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In case anyone wants to check if the new results are up (currently they aren't):
>https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/{INSERT ID HERE}/ethnicity?version=2020
Change 2020 to 2021 an copy and paste the string of numbers and letters in your DNA profile link where it says INSERT ID HERE and remove the brackets.
Go to your Ancestry DNA story. There’s a long URL up top, at the end of which theyre a long number (it’ll look something like CA7827294-WXHSHC717428 blah blah). Copy paste that number.
Then, insert that number into the following link: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERT-TEST-NUMBER-HERE/ethnicity?version=2021
Click and you should be able to see what everyone else is seeing now! :)
If by chance you're fully korean or chinese you could do the free 23andme global genetics project . https://www.23andme.com/global-genetics/
if you know anyone who is either full chinese or full korean, try to mention this to them and let them know there is no detriment or a wast of time (quite a few people are either scared of DNA or they think it's a waste of time because they think it's all about telling them their ancestry and they know their ancestry already).
note: it gives an error bc it's too early but it may work soon
Use this link: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERT ACCOUNT ID HERE/ethnicity?version=2021 (you can change 2021 into 2020 or previous years for older results)
To get account ur ID go to https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/
It's the number/letter combination after "insights/" in the link
note: currently it gives an error...
this link: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERT ACCOUNT ID HERE/ethnicity?version=2021 (you can change 2021 into 2020/ 2019 to see your old/current results)
To get account ID go to https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/
It's the number/letter combination after "insights/" in the URL.
Well, I think the new update is coming soon^TM with the addition of the two new features DnaStoryCommunityUpdate and showUpdatedBadge in config-settings.
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/WRITECODEHERE/ethnicity?version=2021
to find the code- https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/
if you look closely, after /insights/ there is something like: 2B7FAR1G-2EQA-405A-82BF-21E56A11C086
Paste that where I wrote "WRITECODEHERE".
I can't find the info for Ancestry, but this link from 23andMe explains the precision and recall of all of their ethnic regions.
https://www.23andme.com/ancestry-composition-guide/
Precision answers the question "When the system predicts that a piece of DNA comes from population A, how often is the DNA actually from population A?" Native American is one of only a couple ethnicities that actually has 100% precision. I may have exaggerated a little bit when I said it was litterally the easiest to detect, but it is certainly one of the easiest.
It's more of a url pointing to an estimate no longer (or not yet) available. It shows you whatever the ethnicity estimate for a particular year was (is).
People have tried it today, but it is giving a 403 error.
The hack's url is: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/*you put your ID# here*/ethnicity?version=2021
But again, it doesn't work at the moment (I tried it earlier)
If you have ancestry from the Balkans, Mediterranean, Western Asian, East Africa, you might've received a new community.
It's a mistake to assume that there is an enormous amount of accuracy behind ethnicity results, other than to confirm where you are from on a continental level (European, Asian etc). If you are not showing any French and your mother and half-brother are, it means you likely did not inherit those same pieces of DNA which "look" like they are French. For more information on why your ethnicity estimates (note the description - these are estimates and will vary from person to person even within the same family) it is really worth reading a lot of the background provided by Ancestry, such as this - https://www.ancestry.com/cs/dna-help/ethnicity/expectations
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Not sure why I’m getting downvoted. Here’s the link where ancestry claims it can trace back 500-1000+ years, which is basically impossible. It’s in the 3rd paragraph.
They do announce community updates sometimes: https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/ancestrydna-announces-updated-communities-members-ties-balkans-mediterranean-western-asia-and
Yes.
It's what Ancestey says: https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/why-your-latest-results-could-include-more-scotland-in-your-ethnicity-estimates
"Over the years, the names of our ethnicity regions for the UK and Ireland have changed, but we’ve always had only two regions to compare customers’ DNA against, roughly an Ireland/Celtic/Gaelic group and an Anglo-Saxon/Britain/England group. Now we have four: England & Northwestern Europe, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales."
Ireland, Scotland and Welsh groups = Native Celtic
England and NW Europe = Anglo-Saxon/Germanic
Pretty much and your regional genetic and/or additional communities confirm the breakdown of your results. Scottish DNA as AncestryDNA define it has become very controversial. Their blog explains it: https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/why-your-latest-results-could-include-more-scotland-in-your-ethnicity-estimates so that gives insight to how AncestryDNA interprets British Isles admixture DNA.
I'm accidentally talking about 23andMe, but AncestryDNA also crowdsources their communities.
How are Genetic Communities Identified?
"When we discover communities, we use information from family trees AncestryDNA members have linked to their test results to learn about the historical forces that may have brought their ancestors together."
Do you mean why aren't you 24-25% French? We do not get exactly 25% of our DNA from each of our four grandparents. Yes, we get exactly 50% from each of our parents, but it's random which part of their parents you inherit.
Here's an Ancestry article that explains it, although I think it would've been much clearer had it used more unique letters: https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/understanding-patterns-of-inheirtance-where-did-my-dna-come-from-and-why-it-matters/
I'm a Texan born and raised. My family has been in the South many, many generations.
When I read that you were Texan, I figured we might share communities but they are extremely different, which was surprising to see.
Here is a link to my results and communities...
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/share/501e7061-f702-4aad-baf0-4f3533b601f7
One historian’s opinion: The Iberian connection doesn’t answer any questions for you. Celts, Visigoths, Romans, Germans, French, Mediterranean Peoples, All would have “Iberian” DNA. It’s a cop out since Ancestry doesn’t have enough data (and probably never will) to correctly identify European ethnic groups past the regions of the world they currently reside in. In other words, your DNA has markers matched to modern day Spain and/or Portugal, both of which could be descendants of any number of dozens of tribes or peoples from all over Europe, the Mediterranean, or even North Africa or the Middle East.
For reference, look at the eclectic history that Ancestry gives for “Iberian” heritage here.
Also, look at this map of the peninsula and its very complicated genealogical make-up here.
> They say you can't give it to someone who has an active subscription.
I don't see anything about that, but my sub expires next week anyway.
The terms and conditions - https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/gift-terms
say the purchaser will choose the start date, which must be within 90 days of the purchase date.
You don't need advertising to know about something but I have friends in most European countries and yes these tests are advertised where they are legally allowed to be. The linked page has a list of countries where ancestry does DNA tests, many if not most, are in Europe. There are also other companies that may not be as popular in the US but offer DNA testing in European countries. Ancestry UK is not even based in the UK, but in The Republic of Ireland, which is an EU country. ancestry international
Here are some things you might be interested in:
Genetic Maps of Europe. Scroll down to the combined Germanic and Celtic Y-DNA maps.
Their database has over 20 million testers: https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/about-ancestry/company-facts
The test has been available since 2012, so if you do the math to get an average, they get about 2 million tests per year, which would be about 5,000-6,000 tests per day. It probably ebbs and flows though, and it's possible it has overall slowed down somewhat in the last year or two (there's been speculation that the market is saturating - most people who would take the test already have).
No, it’s only drawing on modern DNA. They collect samples from people who have long family histories in a particular location to get an idea about the kind of DNA that was probably there a long time ago and then compare your DNA to theirs. https://www.ancestry.com/cs/dna-help/ethnicity/estimates
i found an ancestry page that says "You will be able to view and download the prior version of your ethnicity estimate in DNA Story for 90 days post update"
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/lp/ancestry-dna-ethnicity-estimate-update
under "Can I go back to the old version?"
this link: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERT ACCOUNT ID HERE/ethnicity?version=2021 (change 2021 into 2020/ 2019 to see your old/current results)
To get account ID go to https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/
It's the number/letter combination after "insights/" in the URL.
Yup you look like you could be my 1st-2nd cousin, also here are my communities, https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/share/c8a3035a-d052-4f35-97a4-437baa2fe2bc . From what I know my parents comes from Ciego de Avila and Cienfuegos.
Almost every English person will get some Scandinavian, not because you have a recent Scandinavian ancestor, but because almost every English person is partly Scandinavian, it's get even more confusing when you take into consideration that what it's called English is Anglo-Saxon which includes Danish tribes like the Jutes.
Look at the averages for a person from Northeast England: https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/why-your-latest-results-could-include-more-scotland-in-your-ethnicity-estimates
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Your results are very similar to the average, incluiding having a bit of Sweden and Norway.
Thanks! I’m grateful it’s been moving quickly compared to some of the other timelines I’ve seen here.
