certain guy from Rome decidet that he should get involved into internal Gallian affairs. So, genetically, depending on where in Germany you come from, you might find a strong celtic, skandinavian or even slavic heritage in your DNA. Hence, I would conclude that your german ancestors probably originated somewhere in the Rhineland, Palatinate, Hessen or Southern Parts of Germany, Ben. And regarding what language to learn - It's your choice! Learning Swedish might make it easier for you to understand Norwegian, Danish or probably Icelandic in the future. German on the other Hand has not many languages that are closely related. But: Learning German (and not only Standard German, but also a bit of Dialect) will make it much easier for you to learn Yiddish. My Girlfriend learned Yiddish at university and there is a lot of grammar, idiomatic expressions and even some vocabulary or pronounciation in some rhenish German dialects that's very similar to Yiddish. As a native Hessian Speaker myself, I'm able to understand somewhat between 50-70% of Yiddish, unless it is written in Hebrew Letters (which it often is) or the Speaker speaks very quick. Sometimes, Yiddish has quite a lot of Russian vocabulary, which you then just have to learn, but as far as I know, the grammar is very similar to German.
@@mihaiilie8808 FamilyTreeDNA does the best job at separating results for Y-DNA and mtDNA in my experience. BenLlywelyn did AncestryDNA, which I've done too because it's the most popular = more people in the database.
You really made me curious about my ancestors 😅. I know from one part of my family I have a high chance of having Greek/Macedonian ancestors, but for the rest I've no idea... I might be as Romanian as you can get, considering my family has been placed in the south of Romania for a long time 😅. Also, nice video! Really interesting. Take your time for the Croatian one. I really like that former Yugoslavia as I had the opportunity to travel a lot through it and discover A LOT of nice people! I've been through Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Still to visit Montenegro and North Macedonia, but looking forward to doing so at some point. My recommendation is if you get the chance to visit the former Yugoslavia, take it! Really nice scenery, people and food (don't tell the Slovenians but I didn't enjoy their food as much as the rest 😅). Anyway, keep up the good work!
Stramosii tai sunt vizigoti, dupa numele cu sufix escu. Da stai linistit ca nu esti germanic pentru ca vizigotii erau daci, celti si vorbeau latina vulgara, adica exact limba romana 😂. Escu e precum essen / esko, romanizare la germanici. Vezi ce haplogrup ai Y dna. Dupa poza pari R1a, polonez .R1a se potriveste si cu migratia vizigotilor. Eu tot nume cu escu am dar haplogrup I2a. Roman, albanez,macedonean.
Almost all males in western Europe are either R1a or R1b haplogroup which came from the indo European invasion about 3000bc There isnt any celt, saxon, viking dna - let alone English, Scottish, Welsh etc. There had been so much mixing in the last 2000 years as to make this insignificant
Of course there has been much mixing but that doesn't mean that there isn't any Germanic, Celtic or Slavic (Mt)dna. Mixing happened 3000 years ago as well so by combining these two reasonings, there also isn't any indo european dna. And of course there isn't because dna isn't the same thing as language. Just like dna can't show you migration routes (as national geographic wants us to believe ::). What we do see are tiny differences because of different degrees of mixing and because of mixing with different peoples. And yes, there are thus connections between present day English speakers and present day Celtic speakers because people adopted each others languages, cultures... And... Had sex with each other :) So "almost all males have R1a/b" means is that it is the highest percentage of that particular string. But the highest one is not the interesting one. Interesting are the tiny ones. Those are the ones that differ...
I did the Ancestry dna test: 91% Welsh/9%English which fitted in with the family tree id worked on before taking the test. The Welsh part is nearly all from the kingdom of Powys(not the county). The englìsh part is Shropshire(Mercia) with most of the ancestors I've found going back 300 years lived within 20miles of the modern Welsh/English borders! Sadly my sister did the Ancestry test, she's 1% more Welsh and 1% less English than me😭 oh the shame😂
Have the results actually gotten that precise? I remember when DNA tests couldn't tell you anything more precise than that you had ancestry from the British isles (i. e., they couldn't distinguish between the Celtic ancestry and the Anglo-Saxon ancestry), or that you had DNA that could be either German or French (or both).
I haven't viewed a lot of Ben's back catalog of videos since I discovered his channel recently. I'd like to know more about Ben's American connection. Ben certainly doesn't sound like an American, so I doubt he's an immigrant from the USA to Wales himself. (But maybe I'm wrong!) When I first started digging into my ancestry, I thought I was 1/128 Jewish because I found someone in my family tree with the surname Levy. The online interactions I had with genealogists of the Levy family were not exactly positive. I guess Archie Bunker was right when he said, "The Jews don't want ya!" I later learned that the Levy in my family tree was actually my ancestor's second wife, but that he had had all his children with his first wife (whose existence I was ignorant of for a long time)--so no Jewish heritage for me. As for DNA, what most people don't know is that you only inherit DNA from 120 of your ancestors in each generation. Thus, if you go back eight generations, less than half of your ancestors have given you any genetic inheritance at all. If you don't want to get a DNA test (and there are plenty of good reasons not to want to), you could simply (not that it's that simple) trace your family tree back six or seven generations, and then calculate the percentages based on the ethnicity of the surnames in that generation. That's what I did--and I found I really only needed to trace my family back five generations for this purpose. My ancestors did not engage in much intermarriage between ethnic groups until after the American Civil War. I found that I'm slightly more than half German, slightly more than a quarter English, and about 1/8 Celtic--but the history of the Scots-Irish kind of throws a monkey wrench (or a spanner) into the works so far as unravelling the exact percentages of my Celtic heritage. There are some other ethnicities in my family tree (Welsh, Dutch, and French), but they're so far back that it's doubtful I have any DNA from them at all.
@@BenLlywelyn If you had told me you moved from Texas to Wales when you were twelve, I wouldn't be surprised at all. But for your Texas accent to be obliterated when you were in your mid-20's? That is indeed unusual.
My test result was revised twice so I have 3 results. Initially, they determined that I have 63% similarity with the Balkans, 10% with the English, 10% with the Italians, 7% with the French, 3% with the Greeks, 3% with the Germans and other small percentages of Iberia and Scandinavia. After the first revision, I reached 88% Balkans (Romania - Bulgaria area), 9% Italy (Tuscany) and 3% Greece. After the second revision, I reached 100% Balkans! Pretty big differences for a single test. I don't want to give negative publicity to these tests, but I think that these companies are more trying to guess what results they should give, and the "bad mouths" say that they are also guided by the shipping address of the samples they receive from customers.
However, it is interesting that it appears from the data of the autosomal test that I have 50% similarity with the Neolithic farmers who first introduced agriculture in Europe. The result for my male haplogroup, G2a, also shows that I certainly have ancestors on the male line in the Neolithic civilizations in the area of Romania such as: Turdaș-Vinca, Gumelnița, Hamangia, Cucuteni, who had the male haplogroup G2a in proportion of 75-80% as it shows the analyzes made by geneticists on the human remains analyzed from these cultures. Also my maternal haplogroup X is the second most frequent in these Neolithic cultures, and appeared in Europe with G2a with the entry of the first Neolithic farmers from Anatolia 8500 years ago. I would say that all this shows some continuity in the area of Romania, at least from the Neolithic until now.
The way these tests work is that they compare each customer's DNA to a database. As the information in the database grows, the more precise the results become for their customers.
@@aLadNamedNathan It is probably one of the explanations, but I would also like to know what are the genetic differences/characteristics that they take into account to place a person in one area or another. is it a mutation or a few, or a large number of hundreds and thousands?
@@popacristian2056 The different versions of the genes tend to cluster in specific locations due to mutations there after people have been settled there a long time--when people aren't on the move. Of course, most of the people in the Western Hemisphere and in places like Australia and New Zealand today have genes that only came to those places in the last 500 years--thanks to Christopher Columbus. But before that, there were huge population upheavals due to migrations happening around the time of the fall of the Roman Empire. So the ethnicities most white people outside of Europe are looking at/for are based on the settling of genes into specific locations in Europe in that 500-year gap. Even going on this, there are some categories such as "broadly western European" where specific gene varieties didn't become settled in a specific place, but were widespread. All that a result like that will tell you is that you're white and not some other race--which is something you most likely knew already.
@@aLadNamedNathan Interesting. Thank you. It would be interesting if the locations of clusters of gene variants specific to certain populations are published. I could probably also understand where the large variety of genetic "ethnicities" in the first result came from.
Dear Mr. Llywelyn, Thanks for the nice video: "Ancestry" measuring kits are a but a novelty. They actually test simmilarities between your DNA* and others within the data set, and don't necesserely show ancestry. Halakhikally they are not conciddered sufficient proof of Judaism (According to the late Rabbi Levi Vorst) Nor is it proof of any American Indian/Native American ancestry. *I believe that is short for Dyno Nucleic Acid
@@BenLlywelyn But it's nothing you achieved to get there. One could say I prefer being British as a preference to being something else, but why 'proud'.
