# Ancestry DNA answers long pondered question...

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**Created:** [June 5, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancestry-dna-answers-long-pondered-question/756550 "2016-06-05T04:22:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancestry-dna-answers-long-pondered-question/756550/21 "2016-06-05T23:53:03Z")

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> [@robert\_columbia](#):
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> Consider the historical relationship between peoples. I received a surprisingly large Irish percentage that doesn’t match well with my paper genealogy, but it matches better if you hypothesize that many of my Scottish ancestors were Highlanders, whose Gaelic-speaking civilization would have likely had more Irish ancestors than the more Anglo-Saxon and Viking Lowlands of Scotland.

AncestryDNA doesn’t separate out Scottish or Welsh but groups them all under Irish.

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancestry-dna-answers-long-pondered-question/756550/22 "2016-06-06T05:16:47Z")

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Wow, the Genes for Good Facebook page has already been taken down.

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