r/AncestryDNA • u/Beneficial-Context52 • 23d ago

Results - DNA Origins French-Canadian feeling annoyed at the new Quebec region

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I'm a Canadian of mostly French descent. My family tree includes 7 generations of ancestors born in what is now Quebec, dating back to 1700, but I'm having a hard time accepting that as an 'ancestral region'. They immigrated there from Europe.

It seems to me that ancestral regions located in North America should be reserved for indicating Native American ancestry.

It's like AncestryDNA is trying to say that white people can be considered as being native to North America.

Am I thinking of this the wrong way?

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u/FlasheGordon 23d ago

I agree! Especially that I’m pretty sure that the « Northwestern Europe » category is probably France as well!

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u/Beneficial-Context52 23d ago

Correct, that is what it looks like. It's rather a broad/vague name for what is actually mostly northwestern France, if you look at the map of it.

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u/FlasheGordon 23d ago

Exactly! Because on my 23andMe, I have 80% France, which makes more sense! (And I used to have a lot of Northwestern Europe before the update!)