: I was looking through the ranking system on this site, if your not part of a known Nation thats listed, I think you should be able to stop somewhere up the ladder, I would like to stop at Chieftain, anything higher than that dosn't qualify,

: Yes & No, the yes answers are obvious, the No answere, many people changed there last name for many reasons, England forbade any one with a foreign name to reside in England, some changed so as not to show affliation with a notorious nation, in Switzerland my last name was Brügger, in Alsace Germany it was changed to Brücker, after the arrival in Pennsylvania they changed it Bricker, it still has the same meaning in German and English,, someone who lives near or by a bridge, Brücke without the r is German for bridge, we have lived as Deutsch-German for hundreds of years, now we find out through DNA that we are Keltic-Kelten from Taurini, now part of Piedmont Canton Italy, Tau means Mountain, Taurini people of the Alpine Mountains,

I claim the once upon a time country of Taurini as my Heritage and rename it
Tau-Taurini,

: Through my DNA and Family I hearby revive the Keltic-Kelten Country of Taurini and rename it Tau-Taurini (the "people of the Mountain").

: My Keltic-Kelten Heritage is Taurini: they are an Alpine people (Tau-people of the mountain) the country no longer exist, it is now part or Northwestern Italy, Piedmont Canton, also part of Switzerland was in this community, there were basicly nomads traveling back and forth from what is now Switzerland and Taurini,

There are a lot more of us, they don't know or realize who they are, I found out through a DNA report from Ireland,

if Nova Scotia should be an 8th Celtic-Keltic Nation then the US should be a 9th.

: I think you mis---understand the purpose of the 7 nations, they are independant Nations not a mix, as an individual you fall under one of the 7 Nations already established,

: Opa B: be prepared for some surprises, Family Tree DNA is probaly the best for getting a DNA done, I had 13 matches and only 4 are Bricker, the Data Bank in Berlin Germany doesn't give last names, but will tell you how many matches and what country they are in, and there is a report called Celts, you might find interesting, and The Cimbri Nation, I like this one because it explains my DNA S28 on marker 259, S28 is Keltic, and the 3rd one you all need to check is called: Population data for Y-chromosome STR Haplotypes from Piedmont Italy, there are still many of the original Keltics scattared in that Alpine area,

My DNA says I'm Keltic, my ancestors say I'm Deutsch by association and marriage, I was born a Germerican in Germerica,
My last name went from Brügger-Brücker-Bricker,

my wife is a Viken-Viking from Scandinavia, a Norman invader in Normandy France (Normanville France), a conquerer of England and settled in Scotland,
Her last name went from Normanville-Norville-Norton ,

: the Kelts especially the Irish, originated in Scythia, now southern Russia, then the Bulgeria area, then the south Central Europe or northern part of Italy, and ended up in northwestern Spain before the Ireland,

: Opa B, I have been able to completely bypass the Kelts of England and go straight to Southern Europe, because of a DNA test,