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  1. East to West vice versa makes sense from early hillfort locations during the iron age!
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  2. Hey my man. Genetic articles released in December 2021 talking about a celtic migration from 1000-875 BC. During the Bronze age
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  3. I'm r1b. Red headed males and females run on both sides of the family. My paternal family comes anciently from the Eure Valley, Normandy,France. And lately from Lincolnshire, England. We ran with the Conqueror.
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  4. I am polish I was surprised to see on my dna results that I was a quarter scandinavian from sweden mainly.
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  5. I am a MacBrayne. This identity was greatly emphasized when I was a child. The name is very uncommon and in some cases the Mac was dropped when people emigrated. The MacBraynes are sometimes considered a very minor sept of MacNaughton but I have more often seen them associated with the MacDonalds. The name appears to have originated on Islay in the late 15th century. This make more sense to me because after my grandparents emigrated to Canada, they retained close ties to the MacDonalds who also came to Vancouver B.C. at the end of the 19th century and my eldest aunt married one. Her husband died when their eldest son was 16. He took it upon himself to help see that his mother and 5 siblings were provided for and assumed a role in the family very like that of a clan chief. His siblings gave him a great deal of respect and it was an interesting dynamic to observe. Visitors to the Hebrides and the Highlands will have seen the name of MacBrayne because, although it is now owned by the Scottish government, the ferry system is still called Caledonian MacBrayne after its founder.
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  6. I’m descended from the Campbell clan and several others. The interesting thing is finding out where many clans originated. The Borthwicks and Drummonds originated in Hungary. many clans originated from the Normans/Vikings. The PICTs/Celts/Gauls etc. The Flemish, French, Germans, Spanish, Dutch…etc….pretty much most of Europe at least. They all integrated into Scottish gene pool at different periods through history.
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  7. Great info, as always! Much thanks. A minor correction, though. Most people outside Canada pronounce the name of the island of Newfoundland incorrectly...it's said more as one word squished together (as often happens with UK placenames). Most Canadians pronounce it something like newfunlund, with the emphasis on the first syllable.
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  8. My DNA is 90% from the British Isles - mostly Ireland and Scotland. The remnant amounts were from Russia, Anatolia, Middle East and Africa. I am only 2% Scandinavian. I have dark hair, eyes and fair olive skin. Everyone thinks it’s Spanish etc. My grandfather had too much iron.
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  9.  @celtichistorydecoded  there are myths in Irish lore about the Tautha de Danu (people of the goddess Danu) invasion, but interestingly the dates for this are somewhere between 1800-1400 BC, and those dates are from more modern antiquarians. My own view is that they were a continuation of the Bell-Beaker people, and the Atlantic trade language that you describe is perfectly reasonable.
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  10. Unlike the BBC said:face-green-smiling:
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  11. Thank you, I enjoyed your video, it was interesting. My Scottish connections are (Campbell: married one), Mowat, Gunn, Bruce, Sinclair. AU.
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  12. Born & raised in Scotland, I am descended from various clans the main one being Clan MacKinnon others being Glendinning and also Armstrong. Sìol Ailpein!
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  13. I'm Blue Eyed and outside I squint even when the clouds are out and tend to always buy light bulbs with the lowest brightness.
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  14. Being indo Europeans their ancestors most definitely came or passed thru that region in their past as these people migrated west.
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  15. Look it up AUSTRALIA has the highest percentage of red haired people in the world around 15 plus percent an o type blood grouping too
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  16. Yup, Appa-latcha. That’s the way we pronounce it. Vast majority of us are scotch-Irish, pronounced (scotch-arsh by old timers). The term that’s been used since colonial times. Interestingly enough, on census in the Appalachian regions and the south, most people of scotch-Irish descent mark “American” as their race. Which has lead to a discrepancy in demographics. Demographics in the US would have you believe that there almost no one of English or Scottish descent in the old colonial areas and that Germans were the largest ethnicity. This is an error due to people in the Appalachian region and the American south choosing “American” and having a historical denial of their British isles descent harkening back to the revolution. When the opposite of the census is true. Most are of largely British isle descent. Open a phone book and the names alone will tell the tale.
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  17. My wife and her family are blue eyed american indians, but mated earlier with Germans.
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  18. I am watching you through green eyes.
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  19. Tyre was a city of the pheonicans i find it interesting how many places in Scotland that have tyre in their names. tiree, mull of kintyre, blantyre, also Scottish surnames like McIntyre seems there could be a link. Have you read the book : Ireland ur of the chaldees ? very interesting 👍
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  20. Great episode, thank you
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  21. I think my ancestors were Clan Macmillan as well 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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  22. Fascinating. I cant get enough of these Videos! Love to learn about my Celtic heritage. 👍
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  23. Hope you do individual clan videos soon love to here your take on them
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  24. I'm a MacLeod decendant. Leod's ancestors was Olaf the Black and his ancestors Godred Crovan King of Isle of Man and Dublin. I believe he also has control of large parts of Northumbria as well. I have often wondered if King Godred was a decendant of Ivar the boneless. I'm also a Macdonald and MacDougall decendant so the same question applies to Somerled their clans progenitors. Somerled was a Norse Gael.
