Gramps from Sicily, Italian name, DNA shows it, but like 2% compared to something like 20+% Gaelic (Irish).
Irish are celts, Gaelic is Hebridean (Scottish celt), also Manx (Isle of Man) and some distant cousins of Welsh, Breton and Cornish with only fringe Irish.
Celts are Irish w/ Keloti and Pretanic, English (Briton before Germanic anglo invasion), French (Gaul) and Spanish (Celtiberians)
The irish are gaels (q celtic speakers), so called from the word “goeddel” or pirate in the brythonic (p celtic) language. The “scots” were a northern irish tribe that invaded and the picts of northwest scotland (p celt speakers) and assimilated them during the middle ages.
They are all celts. You are better off dividing your celts in to the ‘q’s and the ‘p’s
Q: gaelic speakers (ireland, parts of scotland, man), celt-iberian, maybe lustanian
P: Pritani and all brythonic speaking britons, picts, gauls, galatians, and more lately cornish, welsh breton.
The greeks were probably referring to p celtic speakers with the word keltoi since they controlled central europe around 300bc.
Who knows how those tests work. I've considered getting them.
I have the same story with my grandfather. And similar background. On my dads side, both his parents don't talk about where their family is from, but what I've gathered is I'm probably italian, irish, scottish, german, english.
I wouldn't do that.
Do you really want to send off your DNA to a company? Think about it.
especially considering everything we know about the nature of DNA, was taught to us by our captors.
I could shrug and say "who cares what they do with it, its not part of me anymore"
and upon what massive knowledgebase of fact do I base this assumption?
Wikipedia? Snopes? Bill Nye? Donald Marshall? David Icke? Walter Cronkite? imdb?
The mythology of "Everyone knows"
Thought about it for years, that's clearly why I haven't done it.
I’ve heard from my mom that a friend of hers took three tests from three different companies, and got three different results.
I don’t think they necessarily know what they’re talking about - the gene information doesn’t actually say “Irish” or whatever - it’s data that has to be interpreted.
Yea.. that's why I question the 2%. Some Italians went to scotland recently, but if it was recent it would be more than 2%
Gaelic is a language, not a culture. Celtic. Celtic is what your trying to say.
I'm not the stupid one, they wrote it on the documents. I had to google it and best I found was 'usually means scottish', they put those 2 'gaelic irish' together not me.
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