I recently had my DNA tested and I’ve got Germanic Europe and Norway, which was a surprise. Anyways I’ve always been told Im part German but family tree traces back to the Netherlands. My question is why do they call it Germanic Europe instead of German or Dutch similar to how Irish Scottish and English are separate.
Because the Germanic tribes spread over most of western Europe during the iron age. Dutch, and North Germans are all so genetically similar they have a hard time telling them apart in Ancestry DNA and others. I have the same issue being Scandinavian descendant it really can’t tell the difference between Swedes, Norwegians, Danes and others. It generally “knows” I’m Scandinavian but the percentages of each community change every 6 months are more genetic info gets added to the database.