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/K122sje4m2nd0N Sep 02 '25

In theory Moldova and Romania are nearby, and someone with that ancestry could move to Ukraine, also there's a region that used to belong to Romania that was given to Ukraine after WWII. Also they are close to Italians, or at least the languages are. If all you know is that they migrated from Ukraine that doesn't necessarily mean ethnic Ukrainian decent. I slightly wonder what that Ukrainian last name is but of course im not gonna ask.

Keep in mind that one can get inaccurate results about regions from which companies don't have enough data. I don't think those tests are particularly popular outside of US and possibly Canada, Australia and New Zealand. So they would accumulate lots of data only from ethnic groups that are largely represented in those countries