Annie AncestryDNA update*

[Annie999]

AncestryDNA has made a major update, using data of 16k samples instead of 3k and adding new regions.

What I think is right;

- Crazy ethnicities like Scandinavian or Jew among others, are finally gone.
- My 1% Native American finally shows up (it did in 23andme but not here)
- The iberian subdivisions; Spain, Basque and Portugal are right, as I know I have heritage from there.

Notes:
- I went from >1% West European to 30% French. While I do have French heritage it's not nearly that big.
- My Lebanese was read as 4% Middle East and 2% Turkey and Caucasus instead of falling into the new Lebanese category.



UPDATED RESULTS

https://i.imgur.com/8QKkBHT.jpg


OLD RESULTS

https://i.imgur.com/LK1Mpja.jpg

[Catarinense1998]

Congrats.

[Rædwald]

How far back are your known Amerindian ancestors?

[Annie999]

Oh wait... Apparently "Italian" heritage on this update does NOT include the north, yet my heritage is from there, and half from the North-West. Could it be Ancestry read my north italian as French??? :confused:

https://i.imgur.com/JZGvpIW.jpg

[gıulıoımpa]

Could it be Ancestry read my north italian as French??? :confused:



i think so, more so if it is not North east but rather lombard, or even more piedmontese

[Annie999]

i think so, more so if it is not North east but rather lombard, or even more piedmontese

Yes, I meant to say north-west. My Italian is from Piedmot, Lombardy and Liguria.

But if my French is actually North Italian, what is my 46% Italian?


How far back are your known Amerindian ancestors?

There are not known ancestors. This came as a surprise, and it's almost impossible to track, I wouldn't even know where to start.

[Rædwald]

Yes, My Italian is from Piedmot, Lombardy and Liguria.

But if my French is actually North Italian, what is my 46% Italian?



There are not known ancestors. This came as a surprise, and it's almost impossible to track, I wouldn't even know where to start.

I have 3% from as far as I can tell from about 12 generations back.

[paradox]

Your 46% Italy probably comes from the primarily Italy, San Marino, Vatican city and Malta category.

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[tekken999]

Could it be Ancestry read my north italian as French??? :confused:
I think it's very likely that this is the case and that ancestry dna for whatever reason grouped some of north italy with france so in reality you have might more italian than it says and less french. In my case, ancestry says I have more Portuguese than Spanish but my family who is Puerto Rican has ancestors that were most likely galicians.
Puerto Rico didn't receive much portuguese unlike galicians. Also as we know galicia genetically plots more similarly to Portugal than Spain which makes sense given its history. So you have to be careful how you interpret it.

My results for example


https://i.imgur.com/5vK1iFZ.png

[Annie999]

The North Italian misread as "French" is almost confirmed. 2 others on facebook had the same situation, went from a minimal % of Western Euro to big amounts of French, and the 2 of them, like myself, had north-western italian heritage. In their case though, their italian dissapeared, so we can assume it was all read as French. My case is weird because I keep 46% italian plus 30% French.

[tekken999]

The North Italian misread as "French" is almost confirmed. 2 others on facebook had the same situation, went from a minimal % of Western Euro to big amounts of French, and the 2 of them, like myself, had north-western italian heritage. In their case though, their italian dissapeared, so we can assume it was all read as French. My case is weird because I keep 46% italian plus 30% French.
So that makes you super italiana then :thumb001:

[Annie999]

It's confirmed - AncestryDNA update reads North-West Italian like French. This is what they said:

"Changes in country boundaries and historical migration patterns often mean that regions do not always reflect modern countries. For example, people from Austria may have more Slavic in their report than Germany because of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Similarly, people with roots in Northern Italy may have a surprising amount of France in their results because France was in control of Northern Italy for centuries.'" :rolleyes:

Mystery solved.

This is the map of the "French" region. It can be seen parts of Iberia is also included, just like north-west Italy.

https://i.imgur.com/zdgVXRe.jpg