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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]janx
(24,128 posts)You can find out. I'm tempted to take a different one from the one my brother took and compare results.
It was so funny that my spit-test brother was just dying to know what DNA lurked beneath the surface that we didn't know about, and it was #2 on the list: Irish.
It should not have been a surprise I guess. One other interesting factor: in the spit test he took, the results delineated between Great Britain and Ireland, so the Scots did not stand out as a separate genetic entity. (But Scandis did.) It's all a big soup up there anyway, and it's amazing that they can analyze DNA even to that specificity.
This is probably confusing to most of us because we tend to think in terms of nationalities and languages, which are different ways of thinking about people and history. It's fascinating.