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Thread #156082   Message #3691244
Posted By: Thompson
03-Mar-15 - 06:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: my mysterous dna
Subject: RE: BS: my mysterous dna
Must say I find the results a little fishy; if you have a sister it might be worth getting her to send hers off, using a different surname and address, and see what the same company comes up with for her. If the results are very different there'd be cause for a little scepticism.

If the results are not hinky, the French might also be partly Irish - remember that the Bordeaux region, for example, is riddled with us, as are parts of Belgium, Spain and the Canaries. One instance alone: after the Siege of Limerick the English rolled up 70 ships and ferried 20,000 Irishmen across to Europe where they spread out, most taking service in various armies, others settling in Bordeaux, which was already a familiar place to the Irish, and becoming wine makers, and more going south and also ending up with vineyards. There are a load of wines still produced by these families, eg Chateau Lynch Bages (look up "Wine Geese" for more), not to mention Hennessy brandy and the like.

No, Irish people are not getting DNA tested. We're too suspicious; we imagine that the results will be leaked to insurance companies and we'll end up not able to get work, health insurance, etc because we're regarded as "pre-ill" from some familial condition; we're also paranoid that government and police will go looking for DNA that has been privately obtained on the basis that since we have sought the record it's now in the public domain. Call us paranoid.