Updates to my parents AncestryDNA results

**arkas** · 08-13-2018, 04:48 AM

Both my dad's parents are both Greek, from Arcadia in the Peloponnese region and from what I know they have don't have recent ancestry from anywhere else. There may possibly be one Jewish relative from generations ago, one of my Grandma's great great grandmother had a non-Greek sounding surname, "Guidzias", which I researched and it may be of Hebrew origin.

My mum's father is an ethnic Malayali from Kerala region in South India and her mother is Malaysian Indian, most likely Malayali but I am not 100% sure, may have some Tamil ancestry. They are are all Christian Indians, if that makes a difference and have roots in Quilon and Kochi.

My parents originally had these results:

Dad
Europe
92% Italy/Greece
5% Europe East
2% European Jewish
<1% Europe West

Mum
Asia
76% Asia South
21% Asia East
Pacific Islander
2% Polynesia
1% Melanesia

Then there was an update to my dad's results, but not to my mum's.

Europe
92% Greece, Turkey and Albania
5% Eastern Europe
2% European Jewish
<1% Europe West

Here is my dad's results after the most recent update, the update option wasn't available for my mum's.

Dad
94% Greece and the Balkans
2% Eastern Europe and Russia
3% Italy

Conclusion:
I think the results are definately getting more accurate, also I am surprised my dad didn't have any Caucasus percentage. My grandma did the test and showed a little Caucasus and some Western European oddly enough.

I also think that South Asian reference samples they use have got to be disproportionately North Indian DNA, I seriously doubt my mum has any recent East Asian ancestry. Her South Indian dna is being mislabelled as East Asian in my opinion.

Also does anyone know why my mum can't update her results? It just says her results are already up to date.

**GreentheViper** · 08-13-2018, 04:54 AM

What DNA test is this, Ancestry or 23andMe?

**arkas** · 08-13-2018, 04:56 AM

Originally Posted by GreentheViper

What DNA test is this, Ancestry or 23andMe?

AncestryDNA, I put it in the title.

**arkas** · 08-13-2018, 04:56 AM

Here are my grandmother's results and for some reason the most recent update option isn't available for her either.

Europe
79% Italy/Greece
8% Europe East
5% Europe West
4% European Jewish
<1%Scandinavian
West Asia
Caucasus 3%

After the second update:

Europe
79% Greece, Turkey and Albania
8% Europe East
5% Europe West
4% European Jewish
<1%Scandinavian
West Asia
Caucasus 3%

**Dick** · 08-13-2018, 04:59 AM

Can you post the updated genetic communities?

**GreentheViper** · 08-13-2018, 05:01 AM

Originally Posted by arkas

AncestryDNA, I put it in the title.

Oh right lol

What date did you get the original results on?

**arkas** · 08-13-2018, 05:05 AM

Originally Posted by Dick

Can you post the updated genetic communities?

My mum didn't have any genetic community but my dad's was Italy/Greece and now Greece, Turkey and Albania. I don't know if it changed since the most recent update.