My ancient ancestors were among those who were pilgrims at Stonehenge
Ancient dna comparison was blowing my mind and I was both totally focused on and excited about this. I'd been on my terrace looking at some genealogy tiktoks, when I came across one which was so very interesting. An English girl, Bobbie, was showing how to upload ethnic dna to an archeo-genetic site 'mytrueancestry.com' which compared ones dna to dna extracted from ancient bodies. Oh wow; of course I had to get into this. I messaged about this to Ella May, who did likewise. She was more speedy about getting her transfer done than I was. And some patience was required till all was processed. What emerged was so exciting for me. As the information was only freely available for a couple of days I had to totally immerse myself in discovering all that was of relevance. In this way I came to understand who were my closest ancient peoples, dominant of whom were the Celts; with other close groups being Saxons, Franks, Danish Vikings and Vandals. Vandals - Ho! They were barbarian Central European peoples. And apart from those there was a link to the Balari tribe of Sardinia. And to the Vascones of the Basque lands.
My ethnic proportions
My tribal peoples
I have a huge amount of Celt Dna and of other tribes there are included the Balari of Sardinia and the Vascones of the Basque lands
Of ancient remains which I specifically genetically matched, they were varied, and one particularly excellent match was to the Cheddar Man of Cheddar Gorge, Britians oldest discovered skeleton, dna having been extracted from one of his teeth. He had lived about 10,000 years ago, had dark skin, black hair and green eyes, wavy hair, was lactose intolerant and was of a hunter gatherer type (acccording to the analysis of his dna).
My exceptional match to the Cheddar Man of Cheddar Gorge
The chromosomes by which I match the dna of the Cheddar man
My animation of a reconstruction of the face of the Cheddar Man. Like him I have wavy hair, green eyes and an intolerance to dairy products. Unlike him, I do not have dark skin, for I am as fair as can be.
And I was matched to ancient bodies found at Stonehenge, it now being understood, from looking at the conditions of these remains and from how far some came, that Stonehenge was an ancient pilgrimage place where pilgrims would come for healing, much like Lourdes is today. And I had matched to Roman Gladiators, to Vikings wounded in battle, to the Beaker culture, to Bronze Age peoples in Britain and France, to Merovingian nobles, to those who were around at the time of the French revolution, to Viking men and their Irish women who settled in Iceland, and to the grand royals of Europe, there even being seen to be a genetic connection to Louis XVI.
I also have an 'exceptional match' to an early Londoner from back in the Bronze age
My chromosomes which match the Bronze age Londoner
An early as in Bronze age London I have an 'exceptional match' to the Bell Beaker people who came to Britain from the steppe lands and soon enough outnumbered the original neolithic peoples. It is thought that with their usage of pottery mugs they introduced all over Europe the practice of brewing and drinking mead and beers. Another 'excellent' and more recent match I have is to one of Europes 'barbarians', a Longobard in Hungary. The Longobards (meaning Long Beards) came down from Scandanavia and were long in Germany, and then went south into Italy, for which Lombardy is named after them.This particular individual was in a community at Szolad in Hungary (back then known as Pannonia), following the Arian type of Christianity, which was considered by the Catholic Church to be a a heresy. Arians saw Jesus as a wise and holy man, to learn from, while not falling into the mistake of deifying him and equating him with God.
My close match to a Longobard of central Europe
My chromosomes which match the Longobard
As far as my nearest modern genetics were concerned, this was calculated to be mostly Irish mixed with Welsh.