DNA testing?

[Pleater]

I've been considering having such testing done, as well. I am an ancestry.com member, and thus far my searches have all resulted in finds throughout the UK (with a brief stop in Nova Scotia.) But I've been wondering if there's any chance that the Roman occupation of Britania and forays into Caledonia may show some continental European influences, as well. Or perhaps a bit of Scandanavian influence from the north...

I suspect that you are hoping for far more specific information than can be deduced - 'Roman's' were a very diverse lot, it isn't possible to separate Vikings from Normans as they were the same people, and after all, Britain was repopulated from Europe just after the last ice age by people walking across the as yet unflooded North Sea, and then folk turned up in boats from North, East and South.

Don't let me put you off having a test done as it can show up interesting things - but it can't tell the difference between a Roman general in 0000AD and an intellectual fleeing Nazi persecution in 1937.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: