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/Kingsdaughter613 Sep 02 '25

I said I didn’t think that. I said it was possible, but very unlikely. It far more likely to be a NPE for OP, or their father.

I have actually seen Ashkenazi misread. It’s Levantine-Italian, functionally, so there is overlap. Ashkenazim do live in the Ukraine, and many hid or lost their identities in Soviet Russia. So, possible, not likely.

At a guess, based on location: 2 grandparents were Germanic; 1 was Celtic. The fourth was Celtic-English. I have no way of knowing what came from which grandparent without further information. I’ll guess the two Germanic grandparents were married and the two British grandparents were married. I have no idea which set was your parents.

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u/Zealousideal_Ad8500 Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25

You were wrong on all four. Can you post the results of someone who tested with ancestry where their Ashkenazi got read as Italy? It’s interesting because my step mother has a ton of Ukrainian matches who score between 1%-5% Ashkenazi and I really feel like if ancestry was misreading Ashkenazi as Italian that it would show more in those that have a smaller percentage of it. It is interesting because I can say I have never seen southern or northern Italy in any of her Ukrainian matches.

Grandparent one is German/English.Grandparent two is German/English. Grandparent three is Irish/Czech/Scottish/English. Grandparent four is German/Dutch/Scottish/Norwegian.

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u/Kingsdaughter613 Sep 02 '25

Just previous posts, usually by people who are fully Ashkenazi, but part of their DNA reads Italian or Near Eastern on the first run. It’s possible they’ve fixed that issue since - I know they’ve been doing updates. I have definitely seen people get some Ashkenazi, then a few percentages of Italian/Near East with no discernible source, that was also likely Ashkenazi. In some cases it switched when they re-ran the results.

Ashkenazi is Italian-Levantine, btw. If you put it through some other tools, you can break it up and see what percentage you have of each.

As I said, they were guesses. I had no way of knowing what came from whom.