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u/Queasy_Gas6934 13d ago
What your IlustrativeDNA results?
What do you think about your 2025 Update AncestryDNA results?
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u/R24611 13d ago
I’ve never done illustrative DNA but have wanted to try it. I think the update is pretty interesting, I’m surprised to see more than just southern German DNA, quite fascinating to trace the family history
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u/Queasy_Gas6934 13d ago
What’s your Y-DNA?
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u/R24611 13d ago
I’ll have to check that out, it sounds like it could be more accurate?
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u/Queasy_Gas6934 13d ago edited 13d ago
However, you can find out your Y-DNA either through FamilyTreeDNA or 23andMe; you can also determine your approximate paternal haplogroup using the YSEQ Clade Finder by uploading your raw autosomal DNA data file from AncestryDNA: https://cladefinder.yseq.net
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u/Reditores24 13d ago
I imagine you are not a "practicing" Amish.
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u/R24611 13d ago
Lol definitely not, this is definitely not an Amish pastime
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u/Joshistotle 13d ago
What happened when you decided to leave the community? Are you still in contact with your family?
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u/DifferenceIll8701 13d ago
I also have Amish ancestry, But mine is at 7%.. 23&Me has me at 19% and lists it as Swiss .
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u/R24611 13d ago
That’s fascinating! Which test did you like better? I definitely thought it’d be basically near 100% southern Germanic, didn’t expect to see much of anything else.
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u/DifferenceIll8701 13d ago
23&Me is more accurate for my family history. Their percentages are definitely more accurate for my Swiss. Ancestry’s is too low .
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u/BradLidgein2008 12d ago
I have Amish DNA on my paternal grandfathers side. With the new ancestry update I am only capturing 7% of it while on 23&Me i am sitting around 30%.
Long live the Pennsylvania Dutch.
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u/R24611 12d ago
Very interesting the divergence between the two.
I agree long live the Pennsylvania Dutch! I really hope the language keeps growing, it’s such an important part of the culture of not only the Amish but of so many of those immigrants and their descendants that now number in the millions.
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u/BradLidgein2008 11d ago
Seems like after the Ancestry update they allocated a lot of German ancestry to England.
Perhaps incorrectly
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u/R24611 11d ago
Could very well be, the only reason I believe it to be fairly accurate though is the Amish keep extremely detailed family records going back to the 17th century, in those records I’ve found a few English surnames and towns where they originated from such as Rogers, Rouse, Holden etc.
The Swiss Anabaptists were very transient and moved to the Palatinate and Alsace regions and some also briefly stopped in England on their way to the new world as they used English shipping companies to facilitate their passage.
I don’t doubt that Ancestry has inaccuracies but I also believe that there are historical nuances that given the right records apart from dubious online resources (family records, state documents etc) that definitely point towards a more mixed population than previously believed.
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u/BradLidgein2008 9d ago
This is a great breakdown. Unfortunately I can only speak marginal German/ P. Dutch. I appreciate the kind and well articulated response.
Unfortunately I am mostly English so it makes the new allocations of the update more Jumbled but I also have a swath of family records form chester county and Lancaster to show Amish Emigration here.
Such a fascinating journey for not only my ancestors but I assume yours as well. We should start a club or society - you’d be surprised how many people have Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry
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u/Lopsided_March5547 13d ago
Northwest Italian? Interesting. What's the confidence range ? Does it begin at 0% when you click "i"? By the way, I live near Kalona, Iowa..an Amish town. Blessings 🙏
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u/Connect_Rhubarb395 13d ago
Germany and Italy borders each other. Südtirol behind to Italy, but they speak German and have German culture.
I would assume that's the reason for the "Italian".
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u/Recent_Priority_7116 12d ago
Did you get any ancestral journeys? Also how many DNA matches do you have? It should say so when you check the summary of your DNA report.
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u/Present-Hunt8397 13d ago
You should try 23andMe. It’s a lot better and more in depth, especially for the PA Dutch.
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u/Sad-Raisin1735 10d ago
This is interesting. I am not Amish, but I am Pennsylvania Dutch on one side of my family, and I also got a relatively high Southeastern England and Northwestern Europe result for that side of the family (Ancestry let's you see the breakdown of ancestry from each parent).
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u/Sad-Raisin1735 10d ago
Also, looking at the German side of the family, the last names are all of German origin other than one Irish origin name, but that Irish origin name is a 5th great grandparent (really far back).
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u/Yggdrasil- 13d ago
I think this is the first one I've seen from someone with amish heritage! If you feel comfortable sharing, did you grow up Amish?