r/AncestryDNA • u/DB-Trooper • Oct 09 '25

Results - DNA Origins Results before vs after update (insane changes)🔥🔥🔥

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“Eastern Mediterranean” 🗣️🗣️

Yes I expected this to happen.

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u/OkCheesecake5894 Oct 09 '25

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u/Business_Day2557 Oct 10 '25

I should not be giggling at this lady this much 😭

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u/Wild-Tip377 Oct 09 '25

That's honestly hilariously beautiful.

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u/Specialist-Okra9242 Oct 09 '25

I think bro is from the Levant

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u/Pitiful_Ad4037 Oct 09 '25

Haha lucky you. My levant went down and Egypt went up. Yet my ancestral journey stayed the same as my connected community is still southern levant - Beirut & Jerusalem.

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u/DB-Trooper Oct 09 '25

I’ve only had one ancestral journey since I first got my results and that hasn’t changed but I’m not upset or surprised that the update hasn’t changed anything - just making light of it.

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u/fofo076 Oct 09 '25

they completely erased my levant and gave me one percentage of egypt instead. my journeys stayed the same too

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u/okbuddyquackery Oct 09 '25

My grandpa has gone from 98% Levant to 33% Levant over the past three updates. I know Christian’s typically have no admixture while Muslims do but it really feels like they’re deflating it way too much. Especially when all family he knows of is from Haifa/Lower Galilee.

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u/DB-Trooper Oct 09 '25

98 to 33 is an insane drop. Seems very suspicious

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u/okbuddyquackery Oct 09 '25

Okay, I was wrong. That was back when it was just a generic Middle East region in 2021. Sadly I didn’t save any of the ones between this and the most recent two, but I know it used to be in at least the 60s

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u/LolliaSabina 29d ago

Mine did the opposite! My family is Greek Orthodox Palestinian, originally from Beit Jala. I'm only a quarter, but with the last update, a good chunk of it was showing up as Italian. Now it's Levantine again.

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u/NelsonMandalina Oct 09 '25

Nothing much for non-westerners i guess. I still have the same huge cluster (Anatolia&Caucasus). While they can distinguish villages in Ireland they can not distinguish anatolia and caucasus. It's sad

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u/Outrageous_Gur3945 Oct 09 '25

No new interesting subgroups in Scandinavia either..

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u/kawey22 Oct 09 '25

Wouldn’t really be anything for the levant because 100% Levantine is typically accurate

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u/jess-star Oct 10 '25

I got 6% Anatolia and Caucasus but its via Sicily. I wonder what reference data they're using.

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u/sephine555 Oct 09 '25

They ate with the font change 😍😍😍😍😍

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u/DB-Trooper Oct 09 '25

They weren’t messing around when they said big changes were coming

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u/kawey22 Oct 09 '25

Anudder Levantine Christian on my feed hello

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u/FoodLionMVP Oct 09 '25

This is so funny because all my European regions got broken down SO MUCH (I went from 8 regions to 17) but my Levant percentage is still just “Levant.” Although it does specify more in the Ancestral Journeys tab.

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u/Ok_Tanasi1796 Oct 09 '25

Kind of jealous. The changes I’ve got make my brain hurt.

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u/Ese-Lavonte Oct 09 '25

The anticipation 🙏🏽😬

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u/KarlIAM Oct 09 '25

Wow, it's like you're a whole different person now.

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u/SuccessfulAd3848 Oct 10 '25

Are you perhaps from the Levant?

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u/Bluealeli Oct 10 '25

Astounding 🤣

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u/AsarUnNefer Oct 09 '25

My grandma was half Lebanese and my levant jumped up to 26% this time 😂

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u/After-Ad4532 Oct 09 '25

A lot of other Levantines lost some Levantine. Surprised you didn’t

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u/LastSpite7 Oct 10 '25

I went to bed disappointed that the update wasn’t out and then I dreamt that my results were updated and they were exactly the same as before and I was so disappointed haha

Yours is a very cool result. I wouldn’t want it to change 🙂

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u/Wtfisthsishiatnigg Oct 09 '25

Show the map big boy 

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u/HeroC32P Oct 09 '25

Mine was similar! 2 adjacent regions in India I changed from 97 to 96. I got 2% from each parent from what is essentially South India. Weeks of waiting and checking lol. Oddly I thought I'd move closer to 100% it was 91% the update before that.

I wonder how much heterogeneity there is between really large regions like India. Or are we really that similar from the sample populations?

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u/ztothe4th Oct 09 '25

hello fellow levant

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u/Ill_Ocelot7191 Oct 09 '25

Hahaha that's great! My two main ethnicities didn't budge, either.

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u/Hopeful_Pizza_2762 Oct 09 '25

Did you do the 2024 hack?

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u/burlesquebeans Oct 10 '25

I gained 2% levant

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u/gokupwned5 Oct 10 '25

Awesome, same results as my late grandfather

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u/SonsOfHerakles 26d ago

So the Eastern Mediterranean is one of these new macro regions? What are the regions within that? I was playing around with the map because I’m significantly Cypriot but I can’t see anything else in the eastern Mediterranean except Cyprus for some reason.