Half a million puffins can't be wrong!

[elisi]

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[elisi]

Not a long shot (there was an adorable old couple in my home parish consisting of an old British soldier - he was from Hull - and a Faroese woman. He was thrilled when I married a Yorkshire man), but I'm even more unusual than just coming from the Faroes, in that my parents are Danish and moved there when I was tiny.

[kitmarlowescot2.livejournal.com]

Well more likely that not from my little bit of research your mitochondrial dna of that yourself and your daughters is probably around 85%, while your father and any other male relatives you have are Faroese/Danish at about same amount.

[elisi]

I have never researched it, I must admit. ETA: Although definitely Danish DNA, not Faroese. (Although the difference must be slight. But I've got Danish ancestors stretching back centuries.)

[kitmarlowescot2.livejournal.com]

Oops I meant to put in 85% Scottish for mitochondrial dna, while your male relatives for the Y chrosome are Faroese/Danish.

[elisi]

Ah. That makes more sense... No wait, Scottish? Or do you mean for Faroese people, generally. In which case, yes.

[kitmarlowescot2.livejournal.com]

Generally and probably for you that your own genetic mitochondrial DNA is of a mostly maternal Scottish origin. Probably from raids in which Scottish women were taken back to the Faroe islands or immigrations later on from Scotland.

[elisi]

Faroese people generally, yes. My ancestors were farmers in Denmark. Nowhere near as interesting.