The origins trick is super simple. When you’re signed into ancestry on a browser, the URL should look something like https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/ followed by a whole bunch of different letters and numbers that are the identifier for your kit. Replace “insights” with “origins” and it should show you some preliminary results, usually just the ethnicities and not any additional communities. Some of them may not appear exactly as they are named when the results are finalized (like Anglo-Saxon instead of England for instance) and sometimes it might give a range vs a single percentage but it should give you a good idea until the final results come in :) it only works once the analysis step is completed
23andme tends to have more accurate ethnicity percentages, and being from central Asian, it's likely they'd be better suited to provide accurate reports. However, Ancestry has the largest user database if you're interested in connecting with relatives. If all four of your grandparents were born in Tajikistan or Turkmenistan, you would be eligible for a free kit through 23andme's Global Genetics Project.
Also you might find this article relevant:
https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/why-your-latest-results-could-include-more-scotland-in-your-ethnicity-estimates
Are many of your English ancestors from the north? That might partly explain the higher Scottish percentage. Also, this article might be interesting to you: https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/why-your-latest-results-could-include-more-scotland-in-your-ethnicity-estimates
Also, If you've not done it already, you might find 23andMe a useful/interesting test to compare to your AncestryDNA.
(I am American but have almost completely British & Irish ancestry -- my AncestryDNA results are: 46% English/NWE, 19% Scottish, 17% Welsh, 14% Irish, 4% Norwegian. 23andMe gives me 99.5% British & Irish. Genetically, I'm basically 1/2 English and 1/2 Scottish, Irish, and Welsh.)
Wow! Our results are so similar! Almost the same. I got: 81% Eastern European (with the same communities as yours) 18% Baltic and 1% European Jewish
>https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERT ACCOUNT ID HERE/ethnicity?version=2020
All I get is a short page of JSON:
{"version":2020,"createdAt":1597302673000,"regions":[{"key":"Scotland","percentage":49,"lowerConfidence":41,"upperConfidence":59,"lowConfidenceAssignment":false,"color":"#f1e000"},{"key":"England","percentage":31,"lowerConfidence":25,"upperConfidence":31,"lowConfidenceAssignment":false,"color":"#75cd00"},{"key":"Ireland","percentage":12,"lowerConfidence":0,"upperConfidence":16,"lowConfidenceAssignment":false,"color":"#00cc99"},{"key":"Norway","percentage":4,"lowerConfidence":0,"upperConfidence":7,"lowConfidenceAssignment":false,"color":"#00b8cd"},{"key":"Germany","percentage":4,"lowerConfidence":0,"upperConfidence":23,"lowConfidenceAssignment":false,"color":"#0087a2"}]}
I guess this really does tell me all I need to know, but in that case, I'd say the new UI is visually impoverished. :-)
I’ll give you the instructions,
This is the link so we’ll hold on to this
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/ACCOUNTID/ethnicity?version=2020
Go to your results page and click my dna story
Go to the URL. Copy the code after origins/ and up to the first question mark.
Get rid of ACCOUNT ID on the link on the top of this page and put your code instead and press go.
Your updated results should be there.
You are replacing the ACCOUNT ID part in the link I gave you and putting your code instead
I’ll give you the instructions,
This is the link so we’ll hold on to this
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/ACCOUNTID/ethnicity?version=2020
Go to your results page and click my dna story
Go to the URL. Copy the code after origins/ and up to the first question mark.
Get rid of ACCOUNT ID on the link on the top of this page and put your code instead and press go.
Your updated results should be there.
You are replacing the ACCOUNT ID part in the link I gave you and putting your code instead.
I’m half East English, but my results don’t have anything more exotic than 2% Norway. AncestryDNA just identified me as being linked to the East of England community. Other DNA tests gave me super weird results, but I do not think they were very accurate.
I think it would be cool if Ancestry also provided some sort of historical analysis as a secondary result. They have done studies on British communities before.
See here:
I actually thought that can’t be right but then I saw this, the name Neaggie is much clearer here so it really is a name in use: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2442/images/m-t0627-03815-00195?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=137270122
They've don't have as many samples for Eastern Europe as for Western Europe, I'd guess that's the cause for the lack of specificity:
The communities are based on information from the family trees of you and your DNA matches. See this white paper for a detailed explanation of how they define genetic communities.
Yeah... some peoples have gone through and some people are still waiting by the seems. People who's DNA was extracted on the 10th have got their results, but someone who's was extracted on the 3rd has only been analysed today. Ancestry boards (https://www.ancestry.com/boards/topics.dnaresearch.dnaprocessingtimes/mb.ashx) is usually a good place to see how people are doing with theirs :)
Hi! I just recently received my results, you might want to check out the message boards on ancestry, i really like seeing how everyone else’s process was, it was really informative. https://www.ancestry.com/boards/topics.dnaresearch.dnaprocessingtimes/mb.ashx
PS Express is pretty good for that, and it works on android! It’s what I usually use for that sorta thing. An alternative would be canva, but I find it’s a bit harder to make neat collages with.
