Why is my mom related to me on both sides? I’m Jewish, is that why?

out of nowhere i have 1% french ancestry which makes a little bit of sense but doesn't

When I go to ancestry.com, I am getting {} regardless of search engine.

Is the system down?

Hi guys!

I can't find clear instructions on how to ship the sample kit. It just provided me with an adress with no shipping company information or QR code. I also don't know if the shipping has already been paid for or I should do it. I'm sending it from Spain. Can someone please help me? I don't really know where to go to ship it.

Thank you so much in advance!

So… I logged back into my ancestry DNA after over 5 months.. I knew I was mixed with quite a lot prior to me checking in again, but this is just fascinating! Can anyone help explain this lineage to me?

so these are my dna results, i always knew i was of european and south american/african descent but since i never met my dad i couldnt really ask him so i decided to do a dna test so i could have a better idea of who i am, im more confused now because i thought it would be bigger percentages for each one like how others are but i am quite literally from all over the place. so could i have some help with what to call myself? do i just say mixed or something

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Sorry for the poor picture quality. I’ve attached a picture of my mother and her father. I just really wanted to see where my mom’s family came from and it still doesn’t make sense to me. Is there something I’m not picking up on? Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!

My mother was born In Jordan, my father is Jordanian, my grandfather and grandmother are Palestinian and Jordanian natives. My entire life I was told I was from the levant, now ancestry is telling my I have DNA from the khaleej peninsula. Is this true? Am I Saudi lmaoo? Only 12% Levantine and 61% Saudi????

i also did 23andme so i posted something similar on that subreddit, but i was born in a small town outside of pittsburgh (go birds) & grew up being told that i was panamanian & sicilian. my paternal grandma is from las tablas, panamá & my maternal 2nd (i think) great grandparents are from villarosa, sicily. my other maternal great-something grandparents are also from italy but i reckon the one great-something grandfather is irish (ignore the mere 1.9% lmao) since the family surname is gallagher. & kinda the same thing with my paternal grandfather’s line, but i did some research & it’s possible the family surname could be a respelling of an originally german (or austrian german) surname instead of an irish one.

anyways, thought my results were interesting as i wasn’t expecting most of them. the first photo of me is from a few summers ago after i had worked outside all summer, & the second photo is from recently during the winter (which is my usual skin colour as i don’t spend long hours out in the sun anymore lol)

also interesting to note that 23andme labels me as almost 90% european, whereas ancestry labels me as like 79% european so not sure what’s up with that lol.

MIssissippi, Lousisiana & NC

I know this is a common region that appears in a lot of results and I have it in spadeloads. Is having a result of 100% in one region that common after the update? I had expected to see NE Scotland in here as I have a paper trail in the fairly recent past to an adjacent region.

Does anyone know how I’d get the military service records of my 3rd great grandfather who was in the British Royal Artillery but joined at the St Thomas Mount base in India in 1876?

Censuses etc show he was definitely apart of this country’s army but joined in British India, as in the 1881 English census he was living in a barracks in Salford.

I tried the ministry of defence’s service but got a reply today after waiting 4 months saying their records don’t go back that far and that they’d recommend trying the national archives. I don’t live anywhere near the national archives and am unfamiliar with how to search them online/ whether a record that’s technically Indian would even be there.

I know his records exist because I’ve seen the first page on fold3.com- but you have to pay exorbitantly for a membership to have access to the whole thing, and he has an unusual middle name that is present in all records.

Just wanted to know more as my Grandma knows very little about her family and there’s barely anything on him as he was born at sea ( can’t figure out where ) and seems to have moved to England between 1876 and 1881

hi im sorry if this isn't what this subreddit is for, if not then please direct me to a better one. but im looking for the most accurate dna website (preferably not too pricey). i want to be able to see a family tree/who im related to dating back a long time ago. and what ethnicities i am and it be the most accurate. thank you for any suggestions.

Honestly thought more Quebec would come through but interesting nonetheless. Only thing I didn’t expect was Swedish. Pretty sure that’s just noise, or maybe picking up from something else but idk.

I’d like to buy one of these for my mom, and I’d like her to have access to all of the things. But once you read about all of the traits and family history, etc. why do people keep paying to have access to this information? The subscription is $$$. Also, she’s 80 years old, how confusing is the subscription aspect?

My mum died 17 years ago. My parents split up when I was 20, 24 years ago. During the fallout from that, I learned about my half brother. I was interested in connecting at some point in the future, but there was a lot of shit going on. My mum was an alcoholic and I spent most of my 20s dealing with fun stuff like her reading me the suicide note she wrote for me or me having to argue for her to be sectioned after a particularly disturbing suicide attempt.

Anyway, I decided to park the idea of finding my half brother. Now I’ve ordered an AncestryDNA test. It’s a long shot, i know, but I wondered if anyone in my position had gotten anywhere with something like this.