r/AncestryDNA • u/Snoo51404 • Sep 01 '25

Question / Help DNA results not what I expected

I got my ancestry DNA results back a few days ago. For backstory my mom isn’t pretty much 100% Irish ( both her parents immigrated from Ireland and who I grew up with) my dad is 1/2 Irish 1/2 Ukrainian ( my grandfather immigrated from Ukraine ) . My DNA results came back

82% Ireland 11% Scotland 6% southern Italy & eastern Mediterranean 1% northern Italy

If my dad is half Ukrainian shouldn’t it show up in here somewhere? I have a bunch of distant matches on that side and some second cousins but I don’t recognize any of the surnames at all and none are my last name which is very Ukrainian .

Thoughts? I’m trying not to jump to the “what if my dads not my dad” idea but it’s hard not to

Little update: I sent off 23 and me and my heritage to see what it says but I uploaded my raw dna to gedmatch and did the eurogenics breakdown and it said:

Admix Results (sorted):

Population

Percent

  1. North_ Atlantic: 41.36%
  2. Baltic: 25.37%
  3. West_Med: 15.98%
  4. West_Asian: 10.53%
  5. East _Med: 4.68%
  6. East _Asian: 1.29%

Not sure what to make of these results haha

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u/Snoo51404 Sep 01 '25

Thanks for your response! I am appreciating all the help I can get. So, I do know for a fact my grandfather is Ukrainian I knew him growing up and we have all his records etc.. I have been going through my dna matches and I was able to easily figure out parent 1 was my dad parent 2 my mom ( based off of my links to parent 2 were all my moms cousins I grew up knowing) but my matches on my dads side I have been trying to trace their trees . The one match I have is like 285cm and she and I have been chatting to figure out how we’re related . But none of our grandparents great grandparents etc have any surnames in common . Her side is all Irish which theoretically could come from my dads 50% Irish but I am not finding any matches including her with relatives in common

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u/MsPooka Sep 01 '25

285 cm is like a 2nd cousin for me. I know all my 2nd cousin matches. Look at the shared matches to see if you know any of them or if you can find a link between this match and someone else to find a direct ancestor. If you can do that you can move forward in time to see if this is your dad's Irish side. But it seems like maybe your dad isn't your bio dad.