There's no way you would say that if someone said they're proud to be Indian, black, gay or female. Each is also just how people happen to be born, no achievement whatsoever, but you're happy to play double standards when it suits you. You play double standards because you want to demoralize and undermine the people you hate.
It had a happy ending! 😮💨 I'm really afraid doing a dna test. Because I'm a proud Turanian, and I created an image, about how my ancestors got here. I know that I have a big chunk of Western Slavic. I would be sad, if that would make the majority of me. And I saw many Hungarians making a dna test, with MyHeritage, and weirdly often they've got 10-20 percet of celtic dna. From Briton, Irish, and Scottish as well.
It's not so weird that Hungarians have Celtic DNA. The Celts settled much of Europe before other peoples later came and conquered them. When the Hungarians conquered what is today Hungary, they didn't annihilate the existing population there--they intermarried with them. Since the conquered were a much larger percentage of the population than were the conquerors, the bulk of the DNA in the region still comes from the earlier inhabitants. The same is true of Turkey.
Celtic DNA of hungarians is from romania 😂. The vlachs ( getae) are the ancestors of all celts. Celt means speaker of vulgar latin, basically romanian. The ostrogoths, Theodoric, was celt like the gauls and the visigoths. Names ending in ric are like gauls names ending in rix. Vulgar latin speakers. If you want to find the mongols, go visit Dobrogea in Romania. They are good people. Dobrogea has more mongol genes than the whole Hungary. I never seen a hungarian with even the slightest mongoloid genes, but your language is indeed mongoloid.
How accurate are these tests? One had me 62% Irish which just isn’t possible. My father was Irish so 50% yes, but my mother was born German and we have her dna results and absolutely no Irish or British. I too have surprising little German, something like 7%.
How many people trust the analytical methods that determine the results of online DNA testing? How many people want to hand over their DNA and personal details to foreign companies with lousy data protection?
The results they give you are only as good as the databases they have. That's why they usually will give you updates over the years, and your results will change. The databases generally are much more detailed for European populations than for other racial groups simply because they have more samples from white people. Your second point is even more salient. Not only do they have lousy data protection, but the things you have to agree to when you sign their very long contract in very fine print which you didn't read in the first place should have scared the pants off you if you had bothered to read it.
From what ive seen it works but only in certain cases. I guess its less than 50% acuracy and its not anything scientific to name the DNA after countries. Thats why we have haplogroups not countries.
@@BenLlywelynCan’t support that after the horrors coming out of Gaza and Israel’s far-right, attacking journalists and defending rapists, to say nothing of the West-Bank. Unsubscribed 😢
I think that zionism and the Israeli far-right aren't the same thing. I think that Israel as a nation definitely has the right to exist and because of that some people might call me a zionist. But that doesn't mean that I support the current government of Israel or the military atrocities committed in gaza. I think that what happens in gaza definitely is a humanitarian catastrophe but I do not think that these events are a reason to make the nation of Israel or Zionism in general the guilty one here. Its the fault of the government and not of the people (who are btw protesting against exactly that government in large numbers)
I'm from Texas. my AncestryDNA results are: England & NW Europe (58%); Scotland (24%); Ireland (9%); Indigenous Americas-Mexico (6%); Sweden & Denmark (2%); Indigenous Americas-North (1%); my grandmother's father was half-Irish and half-Cherokee. Swedish is a cool language, but I had a uni flatmate from Stockholm, and he made friends with other Swedes on campus. When they spoke Swedish they used a lot of English words. Swenglish perhaps? Dutch is closer to English than German. I'd go with German because there are more resources for it and it is one of the more important languages in continental Europe. Still, with few exceptions you should be able to get by with your English in most of Europe.
@@BenLlywelynYou cant have two paternal haplogroups( because you have only one father and one Y chromosome) and you are none of those. R1b is tall like the irish(color doesnt matter) and I1 are tall blond and thin swedes. You are anatolian farmer but that doesnt mean your a turk. Your ancient celt european. If you see those ancient, short height, proto celt villages in Romania, they were mostly haplogroup G2a like you. Cucuteni, the ones that worshiped womans and burned their homes, were short anatolian farmers.
another example of how the only people conflating j°daism and z°°nism are z°°nists. 🙄 why does the title even mention it when the test results didn't even turn up anything j°°ish or pal°°°inian in the low single digit margin of error range? and then you refer to yourself in the video as a z°°°ist as if that actually meant j°°. no, it does not. not even for a convert. that african bit from the gambia is right in the middle of the main transatlantic slave trade area of origin, and as such probably also one particularly likely to show up erroneously in americans because so many americans have ancestry from there that some very common markers are more likely to be misattributed to there. in general, apparently anything below 2 or 3% or so is too unreliable in these test results.
My haplogroup is I2a, the oldest and only native european haplogroup, thats the ancestirs of the blonde swedes haplogroup with I1. We are hunter gatherers, relatively tall and gracile, but can grow very tall like in Serbia where I2a makes the tallest europeans ( taller than R1b but more gracile). My haplogroup got out from under the Black Sea when it was formed by a flood at the last ice age and the original blue eyes are on my genes but i have brown eyes. Only 10% of I2 has blue eyes. I look like Clint Eastwood phisically, thin,because my ancestors used to run a lot to chase pray 😂. The farmers haplogroups are more stocky.
The truth is Ancestry has a hard time telling the difference between English, Germanic, and northern French DNA. All three populations are descended from the Lower Rhine Bell Beaker people who had almost completely replaced the neolithic British farmers by 2200 BC. In fact, the only significant difference in DNA between the Germanic people and Celtic people is that the Germanic people have DNA contributed from the Pitted Ware (i.e. Nordic hunter gatherers) people who merged with descendants of the Bell Beakers. For example, all my ancestors were either Germans Swiss, or French Huguenots and 23 and Me correctly identified my DNA as 99.4% French and German and correctly listed 5 states/cantons in Germany and Switzerland where my ancestors were born But Ancestry can only state that my DNA is 63% Germanic Europe, 24% England & NW Europe. 7% Sweden and Denmark, and 6% Wales. That's sort of similar to what Ancestry identified for you. Your Norwegian is probably real, however, and was detected because of a Saami influence that isn't present in Sweden and Denmark.
Anglo-Saxon and north western Germanic. Over 50% of you. It's hilarious that you're describing yourself as lowland celtic. :) Is this the ancestry test, or my heritage? Both the markers in each test describe you as largely Germanic. Why not be proud of that?
My DNA test shows me to be 98 %. Ashkenazic Jew , 1 % Baltic and! 1. %. Anatolian /. Caucasus . I thought I would have a much more varied ancestry . Disappointing . My grandparents were Ukrainian / Romanian Jews .
@@popacristian2056 Maybe, but my phenotype.is. not at all. that of. mediterranean people of the Levant . I. could easily pass for any Russian , Ukrainian or Pole . I have. brown hair, green eyes , am heavy set. with. light colored skin , a wide, round face with high cheekbones . Some people think I. look somewhat. Asian . Possibly some Turkic , Kypchak. not Oghuz. ancestry. . Turkic people played a prominent role in Ukrainian history . I. think a different ancestry test. than the one I took might reveal this .
@@robertberger4203 Try another test. Maybe portions of the DNA that have nothing to do with physiognomy have been checked. "Russia" is still an empire that has been subjugating for hundreds of years some 200 different ethnicities with different physiognomy, and Turkey was the same...
@@robertberger4203the haplogroup, Y DNA is a genetic test. What you describe is central eutopean haplogroup E, like Hitler, George Soros, Ramses, Nelson Mandela. Its common in Austria, Hungaria, Ukraine and a tiny bit in Romania. Einstein too was haplogroup E, famous jew.
Ben, as much as I respect you and your context, Zionism only started existed in the late 19th century, while the Judaism and its beliefs have existed for millennia. Zionism is also an 3thno-n4tionalist movement that started in Europe where its main goal is to carve a Jewish state in Palestine, where the Levantine Arabs have been already living there. Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism as many Jews disagree with Zionism and many non-Jews (such as Evangelical Christians) agree with Zionism. Saying Zionism is a core part of Judaism is like saying that ethnic colonialism is a foundation of any faith, which is not true. There is nothing wrong with Jews wanting to live in their ancient lands, the Land of Israel, as it was their land thousands of years ago, but.... the way the Israelis have been dealing with that situation since the 1940s is very unethical. How many more innocent people from Gaza have to die for this? They haven't done anything wrong. You do realize there is a cost for forging an ethno-state in the middle of a already populated area, right? So when people say "the Jewish people have the right to a Jewish state" therefore agreeing with Zionism, they're forgetting the cost behind that message in the current times. Also, why do the Jews need one single Jewish state to live in? There are other places for a homeland you know. Also, there are many other ethnic/religious groups who don't have a single homeland (ex. Romanis, Assyrians, Yazidis) but still live in their own ways.