Ancestry does this by using family trees to look at migration patterns...which we already knew about anyway, it's been the subject of historical sociology and anthropology re the development of distinctive American cultures, see for instance Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer...but Ancestry have enough DNA samples in conjunction with family trees to be able to cluster groups based on networks of relatedness. There's a paper on it from 2016, "Clustering of 770,000 genomes reveals post-colonial population structure of North America", here.
Thinking about people like Ralph Bunche who were light-skinned and/or others who could have passed, but chose not to. I remember seeing one old picture of an NAACP board from a long time ago and they looked like unambiguous white people. Far more so than OP. Colorism had its advantages and they leveraged that.
OP is damn near 30% black. 60 years ago, had someone found that out, he could have been fired, or faced consequences for passing. A quarter black was as black as half to three quarters to 7/8ths. Before Loving v VA, OP wouldn't have been able to legally marry a white woman throughout the whole US. That's just 1967.
Now, he could have passed, but there were consequences for that. Bliss Broyard has written about this:
https://www.amazon.com/One-Drop-Fathers-Life-Secrets/dp/0316008060
I know it cracks me up. The full title is actually "Pow Wow Chow: A Collection of Recipes from Families of the Five Civilized Tribes : Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole"
It's still available on Amazon for the low-low price of $77.
https://www.amazon.com/Pow-Wow-Chow-Collection-Civilized/dp/9996688445
The reviews are merciless
Yes I remember, but again, like we discussed earlier the AS and Vikings genetically are literally indistinguishable, as the AS were pretty much an extension of the Danes, I think with her current data (23andMe raw data) we just can’t know at the moment, I think once her AncestryDNA results come, if you are still doing that, we can then get a better idea of her ancient ancestry more deeply, I think just right now, with whatever is detectable, it is so so hard to determine if she shows a Germanic component, it is extremely hard to tell if that component is from the Norse or the AS. But I would MOST LIKELY say it is from the AS, as the Norse only contributed to the average Brit a minuscule amount, although I don’t know how they figured this out, I mean again the AS and Vikings genes are indistinguishable in a lot of cases, so especially from this article:
DNA of the nation revealed...and we're not as 'British' as we think
I mean how in the world did they differentiate AS DNA and Norse DNA, who knows.
That is correct; it will give you the map with your ethnicity estimates and percentages, but you have to wait for the full results to get DNA matches. But at least you can see your ethnicity estimate earlier!
To access, from your DNA home page, choose "Your DNA Results Summary" from the DNA drop down menu. Then, look at the url address bar; it should read https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/ , followed by a bunch of numbers and letters. To use the origins hack, replace the word "insights" between the two backslashes with the word "origins" and the new website will either send you back to the home page (if not working yet), or send you to a map with your ethnicity estimates. The hack worked for me about 12 hours after DNA analyzing was complete.
Good luck!
Are you referring to this record? https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/915384:9910 If so, then that's not her. The mother's name is incorrect. Also it looks like she died a few months later: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/6958729:9910
Much appreciation for the clarification. And that does sound like a hacking incident.
Although it isn't exactly the type of thing covered by this, I would try reporting here: https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/Phishing
It's most likely Scots-Irish ancestry since we're Americans(I'm Black American as you are). Before last year update, Scotland and Ireland was one category before it was separated.
https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/ive-been-told-im-scots-irish-am-i-irish-am-i-scottish
They clearly claim to be able to do so here:
https://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/gettingstarted
If not, isn't it false advertising? 'Go back even further.
While hints take you back generations, AncestryDNA looks even deeper into your past—up to 1,000 years—and shows you where your ancestors likely came from, uncovering your ethnic origins.'
https://www.ancestry.com/cs/dna-help/communities/ethnicity-v-community
"Your ethnicity estimate includes regions based on two different scientific processes: the AncestryDNA reference panel and our Genetic Communities™ technology.
The AncestryDNA reference panel is made up of people who have long-standing, documented roots in a specific area. We compare your DNA to this reference panel to determine your possible ancestry hundreds to thousands of years ago. Regions with a solid circle are based on the reference panel.
