Time for another annual ethnicity shake-up from Ancestry!

It's that time of the year when Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) decides to change who we think we are, by reimagining our DNA ethnicity (admixture) profiles, due to its changing reference panel (to whom our results are matched). 

Here's how the last three updates have tried to explain my ethnic origins to me.

Three updates ago: 

• Ireland and Scotland 65% 
• England, Wales & Northwestern Europe > Scottish Lowlands, Northern England, and Northern Ireland 35%

Two updates ago:

• Scotland > Northern Ireland & Southwestern Tyrone / Fermanagh & Southwestern Tyrone / Eastern Northern Ireland and Southwestern Scotland 84% 
• Ireland 16%

Last update: 

• Scotland > Scottish Highlands 80%
• Ireland > Ulster & Northern Ireland 20%

 

 And now...*drumroll*

• Celtic & Gaelic: Central Scotland & Northern Ireland 72% ; Hebrides & Western Highlands, Scotland 23% ; Munster, Ireland 2%
• England: East Midlands 2%
• Western Europe: Northwestern Germany 1%

So they all agree that I am a mixture of Scottish and Irish, which is basically the Northern Irish story in its own right, although I also have direct Scottish lineage with my paternal grandparents. 

Tune in next year for the next exciting update of "What the Hell is Chris....?"!!!!

Chris 

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