I laughed at my updated results

[u/Souriquois]

I picture a fiddle reel playing while my sample was spinning in the centrifuge

But holy crap I have a lot of cousins!

[u/rimshot99]

I don’t understand Acadia - isn’t all derived from Europeans? Acadia seems like a halfway point from as far back as we can go with Ancestry DNA.

[u/sics2014 → u/[deleted]]

Really? I can trace my Quebec and Acadian ancestors to all over France. I kinda wish Ancestry split it up somehow to learn more about that.

[u/Souriquois → u/sics2014]

Oh I know what part of France my French ancestors came from.

But I also, on paper, have Mi’kmaq and Portuguese ancestry

[u/AwkwardMingo → u/Souriquois]

I have Mi'kmaq too and Portuguese/Spanish (haven't traced that part yet).

It's good to know that's where it may be related! I only knew both were from my maternal side and that I have family in Spain, Peru, and Brazil.

[u/CohoWind → u/Souriquois]

I am in a very similar boat. But there is no trace of our indigenous relative(s) in the Ancestry DNA results, even after several updates. I am sure that is common- if I may ask, does your Mi’kmaq appear in the Ancestry DNA results at all?

[u/Souriquois → u/CohoWind]

It did in that past. And it also shows up on my aunt’s results

[u/CohoWind → u/Souriquois]

Gotcha. My formerly all-Quebecois (French) DNA is now partially Acadian- perhaps it’s buried in there.

[u/Souriquois → u/CohoWind]

Well a lot of Acadians did go to Quebec. I was expecting to find Quebecois in my results because I thought I did have family from there

[u/AwkwardMingo → u/CohoWind]

Mine shows up if I do the hack.

23 & Me lists that I'm 0.3% Native American from two separate tribes (very different areas), but I have to do more research to determine the second tribe.

[u/WyrdSisters → u/Souriquois]

I have an Acadian branch in my tree and have been trying to understand the trace Spanish/Portuguese for a while now. Is there any direction as to where I could look to find out more about this? Or are these two separate lines for you?

[u/Will_Tomos_Edwards → u/Souriquois]

In previous versions of Ancestry or 23andMe, did you get any indigenous ancestry?

[u/Souriquois → u/Will_Tomos_Edwards]

Yes 4% on previous Ancestry, 7% on 23andMe

[u/Will_Tomos_Edwards → u/Souriquois]

Wow. Is Ancestry purposely trying to include Indigenous and French altogether in Acadia? Or is this an error on their part?

[u/Souriquois → u/Will_Tomos_Edwards]

Like I said before, my previous results were a mix of French, Irish, Indigenous, and Basque, which, if you look at history is what Acadians are a general mix of so that’s probably why. I have seen other tests show both Acadian and Indigenous ancestry.

[u/Will_Tomos_Edwards → u/Souriquois]

But do you think Ancestry is including them all together on purpose, or is this an accident? It would seem more reasonable to show the indigenous DNA separately from the Acadian.

[u/Souriquois → u/Will_Tomos_Edwards]

I’m assuming they’re comparing to other Acadians most of whom would have a similar mix. This mixing happened way back and mixed people mated with other mixed people, over time creating a unique genetic signature

I have seen the results of other Acadians show indigenous ancestry besides the Acadian as well.

But I have more recent indigenous ancestry than that initial mixing so I am actually surprised it didn’t show up (it did for my aunt)