Communities are groups of AncestryDNA members who are most likely connected because they share fairly recent ancestors who came from the same region or culture—even though they may have had different ethnic backgrounds. We find communities by analyzing genetic connections between groups of AncestryDNA members. These groups identify areas where your ancestors may have lived more recently. Regions with a dotted circle are communities."
When I search the 1940 census I get 38 but some of those are slight variations in the name. https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2442/?name=_Urich&count=50&name_x=_1&residence=_chicago-cook-illinois-usa_36829&residence_x=_1-1-a
Ok I found them with him named Claude in the 1920 census in Janes Creek, Randall, Arkansas. Milo listed as Mira B Terry. Mom is Allice E Terry.
Milo’s obituary in 1967 says that his parents were named Claude F Terry and Myrtle Terry. (Battle Creek MI, 10 Aug 1967.) https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/530824111:61843?tid=&pid=&queryId=643935305bc9c8488bc5d46254c1373b&_phsrc=Api61&_phstart=successSource
Hmm maybe, but when I look at other family trees, such as this one, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/32317225/person/29124875393/facts
it puts Milo as the father. Do they change the father on the birth certificate or something?
Unless you know directly about your Norwegian ancestry through family history, it most likely comes from many ancestors having small amounts of Scandinavian. Similar to how African-Americans have European ancestry in the United States.
Ancestry uses a reference panel of a set number of people with which to compare DNA kits. Each update shows the number of the total reference panel and the numbers for each ethnicity and Genetic Community is also available. They don’t update based on new tests. They do use user submitted data for one portion of the Genetic Communities and that is so that they can tell whether an identified population cluster is a Migration or a Sub-Region. Here’s one of their white papers on ethnicity estimates and it includes how they go about selecting for their reference population.
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/resource/whitePaper/AncestryDNA-Ethnicity-White-Paper.pdf
Another reason for posting this is because people also incorrectly think that because Ancestry doesn’t sell tests in certain countries that it means they can’t pinpoint DNA from those countries. There is a big difference between the two.
I hope this helps! :)
I've been doing this for several years, so mine expires next week anyway.
The terms and conditions - https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/gift-terms
say the purchaser will choose the start date, which must be within 90 days of the purchase date. So choose a start date of before the end of Feb, just under 90 days from now.
Ancestry claims you're 72% Germanic. The group for England is all Germanic: https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/why-your-latest-results-could-include-more-scotland-in-your-ethnicity-estimates
Over the years, the names of our ethnicity regions for the UK and Ireland have changed, but we’ve always had only two regions to compare customers’ DNA against, roughly an Ireland/Celtic/Gaelic group and an Anglo-Saxon/Britain/England group. Now we have four: England & Northwestern Europe, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
The German might still be higher! Via their updated FAQ, places such as Northern Germany might see some of their percentage put in the Sweden + Denmark category, due to proximity and similarity.
Anecdotally, Ancestry really struggles with my German side of the family lol. My maternal Grandma has 3 German grandparents, but only a 36% estimated Germanic Europe. However, she has 13% Sweden + Denmark, and 2% France, all of which I believe to just be German. (I also think some of her weirdly high English + NW Europe is some of the German misread as well.)
Two of the grandparents are from Southern Germany, and one is from Northern Germany. That grandfather, both of his parents, and all of his grandparents were from Hanover or unmentioned locations of (at that time) Prussia. I think that's where her Sweden + Denmark estimate comes from, and might be what you're dealing with, too, possibly even with the French.
Just thought that was worth mentioning; I'm wishing you lots of luck in your new journey of self exploration, I hope you can find more answers someday. <3
There are a lot of folks who think that Scottish is over-represented in their Ancestry results. It's a bit if a running joke a this point if you search this subreddit.
Here's something that Ancestry has posted themselves about it:
i saw on the new update page (https://www.ancestry.com/dna/lp/ancestry-dna-ethnicity-estimate-update) it said
"The updated Sweden & Denmark region provides improved results for people of both Swedish and Danish heritage. On average, people of either heritage will see an increase in the percentage of Sweden & Denmark in their results when compared to the old Sweden region.
People from places near or with historical ties to Denmark (including northern Germany, the northern Netherlands, and Southeast England) may also see more Sweden & Denmark in their results."
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/( Ethnicity Code here)/ethnicity?version=4ethnicity?version=4 You use that link and where it says “ethnicity code here,” you find that where it says DNA story. The code is in the weblink.
