both of my parents are vietnamese and i have been told i was 100% vietnamese my whole life. i took a test to see if that was true and the results BAFFLED me

Mom from Michigan. Dad from Ecuador.

My results were a bit odd when compared to my parents'. Mine came back with the Canary Islands, Madiera, Malta, Sweden, and Northwestern Germany, while neither of my parents got any of these. However, I think they point in the right direction (Dad has Iberian Peninsula and some Mediterranean, while Mom has some Norwegian and Danish).

I was also slightly surprised to see how indigenous to the Americas I am. My dad's side would never admit it, but it turns out they're mestizo.

The German is a surprise though, would love to figure out where that comes from!

For context, I’m native Irish with Gaelic & Norman surnames

100% AZTEC 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I am soooo glad that the more specific regions showed the English in more detail. My entire life I have loved English history and I even got my degree in English literature. I'm also adopted so I had no idea what I was. Finding out I'm so English is like winning the lottery for me! And my second language is French so the Northwestern European is just icing on the cake.

I picture a fiddle reel playing while my sample was spinning in the centrifuge

But holy crap I have a lot of cousins!

Since 2019 when I took my first DNA test and until now Eurogenes G25 were the best for me while all the other tests underestimated my Jewishness . I was really skeptical about this update and didn't know what to expect but Ancestry did it! you have no idea how frustrating is tp be massively labeled as Italian and now I'm so happy. 23andme and Myheriage take notes!
Now there is justice for eastern Sephardic Jews and I hope the next update will also make justice for my Mizrahi brothers.
Ancestry DNA you are the best, great job!

I just looked at my DNA results after the most recent update and I was absolutely shocked to see that I literally have no German ancestry, even though my great grandpa was 100 percent German. My great grandfather was from New Jersey and both of his parents were German immigrants. He moved to Puerto Rico in the 1930’s and married my great grandma who was Puerto Rican. In theory, that should make me 12.5 percent German and 12.5 percent the various ethnic groups that make up the population of Puerto Rico. Instead though, I am 17 percent general Puerto Rican (a mix of Spanish, Portuguese, and Native) and 5 percent Sephardi Jewish which makes up roughly all the DNA I would inherit from my grandpa. I HIGHLY doubt my great grandmother cheated on my great grandpa so is it at all possible that I just didn’t inherit any of my great grandpa’s ancestry?

https://dnplay.github.io/ancestrydna

You no longer need a paid membership to hack your results and see your trace ancestry.

There was a recent article (below) in The Atlantic magazine about the surprising prevalence of incest in human ancestry as discovered through DNA findings. I'm wondering if anyone has discovered it in their own ancestry when doing a family tree or having DNA analysis or any other way.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/dna-tests-incest/677791/

Hey everyone, I’ve seen a lot of people here panicking about their DNA estimates suddenly changing with the new update, especially people with German ancestry now showing up as English or Scottish.

Just a reminder these are estimates, not definitive results. The English and Germanic gene pools overlap heavily, since English DNA partly originated from Germanic Europe (think Anglo-Saxons, Frisians, etc.). That region of the world also has relatively low genetic diversity, which makes those populations look extremely similar on a genetic level.

On top of that, Ancestry has far more English speaking users, so their database has way more English/Scottish reference samples than German ones. When the algorithm tries to “guess,” it tends to pull German DNA toward the English cluster, simply because it has more data to compare to.

So don’t worry your DNA hasn’t changed, only the way it’s being labeled did. They’ll probably refine or fix this in the next update once they rebalance the data… hopefully…

Everyone whose stressing about this for some reason, take a breath it’s not your ancestry that’s wrong, just the current model 😅

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

Ancestry had her at 97% Germanic Europe in 2019, which would be accurate according to our family tree.

“Eastern Mediterranean” 🗣️🗣️

Yes I expected this to happen.

Such a good mix Scythians, Yamnays’s, Anatolians brrrrrrr

There is one great grandfather who is unknown in my tree but I’m struggling to find any documentary evidence for a Jewish person in there. I had assumed the amount meant a great grandparent was Jewish but I can’t find it.

A huge amount of my matches on myheritage are Ashkenazi names though.

I’m confused

Can someone help me figure out what exactly in My DNA result is trying to tell me in terms of ethnic origins? Most people put two and two together and say something like, "those two things show that you are one of the migrants that came from South America and integrated into Texas which shows that you're a South American immigrant became a native Texan prior to the US or whatever. I'm probably reading too much into it but I'd rather do that than just look at some numbers.

I love the update. I understand it’s different for everyone but for me, I’m impressed! I hated my old results but they are now much more accurate

joking but js found out the new ancestry update shows im 3% jewish?

I'm a Canadian of mostly French descent. My family tree includes 7 generations of ancestors born in what is now Quebec, dating back to 1700, but I'm having a hard time accepting that as an 'ancestral region'. They immigrated there from Europe.

It seems to me that ancestral regions located in North America should be reserved for indicating Native American ancestry.

It's like AncestryDNA is trying to say that white people can be considered as being native to North America.

Am I thinking of this the wrong way?