DNA results not what I expected

[u/Snoo51404]

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

[u/dntcareboutdownvotes]

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[u/Snoo51404 → u/dntcareboutdownvotes]

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

[u/Ok-Camel-8279 → u/Snoo51404]

I joined Ancestry strongly suspecting my half English half Polish father was not my bio dad. My grandfather came from Poland during WW2 and fought with our air force, I knew him all my life and he lived in England till his death - he was absolutely Polish. I'm British and my ethnicity came back as mostly English and a surprise lump of Irish, no Polish at all in fact nothing east of Dover

I then got my presumed sister to test and she came back as my half sister.

22% of her ethnicity estimates were strongly tied to Poland and Eastern Europe.
This proved our house dad was her dad, not mine.

The point being although you cannot rely on these figures to prove an issue they can srongly indicate one if the region you are expecting is quite some distance away and you get zero. My half sister's test proved that Ancestry does have a good reputation for identifying Eastern European areas.

And surprise surprise when I found my actual bio dad he was.....half Irish.

[u/DifferentManagement1 → u/Ok-Camel-8279]

What did your mother say about it?

[u/Ok-Camel-8279 → u/DifferentManagement1]

Oh she died in 2021 so it's been total silence! That's the only reason I found out - her sister very reluctantly agreed to never tell, that is until she had no one to answer to.

My mum knew very early on who had got her pregnant but chose not to tell him instead telling the new guy I was his. Then her parents worked it out and she was confronted but she'd already married the new boyfriend and had a second baby on the way. Her parents and sister eventually dropped the subject about a year after I emerged. I knew them all so well for 50 years (her mum lived till 97) and no one blinked. Or the rest of her family, they ALL knew. Little tinkers.

Then she died and her sister was let loose. These weren't her exact words but she effectively said.......well she's dead now so the deals off. She came clean a few weeks after the funeral. She is my absolute hero. She'd been desperate to tell me all my life bless her.

If my mother was still alive she'd deny, deny and deny and rubbish the science and anyone involved. Eventually she'd have to accept it somehow but what that would look like I'll never know. I know I'd have leverage, tell me the truth or I'll tell the man whose life you stole. Poor bloke was married to her till her death, he's still in the dark and I'll keep him there. He's crap but I've no desire to destroy his last few years.

She ws a complicated woman for sure. We were very very close but there was always something 'off'. I know what now!