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Ancestry/Genealogy

Spider Jerusalem

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5. "Orcadian" seems to be confusing and probably not really accurate

Reply to flyingfysh (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 12, 2013, 11:52 PM

Dec 2013

the people of the Orkneys are the descendants of Scots and Picts and Norse and Celts. So if you have some ancestral mixture of Irish/Scots/British Isles/North Germanic the results could reasonably fit an "Orcadian" profile..and in fact a search of Google shows: "Orcadian is the FTDNA reference population for the British Isles. The Orkney Islands combine Anglo-Saxon-Jute, Celtic and Scandinavian populations", see here for instance.

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sometimes family stories of Indian ancestry are totally wrong [View all] flyingfysh Nov 2013 OP

I'd be sort of surprised if a DNA test could pinpoint "Scottish" with that degree of precision Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #1

What it actually reported was "Orcadian" flyingfysh Dec 2013 #3

"Orcadian" seems to be confusing and probably not really accurate Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #5

My ancestors who ruled the Orkney Islands were Scandinavians. grasswire Oct 2014 #10

The DNA test pipi_k Dec 2013 #2

the DNA test was cheap flyingfysh Dec 2013 #4

Thanks pipi_k Jan 2014 #7

Arkansas, the Cherokee and African Americans CountAllVotes Dec 2013 #6

I'm the same boat as you shirellg Jan 2014 #8

Yep, as I found out recently pipi_k Sep 2014 #9