"The Picts and the Irish where already in existence many years before this period." There was a pre-Celtic population in Cornwall also. > Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 05:49:36 -0500 > From: d.tamulion@att.net > To: cornish@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CORNISH] DNA surprise > > Has anyone had there DNA done and found a surprise like I did. By > my so called heritage I am half English (grandfather from Cornwall, > grandmother from Devon) and half Portuguese, with the DNA test, which > holds true about the Portuguese side of 47% but I have found that I am > only 36% British. The surprise is that I have 10% Scandinavian in me. > I have done some reading and need to do more about why the Scandinavian > is still so strong in my DNA if it was from the 700 to 800's England. I > would love to hear from any body that has their DNA done and have found > Scandinavian ancestry along with their British like I did. Or if anyone > has any suggestions of reading material to find out more about the > Scandinavian's in England I would welcome it. > Diane in Wisconsin > > ------------------------------- > Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com > with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, > MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to > CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 02:54:40 AM Gail Ford wrote: > "The Picts and the Irish where already in existence many years before this > period." > > There was a pre-Celtic population in Cornwall also. > Further to the above, Celtic is not a "race" it is a culture and a language group. In archaeology and linguistics it relates to the spread of artifacts and a language group, not people per se. There is no evidence of an "invasion" of celtic people overwhelming the local population. There is much evidence that the original population of the British Isles has much genetically in common with the Basque population of the Pyranees. -- ==== Michael Lightfoot Canberra, Australia michael.lightfoot@pcug.org.au ====