apie3000
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- Ulster Scots, English, German, Swiss German, Probably Gaelic Irish
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- R-L21
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- T1a1
Hello, I'm new to this forum and am glad to have found it because all the other forums dealing with these subjects are filled with vile racists and white supremacists of whom every man of conscience is right to despise. So my question is along these lines. I think the ancient Germanic peoples were awesome. Their mythology, their culture, their language and the fact that they beat Rome is really cool. So my question genetically speaking is how likely am I to be descended from Germanic tribes? My ancestry is English, south German, Swiss, and Ulster Scots/Scots Irish as well as, I suspect the Gaelic native Irish. Now, the English as an ethnic group came into being when the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons conquered what would become England from the Celtic tribes living there, but it's not clear whether they eradicated the former tribes and replaced them or just interbred with them and culturally dominated them. The English don't look like Danes so I'm assuming the latter. The south Germans and Swiss are Germanic in culture, but they seem to just be Celts that were conquered and Germanized and I'm wondering if they have any ancestry from the Allemani which conquered them? The Ulster Scots are mostly Lowland Scots which were Anglo Saxon culturally but again, they might just be Saxonized Welshmen. So my question is what are my chances of actually being descended from one of these old tribes in a genetic sense not just in a "they were some distant ancestor who contributed nothing to my genetics" sense?