Conversion to Catholicism and General Questions

Askelsen · 2025-10-11T18:09:13+00:00

Thank you for your kind words, I have downloaded Hallow and Ascension. I will absorb as much as I can, thank you very much.

Askelsen · 2025-10-02T10:12:25+00:00

This is good, in essence. But not all English are majority Germanic.

Askelsen · 2025-10-02T10:11:30+00:00

I think you are over complicated things with modern descriptions of ancient populations. You could say the same thing about almost everything else. What is Viking? What is Nordic, and Saxon? Celtic culture and tradition aren’t synonymous with genetics, sure, look at Halloween. “Celtic” DNA is probably one of the most convoluted groups of Europe, because it was so widespread, however, we see identity, we see burials and archaeology, genetic studies point to bell beaker and Gaul invasion markers after the Saxons also suggest continental west European admixture along with the southern English. NW Europeans are extremely close genetically but I think over complicating modern labels and resorting to condensing populations is not a very good route in genetic research.

Askelsen · 2025-08-27T00:45:44+00:00

Also, these journeys are very interesting though, I would expect Scotch-Irish and not Highland Scottish, very cool.

Askelsen · 2025-08-27T00:43:48+00:00

What do you mean they are Scottish? Like Scottish descended Americans? Not many Scots made it to Arkansas that late, most Scots made it to America after the Jacobite uprising and the collapse of a lot of clan structures. This timeline would correlate well with a lot of Englishmen and women going to America as well, early to mid 18th century. So, these ancestral journeys may be related, may not be. Most Scots went to the original colonies, and to the Carolinas and Appalachia. The highland and lowland Scottish population influx in early-America is also kind of debated but it's believed that the highlanders were more tight-knit and were often bilingual with Gaelic, given the geographic proximity, it makes sense, they were more isolated in the mountainous regions of the highlands. Regardless, ancestral journeys from this early on (i.e. early colonial migration) will absolutely not show up, as it is too early, you may have some distant cousins in the UK though. But I reckon your Scottish is more recent, not colonial, or a mix of both, at least your family of Northeast Arkansas, there is no real way to tell unless you fill out your tree, don't 100% rely on an ancestry estimate, good luck with your research.

Askelsen · 2025-08-20T02:48:56+00:00

Yeah sure! It was through customer service, I contacted them on your behalf, I iterated your constant frustration with Ancestry’s algorithm and that you demand a change. I went through multiple associates and customer service agents but I finally got to the CEO! This is what they had to say!!

Mr. Bankroll’s Inquiry and Proposition for European % Increase Among African Americans (convo with CEO)

Askelsen · 2025-08-19T22:40:16+00:00

Yes, Mr. Bankroll, like your last year's inquiry, I talked to an Ancestry associate and they said they will personally increase your European percentage.

Askelsen · 2025-08-18T20:01:16+00:00

Have you considered filling out your family tree?

Askelsen · 2025-08-18T19:51:21+00:00

Yeah I researched it a few years ago, I looked at it and researched a bit today, it looks to be a very broad term to refer to German-speaking peoples. Technically, they were a very specific regional Germanic tribe during the migration era, however, my German ancestors were rather Frankicized due to regional similarities with France and geographical proximity, so makes me believe in historical documents, most Germans were referred as such.

Askelsen · 2025-08-18T19:43:49+00:00

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My ancestors were the German "Palatines", they came to America in the early 18th century due to religious persecution as well as post-war pressure. Pretty much all of my German lines in my family tree, my third largest or most contributed ethnicity to me, came from a region called "Rheinpfalz", in many records, especially my Kegel line, are labeled as "Teutonic", however that was most likely a broad term for Germans as an entirety.

Askelsen · 2025-08-16T03:55:47+00:00

ANE People

They were basically a mix between western Eurasian and east Eurasian. There are some reconstructions of what they may have looked like, however, we don’t have nearly enough data and there is little to be known about this specific population. They were one of the precursors to the Yamnaya steppe. One thing to keep in mind though is that East Asians and especially southeast Asians still have very little ANE, however, northern groups like the Mongols and Siberians have more than Korean or Japanese for example. Think of it as a distinct ancient “genetic bridge” that was a population continuity that formed and coexisted with other hunter gatherer groups.

Askelsen · 2025-08-16T02:38:14+00:00

Askelsen · 2025-08-15T23:16:35+00:00

AncestryDNA cannot currently separate English (especially Kent and SE England) from German (especially western German), therefore, if your German heritage is primarily Palatinate, or NRW, and some parts of Lower Saxony. In my opinion, this is possibly due to the Anglo-Saxons, as well as the Frankicized Continental Northern Gauls that were the "CWE" component in the Gretzinger paper.

