According to DNA results, if the highest ethnicity estimate is around 30%, and let's say that would be Scottish, would you consider yourself Scottish?
Net Gil I'm Scottish. I was born and have lived all my 51 years in Scotland. My mum was Scottish and could trace her family back until the 17somethings up in Shetland and Airdrie — there is some Irish in there. But I'm not white. See my dad was from Mauritius — off the coast of Africa — and his dad was from China. I can't trace that side so well. Less records — further away. But I am totally Scottish. Being Scots has nothing to do with Race. Nothing to do with the colour of your skin. It's about where you belong and how you see yourself. David Joyce If you find that according to some DNA matching site that you are 30% Scottish, take that with a grain of salt. What they call Scottish other sites will call something else. It’s justification for expecting that somewhere in your ancestry in the last 500 years you had ancestors who lived in what is now Scotland. Had it been 5%, that could be due to “statistical error”. But it doesn’t mean you’re Scottish any more than my...