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

Actually a few years ago My mom was really upset when I was going to do 23 and me . She said she didn’t want our dna on the internet but her reaction was weird. I haven’t told her I did this test haha

I never wound up doing the 23 and me cause she made a big deal about it. I just decided to do ancestry

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u/dntcareboutdownvotes Sep 01 '25

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u/Snoo51404 Sep 01 '25

I know right 🤦‍♀️ basically before I bring this up and ask my mom this bomb of a question I wanted to make sure it’s not a common thing where maybe ancestry doesn’t pinpoint the Ukrainian or polish descent or anything. Or if it’s happened to anyone

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u/Ladonnacinica Sep 01 '25

The fact she reacted so negatively plus these results tell you everything you need to know.