Hi guys,
Just wanting to get your views on my DNA results, I understand these things are kinda inaccurate so have to be taken with a pinch of salt so I've been trying to interpret them based on what I know of history and the history of various surnames in my family.
Would I be right in saying the autosomal tests look at DNA from up to 1000 - 2000 years ago? Think I read that somewhere. So I get very different results with different providers. They are:
Ancestry
73% Great Britain (with Scotland highlighted)
21% Irish
6% Europe West
MyHeritage:
40% Irish / Scottish
30% English
21% Scandinavian
4% Finnish
1% Italian
Gencove:
32% Scottish / Irish
31% Scandinavian (Norway, Iceland)
27% South West Euro (France, Spain, Basque)
6% Greek
4% Belarusian
Geneplaza:
62% Scandinavian (Norway)
26% North Euro (Scots, Irish)
6% Greek
5% Belarusian
FtDNA
95% Britain
5% Greek
Apologies for the big long list! So as you can see they're a bit all over the place. In terms of paper trail my family is 80% Scottish and 20% Irish so that fits quite well. I've been able to trace my heritage in some of the clans pretty much back to their origin as Norman invaders so that explains the Norweigan and French I think.
So that leaves me with the smaller % countries. Spanish and Basque both come up on gedmatch at the bottom of the top 20 population distances. Greek doesn't come up on gedmatch at all but has been picked up on 3 of these tests (ditto Belarusian).
I'm not brilliant at history, particularly ancient history, is there any reason that my DNA may overlap with Spanish or Basque people? (maybe due to my French ancestors?) And is there anywhere the Greek could fit in?
Any advice appreciated, I've been trying to read as much as I can but I have a visual impairment so haven't been able to study all this DNA stuff as much I would like!
Thanks!