nanna8
Thanks Chestnut. Also, those of us who have done DNA Tests might have slightly different answers. My daughter did her Australian census a week ago and we did ours yesterday. It is due in a week or so. I put English and Scottish but I only know the large amount of Scottish via DNA because all the grandparents were actually born in England/ Wales.Come to that, Welsh wasn’t there, either.
All a DNA test will tell you is that people with DNA similar to you tend to be clustered in a certain area.
In the UK, a person can freely move from Scotland to England, from Wales to England etc. If your great grandparents (for example) came from generations born in Scotland, but then moved to another part of the UK, it will probably be reflected in your DNA, even though you might not be aware of any connections with Scotland. It's all fairly meaningless really.
The vast majority of white British people have northern European DNA, despite having no obvious connection with another country. It could even be that the group with similar DNA migrated from another part of the world.
A female's DNA test will only show results from the maternal line via mitochondrial DNA, so 50% of ancestral DNA will never show up.
All anybody can say with any certainty is that we all belong to the species "homo sapiens".