Ancestry DNA 2024 UPDATE!

[Leto]

Politics. Putting Hungarians and Slovenes together in one component with Ukrainians but separating Russians will definitely lead to some interesting results.

That makes no sense in my opinion. Russians who take the test would get confused when they see they're like 50 percent Russian and 50 percent other things.

[Brandon]

Screenshot_20241011_002731_Chrome.jpg

[ShieldWolf]

My Ancestry DNA update is attached below. Overall, it's a closer match to my genealogical research. The 1% Baltics component is new, but not out of the question. The 1% Spain component is also new and harder to reconcile to my family tree.

[Mopi The Dire Wolf]

I've gone up to 2% NA

[J. Ketch]

They're slowly turning me Scottish. Also looks like the Channel islands is the "new thing". Strong associations...

I apparently have a 'strong connection' with it too. I like Jersey caramels...

Perhaps so many people getting Channel Islands is a manifestation of medieval Norman ancestry? Probably wishful thinking. There maybe truth in the quote by John Everett Millais, when someone said that England conquered Jersey he replied "Never! It was Jersey that conquered England".

[Gergő Marosvári]

Ancestry just changed the name of Southern Italy, now it says: Southern Italy & the Eastern Mediterranean. Weird change tbh...

[happycow]

Ancestry just changed the name of Southern Italy, now it says: Southern Italy & the Eastern Mediterranean. Weird change tbh...

Came here to mention this. A bit silly imo

[Luke35]

Regarding the renaming of the Southern Italy region:

My guess is that for this update Ancestry was attempting to increase precision/recall for Southern Italians (by adding more East Med-shifted Southern Italian samples), the consequence being that Eastern Mediterranean folks (Greek Islands, Turks, etc) can now score a sizable % of the Southern Italy region. So I'm surprised that the update was not released with this new name already in place, as the admixture map for the region clearly shows the East Med affinity.

I think on balance it was better how Ancestry handled this issue in the previous version, with the Southern Italians showing the East Med/West Asian admixture. This new change is probably going to lead to a lot of confusion.

[Albannach]

Has anyone else lost a subregion? my Northern Isles subregion has disappeared, so much for the strong connection.

[nittionia]

Has anyone else lost a subregion? my Northern Isles subregion has disappeared, so much for the strong connection.

Yeah I lost my subregions