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RR ..............

boasting now about degrees and universities.

I will not enter that game!

Someone (guess who) hasn't realised the difference between DNA and upbringing!
My grans 'man', who lived in Cornwall and Devon, was killed in WWII.

He was born in Barrow in Furness - the papers go on about a 'Barrow' man dying.
The truth is - and his family knew this - is that many Cornish Tin Miners headed to Barrow In Furness when the tin mines closed in Cornwall - as did my g g grandparents.
Now, my g g grandparents moved back to Cornwall before having my g grandad, so he is Cornish born and bred.
However, my gran's 'man' was brought up in Barrow - moving back down to Cornwall as a teenager. His upbringing was that of a 'Barrow' man - his DNA is 100% Cornish.

Even if my g grandad had been born in Barrow, just a couple of generation's worth of genealogical research would have released a potential 'Cornish to the core' ancestry.
Likewise, the 'interlopers' into Wales, and at least the next generation would have been aware of their origin - after all, where were their grandparents living?

The biggest problem with determining where your ancestry originated must surely lay with the children of Service men.
I have 3 siblings, 2 were born in Malta, one in Hampshire and I was born in Sussex.
I moved here, aged 34. It was my 28th move.
I had no idea of origin until I started the genealogical quest, though one grandmother was living in Cornwall, the other in Hampshire - but her genealogical footprint was Suffolk!
My (and my sister's) DNA has indicated that we have no 'English' DNA at all.

Even with the Hampshire lot, (a grandad) I've gone back to 1742 - and come to a standstill with the Scragglefords - though they did have a 'run in' with the St. Barbe family. There weren't many of those around,but there are Nordic variations on the name.