AncestryDNA results not showing ancestry i know i have

**zesdaether** · 03-02-2022, 01:29 AM

I just got my results and am puzzled to find that there is no Portuguese nor French showing up. My mother has strong Portuguese roots on her mother's side and French on her father's side. It is not that distant at all and both my mother and her sister have very obvious med features. I have also been classified as things like atlanto med. Yet here are my results:
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(apologies for any incorrect terminology, I havent been on this forum in a while)

**Creoda** · 03-02-2022, 01:44 AM

If your French ancestry is from Brittany/NW France it could be hidden in the Irish/Scottish scores, as they tend to score that highly, above French. As for Portuguese, if it's recent ancestry it should be there.

**Celestia** · 03-02-2022, 02:09 AM

I have the same issue.
My mother is from Cajun Louisiana and she only scores 9% France on AncestryDNA. My sisters and I don’t score any at all. As Creoda stated if your French ancestry is from Brittany it will cluster with “England and NW Europe”

I would recommend testing with 23andme. It was much more accurate in my family’s case

**Anglo-Celtic** · 03-02-2022, 02:51 AM

Originally Posted by Celestia

I have the same issue.
My mother is from Cajun Louisiana and she only scores 9% France on AncestryDNA. My sisters and I don’t score any at all. As Creoda stated if your French ancestry is from Brittany it will cluster with “England and NW Europe”

I would recommend testing with 23andme. It was much more accurate in my family’s case

Do you have a link to your results? We're quite diverse, both Briton *and* Gaelic.

**Celestia** · 03-02-2022, 03:15 AM

Originally Posted by Anglo-Celtic

Do you have a link to your results? We're quite diverse, both Briton *and* Gaelic.

Maybe we’re cousins

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**Anglo-Celtic** · 03-02-2022, 03:57 AM

Originally Posted by Celestia

Maybe we’re cousins

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My sister got around 97% "British & Irish", so you're more diverse. As for cousins, you look more like my cousin than some of my real cousins do.

**Celestia** · 03-02-2022, 04:04 AM

Originally Posted by Anglo-Celtic

My sister got around 97% "British & Irish", so you're more diverse. As for cousins, you look more like my cousin than some of my real cousins do.

Haha same. I don’t have many cousins but most of them are blonde and blue eyed lol.

**SilverKnight** · 03-02-2022, 04:07 AM

Originally Posted by Celestia

I have the same issue.
My mother is from Cajun Louisiana and she only scores 9% France on AncestryDNA. My sisters and I don’t score any at all. As Creoda stated if your French ancestry is from Brittany it will cluster with “England and NW Europe”

I would recommend testing with 23andme. It was much more accurate in my family’s case

This is your answer.

Good luck.

**Anglo-Celtic** · 03-02-2022, 04:15 AM

Originally Posted by Celestia

Haha same. I don’t have many cousins but most of them are blonde and blue eyed lol.

You and I share the same coloring. You're prettier than I am, though. ;-)

**PlattitüdenPaule** · 03-02-2022, 04:17 AM

Ancestry seems to have the strange habit to break down everything a bit more southern shifted (at least in Europe) to its molecule so hard, til it can rearrange it into northern groups.

For example, it got everything right in my case, even down to the baltic part within my East Prussian heritage, but reconstructed my hungarian gramps into northern ethnicities. (Gedmatch effortlessly gets it right and even MyHeritage had it right)

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