@@BenLlywelyn You are confusing the history of the faith of the Jews with an ideology. For example, if a Christian were to make similar ideology as Zionism, mentioning Jesus, Jerusalem, and the holy lands, and it turned into a way of discrimination on others, would you still say it is justified? What if a Muslim did the same thing (like jihad and doing things in the name of Allah)? Or Hindus with Hindutva, “purifying” India by discrimination as well? Zionism isn’t much different at least in its modern usage. Again, there is nothing wrong the Jews wanting their land back, Ben, BUT YOU ARE LITERALLY MISSING WHAT ZIONISM HAS BEEN DOING IN THE LAST 80 years! Ben, answer one thing please if you may. How do you justify Israel’s crime upon the Palestinians using Zionism?
Didn’t the original Zionists detest the poor Jews of Eastern Europe seeing themselves as culturally German and not uncouth peasants: a secular imperialist movement born out of bitter resentment. I agree they had reason to feel peeved. Since I imagine most self identifying Jewish/Ashkenazi ,have ethnic roots in Eastern Europe the idea of a homeland in Palestine is completely nonsense. The logic of a rightful homeland is ludicrous. I don’t care what it says in a tribal account, the Torah. Should the Celtic folk resettle the parts that were once their domain and violently ethnically cleanse the Anglo-Saxons out ? Europe has been populated by displaced tribes for millennia. And as some mentioned, what about a homeland in India for the Roma people who suffered like the Jewish people and indeed still face blatant prejudice, and without the powerful lobby behind them. No orthodox Jewish person would dare to recognise the State of Israel, which a wholly man made concept.
I thought one is born in Judaism and is based on one"s maternal line. Since you are practicing Judaism, you should make a video on the Kazars, a turkic tribe, who eventually became the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. See "The 13th tribe" book.
@@Lagolop Yiddish, right? I've studied German and when I looked at Yiddish, it's very German, so it would be a good reason to learn German @BenLlywelyn
The blue eyes / blond hair genes are recessive genes, which means most of the time when choosing between blue eyes and brown eyes, most of the times the child will have brown eyes (this is waaaaayyy oversimplified, the discussion is really complex so take what i say with a grain of salt). This might explain why you're not so Scandinavian looking 😅.
@@BenLlywelyn Yes, you could pass as one quite easy 😅. Need to have more tan to be more "authentic" looking 😅. It's not a reference to the gypsies but the fact that here the sun hits harder than in the British isles.
@@Lagolopi thought they were dark skinnedcwith blue eyes. There is that famous reconstruction of a face from a skeleton from thousands years ago, he had blue eyes, as most of the I Y-dna early Europeans.
I'm a German-American. When I tell people that, I often get the response, "You must like sauerkraut, then!" Actually, no. My family's German culture got replaced by Scots-Irish culture at least 250 years ago.
England & NW Europe is definitely not pre-Saxon British it is more Germanic and Continental. All the categories that people get are not ancient but based on modern population panels. It is definitely not pre-Roman British. You are much more Germanic shifted genetically. If you were Welsh genetically you would have got Wales in the majority. Also Ancestry have done a big update over the last week so it would be interesting to see if you got Cornish in your update.
Compromise by learning Yiddish rather than standard German. Yes BTW I have taken DNA tests (3) The majority of my DNA is Ashkenazi Jewish (what a shock ...NOT ), but then the other thing surprisingly enough is Norwegian and that is shown on both my maternal and paternal sides! PS God bless Israel and especially the brave IDF soldiers and to hell with Jew haters and Israel deniers.
AncestryDNA told me I was 100% Malta, which is apt as I was born there, parents, grandparents ad infinitum. The Romans didn't have much genetic impact in Britain mainly as the Romans in Britain were actually French Gauls and other Europeans who were Romanised. Your are short and dark because quite a few of your forebears were short and dark. My parents were both 5' in height, I have a brother that height also. I am somewhat taller 5' 10". By the way, full on Ashkenazi Jews cluster somewhere on the European side of the Mediterranean Sea between Southern Italy and the Greek Islanders like those from Crete, Rhodes, Chios.. So those European Jews are somewhat like me genetically, in fact every ancestry program I have used I have to weed out the Jews in order to get accurate results. The Jews are like flies in the ointment.
@@BenLlywelyn Come on Ben, you're being disingenuous. Of course the Jewish people have a right to exist. But Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in Palestine. The two things are not the same.
Not really sure how accurate these tests are but if you are taking the darker shades as the more likely DNA origin you might be more pictish Scottish than Scotti (Irish) Scottish or Anglo-Saxon Scottish. The Swedes to my knowlege didn't really colonise Britain and Ireland so more likely to be Danish/Norwegian. The Germanic bit centered on Friesland which could in theory fit in with Anglo-Saxon migration.
Funny how you mention all the scottish sub-groups while leaving out the most relevant - The Scottish Britons, who were contemporary to their brothers, the Welsh Britons.
Can you stop conflating English for British, the term existed long before its adoption by England, with they themselves calling the Welsh....British just as often as they used the term Welsh. With the Cynmry not calling themselves it until the language was forced on them. Also, you sound very disappointed you are in part "Welsh". As for being a Zionist, I have had my suspicions for a while. I'm disgusted that I share a Nation with people who think it's okay to take things that don't belong to them...and when a 6 year old gets in the way, she has despicable things done to her.
It's crazy how you felt such a call to the land, only to find out much later just how much of an ancestral connection you had to it. Not to get all mystical or anything but that's happened several times to people I know.
Absolutely. Your blood calls you.
@@scottmartin3816 crazy how I always felt that weird connection to the northern Europe, so I did a little research on what are the odds I could have some Scandinavian genes(possibly from Goths, Lombards etc) and found out that it's quite possible. My grand grandma's father was a Italian from Lombardy, but as he got back to Italy in 1943. we don't know much of his family, my great grandmother was from realy germanised Slovene family. I took my heritage genetic test and found out that I am actually 9.7%Scandinavian and 2%Finnish
Delusional bastards
not sure what zionism has to do with your dna???
Judaism comes from Judea, and has an ethnic component within its teachings.
I was pretty surprised to find out I was 59% Welsh. From Northwestern Wales (Gwynedd) to be exact. That's why I started learning Welsh on Duolingo and subscribed to this channel. Although, I've recently cooled down on studies. Maybe I'll pick it up again at some point.
Languages need time to settle on the mind, like layers in a pond. Once they cover the floor you can swim cleanly.
I am Croatian and really happy you will make a video about my language
I just came across your videos and have really been enjoying them! Especislly the ones about the Vlachs and Romania, as an Israeli Jew of mostly Romanian ancestry. Really cool to see your ancestry and makes me want to test mine as well at some point (though Im pretty sure Ill get a boring 100% Ashkenazi Jew). Anyway, as you said, Judaism is about a lot more than blood, it is about kinship and shared destiny and a set of ideas, and it is great to see people like you who chose to join our little tribe and way of life.
Thank you for understanding my religion.
Scandinavian element would no doubt be the Viking element in the UK. The African genes from recent American history.
It's more likely not Viking but just overlap. He could also have some more recent Scandinavian ancestry being an American. African is most likely more recent as well from US history. Some of those smaller results could disappear or change percentages when they update again.
German! :D (Austria speaking) . I found it interesting that you said in another video, that there was quite a lot of Pre-Indoeuropean languages left in German. Going to see your Cucuteni Trypillia -video next. Thank you for your work, it is inspiring ! :)
Thank you for watching multiple videos. I appreciate you. Do Subscribe!
You smiled a lot during this video. It was great to see your happiness. Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich staerker - Friedrich Nietzsche
Danke.
AncestryDNA uses modern references for its populations, and the map for each region with the different shades of concentration is the same for everyone. The British regions don't refer to just the native inhabitants (Picts, Celts), so it can't automatically be assumed that you're a quarter Pictland Scot, for example. So though you probably have some Briton DNA, you likely have a good bit of Anglo-Saxon as well if over half your estimate was England & Northwestern Europe (unless your family tree is over half Cornish).
Also, AncestryDNA frequently confuses English, German and Scandinavian DNA with eachother since the populations are so similar in their admixture that's it's hard to tell. Specifically, if your German ancestry is from the North of Germany, it's very likely that it was misread as Scandinavian or England & NW Europe.
Why Cornish specifically? I was under the impression that Cornish has had significant genetic influence from Anglo-Saxon genetics (to a much greater extent than Wales and Scotland). Or are you referring to England only?
NOW you're properly Welsh! I'm about 10% Scottish as well, so cool to have that Celtic representation. Good to have you aboard, bro! (I'm English)
Thank you!
