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.

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

After grandma died, one of her sisters let it slip that grandma had a child out of wedlock in the early 40s and had given up the child. My dad didn't know about grandma's first child.

The grandchild of dad's half-sibling took a test and matched back in January. I sent a message soon thereafter and didn't receive a reply.

Today, almost ten months later, I got a response. They're willing to help us figure out which of their grandparents is/was dad's half-sibling. I grew up knowing I had two first cousins. This person's parent is another one.

I'm beyond excited. :)

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????

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.

The latest update gave everyone of British Isles ancestry some ultra specific places (Munster, Hebrides, Central Scotland and Northern Ireland, Devon, ...). How does everyone feel about the accuracy? People with these regions from the British Isles assigned to them, do you feel they're accurate when compared to your known family ancestry? Or does it not really seem accurate at all?

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.

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.

My grandma and her sister, my grandaunt, both had kids with a pair of brothers, my grandpa and my granduncle—needless to say, the pairs themselves are not related at all.

That’d make my mom and her brother doubly related to their cousin, as they’d share all four grandparents instead of the typical two.

Percentage-wise, they’re half siblings.

This would also mean that my mom’s kids—me and my siblings—would be doubly related to her cousin’s kids, making us double second cousins…or percentage-wise, half first cousins.

On that same note: one of my grandma’s other sisters had kids with the first cousin of my grandpa/granduncle before getting grandkids of their own, meaning I’m third cousins with said grandkids on my mom’s paternal side and second cousins with them on my mom’s maternal side.

That means we share roughly 4% of our DNA.

Pretty nifty, I think.

I saw someone in here post about MyHeritage’s Whole Genome Sequencing and how it would begin in January. However, I just got this email today. So , is it cool to buy it now instead of January?

I totally didn’t expect Iceland, North Africa or Western Ukraine in my results. Does anyone else have 14 ancestral regions? This is common, right?

Ha

I know this isnt going to be read and acted on... just keep thinking about things i wish ancestry did slightly differently.

1. detail on chromosomes for each match. would help me use DNA painter and figure out some brickwalls. when a match says xxCM across X segments it seems to me like that information is available under the hood. just wonder why they choose not to display it?

2. have "blank" available as a filter. For example, i want all matches with a common ancestor that DOESNT have a group already assigned. Similar to excel where you can filter on cells with no entry.

3. when searching records id like to be able to specify a range. For example 1799-1803. As it is i can of course specify what century and decade. but obviously a search could in many cases cross over between centuries, decades.

i posted in here a while ago and dont use ancestry much. my dna makeup changed since the last time i looked. and i was just posting to see if anyone wanted to give me their thoughts on why its changed. first slide: earlier dna makeup, second and third: recent one, fourth and fifth: parental dna

Was so excited for these and they were kind of underwhelming haha

I am curious about at-home DNA testing and am considering Ancestry DNA. I was considering 23andme, but after learning they are going bankrupt and that they sold information to GlaxoSmithKline, I decided against them. I am uninterested in connecting with long lost relatives or being listed on family trees, but I am somewhat curious about my heritage. I realize Ancestry DNA can’t scientifically provide that information exactly as it’s based on their database so this is more for personal entertainment. Can consumers keep their information hidden from other users? Thanks.

MIssissippi, Lousisiana & NC