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Main Wife
Oct 25, 2005

Dont fuck with me
Not sure if this is the right place to ask but let's see if I'm secretly adopted! I don't actually think so but I don't get the science here.

I did the ancestry DNA thing and so did my mom. My dad passed away 12 years ago so he obviously can't participate.

My profile came back 64% Irish, 29% Western Europe, 3% Great Britain, and 2% each Scandinavian and Iberian peninsula.

My mom came back 50something percent Great Britain, 40something percent Irish, and no Western Europe.

I can see on the map the areas overlap, does that explain it, or is it that it's a guess based on haplogroups and other voodoo? Because otherwise I don't see how it's mathematically possible to lose that much British and gain that much Irish and Western Europe even with my dad as an unknown. Even if my dad had zero British, that should put me at about a quarter, not 3%.

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