I got similar results I'm over 60% British on ancestry and 80% on myheritage, I was born in Wisconsin
You have to remember much of Southern Germany and Austria are Continental Celtic
Fascinating.
Not to mention France, Spain, and Portugal.
@@BenLlywelyn most people would probably agree that Celtic women are among the very desirable, spreading their DNA far and wide.
Celts emerged from the Urnfield Culture of Central Europe in the late Bronze Age. At their height, they spread as far as Anatolia to the British Isles.
@@Floral_Green there’s another school of thought which is evidence based that the Celtic region and beginnings happened in the Atlantic zones, Britain, Gaul, Celtiberia etc. It’s all laid out in Britain Begins by Barry Cunliffe
The Danes conquered England.. And turned northeastern England into the Danelaw..
Learn German first, then Danish, then Swedish, it just feels right, I’m not sure why.
That Cherokee/ Native American that you thought you had, could possibly be a mulatto ( mixed race) ancestor which is where the Senegalese is coming from. Most people who have been told by family that they have Native ancestry after taking a DNA test, usually find that they were actually, mixed race ( African/European. And that's obviously not the case for everyone, but for a good portion of results I've seen, that seems to be the case. I'm African American, was told we have Cherokee too, come to find out, my 2nd great grandfather was actually mixed African/European. And my results are 90% African and 10% European ( British, Irish and Norwegian)
I've been watching DNA videos like this on UA-cam since they first started popping up here. When they first started, everybody was told they had at least one percent African in their genetic make-up. Many of the people who posted those videos gave the explanation that since mankind came out of Africa, everybody is at least 1% African.
Most DNA testing companies will give their customers updates over the years as their databases improve. I've noticed that that 1% African result has now disappeared from most white people's results. My cousin was initially told that she was 12% Ashkenazi Jewish, but now that Jewish element has disappeared entirely from her DNA profile.
What most people don't know is that you only get a genetic inheritance from 120 of your ancestors in any generation. Go back eight generations, and you're getting genes from less than half your ancestors. Go back thousands of years, and you're hardly getting any genetic input at all from most of your ancestors. Thus, the idea that white people maintain 1% African ancestry from the time man migrated out of Africa is bunk. If a white person has African DNA, then they have an African ancestor in their family tree much more recently--like in the last 300 years.
I know many African-American families have stories that they're part Native American, but unless they can trace their ancestry back to Oklahoma before the Civil War, the chances are that those stories aren't true.
It seems common for a light skinned African American in the past to claim to be Native American, and pass into White America. The only thng is that Senegal is further north than the usual places like Nigeria where many slaves were purchased for sale to Americans.
My dad's from Alabama. They must have achieved love over hate with Africans somewhere. You know I'm saying?
@@BenLlywelyn Back in 2006, PBS ran a brief TV series titled _African American Lives._ To the best of my knowledge, it was the first of these TV shows where people have a DNA test and then their ancestry is discussed on the show. Since the records of slaves in America was not kept in very much detail, this was the motivation for using DNA--so that the guests on the show could get some info on their heritage before 1865.
One of the guests on the show was comedian Chris Rock. He and the host (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) discussed the frequently mythic tale in many African-American families that they have Native American ancestry. Chris Rock made the comment, "You know, it's easier for us to say that we have Indian heritage than it is for us to say that we got r@ped a few times." Again, I stress that those are Chris Rock's words, not mine. But he has a point. White masters frequently had relations with their female slaves--with varying degrees of willingness on the woman's part.
This also happened in Oklahoma, where the masters were Native Americans rather than white men. Thus, the descendants of such unions do have Indian blood--but the level of love between the two groups would have been no higher than it was anywhere else where this was going on.
@@BenLlywelyn The ancestor somewhere in your family tree could have been a white sl@ve owner who slept with a woman of Senegalese ancestry. Most descendants from the African diaspora in the United States and Brazil have some European ancestry. There's this young guy from Rio de Janeiro who speaks Russian very well and also has a UA-cam channel. When he went to Russia, he met some Angolans. He was very light-skinned compared to them. According to AncestryDNA, I have 6% Indigenous Mexican ancestry, and those who closely share that ancestry with me have 1-3% Western African ancestry, with Senegal included. "Bleaching" by racially mixing is very common in Latin America, but it also happened in the United States. My Cherokee great-great-grandmother might have married my Irish great-great-grandfather to get off the reservation in Oklahoma and have whiter offspring who could potentially lead lives with more opportunities, even though there was no prestige in being Irish either at the time.
I had mine done 50 percent Welsh. Happy about that
Ooo! Bravo!
I have not gotten a DNA test, but I recently followed my family back, father to son, to very ancient, quasi mythical native British characters that I had actually heard of before.
Imagine how surprised I was, we were in the B.C. range at that point.
A dna test won't tell you anything about your ancestry going to B.C, it tends to peter out about 300 years from your birth. The reason is that every conception gets half of each parents dna, and you'll pass on half your dna to your children. If you are not inbred you should have 128 5th great grandparents, and if they passed on dna to you equally it would be just 1/128th. Not much is it. The problem is that dna from your ancestors isn't passed down equally, from many of your forebears you received nothing. Some time ago a black African sailor decided to stay in Iceland, married, had lots of children, but you'd be hard pressed to find one Icelander who has any black African dna today.
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Neither one seems particularly accurate to me.
One is a single line, going straight back, which is then intersected by lots of other lines.
The DNA test is s way of identifying the most recent set of intersecting lines.
I have found myself impressed by the way that, as we look back in time, so many of these lines compress down into a set number of individuals.
In the same way, from another perspective, so many lines have compressed down to create each and every one of us.
I'm profundly disappointed to see you using the title 'z10n1s7' to describe yourself after the past year's events. I've really enjoyed some of your videos in the past, but you are supporting now the exact thing I've seen you lament in your past videos. This has truly been a revealing year, in many ways.
Zionism is a core part of the Jewish faith and the belief in the right of Israel to exist. Not sure what you think Zionism is.
Zionism isnt the thing you think it is. You think its another word for "Nazi" its not, It literally means that Jewish People have a Right to stay in Israel. Zionism has lost all meaning in that sense.
@@BenLlywelynZionism is not a core part of the Jewish faith. It is an 3thn0-n4tionalist ideology that originated in Europe in the 1800s. There's dispute within the Jewish community about this, particularly within Ultra-Orthodox sects such as the Haredim.
I don't know if you were uninformed about this or if you simply don't consider these communities to be 'really' Jewish, since you've said you consider Zionism to be a 'core part' of the Jewish faith. Either way, this does not ameliorate my opinion.
@@JackNailon I haven't compared Zionism to Nazism, and your definition is lacking.
Zionism is not the right for Jewish people to *stay* in Israel/Palestine. There were already Jewish communities there at the end of the British mandate, and they had been living there, in far more safety than European Jews had been.
Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people have the right to a Jewish state. Not simply the right to stay there, as you've said. It's the belief that Jewish people have the exclusive right to have full control over the area known as Israel/Palestine. This is very different from saying that it is the belief that Jewish people have the right to remain in the area.
@@mushymass9716 "Zionism is based on historical ties and religious traditions linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel"
What Y haplogroup do you have? Do you know?
No idea.
@@BenLlywelyn I tell you what Y dna haplogroup you have but dont take it as a blood test.
Your haplogroup is E1b, its considered ethnic jew and its common among the germanics. Hitler, Ramses,( these 2 were ethnically jews and hated jews the most) Einstein-famous jew, Nelson Mandela.
Napoleon also was E1b but with a rare subclade.
Thats why your short and you look like saxon.
@@BenLlywelynIm pretty good at identifying haplogroups just by looking at people.
Found out that Trump has same haplogroup as Leopold the #2 😂. And they have such similar ideas.
If id tell this to Trump he would have a shock 😂.
@@BenLlywelynY DNA is interesting because it can give you a history of how your paternal line traveled in ancient times and, if you are lucky, in modern times. If your Y DNA “matches” your surname you’ll probably find your paternal ancestors settled in Britain around 2500 BCE.
@@mihaiilie8808 You can't "see" a haplogroup. It is not a manifestation of phenotype (outward appearance. The phenotype is the result of random genetics. I'm mostly Ashkenazi Jewish with Norwegian genetics as well. My haplogroups are typical of Near Eastern origins on my maternal side and of the Altai people (Siberian native) on my maternal side. What should I look like .... I can tell you what I DO look like. Very fair skin, blue eyes and reddish blond hair. You would take me for a stereotypic Swede.
Looking at autosomal DNA (like the one you've done) shows you a snapshot of where your ancestors were living and what populations they were apart of ~500 years ago. So for the British Isles that will likely include a certain amount of Norman, Anglo-Saxon, and Roman ancestors whose genetic material were well assimilated into the English/Cornish population by 1500 CE. If you were hoping to see some link to Judaism in your results don't be too discouraged. The results would have shown if you had ancestors as part of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi populations circa 1500 CE, but it is still well within the realm of possibility that within the last three thousand years you have some ancestral line leading back to Israel, it just wouldn't show up in this.
