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  1. I am American from Galician descent , i have blue eyes and so did my Galician grandmother and cousins….
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  2. Great info ! My DNA was very interesting when I took the tests.
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  3. Denmark; the intersection of Scandinavia, Europe, Britain, and Ireland. A Dane in Seattle.
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  4. Anglo-Saxons were a ruling elite in Britain, never the ethnic majority. They were wiped out centuries ago during many Celtic British peasant uprisings and foreign empires. Today the British are entirely Celtic. They’re just culturally Anglicised (except the Welsh - they honour their roots).
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  5. Galicia has strong links with Ireland. Some of our ancestors came directly from there.
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  6. I am descended from several clans. Wallace, Douglas, Bell, Campbell and Ross just to name a few. My mothers maiden name is Wallis but some of her family spells it Wallace. Her grandmother was a Bell.
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  7. My three nephews and one niece have such interesting coloring: two are blue-eyed blondes, one has brown eyes and auburn hair, and one has Titian (red/gold) hair and bright green eyes. What an interesting mixture for one family.
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  8. Many of the infamous names of the old American West are border names of English and Scots origin.
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  9. Interesting video. I have a somewhat different perspective on the comment of 'two deaths' by old lady. Maybe she is talking about the death of the relationship first between Padraic and Colm and second between Padraic and his sister. And that's why old lady was seen in the frame at the time of Padraic waving hand at his sister's departure and also when Padraic and Colm part ways (as mentioned in this video).
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  10. Breton is also close to Welsh, My brother in law was amazed that driving through Wales to visit relatives he could read the road signs in Welsh. My brother in law told me that when he was at school, if he or anyone else got heard speaking Breton they were caned for it.
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  11. First of all: Love the Scottish accent! Was a pleasure to listen to you. I am interested in doing a DNA test. I am dutch, living in the Netherlands and is there a test you can recommend? For some reason I don' t want to send my DNA to the US or another country outside of the EU. But so far I haven't found any. And maybe I am just way to paranoid.
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  12. My father’s side is Açorean Portuguese from São Jorge. I can trace my last name to two catholic saints one a martyr from catalonia spain ans died in 259 ad by a roman emperor and saint from Braga.
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  13. My birth certificate says hazel but I have more green than brown. People always comment "I love your green eyes."
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  14. What about the film as analogy for The Troubles? How two close friends fighting in a way that only hurts themselves; and from which they gain nothing?
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  15. I'm descended from Clan Duncan, my Great Grand Father William Duncan came from Edinburgh Scotland in the 1700s to the US .
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  16. Walter Steward(t) was my 17th Great Grandfather - James IV was my 13th Great Grandfather & from there am descended from his daughter Janet Stewart (Malcolm Fleming, spouse). Great video!
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  17. In the traditional histories of the Welsh, the Picts were never regarded as Britons were seen as newcomers from the east who came by sea, and where granted the right to settle in Caithness. They could not claim the rights of the ancient British until the 9th generation after their coming. For a supposedly 'Celtic' people they were very peculiar. Use of heavy tattooing, unique symbolic pictograms, construction of Brochs and Matriarchal decent. There is also the interesting issue of about a dozen inscriptions in the Ogham text on standing stones in Scotland that have no apparent obvious Brythonic or Irish translation. Bede states clearly that the Pictish language was distinct from British (Brythonic) and St Columba needed a translator to converse with them. That said, place name as well as personal name evidence is overwhelmingly Brythonic is substance.
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  18. Mine are blue/green/gray mood rings that change depending on the light and what I'm wearing. One eye is more blue, and one eye is more green. Irish descent with auburn hair.
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  19. The name the silures called that area was essyllwg- e- sull- oog, the romans picked up the sulloo bit becoming silures. This is the region of the real king arthur, crowned by st dyfrig at caerleon. The 'ampitheatre' became arthurs round table in the 6th century, essentially a great area for gathering the nobles of britain in times of crisis, mainly countering the saxon threat. The actual ancient fortress of caerleon, is about a mile to the north, covered by great trees now, and unbelievably partially encroached on by a housing estate. An extremely important 4-5 banked hillfort, which like all things 'british' get totally ignored in favour of the invader. Its a travesty that our history has been thrown in the bin.
