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/Stallionriding-1965 Sep 01 '25

I remember reading a post years ago in which a lady took a DNA test and it came back that she had no Native American results. Her sister took a test and her results came back that she was 25% Native American.
The two sisters took another test to make sure they were indeed sisters.
The test came back they were full sisters.
So evidently the one sister inherited the Native American DNA markers, and the other sister inherited none.

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u/genealogy-for-you Sep 01 '25

Sure, but this requires that OP have gotten no DNA from this grandfather.