The map shows where the populations that look "Scottish" and look distinctly "Norwegian" are concentrated, not necessarily where your ancestors hail from. So this can mean you don't have recent ancestors from Calais or Caithness per se. Those Scottish ancestors could have been concentrated in the Lowland or Isles, the map wouldn't show that as it doesn't have that kind of certainty.
Its worth point out that the percentages lower than 5% could all be flukes, *but* it is also possible there is a Senegambian-American ancestor in your up line.
Thanks for sharing your results for us to take a fun look over.
Jews have been part of a Europe since at least as far back as 600BC. Most people of European extraction have at least some Ashkenazi genetics. The only person I know that has no Ashkenazi genetics (of non Jewish people of European extraction that have been tested) is my wife. She is mainly Scot/Irish with a large chunk of Bavarian. I'm almost all Ashkenazi.
@@Lagolop It is probably the other way around. The Ashkenazi Jews have a high degree of European genetics.
You are welcome.
Hello Ben,
Thank you very much for another fascinating twist into your intricate personality, background, heritage and interest field.
Being an avid visitor and lifelong devotee of Barmouth (Abermaw), please would you kindly consider some insight into:
1, The history of Gwynedd (the tales told at a Harlech Castle are a good starting point).
2, The conflict between sea and rail along the Mawddach Estuary.
3, How Wales' economy is formed. From a basic, rather uninformed view, it seems tourism and farming are north wales' only lifeblood. What about the rest of the country?
Thank you very much indeed, Ben - your prodigious work is hugely appreciated and would be willing to talk to you about local government (am a long serving councillor).
Thank you very much. A relative of mine was a councillor for something like 40 or 50 years and never missed a meeting and I do have an interest in governance, though I know little about it. If you want Gwynedd's history, I do have some history videos in my catalogue which may be at your liking.
@@BenLlywelyn Excellent Ben, will search your catalogue.
In terms of local government - you can contact me anytime. Ted Parton on a search will get you there!
Is there a video in Ben's back catalog that tells us more about him? I'd like to know about his American connection.
Here's a good one for you. I know that my surname arrived in the south of England in 1124, presumably Norman. However, one of the family crests is exactly the same as Agirre clan from Bizkaia. ( I spent some time there before I found out)
Are you Basque?
50 percent Welsh makes me happy
I had a DNA test through 23&Me. My results had changed a bit after about 1.5 years to 2 years. They first told me I was 39-point-something % "British & Irish," with the London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin and Cork areas strongest in my DNA, 8% Scandinavian, 29% "French & German," more specifically Bavarian (consistent with family history, as my paternal grandfather was born in the Oberpfalz in eastern Bavaria near what is now the Czech border), some 11% broadly North & Western European, 0.9% Italian, and 0.2% "Spanish & Portuguese." When the results had changed, my DNA results had become 53% "British & Irish" same places), 35% "French & German," some smaller percent "Broadly N & W European," 0.2% East European, and 0 1% Anatolian, and 0.1% unassigned. My maternal haplogroup remained H31, my Y haplogroup remained R1a-CTS3042. (Interestingly, that made me a distant cousin of Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, and some 5 Russian nobles or landed gentry. Well, the part if Bavaria whence my paternal grandsire had come is known as "Bavaria Slavica." Meanwhile, one of my mother's ancestors, who'd come over from Ireland, was surnamed "Parnell." I had read somewhere, do not recall in what source, that all the Parnells in Ireland, English Ascendancy all, were descendants of one Englishman from somewhere in Southwest England and are thus related. So I guess that makes me kin to Charles Stewart Parnell, "the Liberator.")
It is good to be liberated. You heritage sounds very well travelled and European.
The costs would pile up but I think a better level of certainty can be gathered by taking 3 tests by 3 seperate companies to see if they tallied. Because I've seen a few consumer reviews that throw up slightly different results especially where the trace DNA is concerned. But I'm a mug just like you, and I sent off to Livingdna not a week back. Damned if I'm paying 300 quid just to be sure.
Yeah, 300 to just be sure sounds like a bit much, doesn't it. But I think in the future I may do another one just to check the difference. If youtube picks up!
Just rechecked mine. It says I’m 6% Welsh now much to my surprise.
I am from Shetland, so if you have UK Scandinavian lineage, then some part of your family probably moved through Shetland or Orkney at some point. How are you doing, brother from another mother?
Good, thank you.
English and Northwestern European is not Pre Roman Celtic. Its just English, the modern population of the english people which is a mix of anglo saxon and celtic.
The real celtic bits are welsh and irish, scottish in some case also but modern scotts also have a high germanic signal.
Often german dna gets also pushed into the scandinavian category or into the english one, so we can say at the end that you are a mixed northwestern european man mainly
I'm 90% German, 10% Welsh, but had no experience with Welsh culture in my childhood. What genetic testing company did you use?
Ancestry is the company's name.
About three months ago Ancestry 'updated' DNA results, in my case this stripped away my 3% Scottish and 2% Norwegian, changing it to the pretty vague Germanic. Luckily they didn't mess with my 95% Welsh, else they would have got a very annoyed email :).
Cymraes!
Yo Nice. It woulf be so cool if youd learn german. I am from Germany and mostly of germanic ancestry with a bunch of West slavic and a Little bit of baltic ancestry. It would be so cool if you would learn german. Despite the Stereotype of it being very rude its actually very beautiful. And as somebody who is very interested in linguistics I am very proud of our long words like Bundesumweltministerium or Brotschneidemaschine. It might be a little difficult at first (also because of the three grammatical genders in german) but its definitely worth the effort. (+ if you come to Germany you are going to get to know the best bread in the world)
Thanks for the great work you put into your videos. They are really interesting. Greetings from Nordrhein-Westfalen!
Good bread is definitely a reason good enough to learn a language. Danke schön.
Immer wieder gerne.
The 'German DNA not being German'-thing happened to me, too. I'm totally German and my results are even more German than most other German results. My paternal haplogroup is connected with the megalitic culture and ice age hunter/gatherers. So, the father of my father of my father (...) was 20.000 years ago one of the first people who resettled northern and central Europe after the ice went away and he did like his stone circles big and tall.
My matrilinear DNA on the other hand is connected to those people who first introduced bronze and metallurgy to Europe and probably originated in North Africa (hint, hint!). This haplogroup travelled by sea near the coastline over Portugal, Cornwall (Cornish tin was an important trade good!) to the Seine and Rhine Valley and was later connected with the Celts.
Southern and Central Germany were in fact part of the celtic world until a certain guy from Rome decidet that he should get involved into internal Gallian affairs.
So, genetically, depending on where in Germany you come from, you might find a strong celtic, skandinavian or even slavic heritage in your DNA. Hence, I would conclude that your german ancestors probably originated somewhere in the Rhineland, Palatinate, Hessen or Southern Parts of Germany, Ben.
And regarding what language to learn - It's your choice! Learning Swedish might make it easier for you to understand Norwegian, Danish or probably Icelandic in the future. German on the other Hand has not many languages that are closely related. But: Learning German (and not only Standard German, but also a bit of Dialect) will make it much easier for you to learn Yiddish. My Girlfriend learned Yiddish at university and there is a lot of grammar, idiomatic expressions and even some vocabulary or pronounciation in some rhenish German dialects that's very similar to Yiddish. As a native Hessian Speaker myself, I'm able to understand somewhat between 50-70% of Yiddish, unless it is written in Hebrew Letters (which it often is) or the Speaker speaks very quick. Sometimes, Yiddish has quite a lot of Russian vocabulary, which you then just have to learn, but as far as I know, the grammar is very similar to German.
How much was your DNA test?
About £60 or so if I remember rightly.
@@BenLlywelynyou spent 60 euro and you didnt found out your Y haplogroup 😂.
Thats the most important.
@@mihaiilie8808 FamilyTreeDNA does the best job at separating results for Y-DNA and mtDNA in my experience. BenLlywelyn did AncestryDNA, which I've done too because it's the most popular = more people in the database.
You really made me curious about my ancestors 😅. I know from one part of my family I have a high chance of having Greek/Macedonian ancestors, but for the rest I've no idea... I might be as Romanian as you can get, considering my family has been placed in the south of Romania for a long time 😅. Also, nice video! Really interesting. Take your time for the Croatian one. I really like that former Yugoslavia as I had the opportunity to travel a lot through it and discover A LOT of nice people! I've been through Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Still to visit Montenegro and North Macedonia, but looking forward to doing so at some point. My recommendation is if you get the chance to visit the former Yugoslavia, take it! Really nice scenery, people and food (don't tell the Slovenians but I didn't enjoy their food as much as the rest 😅). Anyway, keep up the good work!