You already did! That's pretty usual though, the newest users always get ethnicity updates first. However, since your results are still showing as updated I'm betting you possibly can see your previous results in .html code by using the url that's being passed around (https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERTIDHERE/ethnicity?version=2020). The ID is the numbers and letters you see after ancestry.ca/dna/insights/
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/\*\*\*\*\*\*\*/ethnicity?version=2019
Just replace the asterisks with your account ID, you can find it in the DNA Story URL (https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/ID WILL BE HERE).
note: currently not working (error)..
this link: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERT ACCOUNT ID HERE/ethnicity?version=2021 (you can change 2021 into 2020/ 2019 to see your old/current results)
To get account ID go to https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/
It's the number/letter combination after "insights/" in the URL.
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/WRITECODEHERE/ethnicity?version=2021
to find the code- https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/
if you look closely, after /insights/ there is something like: 2B7FAR1G-2EQA-405A-82BF-21E56A11C086
Paste that where I wrote "WRITECODEHERE".
Eastern Europe and Russia are the main ethnicity regions matching the sample population groups that AncestryDNA has from that region while the "sub groups" are "genetic communities" that can come from location that your DNA relatives report from because once you have your results, they can see who you match in their data base as relatives but they're virtually "recent migrations" that are usually covered underneath those ethnic regions:
https://www.ancestry.com/cs/dna-help/communities/communities-identified
https://www.ancestry.com/cs/dna-help/communities/discover-story
Your Communities and results make sense. This means you have long roots in the North Carolina-Virginia border area. One of my paternal aunts even has The Carolinas, Maryland and Virginia African Americans so this is cool.
Here's a blog by genealogist name FonteFelipe who studies the genome of African Diasporans and it's explain how many of us Black Americans have as much Nigerian as we do: https://tracingafricanroots.wordpress.com/2021/04/20/are-african-americans-really-mostly-nigerian/
The interesting thing is that One of the reasons why we're called "African Americans" is that via The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, we're a community of multiple tribes and regions in Africa so it's hard to fully specify exactly where in Africa are our true origins but out of this we became our community and our results show this every time. Here are my own results: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/E53EF955-BCD9-4AC0-A121-E22E3F45D923 and you can see, there's a commonality among our community as far as our results.
I think I'm similar :) 6 generations ago...
Yes, but the English on his results are 100% Anglo-Saxon, the cluster "England and NW Europe" is an Anglo-Saxon cluster, not Celtic, Ancestry already said it multiple times, like here: https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/why-your-latest-results-could-include-more-scotland-in-your-ethnicity-estimates
They literally removed Wales and the Scottish border regions in 2020 update.
Wales has its own category and Scottish border regions are now under Scotland category
More details here on the effect on moving the Scottish regions to Scotland:
The average Englishman is almost 20% "Scottish": https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/why-your-latest-results-could-include-more-scotland-in-your-ethnicity-estimates
As explained on Ancestry's white paper update, this is common Celtic ancestry, you have to keep in mind that what says "Scotland" it just mean "Celtic", like "England and NW Europe" being "Anglo-Saxon".
Ancestry uses the terms Celtic and AS internally, but obviously they have to use country names that people can easily recognize and be happy with their results, most people wouldn't like doing such ancestry tests to get "X% Celtic and Y% AS", they are English so they want to read England, they are Scottish so they want to read Scotland.
Ancestry and other companies have really useful FAQs on their sites explaining how this is done.
Basically, a certain proportion of DNA segments is only possible with certain relationships.
I appreciate that this may not help you with your specific question, but the information abailable on the sites is likely to be of more assistance to you than some random response on here.
https://www.ancestry.com/cs/dna-help/communities/dots-and-lines
"The dots represent ancestral birth locations. We collect birth locations and dates from online trees that members of Genetic Communities™ have linked to their AncestryDNA results."
about as close as explanation i've seen https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/your-dna-has-a-story-to-share-now-theres-a-better-way-to-tell-it/
Hello, so something that's very important regarding DNA tests is "informed consent". Once you do the test, I believe it's implied that you've agreed to everything it entails. If you're worried, I suggest going over Ancestry DNA's informed consent page. Afaik, your DNA isn't used for criminal investigations or anything similar, although there are some companies that ask if you'd like to opt in to that! If it eases your worries, I took the test like 4 years ago and haven't had any problems at all.
Yes there is a bias for Europe and Great Britain in particular. A lot has to do with starting out initially serving the US, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Then expanding to other countries.
