Face of Britain

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It's really interesting stuff - the dna profile of the British (and the shape of their faces) does change in line with recieved wisdom about "celtc" areas and "saxon/viking" parts, but we all have loads of stuff in common in our dna that pre -dates the "bronze age".
I really love this stuff - me and Mrs Wiggy have done a fair bit of family history research, and yr right, there was more movement around the country than people tend to think.

As long as it doesn't prove I'm part German!

Not a bad concept, but with mass migrations due to poverty, famine, illness etc, not to mention invasion by Belgians [yeah, who'd have ever thought that eh?] Romans, Norsemen etc etc, there cannot be a lot of pure blood [for want of a better term] left in this country.

Or are they able to look at my DNA and say "Right, there's 11% Irish, 32% Anglo Saxon, 46% Dutch and 11% Bull Mastiff" ?