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Maine

tazkcmo

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1. Due to repeated invasions

Reply to luckyleftyme2 (Original post)

Wed May 24, 2017, 03:20 PM

May 2017

Anybody from the UK or Ireland will more than likely have a mixed heritage. Couple that with migration to America along with Italians, Greeks, Germans, etc. and you may well have an even more mixed set of DNA.

In my family, our ancestors settled in Iowa in 1863, leaving County Kilkenny. One of my sisters did the family tree thing and it turns out we're a bunch of mutts with every nationality you mentioned plus some.

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how many in here have Irish as well as French,Scot,English or other nationalities in their bloodlin [View all] luckyleftyme2 May 2017 OP

Due to repeated invasions tazkcmo May 2017 #1

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French Huguenot, Scott, Irish, German, Native American, Polish gordianot May 2017 #3

I have Polly Hennessey May 2017 #4

I thought "scotch" was a kind of whisky... ;-) Rollo May 2017 #8

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Almost all of the above... Rollo May 2017 #7