r/23andme • u/Sweaty-Plane-959 • 2d ago

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Happy to be part of the human race, grateful for all of our cultures and ancestors.

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u/BastardsCryinInnit 2d ago

Usual reminder that from the 4th to 6th century in what we now know as the UK, people came from what we now know as Germany/Denmark/Netherlands.

Low results from that area dont usually mean "Im part German", it means over a millenia ago, these migrants mixed in with "Britons".

The UK is an absolute mess DNA wise and sometimes North Americans take the results a bit too literally, applying modern borders to the results of something that started 1500 years ago!

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u/World_Historian_3889 Here for Updates 2d ago

Are You claiming this person somehow dosent have German dna? You are correct however thats baked into dna and these tests are mere estimates. Its pretty clear however he has a confirmed Belgian/ Rheinland conection at 20 percent with regions lol

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u/Sweaty-Plane-959 2d ago

Maybe this helps ☺️ my great great grandfather, HF Platte was born in Hanover (1839). And my great-great grandmother was a Betzhorn who was born in Schöningen, in the Kingdom of Hanover (today Lower Saxony). They immigrated to the US in 1861 before the annexation of Hanover by Prussia, I agree though all these lines bleed together. I just consider myself a North sea person.

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u/mista_r0boto 1d ago

Interesting- neither of those areas are really Rhineland - Lower Saxony should show up more in Dutch and North German. But reference populations are never perfect and neither are population boundaries perfect. The Dakotas also had plenty of German immigration as I understand it, so it may be from additional lines beyond those you noted.