 In addition to those Russian Jews who settled permanently in the UK an estimated 500,000 Eastern European Jews transmigrated through British ports between 1881 and 1924.Most were bound for the United States and others migrated to Canada, South Africa, Latin America and the Antipodes.Estimated number of migrants between 1800 and 1945
Modern genetic evidence, based on analysis of the Y chromosomes of men currently living in Britain, the Western Isles, Orkney, Shetland, Friesland, Denmark, North Germany, Ireland, Norway and the Basque Country, is "consistent with the presence of some indigenous component in all British regions".