Occasionally, Family Grows on Trees looks out for an interesting article about the UK’s genealogy, and we’ve found that very thing in a recent article from The Telegraph. Half of the Britons have German blood…
Researchers following up the UCL study claim that Anglo-Saxons swiftly took over Britain and changed the genetic make-up of its inhabitants.
Heinrich Härke, an archaeologist at the University of Reading, said that “up to 200,000 emigrants” came to south east England in the fifth and sixth centuries. In a study of a Saxon cemetery near Oxford, he found that a quarter of its artefacts matched those discovered along the Elbe (in Germany).
See the article here.