I’m a Scot, 100%.
But…part of the family are teuchters (highlanders)
Then there are the ones from the western isles, maybe a bit of Viking there.
Some are east coast weavers so might just have some Flemish blood.
Then some were at the court of Mary Queen of Scots, so could be a bit of french.
And as we have border ancestors (apparently) there might be some Roman blood.
And that’s just the ones we are sure about….there are a few skeletons.
So..how can people (Usually American) claim to have a percentage of Scottish blood.?
Same applies to any nationality
Gosh, my family's profile is so much like yours (with a load of teuchters and some bits and bobs of German Jewish, Orkney, English and other tiny bits thrown in for good measure). Confirmed Flemish line. A suspected Roman-derived name (on Family Search there's a photo of my borders G G grandfather whose family still actually lived on the site of a Roman fort. He looks like an old fashioned Italian waiter!) .
As your lot were at court then we're probably related, given all the continual family and cousin intermarrying that went on for centuries in Scotland.
Somehow, with all that mixing and matching, the teuchter line predominated (I have a Norse/Viking-derived surname and my grandchildren are certainly all gey wee teuchters! So that's brillyunt as far as I'm concerned! The Vikings rampage on
).
As you and
@CELESTE CROCKETT say, so many different gene pools and possibilities. That definitely holds true for all my American rellies.
I think of our lot as mutts and mongrels... it's like many in the Western world.
Add in the skeletons and misinformation that has accrued over the centuries and few people with more than a few generations in the US can lay claim to such a large %age of DNA from any one clan/tribe/nation.
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It would be extraordinary for a very fair-skinned person like Smeg to actually have so much DNA from just a single African west coast country.
It would have required just about every one of Smeg's enslaved and later ancestors to be 'Nigerian' for that level of homogeneity to be so consistently preserved.
(If it's true then she'd get the top place in the Finding Your Roots Hall of Fame!!)
But I've been banging on about this since she came out with this unsubstantiated Nigerian palaver.
It's so good to see that the Nigerians have picked up on this, as have many on SM.
The truth will out sooner or later.
And, rats! like hundreds of thousands of Brits (including Hazno), our family is actually distantly related to SMEG (in at least two lines).
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Here's an intriguing comment from
Royal and noble genealogy is one of my passions. If there is anything that can be researched in Ancestry I am a very happy person. I used several sources and ex
www.nettyroyal.nl
Cath says:
October 11, 2020 at 7:49 pm
I was checking out Meghan Markle’s maternal great grandparents
(Doria’s grandparents) and they were actually half-siblings. SAME mother but different father. I have specific birth and death dates if you’d like to bring her true geneology up to date.
ME: I've spent several hours searching for the veracity of this claim.
Doria Ragland's tree is one of the most convoluted I've come across. A number of second marriages and a lot of movement around the country latterly. Some of the Smeg trees appearing in newspapers/magazines aren't accurate. Also a number of Doria's trees online hide her putative mother's name (Jeanette nee Forshey, Arnold/Johnson) for unknown reasons.
I'm not going to pursue this but, looking at the Ragland trees and connected information on genealogy sites, incest wouldn't be much of a surprise to me - and of course it would be hidden.