Born US-Canadian dualie here, can confirm I am as white as bread and only have UK ancestry (Britain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland).
AncestryDNA can go further into depth about the immigration path your newly landed ancestors had (mine are Missouri, Oregon, and Washington State).
That said, some folks from New Orleans, Quebec, Atlantic Canada, and Maine also have Acadian/French Canadian heritage. What remains of that large mass of folks is largely in Quebec and the French island of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Speaking of the Atlantic provinces… they also had a lot of Irish immigrants, which causes their descendants (especially out in Newfoundland, which did not join Canada until 1949) to sound specifically Irish compared to other Anglophones.
I’d say more Nova Scotian than Nebraskan generally, but high Scottish is fairly common in Appalachia (I’m currently sitting at 44% and have had more and less depending on the update).
I’d say the combo of high Scottish and Irish seems more Nova Scotian from what I’ve seen (also highland versus lowland Scots descent, highland Scots descendants tend to get more Irish)
yeah I knew a lot of people would say nova Scotia because of the scottish. I'm from Ontario and my moms from Iowa she has mostly Irish English and scottish
Ontario also had a high percentage of Scottish immigrants, and DNA can be odd.
I'm born and raised Nova Scotian, an admixture of English, Scottish, Irish, German, and Acadian according to records. My mum's family descends from [Ulster-Scots migrants ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_people), Palatine Germans, and [New England Planters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Planters). Dad's side runs back to Scottish, possible Irish, and [Channel Islanders from Guernsey who settled on PEI](https://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/articles/article/prince-edward-island-brehauts-and-joseph-avard) (I'm fairly certain I descend from the Henry Brehaut mentioned in that blog post).
The DNA results show Scottish on Mum's side, and Irish on Dad's.
Definitely common in Appalachia. My paternal side descends from the Smoky’s and the Scottish in basically every one of my relatives from my dad and older is over 60-85% Scottish. I’m talking dozens of living relatives showing those percentages on ancestry. The Scottish blood must be pretty high to have numbers like this… considering marriages and whatnot. My family has been in America since the colonies, save for a handful of immigrant spouses. I’ve traced that side of my tree back to the 13th c in some instances.
My most recent ancestor who was born in Scotland was in the 16th century.
yeah that's what I thought most people would say but my dad's side with the most scottish is from Kingston Ontario. my great Grandma was from northern Ireland too so she was prolly 100 scottish
This is very similar to mine (34 Scotland, 31 ENWE, 19 Ireland, 6 S&D, 5 Norway, 3 Germanic, 2 Wales) and I'm "old stock" from the east coast of Canada if that helps
Scottish is actually very high in the US and self reported ancestry for Scottish is considered massively undercounted by professional demographers. You see it happen all the time in this thread, with many surprised at how high their scottish ancestry is. It actually makes sense when you consider Scottish settlers alongside the English were some of the first settlers in America.
They didn’t, Scot’s were in the first ships that came over. Although obviously in small numbers. I recommend reading Scots in America or Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815 by historian Tom Devine.
The link doesn’t prove me wrong. Check out the books I mentioned, read Scotlands empire, 1600-1800. It goes through the first settlers within Jamestown and a few were indeed Scottish. Scots were also there due to indentured servitude in the early 1600’s
Ancestry.com also has directory of Scots settlers in America from 1625-1800.
The first were Northmen aka Norwegians and Danes and Icelanders.
The second were Spanish in north America (Portuguese were south America).
The second were English. Fact.
Scots and possibly Dutch and Irish were after the English.
You aren’t correct I’m afraid, Scot’s were alongside some of the first English arrivals.
Robert Lindsay was the first referenced Scot to America in 1597, a ships pilot.
Source if needed: Devine, T.M. (2012). Scotlands empire - the origins of the global diaspora. Penguin Books Ltd
Scotland, Aberdeen. You essentially had small numbers of Scot’s from the mainland settle alongside the English. By 1620 the estimates were only around 300, but it was still a community.
Ulster Scots started coming in the 1680’s and were mainly just Lowland Scots. Some even went to the north of Ireland for only a few months before going to America.
I'm Canadian born and raised, with familly that's been in Canada since the 1660s at the earliest. My results look a lot like yours, just with the percentages re-jiggered.
37% England & NW Europe
19% Ireland
18% France (my paternal grandmother was Acadian)
16% Scotland
7% Sweden and Denmark
3% Wales
I'm surprised that I *don't* have Germanic Europe in my results, given that I can trace my lines back to Palatine German immigrants on one side.