Croatia looks stunningly beautiful. Must get to sometime. Not a lick of Eastern European in me - shame. So for me you are exotic!
Have you ever seen Slavoj Zizek's video on the geographical limit between Balkan and Central Europe?
Stramosii tai sunt vizigoti, dupa numele cu sufix escu.
Da stai linistit ca nu esti germanic pentru ca vizigotii erau daci, celti si vorbeau latina vulgara, adica exact limba romana 😂.
Escu e precum essen / esko, romanizare la germanici.
Vezi ce haplogrup ai Y dna. Dupa poza pari R1a, polonez
.R1a se potriveste si cu migratia vizigotilor.
Eu tot nume cu escu am dar haplogrup I2a. Roman, albanez,macedonean.
Almost all males in western Europe are either R1a or R1b haplogroup which came from the indo European invasion about 3000bc
There isnt any celt, saxon, viking dna - let alone English, Scottish, Welsh etc. There had been so much mixing in the last 2000 years as to make this insignificant
It means a lot to many people.
Of course there has been much mixing but that doesn't mean that there isn't any Germanic, Celtic or Slavic (Mt)dna. Mixing happened 3000 years ago as well so by combining these two reasonings, there also isn't any indo european dna.
And of course there isn't because dna isn't the same thing as language. Just like dna can't show you migration routes (as national geographic wants us to believe ::).
What we do see are tiny differences because of different degrees of mixing and because of mixing with different peoples. And yes, there are thus connections between present day English speakers and present day Celtic speakers because people adopted each others languages, cultures... And... Had sex with each other :)
So "almost all males have R1a/b" means is that it is the highest percentage of that particular string. But the highest one is not the interesting one. Interesting are the tiny ones. Those are the ones that differ...
Welsh DNA isnt as mixed as all other Celtic tribes.
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Dutch phonology is far more interesting than German or Swedish! I am learning it myself and am very enthusiastic about it.
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I did the Ancestry dna test: 91% Welsh/9%English which fitted in with the family tree id worked on before taking the test. The Welsh part is nearly all from the kingdom of Powys(not the county). The englìsh part is Shropshire(Mercia) with most of the ancestors I've found going back 300 years lived within 20miles of the modern Welsh/English borders! Sadly my sister did the Ancestry test, she's 1% more Welsh and 1% less English than me😭 oh the shame😂
Have the results actually gotten that precise? I remember when DNA tests couldn't tell you anything more precise than that you had ancestry from the British isles (i. e., they couldn't distinguish between the Celtic ancestry and the Anglo-Saxon ancestry), or that you had DNA that could be either German or French (or both).
I haven't viewed a lot of Ben's back catalog of videos since I discovered his channel recently. I'd like to know more about Ben's American connection. Ben certainly doesn't sound like an American, so I doubt he's an immigrant from the USA to Wales himself. (But maybe I'm wrong!)
When I first started digging into my ancestry, I thought I was 1/128 Jewish because I found someone in my family tree with the surname Levy. The online interactions I had with genealogists of the Levy family were not exactly positive. I guess Archie Bunker was right when he said, "The Jews don't want ya!" I later learned that the Levy in my family tree was actually my ancestor's second wife, but that he had had all his children with his first wife (whose existence I was ignorant of for a long time)--so no Jewish heritage for me.
As for DNA, what most people don't know is that you only inherit DNA from 120 of your ancestors in each generation. Thus, if you go back eight generations, less than half of your ancestors have given you any genetic inheritance at all. If you don't want to get a DNA test (and there are plenty of good reasons not to want to), you could simply (not that it's that simple) trace your family tree back six or seven generations, and then calculate the percentages based on the ethnicity of the surnames in that generation. That's what I did--and I found I really only needed to trace my family back five generations for this purpose. My ancestors did not engage in much intermarriage between ethnic groups until after the American Civil War. I found that I'm slightly more than half German, slightly more than a quarter English, and about 1/8 Celtic--but the history of the Scots-Irish kind of throws a monkey wrench (or a spanner) into the works so far as unravelling the exact percentages of my Celtic heritage. There are some other ethnicities in my family tree (Welsh, Dutch, and French), but they're so far back that it's doubtful I have any DNA from them at all.
Grew up in Texas. Arrived here in Britain in my early-mid 20s.
@@BenLlywelyn If you had told me you moved from Texas to Wales when you were twelve, I wouldn't be surprised at all. But for your Texas accent to be obliterated when you were in your mid-20's? That is indeed unusual.
My test result was revised twice so I have 3 results. Initially, they determined that I have 63% similarity with the Balkans, 10% with the English, 10% with the Italians, 7% with the French, 3% with the Greeks, 3% with the Germans and other small percentages of Iberia and Scandinavia. After the first revision, I reached 88% Balkans (Romania - Bulgaria area), 9% Italy (Tuscany) and 3% Greece. After the second revision, I reached 100% Balkans!
Pretty big differences for a single test.
I don't want to give negative publicity to these tests, but I think that these companies are more trying to guess what results they should give, and the "bad mouths" say that they are also guided by the shipping address of the samples they receive from customers.
However, it is interesting that it appears from the data of the autosomal test that I have 50% similarity with the Neolithic farmers who first introduced agriculture in Europe. The result for my male haplogroup, G2a, also shows that I certainly have ancestors on the male line in the Neolithic civilizations in the area of Romania such as: Turdaș-Vinca, Gumelnița, Hamangia, Cucuteni, who had the male haplogroup G2a in proportion of 75-80% as it shows the analyzes made by geneticists on the human remains analyzed from these cultures. Also my maternal haplogroup X is the second most frequent in these Neolithic cultures, and appeared in Europe with G2a with the entry of the first Neolithic farmers from Anatolia 8500 years ago. I would say that all this shows some continuity in the area of Romania, at least from the Neolithic until now.
The way these tests work is that they compare each customer's DNA to a database. As the information in the database grows, the more precise the results become for their customers.
@@aLadNamedNathan It is probably one of the explanations, but I would also like to know what are the genetic differences/characteristics that they take into account to place a person in one area or another. is it a mutation or a few, or a large number of hundreds and thousands?
@@popacristian2056 The different versions of the genes tend to cluster in specific locations due to mutations there after people have been settled there a long time--when people aren't on the move. Of course, most of the people in the Western Hemisphere and in places like Australia and New Zealand today have genes that only came to those places in the last 500 years--thanks to Christopher Columbus. But before that, there were huge population upheavals due to migrations happening around the time of the fall of the Roman Empire. So the ethnicities most white people outside of Europe are looking at/for are based on the settling of genes into specific locations in Europe in that 500-year gap.
Even going on this, there are some categories such as "broadly western European" where specific gene varieties didn't become settled in a specific place, but were widespread. All that a result like that will tell you is that you're white and not some other race--which is something you most likely knew already.
@@aLadNamedNathan Interesting. Thank you. It would be interesting if the locations of clusters of gene variants specific to certain populations are published. I could probably also understand where the large variety of genetic "ethnicities" in the first result came from.
Dear Mr. Llywelyn,
Thanks for the nice video:
"Ancestry" measuring kits are a but a novelty.
They actually test simmilarities between your DNA*
and others within the data set, and don't necesserely show ancestry.
Halakhikally they are not conciddered sufficient proof of Judaism
(According to the late Rabbi Levi Vorst)
Nor is it proof of any American Indian/Native American ancestry.
*I believe that is short for Dyno Nucleic Acid
Well, I am halachicly converting anyway. Thank you for taking the time to watch.
Normally people are proud of an achievement. You are proud of being British. I'm British because of my passport and ancestory.... that's it.
I'm not an anti-nationalist.
@@BenLlywelyn But it's nothing you achieved to get there. One could say I prefer being British as a preference to being something else, but why 'proud'.
There's no way you would say that if someone said they're proud to be Indian, black, gay or female. Each is also just how people happen to be born, no achievement whatsoever, but you're happy to play double standards when it suits you. You play double standards because you want to demoralize and undermine the people you hate.
Why does his pride seem to annoy you so?
@@foxmactavish2739 Why does my comment annoy you so.
Strangers I meet often ask me if I’m Dutch. I thought I was Welsh with English sprinkles. Lot to think about here. Diolch yn fawr.
Croeso!
It had a happy ending! 😮💨
I'm really afraid doing a dna test.
Because I'm a proud Turanian, and I created an image, about how my ancestors got here.
I know that I have a big chunk of Western Slavic.
I would be sad, if that would make the majority of me.
And I saw many Hungarians making a dna test, with MyHeritage, and weirdly often they've got 10-20 percet of celtic dna.
From Briton, Irish, and Scottish as well.