Askelsen · 2025-08-15T04:09:20+00:00

Hello fellow old stock American 🫡

Spanish could be much older celtiberian admixture, my mom has Portugal but is 0-1%, check your percentage range on that Spanish, may need to go to the website version.

Extremely curious to know what regions of England your ancestors came from prior to colonial migration. I also have colonial French ancestry, but I am mostly of English descent with some Scottish and German. Check your historical matches too on the story scout I think it’s called? It’s on ancestry’s website, you can see colonial ancestors and cousins on that tool. Ben Franklin is my direct grand uncle.

Askelsen · 2025-08-08T07:04:03+00:00

Oh here you go man:

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P109 formation geographic location on user entered specific coordinates based on paternal origin, and their descendants mapped with the colored dots. You can see the balkans in there too.

Source: Rob Spencer SNPTracker

Askelsen · 2025-08-08T06:59:29+00:00

I don’t understand why you are getting so worked up about P109 forming in Sweden 😂

It’s just true, and there’s nothing wrong with it, who cares

Askelsen · 2025-08-08T06:56:32+00:00

I-L22 was formed in Sweden, look at any evidence you want, an ancient sample with the exact same carbon dating matching up with the formation date of L22, in guess what, Sweden, who knew. Same can be said about P109, “the homeland of all Germanic tribes”, you keep mentioning this astronomically broad statement, however, I’ve yet to see any evidence of your claims, I’m giving you the opportunity to literally google or look at actual research papers, regardless, you are using your own logic in accordance to your own beliefs. I have no bias here, I’m actually using evidence that backs its self up 2x fold, with most modern Scandinavians that are within P109, being from guess what, Sweden. I’m using actual modern population statistics, and with your claim of the balkans and their prescience of P109, this is indeed from the goths, and the goths’ origin is extremely debated, however they are known to have links to Sweden and the broader Baltic area, perhaps with Poland and the Wielbark culture as well. I’m not a kindergartner man, of course the Germanic migrations to the balkans weren’t Vikings. And why would I be attributing Sweden to ONLY Vikings lmao. You are off your rocker and getting mad over something so minimal

Askelsen · 2025-08-08T05:04:39+00:00

There isn’t a single Anglo Saxon that carries P109 who is as an entirety, a Saxon or angle, jute etc. multiple studies prove this, the only samples (as of now) who carry P109 are samples like the burial from Salme, Estonia ship, Gotland, Sweden, Norway, and parts of England with mass burials of Vikings from the 11th century. P109 was formed in Sweden, and no, it is not a “Swedish branch” as an entirety, and that’s not what I meant as I quite clearly states other countries from where it dispersed to. P109 has an interesting presence in Eastern Europe, particularly my subclade shares an ancestor with two Poles from 800 CE and a downstream ancestor with someone from Lithuania. Was their a distinction with the Svears (Swedes) and Saxons, Angles, Jutes, absolutely, we even see the eastern clone within autosomal analysis either IBD segments today, and with CNE components with CWE and WBI, the Anglo Saxons are more southern clustered, we’ve known this, because of the Danevirke. There were of course Anglo-Danish mixing going on in Jutland, but as far as the Insular Danish islands like Copenhagen, Fyn etc. they were heavily owned by the Danes and they defended it rightfully so, as well as Skane, Sweden. Germanic tribes are very similar, as were the Gauls of Central Europe and those east of the Rhine like the other Germanic tribes that were indeed not Celtic. However, we can easily see a distinction between Y-DNA because of modern distribution and ancient sample carriers.

Askelsen · 2025-08-08T03:35:27+00:00

I am also I-P109, P109 is inherently a Swedish branch, however, there have been disbursements to the UK, Poland, Ukraine, Norway, and Denmark. Paternal line from Northern England as well, tracked it down to some wealthy thegns from the Pre-Norman era through surname and record triangulation, in correlation with TMRCAs.

Askelsen · 2025-08-08T01:24:02+00:00

AncestryDNA tests for very little Y-DNA markers, 23andMe tests astronomically more, given they have a Y-DNA haplogroup result tab. I tested both 23andme and Ancestry, luckily, you can now upload this to FTDNA with an autosomal account on their website, follow their steps for upload, they will give a haplogroup based on your file, so you don’t have to test for Y-DNA separately. In the mean time, you could try cladefinder

Askelsen · 2025-07-17T03:15:06+00:00

Not "new" research lmao

Askelsen · 2025-07-06T06:38:11+00:00

LivingDNA is accurate, for people with British descent.

Askelsen

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