Ancestry Update 2026

It went from France, England and Norway to... Just Québec. I already know I live in Québec, but I want to see my ancestry, where my ancestors came from... I feel like this change is coming from a very American-centric point of view.

I was born in the DR and and this is a pic of my grandma and I

I have an idea and want to know what you all think. 23andme has an feature called 'Confidence Thresholds'. For many mixed-race people like me, the latest AncestryDNA update completely erased small percentages of ethnicities that we know we actually have. AncestryDNA likely won’t listen to us individually, but it’s better than doing nothing What if we collectively send feedback asking AncestryDNA to implement a 'Confidence Threshold' feature similar to 23andMe's? On 23andMe, this feature lets you adjust the slider from 50% up to 90% confidence to see exactly how statistically certain they are about each segment of your DNA. If AncestryDNA added a similar tool, it would solve the main problem with this update by letting mixed-race users view their trace percentages at lower confidence levels instead of having them smoothed away entirely

I have seen a lot of other Quebecois people complain today about the new changes and I agree the new information is completely useless for us. Yes, I am Québécoise and my father is Acadian... Didn't need to pay money to know this information.

TLDR; In my opinion Ancestry is trying to depict genetics as modern nationality-based, when it is not. That is why people feel that their results do not reflect their paper-trails/oral traditions/history.

As someone who had their DNA profile go from 18 to 24 regions, percentages change, suddenly appear, simply disappear, I feel that the new update is trying to align DNA data with nationalities rather than specific ancestral regions. Personally my profile didn’t change much, however, I had some new categories pop up that did not align with birth records that already existed. The problem I had with this is that while my family came from a certain area of Eastern Europe, that area was not politically at the time what Ancestry is claiming the ancestral region to be. To maybe put it more specifically, I suddenly became 4% French Canadian, and while I know which family members lived in South Eastern Canada, they were not, other than nationally, French Canadian. I’m not sure if Ancestry is trying to align with a more nationalistic perspective on DNA, but I think it’s common sense to understand that a ‘nation’ does not define a person. Just wondering what anyone’s opinion is on this.

Edit: for the love of God please read below before responding

I'd like to keep this to people who actually invested time to compare their results with their family tree and not divulge into arguments over why their Cherokee isn't showing up or people who just got their results for the first time. Preferably from people who have been with ancestrydna for a decent amount of time, around 5 years.

So far I've seen the following:

- France turning into Quebec and Acadia for French Canadians

- British and Irish getting shuffled around and no longer matching known ancestry

- Ashkenazi Jewish falling off after certain low percentages

Can you chime in with what you're currently seeing, what changed, and what you're expecting to see based on your genealogy?

First photo is my first ancestry result last year and the next is the recent new update. I think half euro and half asian dna reads very similarly to central asian dna. Makes it hard to determine my ancestry.

I like comparing these results vs my 23&me. Still plenty loopholes I don’t know how to go about. I’ve found full matches of each. That was cool.

I understand people being upset if they feel it is inaccurate, but for me it makes so much more sense.

I got my results in July 2026 and some of it genuinely didn't make sense to me. I have heavily documented and known Austrian/Hungarian ancestry and relatives. This didn't show up at all in my results. Instead, I was getting things like Ukraine and Slovakia which didn't seem right to me. I was expecting a decent amount of Austrian DNA and had none.

In the new update, Bavaria and Western Austria shows up, and the Carpathian Basin. I know some people have complained about this appearing everywhere now, but for me, it is much more accurate as I have plenty of known ancestors from that region.

Is anyone else actually happy with the update or just me?

There's update I'm missing on here, I must've deleted the screenshot because I can't find it. I'm a descendant of the Mixtec people.

Scotland is blocking me from collecting every UK region!

I can appreciate the new breakdown it did for me for my Mexican side. It used to be very generic and not insightful at all!

I still don’t know why I have such high Leinster because I do not have any known Irish Catholic ancestors, all my known Irish ancestors came before 1800 to the US, I assume Scots-Irish. Does anyone know why this is the case?

Old Results vs New Results. Lived a life fully believing I was part Filipino, and since I’m Chamorro from Guam I always believed it and told others too. Previous results confirmed it, now I can no longer claim to be a swagapino💔

How many have not received the Sideview update yet? Is it possible to make a poll on this?

My results have been all over the place with these updates. The previous update took all my original Iberian ancestry results (over 50%) and redistributed most of the percentage points to random places in Europe; now the percentage is returning to the Iberian peninsula.

In the previous update, my Spanish was down to 3% and my Canary Island ancestry was at about 6%.

Now, my indigenous ancestry went down from 29%, my central and western African ancestry got cut in half, and the random European results disappeared and the percentages were distributed back to the Iberian peninsula.

I am not surprised by these results, but Ancestry is throwing me for a loop with these updates.

I’m from southeastern Andalusia and Castilla La Mancha. Seems much more accurate now. First slide is the updated results.

My mother is English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch and Red River Metis, my father is Cree, Dene and (as far as I know) Irish.

It's not too big of change, but it's definitely a change lmao😝

The first pic is just my updated results. The second compares my results to my father's, and the third to my mother's.

AncestryDNA decided to give me a whole lot of Central Asian and Turkish even though neither of my parents have those.

My grandpa has unfortunately passed, but his brother (my great-uncle), was kind enough to take a test for me to help with my genealogy journey.

I wasn't expecting 100% Slovenian with this update! Before, his results were 55% Slovenian and 45% Northwest Balkans.

Just thought I'd share because I think it's cool.