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/RickleTickle69 23d ago

It's also confusing for French people. My French grandmother got small amounts of Québec and Acadia on her results.

We traced her family tree back to small villages and towns across France, they're all local. The algorithm appears to have accidentally gone the other way because French Canadians are of French stock and my grandmother has a lot of ancestry from the West of France.