England Wales And Northwestern Europe

Of course finding a specific variant does not prove that your family lived in a specific country or region.

England wales and northwestern europe. In 2011 great britain had a population of about 61 million people making it the world s third most populous island after java in. Great britain is an island in the north atlantic ocean off the northwest coast of continental europe with an area of 209 331 km 2 80 823 sq mi it is the largest of the british isles the largest european island and the ninth largest island in the world. So the nw europe is really far different than england why is the percentage all swished in. At noon she was 46 england wales northwestern europe 26 germanic europe 10 norwegian 8 irish and scottish 5 eastern europe and russia 4 swedish and 1 cameroon congo and southern bantu peoples.

Now we have four. Ancestrydna has updated its ethnicity estimates and the results are rolling out for all 10 million plus persons who ve tested. Finland southern germany switzerland and austria are also often considered part of northwestern europe. Now because i am on the science team i knew that my england northwestern europe would probably go down and my scotland would go up.

Geographically northwestern europe usually consists of the united kingdom the republic of ireland belgium the netherlands luxembourg northern france northern germany denmark norway sweden and iceland. In previous ancestry blogs it was mentioned that england and wales are predominantly anglo saxon with england then secondarily norman and wales secondarily celt and then scotland is predominantly celt and secondarily anglo saxon so this new ethnicity confuses me as it bundles england scotland and wales together with france benelux the netherlands and parts of far west germany. This is especially common in europe and other parts of the world where you don t need to travel by boat or move long distances to reach other groups of people. I went from 1 british to 58 england wales and northwestern europe.

One set of my great great grandparents were first generation americans from germany so i know i am at least 1 8 german. The england wales and northwestern europe dna ethnicity was previously known as the great britain region since the geographic scope of the dna region has shifted. And that is just what happened. Scroll down to continue reading.

This means that people who live in germanic europe might show dna from eastern europe and russia france england wales and northwestern europe or even italy. England wales and northwestern europe in update i know my ancestors are from germany however germanic europe only showed up as 1 in the results. It simply means that that. As more and more people do testing it becomes easier to pinpoint specific areas where dna variants were common.

Southern france is not regarded as northwestern as. I had 72 europe west in my earliest dna then 33 germanic europe and deleted the test and tried again and got new results shows 16 germanic europe.