silverlining48
We have done it with heritage, not ancestry which seems predominantly US based.
Very disappointed, any contacts they send are 3-6 cousins I don’t recognise names and no one has approached me.
Also my own dna is not as I know it to be. The country of my mother and her ancestors is not even mentioned on the list.
I dont understand how that can possibly be. I should be 50% yet this country isn’t mentioned.
During World War 2, a lot of people from Poland managed to get to the United Kingdom.
After the war, as many had fought on our side, they were allowed to settle here, initially housed on military sites converted to temporary housing, on sites vacated by Canadian troops who went home after the war.
Marriages took place, children were born. If those children tended to marry people from the same community, then by now there may well be descendants.
If a married couple from amongst those descendants, in the 1980s emigrated to, say, the USA and their grandchild, who, along with his parents, were born in the USA, and the grandchild knew that his grandparents came from the United Kingdom, the grandchild might be surprised about no UK DNA but lots of Polish DNA.
This could be complicated by the fact that some Polish people who settled permanently in the UK changed their surname by deed poll to something UK-sounding so that upon getting married and having children, their descendants would grow up in the UK, speak English, have an English surname, which they considered best for them.
I am no expert on this but I think that I saw somewhere about people fleeing Tsarist Russia in the 1800s and settling in France.
So, whether such a thing happened with some of your ancestors, or whether the results are erroneous, maybe the answer will be found.