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Yet ancestry.com can easily tell British with Anglo-Saxon and Brittonic ancestry apart from French with Frankish ancestry.
by rayiner 2y ago
Yet ancestry.com can easily tell British with Anglo-Saxon and Brittonic ancestry apart from French with Frankish ancestry.
- shermantanktop 2y agoCan they? They clearly want you to think so, but my own personal results are pretty mixed on how accurate that is.
- mrangle 2y agoAnd yet the genetic differences are so insignificant so as to make them pointless to mention in the context of (paraphrasing) "it's super strange that German immigrants speak the Germanic English language that originates from the cultural region of Northern Germany".
- Bayart 2y agoNobody can. There's far too much overlap regionally between Britain and North-Western France. And nobody in Britain has just Brittonic ancestry, or Frankish ancestry in France. For the most part the populations in Europe have been stable since a time that predates the expansions of the Celtic and Germanic linguistic groups.
- laurencerowe 2y agoStudies have found genetic evidence for population movements. You could make an argument for the Welsh having overwhelmingly Brittonic ancestry. https://peopleofthebritishisles.web.ox.ac.uk/population-genetics https://peopleofthebritishisles.web.ox.ac.uk/population-gene...