Mixed Norman and Celtic blood

[sharpdressedscot]

Go far back enough, we're all from Kenya anyway!

I'm from Mars!

[PneumoniaHawk]

I've got Francophone, Celtic, Italian, and Polish. born in Germany all Canadian.
But there's one thing i know bout all my lineages... Hair, lots of hair.

[Coemgen]

Go far back enough, we're all from Kenya anyway!

Even further back and we're all from a small, warm pool of amino acids !

[McFarkus]

Also a mutt. My Gordon's were Norman's as well

[Master Boid]

I'm a literal mass of 'British' DNA, having Welsh, Scottish and English blood in my veins for certain. Most likely some Norman or Anglo-Saxon in there too somewhere no doubt.

Brittany was in fact founded by emigrants from the place I now live (Devon) which also has a damn fine Brythonic history. A place in Brittany called Domnonée backs this up.

But, as we all know, a humans a human no matter where you're from or what your heritage.

[Ozman1944]

As an aside, though; I remember, when I first immigrated to the U.S. in 1977(Baltiore, MD), my Parishioners would introduce themselves as 'John Smith, born in Baltimore, I'm part German, Cherokee and French; this is my wife, Mary, she's from California, part Mexican, part Norwegian" (???) {Did I ask?.......}
I hardly ever hear this nowadays, but still vividly remember being stunned into silence the first few times. Our impressions of Americans in those days was laid-back, rebellious -like us. Instead there was this odd desire to be 'someone special' or to have 'special' bloodlines/heritage etc. I always found it interesting.

In Australia, we were all just simply 'Australians'; Where we came from originally was of no great importance; Italian, Greek, English, Irish, Scot, etc. No one would ever care to ask - and no one would ever think to volunteer such 'unimportant' information.
No offense intended, just an observation from a somewhat different culture. (By the way, Sydney area was indeed settled by Convicts, for a short time in the 1700's but the rest of the Nation was settled by legitimate Immigrants many years later. Sadly, I'm not of Convict decent)

[Woodsheal]

The "Celts" were not a "race", but a variety of peoples across Europe who adopted a certain similar culture and group of languages, mostly as a result of trade (people in Europe didn't "migrate" nearly as much as once thought by historians. The various DNA studies support this).
The term "Celtic" refers to this shared culture and language family, and has nothing to do with bloodlines....

[Ancienne Alliance]

Anyone know if there are any Pictish families or have they all been "blended" with the others ?


Best,

Robert

[Master Boid]

Anyone know if there are any Pictish families or have they all been "blended" with the others ?


Best,

Robert

My personal opinion is that, by now, they've probably been blended. Although their may still be remaining family names and what not I'd imagine that the blood of the Picts has probably been diluted with that of the Gaels and the Norse so that no purely Pictish families remain.

That's just my, maybe incorrect, opinion on the matter.

[davedove]

Like most Americans of immigrant ancestry, I am a mutt. I have English, German, Scottish, Irish, and who knows what else.

This is all well and good, but in reality we are all more alike than we are different, at least physically. I was watching a program the other day and it says that the genetic diversity of all of mankind is less than that of a family group of chimpanzees. It seems that ages ago, the human race was almost wiped out to about 10,000 members, and all of us are descended from them.