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muriel_volestrangler

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2. It was a more gradual change, and not as complete as once thought

Reply to JNelson6563 (Reply #1)

Mon May 21, 2012, 08:38 AM

May 2012

There were various invasions and takeovers, but DNA studies show English ancestry it not all that different from Welsh, Irish or Scottish - a certain amount of Saxon/Danish, especially in the east, but still a lot of ancestry that appears to have been on the island for several thousand years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_the_British_Isles

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