It's not so weird that Hungarians have Celtic DNA. The Celts settled much of Europe before other peoples later came and conquered them. When the Hungarians conquered what is today Hungary, they didn't annihilate the existing population there--they intermarried with them. Since the conquered were a much larger percentage of the population than were the conquerors, the bulk of the DNA in the region still comes from the earlier inhabitants. The same is true of Turkey.
You are who you are, and there is no shame in it.
Celtic DNA of hungarians is from romania 😂.
The vlachs ( getae) are the ancestors of all celts.
Celt means speaker of vulgar latin, basically romanian.
The ostrogoths, Theodoric, was celt like the gauls and the visigoths. Names ending in ric are like gauls names ending in rix.
Vulgar latin speakers.
If you want to find the mongols, go visit Dobrogea in Romania. They are good people.
Dobrogea has more mongol genes than the whole Hungary.
I never seen a hungarian with even the slightest mongoloid genes, but your language is indeed mongoloid.
How accurate are these tests? One had me 62% Irish which just isn’t possible. My father was Irish so 50% yes, but my mother was born German and we have her dna results and absolutely no Irish or British. I too have surprising little German, something like 7%.
It would take 2 or 3 tests to be sure.
Learn Gaelic
I mean...I have to agree out of principle!
How many people trust the analytical methods that determine the results of online DNA testing?
How many people want to hand over their DNA and personal details to foreign companies with lousy data protection?
The results they give you are only as good as the databases they have. That's why they usually will give you updates over the years, and your results will change. The databases generally are much more detailed for European populations than for other racial groups simply because they have more samples from white people.
Your second point is even more salient. Not only do they have lousy data protection, but the things you have to agree to when you sign their very long contract in very fine print which you didn't read in the first place should have scared the pants off you if you had bothered to read it.
From what ive seen it works but only in certain cases. I guess its less than 50% acuracy and its not anything scientific to name the DNA after countries.
Thats why we have haplogroups not countries.
A zionist ? And there was me thinking that you were a good man.
Zionism is the belief in the Jewish people's right to exist, essentially. That's all.
@@BenLlywelynCan’t support that after the horrors coming out of Gaza and Israel’s far-right, attacking journalists and defending rapists, to say nothing of the West-Bank. Unsubscribed 😢
I think that zionism and the Israeli far-right aren't the same thing. I think that Israel as a nation definitely has the right to exist and because of that some people might call me a zionist. But that doesn't mean that I support the current government of Israel or the military atrocities committed in gaza. I think that what happens in gaza definitely is a humanitarian catastrophe but I do not think that these events are a reason to make the nation of Israel or Zionism in general the guilty one here. Its the fault of the government and not of the people (who are btw protesting against exactly that government in large numbers)
@@BenLlywelyn The Jewish people have always existed. Even the Germans allowed them their right to exist but not as a subversive group.
@@Gotsyn You can't hold Ben accountable for the acts of a lunatic state in another part of the world.
I’m from Kosovo and got 97% Greece & Albania and 3% Balkan
I'm from Texas. my AncestryDNA results are: England & NW Europe (58%); Scotland (24%); Ireland (9%); Indigenous Americas-Mexico (6%); Sweden & Denmark (2%); Indigenous Americas-North (1%); my grandmother's father was half-Irish and half-Cherokee. Swedish is a cool language, but I had a uni flatmate from Stockholm, and he made friends with other Swedes on campus. When they spoke Swedish they used a lot of English words. Swenglish perhaps? Dutch is closer to English than German. I'd go with German because there are more resources for it and it is one of the more important languages in continental Europe. Still, with few exceptions you should be able to get by with your English in most of Europe.
Howdy fellow Texan.
@@BenLlywelyn Howdy 🇨🇱 (Chile's flag, but very close to ours)
++ It is known that many if not all DNA companies add an extra bit of African, "just to mess up with racists", as they themselves admit. ++
Sounds conspiratorial.
So Ben, then you are R1b mostly?
That and Norse I1 i would get.
@@BenLlywelynYou cant have two paternal haplogroups( because you have only one father and one Y chromosome) and you are none of those.
R1b is tall like the irish(color doesnt matter) and I1 are tall blond and thin swedes.
You are anatolian farmer but that doesnt mean your a turk. Your ancient celt european.
If you see those ancient, short height, proto celt villages in Romania, they were mostly haplogroup G2a like you.
Cucuteni, the ones that worshiped womans and burned their homes, were short anatolian farmers.
BEN! No such thing as German or Dutch ancestry. You must accept you're 100% pure blooded Frisian!
Sounds nice.
another example of how the only people conflating j°daism and z°°nism are z°°nists. 🙄 why does the title even mention it when the test results didn't even turn up anything j°°ish or pal°°°inian in the low single digit margin of error range? and then you refer to yourself in the video as a z°°°ist as if that actually meant j°°. no, it does not. not even for a convert.
that african bit from the gambia is right in the middle of the main transatlantic slave trade area of origin, and as such probably also one particularly likely to show up erroneously in americans because so many americans have ancestry from there that some very common markers are more likely to be misattributed to there. in general, apparently anything below 2 or 3% or so is too unreliable in these test results.
Maybe it was a smooth operator.
@@BenLlywelyn maybe kkhhhhamas
German is Briton version of Roman. Pre Roman are Roman too. It's just tribes uniting into Empire
I am not sure I follow what you mean?
Try 97%British. (Northumbrian/Lothian/Ulster)+3% Northwest European.(Frisian/Frankish) = 100% Northwest European.
My haplogroup is I2a, the oldest and only native european haplogroup, thats the ancestirs of the blonde swedes haplogroup with I1.
We are hunter gatherers, relatively tall and gracile, but can grow very tall like in Serbia where I2a makes the tallest europeans ( taller than R1b but more gracile).
My haplogroup got out from under the Black Sea when it was formed by a flood at the last ice age and the original blue eyes are on my genes but i have brown eyes.
Only 10% of I2 has blue eyes.
I look like Clint Eastwood phisically, thin,because my ancestors used to run a lot to chase pray 😂.
The farmers haplogroups are more stocky.
A Romanian Eastwood. Nice.
Ha ha! See if you didn't get the "Balkans" at all? I am 1.92 meters tall.
I just want to bother you, because I got 100% Balkans. 4:28
No Balkans, or at least ot was a LONG time ago.
The truth is Ancestry has a hard time telling the difference between English, Germanic, and northern French DNA. All three populations are descended from the Lower Rhine Bell Beaker people who had almost completely replaced the neolithic British farmers by 2200 BC. In fact, the only significant difference in DNA between the Germanic people and Celtic people is that the Germanic people have DNA contributed from the Pitted Ware (i.e. Nordic hunter gatherers) people who merged with descendants of the Bell Beakers.
For example, all my ancestors were either Germans Swiss, or French Huguenots and 23 and Me correctly identified my DNA as 99.4% French and German and correctly listed 5 states/cantons in Germany and Switzerland where my ancestors were born But Ancestry can only state that my DNA is 63% Germanic Europe, 24% England & NW Europe. 7% Sweden and Denmark, and 6% Wales. That's sort of similar to what Ancestry identified for you. Your Norwegian is probably real, however, and was detected because of a Saami influence that isn't present in Sweden and Denmark.
Are you American or welsh then
Texan and Welsh.
@ so do you half an American parent and a welsh parent or are you an immigrant at a young age
Anglo-Saxon and north western Germanic. Over 50% of you. It's hilarious that you're describing yourself as lowland celtic. :)
Is this the ancestry test, or my heritage? Both the markers in each test describe you as largely Germanic. Why not be proud of that?
Swedish.
My DNA test shows me to be 98 %. Ashkenazic Jew , 1 % Baltic and! 1. %. Anatolian /. Caucasus . I thought I would have a much more varied ancestry . Disappointing . My grandparents were Ukrainian / Romanian Jews .
98%! Is it probably because of high endogamy?
@@popacristian2056 Maybe, but my phenotype.is. not at all. that of. mediterranean people of the Levant . I. could easily pass for any Russian , Ukrainian or Pole . I have. brown hair, green eyes , am heavy set. with. light colored skin , a wide, round face with high cheekbones . Some people think I. look somewhat. Asian . Possibly some Turkic , Kypchak. not Oghuz. ancestry. . Turkic people played a prominent role in Ukrainian history . I. think a different ancestry test. than the one I took might reveal this .
@@robertberger4203 Try another test. Maybe portions of the DNA that have nothing to do with physiognomy have been checked.
"Russia" is still an empire that has been subjugating for hundreds of years some 200 different ethnicities with different physiognomy, and Turkey was the same...
That is a massive chunk of a single type!
@@robertberger4203the haplogroup, Y DNA is a genetic test.
What you describe is central eutopean haplogroup E, like Hitler, George Soros, Ramses, Nelson Mandela.
Its common in Austria, Hungaria, Ukraine and a tiny bit in Romania.
