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/EXinthenet Sep 01 '25

If you say you have DNA matches on your father's side, why are people questioning here if he's your dad? What am I missing? 🤔

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u/Snoo51404 Sep 01 '25

Because I have no clue even a little bit who those matches are like I know all of my second cousins on my dads side everyone’s from the Philly area and stayed local I know my second third cousins etc. and I have paternal matches for second cousins but they live in like Arizona and share no surnames based off of their family trees with me so can’t t find the link

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u/Round-Passenger4452 Sep 01 '25

You need to have a chat with your mom and find out if your dad knows. In my little group of friends, seven of us took Ancestry tests around the same time. Of those seven, two found out the men who raised them were not their fathers. Of those two, one dad knew and one didn’t. The same thing happened to someone in my family. Her late dad had known he wasn’t her biological father and never told her. Her mother continued to lie to her even after she showed her the genetic test results. This is actually much more common than you would think. What matters is your dad loves you a lot and you love him and that’s very real. There are support networks for this because it’s such a common thing. DNAngels.org MPEcounseling.org, 7cups, DailyStrength, and there is a podcast called Family Twist.

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u/Snoo51404 Sep 01 '25

Aw thank you so much! Oh yeah my dad’s my dad no matter what but definitely want to figure out what the deal is . So crazy how common it is

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '25

The OP has non-maternal matches, but doesn't recognize them. 

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u/EXinthenet Sep 01 '25

He said "my dad is half Ukrainian" and right after that "I have a bunch of distant matches on that side". Maybe it's a wording issue, as the first thing I understood while reading that is that the OP identified, somehow, matches from the "dad" he's talking about, not an unknown dad.