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  20. I've heard the Atholl Highlanders included 200 MacDougalls. The chief didn't join in the uprising but his brother did & fought at Culloden.
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  21. And 1 more thing, The Celtic "DRUIDS" = HINDU "PUROHIT ". (PRIEST ) I am a member of Purohit brahman by my ancestors, I am proud for it, we Indians are very grateful for preserve our true historical culture.
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  22. Northeastern Englishman man here. It’s fascinating to understand genetics but it’s the living who matter
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  23. in the village where my parents grow up about 100km in the east of ankara i can remember that i was wondering about seeing this blonde haired girl with blue eyes between dark haired people , blonde hairs are realy unusual there^^ both parents are dark haired . im dark haired too but i got a few red hairs in my beard =)
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  24. I feel like Mrs. McCormack is the obvious choice for one of the banshees, but I think Siobhán is meant to be the second. Mrs. McCormack beckons to Siobhán from across the lake at one point in the film, like she’s calling her to start her time as a banshee. But Siobhán chooses to go to the mainland instead, like she’s breaking a chain of misery.
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  25. This video backed up my DNA results, I'm mainly Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Scandinavian. There are a few percentages from England, Italy and the middle east. Great video
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  26. My uncle did genealogy for a hobby and found an ancestor that came over to England from Denmark, no surprise really.
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  27. Clan Macpherson also has a big Y700 research project. Clan Macphail/Macfall has also started and may have some initial results.
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  28. I have hazel eyes. Other than 13% of my DNA origins (per Ancestry DNA) being from central France, the rest is all England (34%), Scotland (24%), Ireland (18%), and Scandinavia (11%). I've traced my family tree back through the 1400's so I'm pretty confident that these percentages are on target.
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  29. There are also red hair with green eyes.
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  30. I have green eyes. My parents both have green eyes as well.
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  31. One of my grandmother's family were from East Anglia, mostly mariners and farmers. The grandmother on the other side is from Wiltshire. Genealogy is really interesting but I've only gone back as far as the late 1700s. Then it gets a bit of a minefield. What is nice to see is that some places where they all lived still exist!
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  32. The Ainu people of Hokkaido have been linked to the Cherokee, Sioux, and Blackfoot peoples interestingly.
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  33. As a Dutch person with a Spanish dad I considered myself half Dutch half Spanish. After a DNA test I found out that my Dutch is really a mix of Frisian Danish Norwegian Swedish and a whole lot of English 😂..the Spanish side came out as 50% Iberian. Something that surprised me most really because my dad had some foreign ancestors we know. So it would mean that my dad was a 100% Iberian? Something I think not to be plausible.
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  34. I understand most British Isles DNA today is Bell Beaker.
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  35. I'd be interested in clan Mackintosh or Norman Surnames of Inverness and the Highlands. Until then, great stuff as always, cheers. Shout out to my u1506 Posse ✌
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  36. Even nowadays if you search about it you see English is the highest ancestry group. Then it comes German and Irish. English people have a very interesting history in The United States
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  37. I’ve only just found your channel, and I have to say it’s absolutely brilliant. The Irish migration to Scotland is quite well known but I’d love a video on the Scots that migrated to Ireland, such as the McGregors. Any information on Scottish origin surnames in Ireland would be great.
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  38. As a clinical geneticist in Finland (I study very rare inherited diseases), our DNA is pretty unique compared to other Europeans. Even most of the software I use always have different categories for Finns and non-Finnish Europeans, when checking for population frequencies for mutations. We also have a bunch of weird genetic disorders that are somewhat common here but unheard of anywhere else due to past bottleneck effects and inbreeding. Salla disease and Northern Epilepsy Syndrome are examples of these.
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  39. My great grandfather came to Canada from Scotland. Thank you for the lessons. Scots have to be the most impressive people ever with their bravery, strength and determination. Proud of my grandfather's heritage.