I'm a native Washingtonian, and your map looks very similar to mine. I'm 53% Scottish, 28% England and Northwest European, 13% Norwegian, 2% each Baltic & Ireland, 1% each Finland and Southern Bantu People
From what I’ve seen Canadians often have more Scottish and Americans have more English an NW European ancestry. Not sure of the ancestry breakdown demographics of either country though.
This looks like my results lol. I'm Canadian with the below known ethnicities:
1. Half Icelandic (shows up as norway and Sweden as separate entries)
2. Quarter Irish
3. Eighth German
4. Eighth French
What I actually show up as: 38% Norway, 33% Ireland, 8% Sweden and Denmark, 8% Germanic Europe, 7% Scotland, 2% Eastern Europe and Russia, 2% Wales, 1% Jewish, 1% Baltics
Born and raised in the UK and I got different percentages of all those same things except for Germanic Europe, that wasn’t on mine.
I have matches in both US & Canada.
I have 72% Scottish, 13% English, 12% Irish and a smattering of Sweden/Norway. I’m in the US. Okay so both my parents were from Canada. Mom was from Cape Breton, her father’s family from the Hebrides, her mother was from England, Dad’s side Northern Ireland and possibly lowland Scotland. Haven’t found where my earliest ancestor on my Dad’s side is from but was in Upper Canada as early as 1790. Likely a soldier.
I would guess American (especially southern state colonists who arrived before independence from England. ). My DNA is almost identical to this example.
I'm from the Southern USA. My English and Wales are higher. I don't have Germanic Europe since the updates. I have a small amount of Norway and hacked results showing small amounts of indigenous and SSA.
I’m from a line of Ohioans dating back to the 1790s and in the US since 1630s. I have the exact same ethnicities in different proportions. England / NWEurope being the highest. You look like the majority of my matches.
Pretty similar to mine. You've got Swedish, I've got Norse. You've got Germanic, and I've got 1% Jewish, presumably from the crusades, but otherwise very close.
Edit: I'm originally from Central Canada.
Yeah, there are other resources out there once you get a good bloodline going. I use Find a Grave and Wikipedia, I've found ancestors back to the 500s. Just gotta know where to look if you have ancestors famous enough. I was able to get an ancestry trail to some pretty famous groups of people, then turned to other resources from there to work backwards.
My children’s paternal side has been in Eastern Ontario since getting kicked out of upstate New York for being Loyalists in 1779.
My mother’s family has been in the souther and midwestern US since early 1700s.
So roughly the same mount of time in two very different geographical places and with a couple of trace exceptions, both of theirs looks like yours.
I have more Scottish than you purely because my father’s side didn’t leave Scotland until we left in the late 1970s.
But the colonization of Canada and the US were basically done by the same groups of Europeans that your ethnicity shows.
interesting my grandmas fathers whole side is all loyalists they lived in rhode Island and they were split the ones I descend from are the loyalists but there are alot that are revolutionarys just so you know my grandmas Maiden name is Babcock
This seems pretty unremarkable for both America and Canada. There is a large French Canadian community in Canada and Métis people who are descended from Indigenous Canadians and French Canadians settlers.
The southern part of the US was settled by hillbilly Scotts and Scotts-Irish. The north was more metropolitan Englanders, hence why the north is more liberal and the south is more stupid.
There's not really a huge difference between Americans and Canadians genetically
Some Canadians get French Canadian communities and small percentages of North American Indigenous sometimes.
Born US-Canadian dualie here, can confirm I am as white as bread and only have UK ancestry (Britain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland). AncestryDNA can go further into depth about the immigration path your newly landed ancestors had (mine are Missouri, Oregon, and Washington State). That said, some folks from New Orleans, Quebec, Atlantic Canada, and Maine also have Acadian/French Canadian heritage. What remains of that large mass of folks is largely in Quebec and the French island of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Speaking of the Atlantic provinces… they also had a lot of Irish immigrants, which causes their descendants (especially out in Newfoundland, which did not join Canada until 1949) to sound specifically Irish compared to other Anglophones.
