Ancestry DNA 2024 UPDATE!

[Geba]

In case of 23andMe and the Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) component it's not exaggerated. When there would be shown 0.1% there can be made a question mark but when 0.2% or more AJ is shown at 23andMe then it can be considered applicable, except for when it is Sephard-mediated. Full Sephards score roughly 15% AJ, likely because of some old commonality.

So do you know cases where somebody with 0.2% AJ has found that ancestor of AJ origin? With such small % it is easy to speculate and suggest that somebody doesn't know all ancestors from 500-1000 years ago. I mean, it is nearly impossible to prove.

Ancestry has 1% as the lowest possible mark and even with that it is questionable. Like 1% Baltic or 3% Russia in the case of my mother is simply noise. My experience tells me that, I never can find a proof of those small % in genealogical documentation.

[#Oda#]

So do you know cases where somebody with 0.2% AJ has found that ancestor of AJ origin? With such small % it is easy to speculate and suggest that somebody doesn't know all ancestors from 500-1000 years ago. I mean, it is nearly impossible to prove.

Ancestry has 1% as the lowest possible mark and even with that it is questionable. Like 1% Baltic or 3% Russia in the case of my mother is simply noise. My experience tells me that, I never can find a proof of those small % in genealogical documentation.

I have 0,6% on 23andme and found the ancestress in the 7th generation.

[Abriekman]

So do you know cases where somebody with 0.2% AJ has found that ancestor of AJ origin? With such small % it is easy to speculate and suggest that somebody doesn't know all ancestors from 500-1000 years ago. I mean, it is nearly impossible to prove.

Ancestry has 1% as the lowest possible mark and even with that it is questionable. Like 1% Baltic or 3% Russia in the case of my mother is simply noise. My experience tells me that, I never can find a proof of those small % in genealogical documentation.

0.1%-0.3% AJ means fully Jewish ancestor that lived only 200 years ago. It's not that long ago, if it comes from one side of your family

[Geba]

0.1%-0.3% AJ means fully Jewish ancestor that lived only 200 years ago. It's not that long ago, if it comes from one side of your family

I can't find 19% Balkan for my mother, considering it to overlap with Central and eastern Europe, but okay, seems all can find Jewish, even if it is 0.1%, a truly chosen nation.

[Eurafricanid]

Here's mine.
I really liked the changes, it sounds very accurate.
The only doubt I have is they removed completely "France", and I am sure I have roots in Aquitaine, but may be they consider them in the "basque spectrum", who knows...

The other doubt I have, is I don't have only an "ancestral region", which is in northeastern Spain and Southwestern France, but what I don't have is "migrations" outside of the Old World... but if I see the side of the page "parent 1" and "parent 2" there appear many migration routes, but it's ok, I am not going to spoil this thread... may be I will do another one. Cheers. In general aspects I liked the changes.


Current regions.


Changes.


Ancesral journey region.

The French is now inside of the Spanish

Yeah, i had not noticed that.



North Africa one looks strange too, that's not how the distribution goes:

[Gergő Marosvári]

100% Central & Eastern Europe (lost 3% of Baltics compared to the last year update).

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100% POLSKA!!! Fajnie!

[Gergő Marosvári]

Mamusia, she is even more southern than me

These results are quite similiar to mine!

[Gergő Marosvári]

Here is my sister's result, similar to mine:

Quite accurate results for both of you!!!

[Graham]

Lots of overfitting confusing people with results. The usual. Also some labeling issues, i think could be more accurately labeled. The island communities picked up by many in Britain is a bit odd. Otherwise i do find updates exciting, and its nice to see new populations for many, for the first time.

[rothaer]

So do you know cases where somebody with 0.2% AJ has found that ancestor of AJ origin? With such small % it is easy to speculate and suggest that somebody doesn't know all ancestors from 500-1000 years ago. I mean, it is nearly impossible to prove.

Ancestry has 1% as the lowest possible mark and even with that it is questionable. Like 1% Baltic or 3% Russia in the case of my mother is simply noise. My experience tells me that, I never can find a proof of those small % in genealogical documentation.

The main way to prove it is to determine the segments oneself thoroughly and laboriously by matches at GEDmatch with full AJ people and then see that 23andMe does perfectly determine the same segments.

But I can anecdotally tell that I know someone that genealogically had a Jew 10 generations back (1/1014) and he perfectly got 0,1% AJ and his father that had the same ancestor 9 generations back (1/512) perfectly got 0.2% AJ at 23andMe. As I said, this is just anecdotally as the real inheritage often is not that perfectly in line with the statistical expectation.

Note that I speak of 23andMe and AJ, not of any other combination. The reference to any other provider or component is irrelevant for this matter.