Ancestry DNA UPDATE (2022 August)

[Annie999]

This are my PREVIOUS results which go pretty much hand in hand with my paper trail.



Now Ancestry once again switched something into France. My NEW results:

Note: I do have French ancestry but not as much as 26%. I have recent Basque ancestry and Galician, and some general Spanish ancestry from colonial times (don't know which location).

Not only my Iberian decreased, but my 1% native american switched from Eastern South America (correct) to Mexican north American (?).

[nittionia]

I just saw my hacked results for the upcoming Ancestry update and it's quite insignificant and dumb (not surprising anymore). I have pretty much given up on Ancestry for me and I'm only looking forward to the next 23andme update

[calxpal]

I just saw my hacked results for the upcoming Ancestry update and it's quite insignificant and dumb (not surprising anymore). I have pretty much given up on Ancestry for me and I'm only looking forward to the next 23andme update

Out of curiosity how well do their results align with your known background? Do they over or underestimate certain percentages for you?

[nittionia]

Out of curiosity how well do their results align with your known background? Do they over or underestimate certain percentages for you?

It overestimates Norwegian (I have no known Norwegian ancestry and get 20%) and doesn't include any Germanic Europe. For example, on 23andme it gives me only Swedish for my Scandinavian percentage (I do not have Norwegian or Danish ancestry), as well as the correct regions within Sweden. 23andme also gives me ~25% German, too (with some regions). Ancestry DNA gives me no European communities and generally has a hard time with accurately differentiating the whole of northwestern/continental Europe. This is a problem considering a large portion of their users' ancestries are comprised of these regions.

The only thing I like about Ancestry over 23andme is that it doesn't have broadly categories - I have 25% of my 23andme results in broadly categories, but at least the rest of my results are relatively accurate.