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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8233376, member: 110350&quot;]That&#039;s because for populations that aren&#039;t as predominantly endogamous for very long periods of time as European Jews, the genetic differences among various geographically proximate European populations are negligible given how much migration and intermarriage there was over the centuries. French? German? English? Scandinavian? The distinctions are all rather arbitrary when it comes to autosomal DNA. The idea that people on one side of the Rhine are materially different genetically from those who live on the other side is absurd. Besides, the estimates tend to be based on the genetics of people alive today in these companies&#039; databases who say their grandparents came from specific countries -- not on the genetics of actual remains from 1,000 or 2,000 years ago that were excavated in those countries. So the estimates don&#039;t really take the extensive migrations in intervening centuries into account.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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