Comments by "Steph Foxwell" (@stephfoxwell4620) on "Eamonn Holmes’ heritage REVEALED | ‘This has never come up!’" video.

  1. So are most British Isles whitefolk.
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  2. Holmes is from N Ireland so most likely to have Scots dna. Like most British he will be 20% Anglo-Saxon, 50% Ancient Briton. The Vikings left very little trace.
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  3. Canadian dude who does the Useful Charts channel sent his dna to eight of these companies. He got eight different results.
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  4. There are nine different dna groups in Ireland and two of these are Scottish. Maybe 6% Viking and 4% Anglo-Saxon dna too,plus the usual 3% neanderthal that we all carry. It is impossible to be 100% Irish. These heritage firms are ripping people off.
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  5. It would have to , wouldn't it? To be 100% anything. Right back to the Irish Common Ancestor point around 1300. 99.5% of his millions of forebears would have to be pure Irish. No Scots, Welsh,Cornish,Danes etc.
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  6. They can only make broad generalisations and once you go back 300+ years it is virtually impossible. For instance in 1450 you'd have over one million forebears. So to say you are for instance 5% viking they'd need to know 50,000 of them were Norwegian . This is hocus pocus. What my grandad called selling sh*t to fools.
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  7. His vague dna map covers Devon, Scotland and Wales.
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  8. Virtually impossible to be 100% Irish.
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  9. He's Irish.
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  10. In her vacuously casual arrogance.
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  11. Correct. Snake oil salesmen.
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  12. Impossible.
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  13. How do you know his parents were 100% Irish. As I say, it is impossible.
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  14. This is an urban myth in Ireland. There is Spanish dna there, but from Iberian traders around 1,000 BC. Spaniards unlucky enough to be shipwrecked in 1588 were murdered on the beaches or taken prisoner. 400 were repatriated in 1589.
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  15. Yorkshire ,alongside the Home Counties has the highest amount; f Anglo-Saxon dna. Vikings left very little trace in Britain other than Shetland and Orkney. Maybe 2-5%.
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  16. Early 1800s is 220 years ago. Around eight generations. You'd have had 256 six times great grandparents alive then. Do you know who they all were and who their 512 parents were?
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  17. Celts is a term invented by the romantics around 1780. You mean Ancient Britons. The 18 tribes who came here between 1400 BC and 400 BC
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  18. This is vanishingly rare. Impossible really.
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  19. It is interesting, but wildly inaccurate beyond 10 generations. About 280 years.
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  20. Again. Very unlikely. How far back did you go? Ten generations is 1,024 forebears about 300 years ago.
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  21. Most lowland Scots are 20% Anglo-Saxon at least.
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  22. I haven't insulted anyone other than the charlatans extorting money to tell people vague truths. It may be fun. But is wildly inaccurate.
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  23. They go to 1837. Then make broad guesses.
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  24. Warriorking. The United Kingdom of Great Britain( British) and Northern Ireland ( Irish).
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  25. No such thing ,except in places like Iceland or Tonga.
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  26. Yes. Dna is only statistically reliable to nine generations,which is 270 years ago. 1750 ish.
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  27. Suffolk has a lot of Dutch and Flemish dna.
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  28. Cat. That is near impossible. The highest levels of Ancient Briton dna is in Wales. About 65%. Most are 25% Anglo-Saxon with tiny bits of Dane, Italian and Spanish.
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  29. In the British Isles (including Ireland) the Common Ancestor Point is around 1250. That means every white person alive today in these Isles is related to 80% of the people alive here back then. The other 20% had no children or their lines died out later. We are all related to each other and all share the same dna in different amounts. Effectively the indigenous people of the British Isles. The heritage scams are only any good back to about 200 years ago and rely too much on written records. Their dna tests are pseudoscience at best.
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  30. El Cid. From 1801-1923 Ireland was part of the UK. Not part of Britain.
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  31. Inevitable. Northern Ireland had only 1.4 million people a hundred years ago. Spilt into two communities. Go back just nine generations they'd all be related.
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  32. Celts are a 19th century romantic invention
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  33. Celts are an 18th century romantic invention. You mean Ancient Britons.
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  34. Peat stains.
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