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  40. At the battle of Glen Fruin around 350 to 400 of Clan Gregor's men defeated 800 of Colquhoun's men who were funded by King James VI to teach the MacGregor's a lesson. Although the MacGregor force were outnumbered at least two to one the battle ended up a rout for the MacGregor's, the Colquhoun dead numbered 150 to 200, there were only a handful of MacGregor deaths, one of them was John MacGregor the brother of the clan chief Allaster MacGregor of Glenstrae. 500 of Clan Colquhoun's men were on horseback and the remaining 300 were on foot, all of Clan Gregor's men were on foot. The MacGregor men split into two forces, the main force led by Allaster and the second force was led by John MacGregor, as the two MacGregor forces closed in on the approaching Colquhoun's who were going up the centre of the glen. The mounted Colquhoun's were forced into the boggy ground at the head of the glen and the weight of horse and rider caused therm to sink into the bog, the rout had begun for the MacGregor's. After the battle the wives of the dead Colquhoun's dipped their husband's shirts in sheeps blood, the took them to Edinburgh and showed them to the king who couldn't stand the sight of blood, he believed what the women told him and he then proscribed Clan Gregor, they became nameless, landless and stateless and were forced to become outlaws to survive. In 1604 the chief, Allaster MacGregor and eleven opf his chieftains were hung at Edinburgh's market cross.
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  41. Absolutely fascinating: what a beautiful people! Happy New Year to you, good Sir! 🎉
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  42. My Surname originates in Western Isles of Scotland. As I've stated dispite being born in England im 92% Gael Origin. Both my parents were Irish/Scots Origin. I wont reveal my surname, but i did have a great Granny from Ireland called Margaret McIver. Another Irish born great granny had the surname Stopher, which is unusual? Another who was born in wales, of Irish parents in 1843 was called Ellen Early. Im told its a farely rare name from County Clare. She went on to have 21children in Hartlepool, then Newcastle. Yes your correct theres huge interests in the Vikings. My Son is an Odinist, and raising his 7 kids as Odinists. My Daughter is also into Norse mythology etc, as are her children. She also has a huge affinity for her Scottish heritage, and visits castles there regularly. Another great video.👍
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  43. I'm Portuguese and called Castro myself. Have always been fascinated by the Celtic origins of the now Portuguese and of our Galician brothers. You can still find many ruins of Celtic towns in Northern Portugal, the Castros or Citânias, the equivalent of the Hill Forts in the British Isles. The Celtic mythology, like the Lusitanian God Endovelicus and their contact with Nature, very much shaped what Northern Portugal is still today. Thank you so much for your researches and brilliant video.
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  44. Celtic Ortodox!
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  45. Surely the reasoning behind the loss of oral tradition isn't so much the lack of writing and the invisibility of Ogham to historians but the massacre and persecution of the speakers. Lots of tribes have oral traditions that survive to this day without writing they just managed to avoid the onslaught of Rome and then Christianity.
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  46. I'm Hispanic, but I believe German and Japanese people are the smartest and most disciplined people in the world.
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  47. I am from Veneto (a region in North East Italy) and the Venetic people were in ancient times a particular culture that had several contacts with peoples like Raeti, Etruscans and, obviously, the Celtic tribes (after fifth century BC): the first time with the Cenomani and then with the Insubri. Surprisingly, the Venetic people were one the fundamental allies of Rome during the war against Carthage and the Celtic Tribes; indeed, the absorption by Roman Republic was relatively peaceful.
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  48. Can you do one on the Irish of County Cork sometime please mate:face-green-smiling:
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  49. Grey-green eyes here, and dark ash blond hair. But my ancestors were from the regions of Bohemia and Bavaria. Your Scottish accent is very pleasant to hear and easy to understand :) Alba... Caledonia... my favourite country in the whole world!
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  50. Alan Wilson and Baram Blacket's work in the 1980s is the most convincing to me in tracking down who King Arthur was. Medieval Historians were clear that Arthur was based in South Wales in Caer Leon. The king list of Glamorgan names an Athrwys ap (son of) Meurig. They also attribute the legendary attributes of Arthur invading Europe and waging war with with the Romans as an accidental confusion with the actions of Arthur's grandfather's grandfather Anwn (Antonius the Black), a son of Magnus Maximus, a British high King who conquered most of the western empire.
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