Ancestry test? how can i be 2 different things from 2 different sides of the world?

Question

Ok so i recently had a dna test done...just for fun..not for health issue or anything... the interperater for the results told be that i had Welsh or English nobility in my blood or something and he also told me that i had Saracen or middle eastern blood...how is that possible...

so im from English nobility and middle easter decent? wtf

btw if u want to take it is very accurate and it only coasts 130$+ its fun

Answer 1

My understanding is that man originated in Africa, and from there spread to other parts of the world. Isn't it fascinating that modern science can, through DNA testing, trace the migratory patterns of humans through the millennia? I was interested to discover that many of my "French" ancestors, based on DNA testing of their descendants, likely migrated from the Iberian peninsula sometime during the 800 years of the Reconquest, having previously moved north to the Mediterranean from the Middle East and North Africa.

Answer 2

I suggest that you have your DNA analyzed by someone who knows what they are talking about, it is not possible to tell from any DNA test that you have specifically English,Welsh or Saracen ancestry, and definitely not that you are descended from any nobility, it can only show that you share DNA of a type common to certain areas and peoples of the world.

All humans originated on the continent of Africa about one hundred thousand years ago, and began to leave that continent about sixty thousand years ago, your DNA contains markers, or mutations, which can give an indication of the various parts of the world that your ancestors have likely inhabited since their beginning in Africa, that is why your DNA can show that you are from several different parts of the world, and that you share your DNA with people of various modern cultures.

Answer 3

Blame it on free trade and boats.

And a little bit of messin' around.

Answer 4

Your heritage sounds like it is/was due to a little period in history called The Crusades, a series of military conflicts of a religious character waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal threats mainly against Muslims,

pagan Slavs, Jews, Russian and Greek Orthodox Christians, Mongols, Cathars, Hussites, and political enemies of the popes. The Crusades originally had the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim rule.

    Rivalries among both Christian and Muslim powers led also to alliances between religious factions against their opponents, such as the Christian alliance with the Sultanate of Rum during the Fifth Crusade.

    Western attitudes towards the East changed in the year 1009, when the Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ordered the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1039 his successor, after requiring large sums be paid for the right, permitted the Byzantine Empire to rebuild it. Pilgrimages were allowed to the Holy Lands before and after the Sepulchre was rebuilt, but for a time pilgrims were captured and some of the clergy were killed.  The persecution of pilgrims stopped when the Muslim conquerors eventually realized that the wealth of Jerusalem came from them.

     The origin of the word "crusade" may be traced to the cross made of cloth and worn as a badge on the outer garment of those who took part in these enterprises. Since the Middle Ages the meaning of the word crusade has been extended to include all wars undertaken in pursuance of a vow, and directed against infidels, i.e. against Mohammedans, pagans, heretics, or those under the ban of excommunication. The idea of the crusade corresponds to a political conception which was realized in Christendom only from the eleventh to the fifteenth century.

   All crusades were announced by preaching. After pronouncing a solemn vow, each warrior received a cross from the hands of the pope or his legates, and was thenceforth considered a soldier of the Church. Crusaders were also granted indulgences and temporal privileges, such as exemption from civil jurisdiction, inviolability of persons or lands, etc. Of all these wars undertaken in the name of Christendom, the most important were the Eastern Crusades.

So, I would bet that one or more of your Welsh/English ancestors "got the call" from listening to his local Catholic priest, made a vow to the Pope, and travelled east to fight the "Muslim infidels" in one of the  many Crusades to save the Holy Land. Since women also took part, it could be a Middle Eastern lady thought these knights weren't half bad, had an affair with one, and thus evolved the start of your family tree. =)