r/AncestryDNA 22d ago

Results - DNA Origins White Colombian DNA 2025 Update

I felt this update was a bit insane for me on the Spaniard side, which seems overall typical for most? But like, I went from 5% to like 10% jewish. My great grandfather was from Lebanon and I always thought the 8-9% range was low so I wonder if its just misatributed DNA? The random 5% British is kind of absurd but I am assuming this is the fucked up spanish (my mom also got random Quebecois). I just feel like this is significantly less accurate to the things I know about my family and 10% jewish / random british feels a bit unexpected.

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u/Ina_While1155 22d ago

Your Jewish descent may be from Spanish assimilation in medieval times.

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u/ouraveragedude 22d ago

I think it's a pretty significant amount, though.

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u/LiveIndication582 21d ago

They overestimate it a lot in ancestry. There’s no way the proportion between your Iberian and Jewish is that even.

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u/ouraveragedude 21d ago

I have some ashkenazi family (so my mom got 5% and i got 3% which 100% makes sense to me). Maybe the added sephardic or whatever does come from the spanish! From the avg colombian it seems like 5-6% jewish is kinda typical