As they have gotten more customers and more reference panel data, estimates have changed and some of their bias has improved. The bias is still ther, just improving over time. This past July 2020 was very Scotland heavy where prior to the update it was very English heavy. Indigenous Americas has expanded into several grouping rather than one whole group covering all the Americas.
Yes, let me write a quik tutorial.
First, you download your raw DNA (https://www.ancestry.com/dna/settings/)
Then you login on gedmatch. You go to 'upload your DNA files, (https://www.gedmatch.com/v_upload1N.php)
You fill in some stuff, and when you scroll down you upload a file (your raw DNA file), and then click on 'upload. Now they will create a 'kit', which will have a number.
Youll have to wait for your kit to be ready, and then you will get a kit that has a number. You should copy this number or write it down, since you will need it when choosing a calculator.
Choose 'admixture (heritage)' at DNA aplications. Here you choose a calculator. Try many of them, but you should start with MLDP or Eurogenes. Try many of the calculators. Compare them and just try many of them.
Also use the oracle-4 button to see which populations your DNA mostly looks like in general.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask questions, and let me know the results :)
There are a few questions to answer first.
Do you want to test your DNA? Ancestry.
If not, do you want to pay, or go the free route, or a combination?
You could look at Cyndi's List or just make an account on Family Search.
>Kirstine Pedersdatter
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Him?
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KWJY-NCY
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I have a bunch of Scandinavian dna matches at 0.3% and below in Australia at myheritage. They seem to have a lot more Danes.
But familysearch couldn't find a path from me to Christian Fugal.
- Dan
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Think carefully before you buy a DNA test kit. My family has had three unpleasant experiences. And it annoys me that Ancestry continues to push these rainbow and butterfly reunions. Check out my open letter to Ancestry. Used an anonymous blogging platform because I know I'll get pushback from people who feel entitled to pursue contact no matter how it affects the people they find.
Precision: chance that DNA identified as being of a certain category is actually from that category
Recall: chance that DNA from a category will be identified as such. lower recall means you're less likely to get that category even if your background is from it.
I noticed that the Indigenous Cuba category stands out as having incredibly low recall (0.17 or 17%) which I think means there's a 17% chance that actual indigenous Cuban DNA will be assigned as such
Thanks.
Someone linked me this. You think this might have something to do with it?
https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/filtering-dna-matches-at-ancestrydna-with-timber/
8/16 of my great great grandparents were immigrants, and that's the most recent! Three pairs were from Italy (Sicily, Naples, and Salerno), and one pair was from Norway (Aust-Agder).
I also have an English side of my family that goes back many generations in the US that includes soldiers that fought (on the right sides) in the Civil War and the American Revolution.
Check out my tree here if you're interested, it's a work in progress but I think it's pretty neat.
What part of England? NW as Ancestry suggests? That would largely explain the higher Scottish & Northern Irish. Also, https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/why-your-latest-results-could-include-more-scotland-in-your-ethnicity-estimates
Different regions of England tend to have more or less Scottish, Irish, and Welsh, depending. You might find this article helpful:
>Agneta
Could be from Albania (Agnesa), Greece (Agni), Croatia (Agneza), Serbia/Macedonia (Agnija). Was Agnes a patron saint?
In the 1940 U.S. census, 60% of men with the Agneta surname were bricklayers. 40% were laborers.
You shouldn't have to login, just click on his profile and copy the URL like you did on your own profile. If you can't click on it from your tree (I don't know if this works since I don't have other people's dna linked in my tree), try to enter his name/username here: https://www.ancestry.com/community/membersearch
By pasting your account ID into the link. I don't think it works anymore.
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/ACCOUNTID/ethnicity?version=2020
I'm too lazy to do that. Login to your Ancestry account and go look at your ethnicity estimate. Then copy what's in the address bar of your browser(https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/ etc) and write it to me.
You can preview updated results by pasting your account ID into this link: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERT ACCOUNT ID HERE/ethnicity?version=2020
To get account ID go to https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/
It's the number/letter combination after "insights/" in the URL.
Mine hasn’t updated either. What you do is paste your accound ID into this link and it will show your updated results: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERT ACCOUNT ID HERE/ethnicity?version=2020
To get account ID go to https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/
It's the number/letter combination after "insights/" in the URL.
hi this is a dumb question but did I do this right? is it supposed to look like this? thanks link provided below.