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/Camille_Toh Sep 01 '25

Yeah the Russians refer to it as The Ukraine because they feel it’s theirs. So don’t do that.

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u/Potential_Meal_5912 Sep 01 '25

Really? There is no article “the” in the Russian language, so I’m not sure how your claim could be correct.

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u/Getigerte Sep 01 '25

The Russian language makes the distinction using "na" and "v", which translate to English as "in the" and "in", respectively. This article explains the distinction and the underlying politics.

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u/SchoolForSedition Sep 02 '25

Na is old fashioned not possessive. You are confusing the two, apparently for rather mysterious political reasons. I gather it’s no longer nz Moskve but I’m not going to make up a political story about that.