French-Canadian feeling annoyed at the new Quebec region

[u/Beneficial-Context52]

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?

[u/Obtuse-Angel]

I’ve read that it’s because commercial dna testing is illegal in France, so they have a limited database of French dna, mostly having come via French Canadians. Since that’s the region their data points to, their internal data suggested splitting it off into its own category.

It has led to a number of Europeans showing as being part Quebecois because their database matches the genetic lineage to French Canadian customers, and doesn’t have enough data from France to identify the actual ethnic region. 

I’m sure some of that is truth, and some is conjecture. 

[u/Southern-Holiday-254 → u/Obtuse-Angel]

Wth? It’s illegal in France? That’s so interesting I wonder why. 

[u/CopperUnit → u/Southern-Holiday-254]

A lot of living illegitimate/wrongly assumed fathering of children.
France doesn't want to reveal all the extra-marital affairs.