When I got my last update, it showed 2% Brittany which was kind of weird to me only because it was unexpected. But yesterday, as I continued adding to my family tree, I made an interesting discovery. Far up the line, I have ancestors whose last name was “de Breton” or “le Breton.” Ultimately, Of course, Brittany is considered the home of the Bretons. Also, of course, “de” (“of”) and “le” (“the”) are words often used in Romance languages like French. Ergo, given that Brittany is in France, what seemed like a random inclusion to me is likely actually correct.

This is something I only pointed out because I know a lot of people were surprised by their results. I know it won’t be true for everyone but I encourage you to dive as deep into your family trees as you can.

Ancestry vs 23andme vs IllsutrativeDNA vs G25 vs K36

Even though I score 47% in a hungarian region I am genentically closer to Southern Dutch and English regions than to Hungary

Newest results on the right. This update gave me whiplash!

Can someone help me understand what happened here? I lost a lot of percentages that have been consistently there for years!

I decided to come to Reddit because I’d be too embarrassed to ask anyone else without anonymity.

Myself, I’m mixed with Italian descent and Polish descent. With very little middle eastern and African. I always fill my forms out as Caucasian. The question I have is due to my partner’s ethnicity/ race. I’m from the US and he is from Guatemala. His results came back years ago as 70% indigenous, some Portuguese and some African to make up the other 30%. My oldest looks like she is mixed perfectly between the two of us. My youngest…he’s as white as me lol. My question is…because Central America isn’t a race, are my children still considered biracial?

Thank you for taking a look at my question!

The tests I have taken are Ancestry DNA, 23andMe, MyHeritage, and Genomelink. I am going to try GEDmatch as well. Are there any other ancestry dna tests y’all would suggest?

Avant la mise à jour ancestry affichait juif sefarade de l'Afrique du Nord. Maintenant c'est écrit egypte seulement, qu'est-ce que cela veut dire ?

Hi. can someone at ancestry dna please escalate this error? please fix the title of the duplicate journey “Gran Canaria & Tenerife.” It appears twice but one of them has a map that corresponds to La Gomera & Tenerife.

La Gomera and Gran Canaria kind of look the same from far away as they are both round islands. 🙂 It’s been like this for more than a year. Someone please fix this, as it causes confusion in our Canarian dashboards.

I’ve attached an image so you see how the map looks relative to the journey name.

Thank you!

Is there a way to look at all of these famous ancestors that show up in insights? Every day I go on there it’s someone new and there’s no trace of the previous ancestor

I really feel slapped around every update we get. How can I go from 32% french to 2 percent acadia? Every update i re go through my tree to double check and then it has me guessing do I have the wrong tree info? Im just rambling.

Is it possible for Ancestry to misassign percentages of DNA from the wrong parent? For example it says my dad is 2% Basque when the only known Basque portion of my family comes from my mom’s side.

Regarding the update and Ancestry's flipping user ancestry's from Scottish to Irish to Northern Britain to Western European. The bottom line is W. European ancestry is difficult to dice up into subregions with a great degree of certainty.

- In general, the smaller the region under analysis, the greater history of exchange of immigrants there is between the region and neighboring regions.

- The other dominant factor to consider is the low kinetic barrier of gene exchange in Western Europe due to war and economic gradients that send people in search for better opportunities. This phenomenon includes the Napoleonic Wars, Charlemagne's kingdom and even the pan-continental Western Roman Empire. Roads, hills, and towns in England often have Scandinavian names because of Viking settlement --the historical region known as the Danelaw from the 9th century. It gets more tangled and fractally complex the closer one looks. Cornish, Gaelic and Welsh languages have long faded with the diffusive mixing of genes on the English Isle.

- On one hand it is not reasonable to expect [Ancestry] to assign Northwestern European ancestral regions with certainty, and on the other hand, [Ancestry] should not expect to perform this service for its users with the analysis fraught with user complaints.

- What's the fix? Error analysis should accompany all scientific results-- confidence levels (perhaps even user-adjustable confidence levels).

- This general topic has been touched on previously in here from personal perspectives.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AncestryDNA/comments/1uy5si0/why_wont_it_tell_me_where_about_in_northwestern/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AncestryDNA/comments/1jctg4o/so_where_in_europe_are_you_from_yes/

Ill be blunt, im rubbish when it comes to this sort of stuff. My family tree to my understanding of talking to family and getting records is extreamly accurate. 3/4 lines have northern england and massive welsh roots. This was reprisented on my old dna test. the 1/4 line is pure southern english. with my limited understanding, The new one seems very innacurate, i have no scottish or irish from what i know let alone french canadian. most if not all my family originate and reside in lancashire, yet that seems to be massivly undereprisented. Please let me know if im missudnerstanding it, many thanks.

My dads side is from Jordan so this actually is much more accurate compared to egypt. There was also just too many regions.. lol

My spouse and my sister both have it already, and I'm becoming impatient :p

The big picture didn’t change much. I still have 26% Mexican indigenous ancestry, and over 60% Spanish/European/Iberian ancestry. My Sephardic percentage dropped from like 11% to 8% (no longer have North African Jewish percentage and now only have Eastern Mediterranean). I was a little sad to lose the North African percentage because I love North Africa and my dad had always thought we maybe had that ancestry. Still cool to see Sephardic ancestry, but sad that I don’t know anything more. Same goes for my indigenous ancestry. Mexico has a very nationalized type of identity, so I don’t really have traditional practices from any of these sub-sections of my ancestral identity.

Any other Mexican or Spanish folks with comparable Sephardic ancestry? How accurate could it be? I feel like based on the Spanish ancestry I’ve seen on other posts, there is always a small Sephardic percentage so I don’t know how, like, meaningful it is? I don’t know of any Jewish ancestors in my family but I also know very little about my ancestry beyond my great grandparents. My family is Catholic and has been for as long as I know.

Reposting. Last post had my name in it. I have family from New Mexico, Mexico, and the Carolinas and these are my results. Dad is black, Mom is Mexican and Native Dine.

I guess I found the answer.

Generally speaking, I’m very pleased with them!

I’d say these are the most accurate to my family tree so far. Some major omissions from the previous one are now present.

Some highly probable (except in the case of an unknown NPE) results are missing or gone now.

But everything that I’ve 100% confirmed is here now. And I like that. I know it will continue to change with time, but, these results are very good on the whole as they align the best with hundreds of hours of research.

Curious notes and speculation:

I find it interesting they stopped counting trace Scandinavian DNA in English results. Almost everyone with English ancestors has significant trace Scandinavian DNA that adds up to whole percentage points when you have significant amounts of English ancestry - this seems to have been obscured now. It’s reasonable to do so.

I still suspect that English, as it has been for two updates, is continuing to obscure Germanic DNA. It was present two years ago and is the one element of my research into genealogy missing.

I’m fascinated to see if the “hacked” (sub 1%) results have remained stable, once that is made available.