My Ancestry DNA results are in. I am 9% Irish and 15% British. No one in my family ha...?

Very far, and well beyond anyone's recollection. I used to consider myself 100% Irish (despite my misspelled English surname). My sister is a genealogist. Several years ago she asked me to have…

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