tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227780861638767023.post5455024140036121206..comments2024-01-27T00:27:45.851+00:00Comments on race/history/evolution notes: Genetic estimate of percent Irish ancestry in USn/ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02378473351485233448noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227780861638767023.post-37733550297023855232014-04-25T16:44:42.990+01:002014-04-25T16:44:42.990+01:00Texas and the Mountain West and places like Washin...Texas and the Mountain West and places like Washington state as as well at least a couple upland south states (Kentucky for example) have had a lot of Gaelic Irish settlement. Place names, and common name frequency analysis bear this out. Saying this is an underestimate because they were actually Welsh or Scotts-Irish is not telling the whole truth of American settlement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227780861638767023.post-13585102903789133262014-04-15T02:13:37.011+01:002014-04-15T02:13:37.011+01:00Anonymous is a simpering coward!Anonymous is a simpering coward!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227780861638767023.post-32924631379670743282014-04-11T22:11:13.158+01:002014-04-11T22:11:13.158+01:00pconroy is an Irish nigger concern troll.pconroy is an Irish nigger concern troll.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227780861638767023.post-824509339487109682014-04-07T20:09:07.980+01:002014-04-07T20:09:07.980+01:00Quote:
"AncestryDNA's estimates of Irish ...Quote:<br />"AncestryDNA's estimates of Irish ancestry for much of the rest of the country are likely inflated, however."<br /><br />I don't agree with this at all - in fact I think the reverse is probably more true.<br /><br />I grew up in Ireland and I'm Irish, as in all my family are Irish for at least 300 years. <br /><br />I tested with 23andMe and have over 2,500 genetic relatives - more than most people of "Colonial American" descent. But here's the thing, about 2/3 of these relatives live in 5 US states in the American South, yes South, not North East. They live in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Indiana.<br /><br />I have no record of any relatives immigrating to the Americas, much less to the American South - so how can this be?! Answer, Oliver Cromwell exported hundreds of thousands of Irish as slaves to the new world, including the Caribbean and the Carolinas. Among these were over 100,00 children between the ages of 10-14. Mot of these people eventually lost their identity as Irish and became, "Scotch-Irish", "English" or "American" over time.<br /><br />I am in contact with one relative in South Carolina who traces her Irish ancestry to a 13 yo Irish slave, who arrived in the Carolinas in 1665. I'm in contact with another Southerner who though she was 100% English by descent, and told me that her last European relatives came over by 1620.<br /><br />So the North East Irish just measures mostly the descendants of the Second Irish Genocide (aka the Great Famine or the Potato Famine), not all the countless Irish who arrived from the 1600's onwards.<br /><br />Also, worth pointing out that the first Irish in the Americas - apart from St Brendan the Navigator in the 6th century - were the Hispano-Irish, who were descended from the Irish in Spain, and went with the conquistadors to the New World. Some went directly to New Spain from Ireland as colonists, particularly to the province of New Spain called Texas - yes that Texas. Indeed the last "Spanish" governor of New Spain was Juan O'Donoju (Sean O'Donhoue, of Hispano-Irish descent). Both my parents and I have relatives in Texas of supposed Hispanic descent, also relatives in the Santa Fe hispanic and Hispano communities, as well as many Mexican relatives.<br /><br />Some Americans think that John F Kennedy was the first Irish president, when in fact there were over 10 Irish descended presidents before him. He was just the first Catholic Irish president.pconroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312469574812832771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227780861638767023.post-13069509540429344052014-04-05T17:49:50.746+01:002014-04-05T17:49:50.746+01:00Yet people like Jayman believe the Wasps still exi...Yet people like Jayman believe the Wasps still exist. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com