Irish people aren't descended from the celts?

That's very true @ScribbledAdNauseum I was surprised they didn't mention the vikings, they've been known to travel much farther than many other peoples.

@rebelann I was wondering when they would mention them but nope they didn't. I know the vikings settled on the right side of Britain and made their way to the middle and left side. I read something / watched something about that too but can't remember what / where.

The article I linked to links to others, one namely "first people of Ireland." I don't think we can ever know for certain who was the first of any area, but it's intereting to see hypothesis on it.

@ScribbledAdNauseum I did thanks

@TiarasOceanView Sorry! I wasn't sure what else to say. I am here on mylot, listening to thunderstorms on youtube, doing various tidbits of nonsensical research.. I am a mess. Did your journey to the docs yesterday go okay?

Glad you enjoyed it then.

@ScribbledAdNauseum I was born in the North of England and therefore probably have a broader spectrum of DNA. Several thousand years after the Celtic migration we were occupied by the Roman Empire, followed later by the Anglo Saxon migration, the Vikings and finally the French. This type of scenario will have existed in many countries.

Part of the article touches on Spain being part of a celtic region, but they didn't go into much detail about that. My DNA makeup suggests Scandinavian descent, but only at 2%.

@Asylum I once read something about America's migration. It has been some time, but it was theorized that we were occupied by Ancient German regions before the Native Americans were settled. I'll have to see if I can't find something else on it. As for England being occupied by the French, I wasn't aware of that. Of course your southern shore isn't very far from France and so I can see where that would have been an easy place to migrate to.

You could still have Irish in you as Irish folk have crossed to Scotland and vice versa in history... The Giant's Causeway in Antrim has a tale that connects with another place in Scotland. Can't remember what it's called. The tale basically says that a Giant once walked across? I can't actually remember the tale either! haha.

@ScribbledAdNauseum Interesting.

I have like 30 percent IRish in me, according to my dna atleast. It's a long article, so might take it in snippets.

@ScribbledAdNauseum I'm irish, Italian, Cherokee Indian.. and a few others. Aha.

@Courtlynn My dad always told me that he was like 3/4 Indian or something like that... I was always told it was like a great great grandfather of mine, but I can't find it in the family line. It would have been Cherokee as well.

I've always wondered that. One person who studied my surname says we derive from the picts but a lot of her research is shoddy so I can't exactly believe that. Feasible since we came from the upper most part of Ireland but not necessarily true either.

@ScribbledAdNauseum - Apparently, we have a tartan and everything. I'd get a kilt, but I really have nowhere to wear it other than the St.Patrick's Day parade.

I don't have many freckles but I am very very pale and burn easily! I'm 30% Irish, 42% Great British. There's no redheads in my fam that I know of either.

We have Irish everywhere in mine! My dad's side, my mom's grandmother's side, possibly my grandfather's father's side, and then my other grandmother's mother's side. I have 30% Irish in me according to ancestry.com. My grandfather (on my mom's side) has done his and I can't wait to see what it says! Oh and I hope your family will be interested in it. It's not as long a read as I originally thought, and so I finished it (with distractions) in like 15 minutes.