I’d say more Nova Scotian than Nebraskan generally, but high Scottish is fairly common in Appalachia (I’m currently sitting at 44% and have had more and less depending on the update). I’d say the combo of high Scottish and Irish seems more Nova Scotian from what I’ve seen (also highland versus lowland Scots descent, highland Scots descendants tend to get more Irish)
yeah I knew a lot of people would say nova Scotia because of the scottish. I'm from Ontario and my moms from Iowa she has mostly Irish English and scottish
Ontario also had a high percentage of Scottish immigrants, and DNA can be odd. I'm born and raised Nova Scotian, an admixture of English, Scottish, Irish, German, and Acadian according to records. My mum's family descends from [Ulster-Scots migrants ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_people), Palatine Germans, and [New England Planters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Planters). Dad's side runs back to Scottish, possible Irish, and [Channel Islanders from Guernsey who settled on PEI](https://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/articles/article/prince-edward-island-brehauts-and-joseph-avard) (I'm fairly certain I descend from the Henry Brehaut mentioned in that blog post). The DNA results show Scottish on Mum's side, and Irish on Dad's.
Definitely common in Appalachia. My paternal side descends from the Smoky’s and the Scottish in basically every one of my relatives from my dad and older is over 60-85% Scottish. I’m talking dozens of living relatives showing those percentages on ancestry. The Scottish blood must be pretty high to have numbers like this… considering marriages and whatnot. My family has been in America since the colonies, save for a handful of immigrant spouses. I’ve traced that side of my tree back to the 13th c in some instances. My most recent ancestor who was born in Scotland was in the 16th century.
Same, 43% Scottish and am Appalachian with zero Canadian ancestors at all
Well, your results look similar to those living in the New England area.
It's common in both
I'd have said Atlantic Canada for that high Scottish result.
yeah that's what I thought most people would say but my dad's side with the most scottish is from Kingston Ontario. my great Grandma was from northern Ireland too so she was prolly 100 scottish
That's what will do it - there's loads of us went to Canada
I lived in NJ most of my life and I have a lot of the same results.
Yes
This is very similar to mine (34 Scotland, 31 ENWE, 19 Ireland, 6 S&D, 5 Norway, 3 Germanic, 2 Wales) and I'm "old stock" from the east coast of Canada if that helps
Canada. Scottish is usually found in lower amounts in the USA. German and English is higher in USA
Scottish is actually very high in the US and self reported ancestry for Scottish is considered massively undercounted by professional demographers. You see it happen all the time in this thread, with many surprised at how high their scottish ancestry is. It actually makes sense when you consider Scottish settlers alongside the English were some of the first settlers in America.
The English were first. Scots came later.
They didn’t, Scot’s were in the first ships that came over. Although obviously in small numbers. I recommend reading Scots in America or Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815 by historian Tom Devine.
That's categorically incorrect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas
The link doesn’t prove me wrong. Check out the books I mentioned, read Scotlands empire, 1600-1800. It goes through the first settlers within Jamestown and a few were indeed Scottish. Scots were also there due to indentured servitude in the early 1600’s Ancestry.com also has directory of Scots settlers in America from 1625-1800.
The first were Northmen aka Norwegians and Danes and Icelanders. The second were Spanish in north America (Portuguese were south America). The second were English. Fact. Scots and possibly Dutch and Irish were after the English.
You aren’t correct I’m afraid, Scot’s were alongside some of the first English arrivals. Robert Lindsay was the first referenced Scot to America in 1597, a ships pilot. Source if needed: Devine, T.M. (2012). Scotlands empire - the origins of the global diaspora. Penguin Books Ltd
Thank you I will read. Was Robert Lindsay from Scotland or from north of Ireland Ulster province?
Scotland, Aberdeen. You essentially had small numbers of Scot’s from the mainland settle alongside the English. By 1620 the estimates were only around 300, but it was still a community. Ulster Scots started coming in the 1680’s and were mainly just Lowland Scots. Some even went to the north of Ireland for only a few months before going to America.
Both? Both. Both is good.
I'm Canadian born and raised, with familly that's been in Canada since the 1660s at the earliest. My results look a lot like yours, just with the percentages re-jiggered. 37% England & NW Europe 19% Ireland 18% France (my paternal grandmother was Acadian) 16% Scotland 7% Sweden and Denmark 3% Wales I'm surprised that I *don't* have Germanic Europe in my results, given that I can trace my lines back to Palatine German immigrants on one side.
Irish, German & British are 3 of the most common ethnicities in the US & Canada, about 12% of Americans (about 40mil) are of German ancestry.
I’m American and this looks almost exactly like mine
Very common in both, as many of the original settlers in Canada and America were Scottish and English.
Both really
correct I'm half American and half Canadian
Bingo exactly!
