Thanks Alan. Good to know. Ancestry showed 48% Irish, 33% Scandinavian, 9% Great Britain, 7% Iberian Peninsula and 2% Europe West I also did the FamilyTree dna test and it showed 99% European which consisted of 75% British Isles, 17% Scandinavian 5% Southern Europe and 2 % Finland and Northern Sibera. I cropped your email but may have over cropped..lol On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Alan Cameron via <sct-islay@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi Janis > > The Scots are literally Irish. Round about 500 AD and for some time before > that, there had been a migration of tribes from the North of Ireland across > the short passage to the Mull of Kintyre in Argyllshire, Scotland. These > people were called the Scotti - believed to be a term (of abuse) used by > the Romans. So the original Scots who came from Dal Riata in in Antrim were > inhabitants of Ireland. However, at a much later date when the Scots and > Picts amalgamated and later combined with the Angles of Lothian and the > Britons of Strathclyde, modern Scotland was formed. So it is not surprising > that there is Irish DNA in our Scottish ancestors. The Celts, however, came > from Central Europe and spread throughout modern day France and into > Britain and Ireland. So you will find that you possibly have central > European DNA as well. > > > > > > -