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  25. I think a study of Pictish words in Gàidhlig to see whether any is cognate to any Indo-Iranian would be the next step.
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  26. My maternal grandmother had red hair and blue/grey eyes. My maternal grandfather had black hair and brown eyes. Their children has either black hair or blond hair, and asorted blue/grey or brown eyes. My mom had black hair and brown eyes. My paternal grandmother had brown hair and blue/grey eyes. My paternal grandfater had read hair and blue/grey eyes. Both my dad and his brother had brown hair and blue grey eyes. My oldest sister has ash blond hair and grey eyes. My older sister has light brown hair and blue/grey eyes. I have darkbrown hair and blue/grey eyes. My ex's mom had red hair and blue/grey eyes. All his siblings was different shades of blond with blue/grey eyes. He was blond as a kid, but turn a shade darker every year and ended up with dark brown hair and has blue/grey eyes. My daughter had black hair as a infant, but turn blond within the first year and turned a shade darker every year since and as an adult, she has dark brown hair and blue/grey eyes. My son was born with orangutang colored hair, turned blond within a year, and is still blond, and also has blue/grey eyes.
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  27. Our father had blue eyes, mother dark brown...three children all had hazel eyes..two girls and one boy...in North America.
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  28. Thanks for the shout out mate
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  29. This must be where Tolkien got the name "Dunedain". And I just realized where argyle socks come from ;)
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  30. This is the reason I’m American. My family was victim of the clearances in Isle of Skye (Macdonald). They moved to Canada initially in the mid 1800s then eventually to Chicago just south for better work opportunities. Hopefully I can return to the Isle.
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  31. I am from clan MacMillan as well. I live in America near other MacMillans. I would like to come and visit Finlaystone.
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  32. I wonder if the shade of eyes plays a role in distinguishing color subtleties better than others.
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  33. My father's family was from Kiev and we have a viking "look". So I would be very interested in your research on that! Thank you!
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  34. Loathed though I am to vaguely half agree with Roman propaganda I think the Ninth survived but got such a gubbing during Agricola's Invasion of Caledonia that it was pulled back to York and the second Brigantian revolt further thinned them out (Yorkshiremen are revolting). The remnants then being sent to the Rhine frontier to rest and recruit. Once that frontier had been stabalised they were sent to the Middle East where they got a severe case of sunburn and effectively ceased to exist. They were an elite Legion but attrition eventually bled them out. Did you know that much of the Eagle of the Ninth TV series was filmed just north of Fintry because there were a lack of power lines there in the late 70's, including a partial rebuild of a wooden Roman fort.
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  35. I'm just a commoner so my family name means very little
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  36. Part of my family tree is McDonald, who came to America from Ireland in the 1800s. Whether these particular MacDonalds left Scotland during the Clearances or whether they had been in Ireland since the days of the gallowglass, I have no idea. On one hand, I think that's a shame. On the other hand, as with so many of my ancestors, whether compelled to leave by duress or ambition or both, found themselves in a far more enviable situation than what they left.
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  37. How do you find your haplogroups? Can you find out with an Ancestry DNA test?
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  38. very interesting! are scots aware of their clan?
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  39. Good time to do this one mate.Go Conor
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  40. the narrator of this clip What would this germanic inhabitants look like?😅 I will say to him you don't have to go far. Just look in the mirror😊
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  41. Anybody has grey eyes ( any shade) like me? Hi . Hello. Thanks for your info. Gracias!
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  42. What is the story of, The Gallowglass Vikings of West Scottish and Vikings moving to Ireland?
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  43. even weirder. Mine change over time between slate grey, green. blue, and light amber. And no, it isn't clothing or backgrounds.
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  44. Was actually looking for the muppet Beaker, ringing of the bells episode. Love Beaker - but this is good too. Nice to know Beaker has a history.
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  45. As you say the legions and auxiliaries were recruited across the European provinces and many of the troops here in Britain were drafted from Gaul and Central and Eastern Europe. It's also inevitable children would be born to these men. Add to that if the veterans settled with a local wife it was piecemeal as individuals not groups so there would be no genetic markers that would stand out.
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  46. Fascinating and well done as always! A video idea: sorry if you've already covered it or done something similar. I don't think many Europeans have natural black hair? Would be interesting to know about the history and genetics of this. 🙂
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  47. Hi from Swedish women🇸🇪
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  48. My family immigrated to Boston from Glasgow around 1920 sometime.
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  49. I’m a swede 🇸🇪
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  50. Also, with the herder culture of the Yamnaya culture and DNA is lactose (milk) tolerance.
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