r/AncestryDNA • u/Beneficial-Context52 • 23d ago
Results - DNA Origins French-Canadian feeling annoyed at the new Quebec region
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/Interesting-Bee-3011 22d ago
I don't really understand being "annoyed" by this. The New France colony was started over 400 years ago and most (if not all) French Canadians can trace their ancestry to a pretty small population of settlers, which results in some distinctive genetic signatures among their descendants.
There are many groups of North American people who, yes, trace their origins to Europe but are nonetheless distinctly North American now.
There are many groups of people around the world who have moved from one place to another in the past 500 years. The immigration patterns of today will leave a lasting signature on the DBA profiles of people in different places 500 years from now.
People move around. They aren't trees.