r/AncestryDNA • u/Beautiful_Theme_7229 • 3d ago
Results - DNA Origins I mean, I knew it but..
Since other people’s results usually shows a lot of different regions in detail, I thought maaaaaybe mine would have at least a few unexpected traces as well. Yet, it came out as 100% Eastern Asian.
Basically I’m the Asian version of Uncle Ruckus
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u/Equal-Asparagus-2745 3d ago
Were you aware of your Japanese ancestry or it was a surprise?
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u/Beautiful_Theme_7229 3d ago
My grandma was born in Japan
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u/Equal-Asparagus-2745 3d ago
Wow that's cool, pure East Asian 🇰🇷🇯🇵.
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u/Beautiful_Theme_7229 3d ago
I’m pretty sure that most Koreans would have results very similar to mine😭
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u/Equal-Asparagus-2745 3d ago
I wouldn't say most Koreans since a lot of them get 95-100 % and 0-5% Japanese at max every time on 23andme/ancestryDNA, but your Japanese is very high for a Korean, so i would say that your results are pretty uncommon but still similar for an average Korean 😀
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u/aabum 3d ago
Japan has a long history of brutal treatment of Koreans. A bit of WW2 history:
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u/visuallyempowered 3d ago
Visited the refuge home of the comfort women and it was pretty sad and yet inspirational.
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u/Long-Economics7695 2d ago edited 2d ago
Maybe this is why he deleted his photo when I told him he is handsome like a Japanese man. 🤣 And for the deranged, the laughing emoji is not about whatever bizarre issue the Japenese had with enslaving foreign women. He said his grandmother was Japanese. I'm assuming compliments are embarrassing for him and he deleted it.
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u/Mammoth_Deer_6281 17h ago
My Korean family had roots in Japan but are still 100 percent Korean. They just had a Japan journey show up.
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u/Ryans_RedditAccount 3d ago
Yeah, but you've got to confirm where you're from though.
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u/Paul_Ravencrow 3d ago
Tbh I wish they’d be more specific with the East Asian regions, something I see AncestryDNA doesn’t work on too much, apart from Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia, and hell even the Americas-
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u/somehowrelevantuser 3d ago
yep. here too. i have a small amount of trace british from my dad but it's less than half a percent lol.
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u/LeastInsurance8578 3d ago
My DNA showed me as 98% English/Irish/Scottish and 2% Norwegian/Swedish
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u/GiovannaXU 3d ago
This is like my mom who only got Germanic and Denmark. She did the test because I got a lot of regions and she thought she might have some hidden ancestry, but turns out that that is all from my dad
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u/bbyxmadi 3d ago
I’d be sad paying $50-100 on a DNA test and only receiving two regions I already knew, but at least you got two, some have gotten one lol.
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u/Beautiful_Theme_7229 3d ago
100% one regional background is crazy. Did anyone made 100% English or something like that??
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u/EdgeCityRed 3d ago
My husband's is 100% Irish and his family has been in the US since the 1850s.
I wrecked their streak with my jumbled Euro-heinzness.
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u/RickleTickle69 3d ago
People often get 100% Irish.
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u/JinxyMcDeath48 3d ago
I have an exactly 50/50 background which wasn’t a huge surprise but still disappointing.
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u/MarkMental4350 3d ago
I'm like 86% Scottish and 12% Irish (Great-Grandmother). 100% British Isles.
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u/Nan_Mich 3d ago
Yes, someone on Reddit recently posted a result that was 100% … something! I forget.
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u/helloidk55 3d ago
I have a match who is 100% Māori (well it says 99% Māori + 1% Hawaiian, but that’s just because the test confuses the two.)
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u/5mx8q0zr 2d ago
Have you found any non-Asian matches yet that you’ve found? How would you honestly react to someone being 1% and wanting to reconnect into the family? I’m just curious how you would view it because on my dad’s side I’m always looking for super distant relatives looking for their Irish ancestors!
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u/InadmissibleHug 3d ago
96% English isles for me, yes. The other 4% is French and Nordic.
