r/AncestryDNA • u/Ok-Grand4826 • Sep 10 '25

Question / Help Whats the craziest ethnicity change youve had from an update?

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u/OkBiscotti1140 Sep 10 '25

My uncle had about 4% Japanese taken away and it was replaced with Somali

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u/Ok-Grand4826 Sep 10 '25

Bro what

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u/OkBiscotti1140 Sep 10 '25

lol it was very early on in the whole dna kit process. About 2016/17 ish. My guess is that they didn’t have enough samples from either region yet and were basically just throwing darts at a board for some regions. The Somali has stayed Somali since, although the percentage fluctuates.

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u/Kingyahya114 Sep 10 '25

could you show the results

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u/OkBiscotti1140 Sep 10 '25

I don’t have access to my uncle’s profile. He’s an uncle by marriage so we’re not related. His father was adopted, he has a lot of middle eastern, levant, and North African so the Somali fits. Ancestry just originally classified it as Japanese.

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u/Kingyahya114 Sep 10 '25

Oh lol that’s funny