Einstein too was haplogroup E, famous jew.
Ben, as much as I respect you and your context, Zionism only started existed in the late 19th century, while the Judaism and its beliefs have existed for millennia. Zionism is also an 3thno-n4tionalist movement that started in Europe where its main goal is to carve a Jewish state in Palestine, where the Levantine Arabs have been already living there. Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism as many Jews disagree with Zionism and many non-Jews (such as Evangelical Christians) agree with Zionism. Saying Zionism is a core part of Judaism is like saying that ethnic colonialism is a foundation of any faith, which is not true.
There is nothing wrong with Jews wanting to live in their ancient lands, the Land of Israel, as it was their land thousands of years ago, but.... the way the Israelis have been dealing with that situation since the 1940s is very unethical. How many more innocent people from Gaza have to die for this? They haven't done anything wrong. You do realize there is a cost for forging an ethno-state in the middle of a already populated area, right?
So when people say "the Jewish people have the right to a Jewish state" therefore agreeing with Zionism, they're forgetting the cost behind that message in the current times. Also, why do the Jews need one single Jewish state to live in? There are other places for a homeland you know. Also, there are many other ethnic/religious groups who don't have a single homeland (ex. Romanis, Assyrians, Yazidis) but still live in their own ways.
Zionism and Judaism are inseparable. Jews who do the full prayers every day mention rebuilding Zion, Jerusalem, Israel and land dozens of times.
@@BenLlywelyn You are confusing the history of the faith of the Jews with an ideology. For example, if a Christian were to make similar ideology as Zionism, mentioning Jesus, Jerusalem, and the holy lands, and it turned into a way of discrimination on others, would you still say it is justified? What if a Muslim did the same thing (like jihad and doing things in the name of Allah)? Or Hindus with Hindutva, “purifying” India by discrimination as well? Zionism isn’t much different at least in its modern usage.
Again, there is nothing wrong the Jews wanting their land back, Ben, BUT YOU ARE LITERALLY MISSING WHAT ZIONISM HAS BEEN DOING IN THE LAST 80 years!
Ben, answer one thing please if you may. How do you justify Israel’s crime upon the Palestinians using Zionism?
Didn’t the original Zionists detest the poor Jews of Eastern Europe seeing themselves as culturally German and not uncouth peasants: a secular imperialist movement born out of bitter resentment. I agree they had reason to feel peeved. Since I imagine most self identifying Jewish/Ashkenazi ,have ethnic roots in Eastern Europe the idea of a homeland in Palestine is completely nonsense. The logic of a rightful homeland is ludicrous. I don’t care what it says in a tribal account, the Torah. Should the Celtic folk resettle the parts that were once their domain and violently ethnically cleanse the Anglo-Saxons out ? Europe has been populated by displaced tribes for millennia. And as some mentioned, what about a homeland in India for the Roma people who suffered like the Jewish people and indeed still face blatant prejudice, and without the powerful lobby behind them. No orthodox Jewish person would dare to recognise the State of Israel, which a wholly man made concept.
@@nichotto is this a reply to me or Ben?
@@czechistan_zindabad I’m agreeing with your sentiment
I thought one is born in Judaism and is based on one"s maternal line. Since you are practicing Judaism, you should make a video on the Kazars, a turkic tribe, who eventually became the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. See "The 13th tribe" book.
You can convert, and it takes years.
so youre not ethnically jewish at all? damn.
i still consider you one of us.
I'm one of you too :) Gut Shabbos.
Thank you.
@@Lagolop Yiddish, right? I've studied German and when I looked at Yiddish, it's very German, so it would be a good reason to learn German @BenLlywelyn
The blue eyes / blond hair genes are recessive genes, which means most of the time when choosing between blue eyes and brown eyes, most of the times the child will have brown eyes (this is waaaaayyy oversimplified, the discussion is really complex so take what i say with a grain of salt). This might explain why you're not so Scandinavian looking 😅.
I look more Romanian than I do Norwegian :)
@@BenLlywelyn Yes, you could pass as one quite easy 😅. Need to have more tan to be more "authentic" looking 😅. It's not a reference to the gypsies but the fact that here the sun hits harder than in the British isles.
@@octavian8b The original people of the British Isles were dark skinned with darks eyes and hair, so maybe Ben looks more like pre Roman Britains.
@@Lagolopi thought they were dark skinnedcwith blue eyes. There is that famous reconstruction of a face from a skeleton from thousands years ago, he had blue eyes, as most of the I Y-dna early Europeans.
I knew you were a Briton - obviously ^^
I should start dressing like Bilbo Baggins.
Da du so ein großer Fan von Sauerkraut bist wäre deutsch scho' irgendwie logisch.
I'm a German-American. When I tell people that, I often get the response, "You must like sauerkraut, then!" Actually, no. My family's German culture got replaced by Scots-Irish culture at least 250 years ago.
Learn Wolof
Intense skills.
You look Welsh. German is more useful. There's about 100 million speakers in Europe.
England & NW Europe is definitely not pre-Saxon British it is more Germanic and Continental. All the categories that people get are not ancient but based on modern population panels. It is definitely not pre-Roman British. You are much more Germanic shifted genetically. If you were Welsh genetically you would have got Wales in the majority. Also Ancestry have done a big update over the last week so it would be interesting to see if you got Cornish in your update.
Cornish would make a lot of sense.
@@BenLlywelyn Did you get Cornish as the update has been done?
Compromise by learning Yiddish rather than standard German. Yes BTW I have taken DNA tests (3) The majority of my DNA is Ashkenazi Jewish (what a shock ...NOT ), but then the other thing surprisingly enough is Norwegian and that is shown on both my maternal and paternal sides!
PS God bless Israel and especially the brave IDF soldiers and to hell with Jew haters and Israel deniers.
Thank you for your blessings.
@@BenLlywelyn Nishto far vos ;)
PS Gut Shabbos!
AncestryDNA told me I was 100% Malta, which is apt as I was born there, parents, grandparents ad infinitum. The Romans didn't have much genetic impact in Britain mainly as the Romans in Britain were actually French Gauls and other Europeans who were Romanised. Your are short and dark because quite a few of your forebears were short and dark. My parents were both 5' in height, I have a brother that height also. I am somewhat taller 5' 10".
By the way, full on Ashkenazi Jews cluster somewhere on the European side of the Mediterranean Sea between Southern Italy and the Greek Islanders like those from Crete, Rhodes, Chios.. So those European Jews are somewhat like me genetically, in fact every ancestry program I have used I have to weed out the Jews in order to get accurate results. The Jews are like flies in the ointment.
Short and dark is beautiful.
Learn Proto Germanic so You can understand all 3 of those languages
No one wrote it.
@BenLlywelyn Thats unfortunate.
Zionist? Unsubscribed
Zionism is merely the belief the Jewish people have the right to exist. Nothing more.
@@BenLlywelyn it’s racial supremacy used to justify apartheid and genocide
@@BenLlywelynthat's why they unsubscribed
@@BenLlywelyn River to the sea
@@BenLlywelyn Come on Ben, you're being disingenuous. Of course the Jewish people have a right to exist. But Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in Palestine. The two things are not the same.
Zionist ahh Zionist
Yes?
@ would you perhaps change your view on Zionism of if I gave you plausible proof that it was bad and unjustified, even by Jewish standards?
Not really sure how accurate these tests are but if you are taking the darker shades as the more likely DNA origin you might be more pictish Scottish than Scotti (Irish) Scottish or Anglo-Saxon Scottish. The Swedes to my knowlege didn't really colonise Britain and Ireland so more likely to be Danish/Norwegian. The Germanic bit centered on Friesland which could in theory fit in with Anglo-Saxon migration.
Funny how you mention all the scottish sub-groups while leaving out the most relevant - The Scottish Britons, who were contemporary to their brothers, the Welsh Britons.
@@WalesTheTrueBritons It was 2am forgive me. N.E. Scotland most likely pictish I think over Brythonic though.
Learn Frisian :P :D
Try learning Senegalese.
Already speak French 😉
@@BenLlywelyn And so did one of your ancestors it appears.
@@BenLlywelyn LOL!
Can you stop conflating English for British, the term existed long before its adoption by England, with they themselves calling the Welsh....British just as often as they used the term Welsh. With the Cynmry not calling themselves it until the language was forced on them. Also, you sound very disappointed you are in part "Welsh". As for being a Zionist, I have had my suspicions for a while. I'm disgusted that I share a Nation with people who think it's okay to take things that don't belong to them...and when a 6 year old gets in the way, she has despicable things done to her.
You’re picking sides over shit you couldn’t possibly know about.
Zionism is integral to the Jewish religion. I don't know what you think Zionism is. Calm down, please.
Frisian...learn Frisian!!
With all due respect, all Nordic languages sound pretty awful so you should probably go with German
Good bread in Denmark though.