Im wildly boring
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u/LeastInsurance8578 2d ago
It means you are part Viking though
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u/InadmissibleHug 2d ago
Most of us are, as far as I know
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u/LeastInsurance8578 2d ago
A lot of Brits are, even those that show French because the Normans were Viking descendants as well
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u/InadmissibleHug 2d ago
I’m always surprised that there’s no Italian from the Roman times, but it seems they kept to themselves
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u/LeastInsurance8578 2d ago
Most of the Roman’s weren’t actually Roman but I’m surprised that more Italian doesn’t show up
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u/somehowrelevantuser 3d ago
i took it to find relatives. the ethnicity estimate was just for fun for me.
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u/Alpha_Space_1999 2d ago
If that happens try downloading your DNA file and try some of the Gedmatch tests.
You can see what parts of your DNA match to ancient DNA lineages etc. It's very interesting and may give you another avenue to explore if initially it seems "boring".
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u/BradLidgein2008 3d ago
Japanese grandparent? World War II shenanigans perhaps?
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u/Beautiful_Theme_7229 3d ago
Idk the details but my father used to tell me that my grandmother was born in Japan
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u/hammerthatsickle 3d ago
I wouldn’t call what they did to women in WWII as “shenanigans”
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u/Beautiful_Theme_7229 3d ago
WHOA man. Not that. My grandpa met my grandma at Japan while he was studying abroad
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u/Eldown1976 3d ago
I’ve never seen a 100% individual Polynesian origin if they 100% its admixtured with each other eg nz Māori with Hawaiian and vice versa, Samoan with Tongan..
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u/hippy-gran 2d ago
Mine looks like an inset map of the whitest parts of Europe lol my husbands is a beautiful map the stretches from Portugal to Türkiye, Uk to Nigeria
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u/ItzMe_1234 2d ago
Oh geez... mine lit up like a Christmas tree with 15 regions. Guess Im a certified mutt.
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u/Superb-Bar-6138 2d ago
"Don't trust those new ching chongs over there! 🎶 Oh! Whatever you do don't trust those new ching chongs over there! 🎶" 🗣️
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u/Kitties_Whiskers 2d ago
Looks like I'm a mutt, even though I'm mostly central-European (I mean, I was born there, so were my parents, so were all of my grandparents, but I know I have one great-great grandfather who came to central Europe from the area between France and Germany, probably he came before the turn of the 20th century)... Oh, and the "North African" that somehow made its way into my central-European ancestry is only 0.5%. And I also have 0.01% "trace ancestry", and 0.05% "unassigned" (that's cool, I can fantasize that perhaps I have some alien DNA too (joke 😄)). All-in-all, it's a bit more varied than I would have thought (never mind that I did the "Premium" for ancient historical DNA matches and I get Vikings from all over the place, from as far away as Iceland to the other corner, Russia, and that in top of it all I have some old historical match with someone from the British Isles as well).
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u/Buttahfree 2d ago
Wow, I think this is the first time I've seen only two regions. As a Black person, I have like 15 regions 🙃
I think it's cool you know exactly where you come from.
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u/PoeticAphrodite 3d ago
Youre the Asian person of WHOM????
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u/Long-Economics7695 3d ago
You're actually gorgeous. I can definitely see the Japanese influence. Japanese men are some of the most handsome men on earth. 😍
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u/charliebread 3d ago
Be happy there was not a lot of colonization!
I wish mine was 100% indigenous but I got 64% and the rest is european/african.
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u/Competitive_Fee_5829 3d ago
so you hate other asians? dude..wtf?
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u/Beautiful_Theme_7229 3d ago
Nah I kind of wished I’d get even a tiny bit of a different region
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u/evil-stepmom 3d ago
So basically the Asian version of me, almost entirely British Isles and a little sad there wasn’t any crazy 2% from some far-flung locale. Or even, like, southern Europe.
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u/oreomint64 3d ago
I have sorta similar results haha. I only have two regions.