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    It would seem nobody told the guy in the commercial (in the link above) that the pleats go in the back. Yikes!
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    Thanks for the help! My wife said she only caught a momentary glance of the kilt before it disappeared and what stuck for some reason was blue and no details.
    I have read the other thread which of course shed some more light on the subject. My thanks for steering me to it!

    I have done the DNA test and found Irish, Scandinaven, and Great Britan and was told that to break the "Great Britan down I'd have to submit the DNA to someone doing this there as the. So I wondered how they could say "scottish" . Oh well.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    Thanks for the help! My wife said she only caught a momentary glance of the kilt before it disappeared and what stuck for some reason was blue and no details.
    I have read the other thread which of course shed some more light on the subject. My thanks for steering me to it!

    I have done the DNA test and found Irish, Scandinaven, and Great Britan and was told that to break the "Great Britan down I'd have to submit the DNA to someone doing this there as the. So I wondered how they could say "scottish" . Oh well.


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    Actually, it's a small island, so just saying "British" is probably as accurate as necessary for all practical purposes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell View Post
    Actually, it's a small island, so just saying "British" is probably as accurate as necessary for all practical purposes.
    ...except that "British" isn't accurate. DNA testing shows where you are from - English tend to be Angles, Scotland has more Saxons, Wales and Cornwall are descended from the Britons, the Irish were talented enough to know how to swim away from the English. 😧

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...e-Britons.html

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    It just isn't that simple

    And there are other studies looking at straight paternal (y chromosome) and straight maternal (mitochondrial dna) that show that most "invading" groups were primarily male, and married the indigenous Picts. And the likelihood of considerable admixture from Scandinavian and Irish sources from raiders to groups living near the coast can't be discounted. My own paternal line is documented as being several centuries in Wales, but we are largely genetic Vikings. Most of the studies recently seem to show that the "folk migrations" that archeologists and historians speak of were more large scale, semi permanent raids by second sons and other adventurers, who didn't bring along their own women, any more than the Romans did.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell View Post
    And there are other studies looking at straight paternal (y chromosome) and straight maternal (mitochondrial dna) that show that most "invading" groups were primarily male, and married the indigenous Picts.
    Yes one gets very different results according to whether it's the female or male side that's being studied! That happened big time with studies of Melungions.

    I'm fascinated by the hybrid Gaelic-Pictish place names in Scotland, which points to extensive mixing of the two peoples. One sees the same thing in the old Danelaw: hybrid English-Norse place names.
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    Someday I would love to get these genetic tests done and see what markers pop up. With the number of redheads in the family, I would bet on some coastal raiders in the mix. This is a great thread.

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