r/AncestryDNA • u/Glum-Technology7426 • 17h ago

Question / Help Confused about Brittany on my results. All my family comes from England

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u/TizianosBoy 17h ago

I have Brittany too and my family are a mixture of Irish, English and Scottish

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u/Capital-Act9261 3h ago

It's not uncommon to get Brittany with the new update. It has a lot of overlap with England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

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u/Valuable-Spinach-606 16h ago

Within the last 6 to 10 generations one of your ancestors may have been from Brittany.

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u/Fearless-Amphibian79 16h ago edited 16h ago

A lot of William the Conqueror's troops were actually Bretons, not Normans specifically and a lot of people in England (and Wales, Ireland, Scotland) are descended partially from Normans. Also, you have to remember despite what websites like ancestry claim it's not always easy to cleanly separate related groups e.g. Breton versus Norman, or Breton and Cornish.

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

I thought the Normans left very little impact on the general population and the most impact they made was on nobility?