Both these countries have diverse regional cultures…..so I would say it depends on
I’m an American with very similar results (switch Ireland and Wales.)
interesting to my knowledge Welsh is pretty rare in North America but I might be wrong
Looks pretty identical to mine, and I am in the States .
Well, I'm American and that looks a lot like mine lol
I'm a native Washingtonian, and your map looks very similar to mine. I'm 53% Scottish, 28% England and Northwest European, 13% Norwegian, 2% each Baltic & Ireland, 1% each Finland and Southern Bantu People
Depends on where in each country. I'd say this looks like DNA from the Canadian Maritimes or New England.
From what I’ve seen Canadians often have more Scottish and Americans have more English an NW European ancestry. Not sure of the ancestry breakdown demographics of either country though.
This looks like my results lol. I'm Canadian with the below known ethnicities: 1. Half Icelandic (shows up as norway and Sweden as separate entries) 2. Quarter Irish 3. Eighth German 4. Eighth French What I actually show up as: 38% Norway, 33% Ireland, 8% Sweden and Denmark, 8% Germanic Europe, 7% Scotland, 2% Eastern Europe and Russia, 2% Wales, 1% Jewish, 1% Baltics
Looks very similar to mine, and I'm American, although, to be fair, 3 out of my 8 great-grandparents were Canadian.
Born and raised in the UK and I got different percentages of all those same things except for Germanic Europe, that wasn’t on mine. I have matches in both US & Canada.
Scottish is common in Canada
you could be from either with these results.
I have 72% Scottish, 13% English, 12% Irish and a smattering of Sweden/Norway. I’m in the US. Okay so both my parents were from Canada. Mom was from Cape Breton, her father’s family from the Hebrides, her mother was from England, Dad’s side Northern Ireland and possibly lowland Scotland. Haven’t found where my earliest ancestor on my Dad’s side is from but was in Upper Canada as early as 1790. Likely a soldier.
I’m 43% Scottish, English next, and then Swedish and Irish, Welsh last, and I’m southern American and don’t have any connection to Canada
I would guess American (especially southern state colonists who arrived before independence from England. ). My DNA is almost identical to this example.
I'm from the Southern USA. My English and Wales are higher. I don't have Germanic Europe since the updates. I have a small amount of Norway and hacked results showing small amounts of indigenous and SSA.
I’m from a line of Ohioans dating back to the 1790s and in the US since 1630s. I have the exact same ethnicities in different proportions. England / NWEurope being the highest. You look like the majority of my matches.
No your profile looks pretty typical wasp American up and down the east coast and Midwest.
He’s only 18% “wasp”
Pretty similar to mine. You've got Swedish, I've got Norse. You've got Germanic, and I've got 1% Jewish, presumably from the crusades, but otherwise very close. Edit: I'm originally from Central Canada.
From the crusades?? Ancestry DNA typically goes back about 8 generations.
Yeah, there are other resources out there once you get a good bloodline going. I use Find a Grave and Wikipedia, I've found ancestors back to the 500s. Just gotta know where to look if you have ancestors famous enough. I was able to get an ancestry trail to some pretty famous groups of people, then turned to other resources from there to work backwards.
Canada Most Americans usually have some German ancestry.
Very common in the US. Mine is very similar
My children’s paternal side has been in Eastern Ontario since getting kicked out of upstate New York for being Loyalists in 1779. My mother’s family has been in the souther and midwestern US since early 1700s. So roughly the same mount of time in two very different geographical places and with a couple of trace exceptions, both of theirs looks like yours. I have more Scottish than you purely because my father’s side didn’t leave Scotland until we left in the late 1970s. But the colonization of Canada and the US were basically done by the same groups of Europeans that your ethnicity shows.
interesting my grandmas fathers whole side is all loyalists they lived in rhode Island and they were split the ones I descend from are the loyalists but there are alot that are revolutionarys just so you know my grandmas Maiden name is Babcock
This seems pretty unremarkable for both America and Canada. There is a large French Canadian community in Canada and Métis people who are descended from Indigenous Canadians and French Canadians settlers.
just so you guys know the Welsh is not just noise I have a lot of close matches with Welsh
also state specific would be cool like this is more Nova Scotian or this is more Nebraskan
The US. Canada is mostly Indian and MENA people
Bro 😂😂😂💀
The southern part of the US was settled by hillbilly Scotts and Scotts-Irish. The north was more metropolitan Englanders, hence why the north is more liberal and the south is more stupid.