Hi Angela,
Yes, the results are interesting but I suspect most are not significant. I've tried using the various tools and all but one, except for my second cousin, only seem to have one extended piece of DNA in common. The odd one out has two bits on the same chromosome, but quite extensive and matching both me and my second cousin so, although there is nothing on the record to suggest that we are indeed related, I have emailed to ask if that shared family name appears in the other person's tree too.
I had the one 2nd-3rd cousin match and another seven 2nd-4th cousin matches but I haven't yet found any obvious connection among them.
Yes, I did look at the origins, but it seems that the database they are matching to is not yet complete so there is a warning that this may change. Currently it says that I am 96% Orcadian and 4% Middle Eastern which suggests perhaps a Jewish ancestor some 4 or 5 generations ago.
I'm a bit confused that they are using Orcadian to match the whole of the British Isles, as although it makes sense in the case of my Celtic origins, I would have expected German, French and other Western European influences to have had a significant impact on the population of England too.
I think that there seems to be some issue with the attempt to select comparison communities which will be relatively unmixed, hence using Orcadians, but I suspect that there are few other areas of Europe even represented in the database, as most populations are quite mixed.
This definitely raises more questions than it answers.